MattMcGee

Avatar Posted By: gyutae 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
As I find myself drifting further and further from my search engine optimization roots to focus more time and effort on exploring the worlds of social media, blogging and viral marketing, I'm sometimes astonished at the misunderstandings between the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kensingtonvictoria.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Here's some fun for your late afternoon/early evening reading. Screenshot of what Twitter would look like during a zombie attack. :-) ProBlogger's Tweet at the bottom is awesome! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Maing 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
Images are an important way to add that extra kick to your blog posts. They are often the first thing that attracts visitors to read further. But where do you find good image? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: samirb 1 day 1 hour 50 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 3:07 am
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 1 day 16 hours ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Another excellent chat by EE. We learn that Yahoo sometimes ignores the NOINDEX tag, is relying less on links in its algorithm today than before, and that social sites like del.icio.us can impact the Yahoo algorithm. (and more!) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Wiep 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chris-hooley.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny updates the earlier story about YouTube data/Viacom/etc. with news that the data in question may not be as detailed as previously thought. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbiztrends.com)
Category: Social Media
Let's step outside the echo chamber and hear what business owners think about using social media. Good experiences: blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more. Concerns: Time commitment, ROI, etc. Anita Campbell collects the stories from a conference this w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BartTheBear 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.moxie-drive.com)
Category: Bookmarking
The addition of communities is going to make Mixx look huge to the search engines, and it is going to happen fast. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: doncampbell 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.expand2web.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
The key to great customer service is to treat your customers like kings and queens. But you don’t have to be a huge company like Dell or Amazon to be great at customer service. There are some great tools and services out there to help you engage you read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 7:09 am
Posted By: hotwheel 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JonnyT 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Hey Matt - The Small Business Success stories you've presented have been awesome so far! A big take-away for me is how powerful a good (I stress "good") blog can be for your small business. Keep up the good work! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 6 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 Posted By: DavidWallace 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Google
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kelseygroup.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Those innovative Ask.com/AskCity maps are gone. History. Must be part of the promise to focus on core search. ;-) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 6 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: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: PixelBella 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Matt McGee offers us a chance to collaborate and write a blog post on his site. Join the GroupThink Tank. Submit your favorite SEO tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: storyspinner 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Water Cooler
KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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