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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 2:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.

Rustybrick/Barry: "I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 3:15 pm
Posted By: beussery 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beussery.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google removed "directory submissions" from their Google Webmaster Guideline suggestions earlier today! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 5:24 pm
Posted By: Harith 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicat read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TheNanny612 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
Jeff writes about a cool new WordPress plugin...

"DeliciousCount is a great tool to help assess blog post quality. The plugin displays the number of Delicious saves of each post in a blog in a user friendly ’summarized’ format." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2008 - 6:07 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
the Link Spiel - Your link marketing plan is a valuable piece of information and should only be seen by the people you contract to do your work. Don't let it become a piece of information passed around assembly line style. Protect your competitive l read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google covers 10 years of Google, from starting with Backrub, to a camera-free Radiohead music video. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: incrediblehelp 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webnauts.net)
Category: Other
Accessibility is becoming increasingly critical to the Internet experience. Is your site accessible to people with disabilities? Is it compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer?

Continue reading to discover how accessibility can benef read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hobo 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Great post by Peter Da Vanzo on SEOBook.com read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 2:20 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Some direct evidence countering the suggestions Google Webmaster Central blog made yesterday. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: paisley 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 5:18 pm
Posted By: boydy 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Link Building
There are many ways to build backlinks. There are many ways to waste your time building backlinks too. Therefore, it makes sense to invest your time and effort in something that just works. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: hotwheel 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: g1smd 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Water Cooler
After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: Sugarrae 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kenneth 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kennethdreyer.com)
Category: Link Building
One of the things most SEO’s are afraid to share, are they secret link building techniques. I could understand that you don’t want to give away your most secret tricks for succeeding in the industry, but hey – making good lists is good for link bait read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEO
Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 20, 2008 - 5:57 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Social Media
A new report from Universal McCann, one of the world’s largest media service firms, looks at how Internet based commentary is an increasingly powerful force.

Blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Fecebook, and other forms of social media are not only shapi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:49 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: SEO
Stop the nonsense!

Seriously.

As an industry we need to collectively get a grip.

We our a community of people that make our money through search engines and social media platforms, and because of this we utlize these places as our playgroun read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 20, 2008 - 5:57 pm
Posted By: KateMorris 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yourseomentor.com)
Category: Water Cooler
It's just a great list. I can't go, but it is a really great read as to why you should attend this event. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 20, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Paid Search
An excellent post analysing the accuracy and usefulness of PPC competitor review tool Spyfu. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattSawyer 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Other
I’ve checked with folks at Google and they confirmed that http://too.blogspot.com/ is Sergey Brin’s blog. The name “too” reflects Sergey’s additional life outside work. One of his first posts is about the fact that he might be more likely to develop read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 20, 2008 - 5:58 pm
Posted By: thePuck 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A great post on dangers of screwing over people who build reputation for a living. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:56 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Face It - Worrying about some seo techniques some talk about is not worth your time, no matter how much of a science some try to make of it.

If you are going to obsess about Google Search Engine Optimization.... make sure you spend your energy ob read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 8:58 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
It's that time of year again: Time to find out if you're spending too much time on SEO and in desperate need of a break. Here's the 2008 version of "Signs You Need a Break from SEO." Enjoy! read more »
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