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Avatar Posted By: robwatts 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: SEO
Interesting take on the recent Flash now crawlable by Google announcement: It is no coincidence that Adobe’s press release pointedly states that the new Flash crawling technology is only accessible to Google and Yahoo. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Dear SEO Bloggers, I’ve been reading SEO blogs for quite some time and while I appreciate the input you offer up on a regular basis, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It seems that more and more of your posts state your opinions or theories, as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Other Searching
Raving news about hakia’s so-called “credible online health search” proliferated the Web in April. Since then, a deafening silence threatened to condemn hakia to the darkest corner of the Web, but luckily enough they had some more coverage with the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:28 am
Posted By: theGypsy 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Social Media
A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:29 pm
Posted By: karenzara 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lostartofblogging.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
If you feel it's time to give private ad sales a try, this article will teach you everything you need to learn about it -- and I really mean everything. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 2:03 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa Barone writes, "... don't be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 6:31 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Link Building
A great post by Dave (theGypsy) exploring a new Microsoft search patent that aims to identify link spam using temporal tracking.

Very interesting! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 6:16 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
From the page: "The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web."

I suspect this number will increase substantially each year for so read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm
Posted By: aimClear 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Finding SEM employees is a challenge. Job sites, blogger job boards, trade organizations & word of mouth are usual recruiting channels. This post offers a list of common & creative recruiting sources from SEMPO & SEMmoz to Miami Ad School & SEM head read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattKeegan 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.matthewkeegan.com)
Category: News Sites
The Associated Press is following the letter of the law, not its spirit by enforcing DMCA. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.physorg.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The head of the US Senate's antitrust panel has pledged a "careful review" of the joint venture on online search advertising announced by Yahoo and Google.

Very interesting! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattKeegan 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.matthewkeegan.com)
Category: Blogging
The dangers of managing your blog in all of the wrong ways. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 8:35 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cowleyon.com)
Category: SEM
A really good post detailing 3 simple ways to increase click through rates ... not just on ppc ads but also on listings in organic results.

Really good advice! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattKeegan 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thearticlewriter.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Some advertising campaigns aren't really all that beneficial for the consumer, one example being Chrysler LLC's "Let's Refuel America" program.

However, the campaign has gone viral and is doing what Chrysler wanted it to do -- bring in new custom read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 6:36 pm
Posted By: avi 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google SEO
Shimon Sandler outlines a perfect example of how one major brand's website outage is feeling the aftershock in the Google SERPs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 3:56 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
It seems like Google are applying their penalties all over the place. Instead of manually punishing sites, they came up with all these red flags that can send your site into the depths of -60 / -300 / -950 penalty/filter. The penalties are site spec read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 9:56 pm
Posted By: steaprok 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg's millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one time. As w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattKeegan 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thearticlewriter.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Your offline work has suddenly trumped your online presence, perhaps giving you the idea to trash your web treasure. Not so fast, your website has a hidden value that you may not fully appreciate. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google SEO
Examples of why Wikipedia's domination of Google SERPs is getting ridiculous and how can Google act to control this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Anyone scanning the pages of my articles these last 2 years will find one overriding common denominator – I admire excellence. This article is about an underlying certainty resident in the world even when considering the most excellent things we fin read more »
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