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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2007 - 5:52 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 390 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Other Social Media
While Digg gets worse each day and looses traffic (it’s at an all time low by now according to Alexa) specialized social news communities gain momentum. There are plenty of them by now, sadly most of them poorly customized Pligg applications but som read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hugh 390 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoisez.com)
Category: Link Building
1.) Comes from a relevant site
2.) Comes from an authority domain
3.) Has your keyword in the text
4.) Is in the main content section of the page (usually)

Article goes into detail regarding these four points read more »
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Avatar Posted By: courtneytuttle 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://courtneytuttle.com)
Category: Google
It's no secret that Google dropped the PageRank of a small group of sites two weeks ago. Why hit more sites this time? Why hit harder this time? This article provides an alternate theory that could answer those questions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cmiddlebrook 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com)
Category: Google Searching
PageRank is just a number, it’s a means to an end, and not the end itself. Why are people obsessing over it? If Google came around and gave everybody a PR10 tomorrow what would happen? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: casieg 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEO
Directories, Directories, Directories. Oh yeah…and some reciprocal linking. I honestly spent the first 6 months of my career mindlessly submitting websites to hundreds of directories and scouring search results to find sites to exchange links with. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.quicksprout.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Neil differentiates Marketing, Advertising, PR & Branding by applying them in a "potential intimate encounter" context.

All kidding aside, this post is absolutely brilliant and for someone of his youth to have such incredible insights is astoundi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dennisedell 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Have any of you tried Yahoo answers ? I‘ve heard about it on and off for quite a while and decided to sign up and check it out a while back…it works. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dsemmler 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
Many bloggers have anxiously been waiting for the next Google Page Rank update. But after seeing what has happened to the likes of Engadget, Autoblog and ProBlogger maybe we shouldn't be so anxious. Duncan Riley writes about how Google is punishin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Wiep 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"#2. The quick one: Wants you to start right away, assuming he is the only client you have, but in most cases very slow to pay."

Sounds familiar? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 7:45 pm
Posted By: toprank 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Paid Search
Facebook's "Flyers Pro" lets advertisers target by city, gender, age, relationship status, employer, educational level, political views, and -- are you listening, Google? -- keywords. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 12:03 pm
Posted By: St0n3y 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Link Building
If your in an area that finds it hard to build natural links what do you do? You create bait and attract or catch the links whether this is done on purpose or as a happy accident. The best way to do this is with content that is directed at a specifi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hugh 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoisez.com)
Category: Google SEO
This was always the biggest pain in the butt for:

Will my page rank in the SERPs with a little code optimization, or do I have to link build for it? Or both?

This is the first of two articles that will show you how to just look at the SERPs read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigpond 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The reduction of PageRank has proved too much for many Digital Point readers and they're now being put on suicide watch.

No. Really. They are. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 2:08 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Google SEO
From the post: I’m just curious how the text link ads marketplace would change if there was ABSOLUTELY NO WAY a purchased link could pass any link juice. So, let’s just play a “what if” game. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: Google SEO
Oh Google, whatever am I going to do with you? First you start a FUD campaign against paid links, now you go and step in a steaming pile by pimp smacking some of the biggest sites on the web. But hey, who really wants authority sites anyway right? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Rhea 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 396 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 9:58 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 396 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Link Building
Glen brings us good insights on the value of directory submissions on existing authority sites, and warns that such activity can kill new sites in competitive niches. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 7:41 am
Posted By: aimClear 396 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Irrelevant Keywords? Unrelated Ad Copy? Useless Landing Pages? Google AdWords quality score rankings SPECIFICS NOW AVAILABLE in Webmaster Central. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hugh 396 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoisez.com)
Category: Link Building
An argument for why links pages and reciprocal links still work as well as a guide for how to use them in the current market. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 5:50 am
Posted By: toddmintz 396 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.zdnetasia.com)
Category: SEO
Jakob does say that SEO career prospects are good in the near term (5 years out) and does see straight SEO as a sprinboard to a more senior position in "internet marketing" (though I'm not sure why he seems to think SEO doesn't include "internet mar read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2007 - 12:54 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northxeast.com)
Category: Blogging
But what many bloggers don’t realize is how to leverage the power of the outbound link to create even more inbound links. Why does it work? Well, first of all, because bloggers love it when you link to them … and out of gratitude, they will likely l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2007 - 2:05 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Social Media
Finally, you too can generate your own little snippet of code that shows all your social media profiles, and that you can then place in your blog’s sidebar, your myspace page, or wherever your heart desires. Great tool! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shimsand 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Reduce your reliance on your Google acct team. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2007 - 10:27 am
Posted By: jstn714 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Being a popular topic at SMX Social Media last week, Eric Lander takes a dive into link bait.

Here, Lander provides us with three solid steps to creating link bait. It's a great primer for those just getting involved with link building and baiti read more »
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