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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 1:58 pm
Posted By: ankitrawat 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ankitrawat.com)
Category: Google SEO
However i was not able to attend Google webmaster chat last night … seems like m lazy now a days … but here are some of the takeaways, myths and questions left after JuneTune … read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Display Advertising
Ouch! Where's the worst place to advertise your "Put Your Feet Up" site? On a CNN story about six severed feet! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.abraham.com)
Category: Blogging
Your headline is the first, and perhaps only, impression you make on a prospective reader. Here are 100 of the best headlines written that achieved fantastic results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Networking
There’s plenty of available information online about networking for bloggers, but in general I feel that there is a lack of quality information about networking as it’s related to social media marketing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: theGypsy 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A nice stats round up from Danny

Search Engine Land - Ouch. Again, Google is stomping on everyone else in terms of number of searches it handles (the scale shows billions of searches handled per month). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://community.izea.com)
Category: Networking
Your number of followers is your effective reach on Twitter. Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte and Barack Obama currently have the most reach, with Kevin having just over 43,000 followers. So how can you top the list? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.louisgray.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Following a lengthy incubation period, intended to get the product rock-solid with an army of features and a sharp interface, Feedly hits the Web today with their own take on the social start page - using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://digg.com)
Category: Social Media
Great example of about every single social media rule on Digg completely broken..

I believe everyone should get into social media and become a Digg and Reddit user... Right after you read a few articles from the Social Media column on SEL.

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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: vandelay 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.makakmedia.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
So you've got a new website, great you're now a step ahead of those without one but a small hop, skip and a jump behind those who have been online for a while. What can you do to catch up with those who already have plenty of traffic, links to their read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattSaunders 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopittfall.com)
Category: Google SEO
An interesting overview of a widespread black hat link building scheme. The party responsible can be tied back to a variety of 'big name' clients in some very competitive industries. Great read! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameskm03 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://doteduguru.com)
Category: News Sites
Have you gotten to the point where you feel blogs are all repetitive and you are wasting your time reading them, and not getting anything out of it? Here are a six tips to keep in mind as you read blogs and news articles online. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
“I have been trying to leave comments on your blog but they never appear! Did I say something wrong?” read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lostartofblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
Inevitably, the question returns: what makes your blog unique? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: martinbowling 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Link Building
lyndoman writes "As long as Google uses links to a website to help it rank its search results, people will develop content to attract links. We know that when trying to rank for a competitive keyword things can get a little dirty in the SERPS. Peopl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 7:27 am
Posted By: Kalena 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Networking
"Twitter at Michael Arrington and make it seem like he replies" - just one of the recommendations Jane makes in her hilarious rant about a particular breed of female Twits. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 25, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: philbutler 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.money.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Money.co.uk has apologized for the most talked about linkbait ever, which was exposed by their now ex-marketing contractor, Lyndon Antcliff (Lyndoman). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:21 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://friendfeed.com)
Category: Social Media
All the top people in social have decided to join up and participate in the FriendFeed group for Social Media. Check it out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 9:22 am
Posted By: Faris 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Link Building
Boykin argues that the Achilles heel of a free and natural link profile is the lack of focused anchor text pointing at specific sub-pages...and I have to agree. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 12:43 am
Posted By: theGypsy 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Networking
Hiya folks... I was playing with the new FriendFeed Rooms feature last night and created some rooms including SEM and one for all the fine folks here at Sphinn... read on and be sure to join so we can see how useful this all is ... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.flipsquare.com)
Category: Domaining
After a year of domain investing, Aaron of Flipsquare shares 5 mistakes he wishes he never made when starting out. Also includes some great tips on finding undiscovered domain properties. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 1:05 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEO
The Debate

The real meat and potatoes of the discussion right now, however, isn't necessarily what standards to employ, but whether we need -- or should even consider -- SEO standards. I've stated here repeatedly how the rules of SEO are always i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: dedmond29 47 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Search Marketing
How deep into the SEO recommendation(s) do you think SEO consultants should get?

Do you think a company should actually implement recommendations delivered (or be prepared to provide this service)

- or provide a project plan for implementa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: theGypsy 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
...and the drama continues...

SEL - Disclosure is a key point made by Matt. Now, if the article says the sources are not validated or the article is speculation - would that be sufficient? Would Google soon require us to slap on a nosource (aka n read more »
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