MattSawyer

Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 1 day 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Can Matt Cutts detect paid links embedded in content when he is looking right at them? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: ViperChill 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bizcommunity.com)
Category: Google SEO
Working for one of the largest agencies in South Africa, I can confirm we haven't been contacted by Google to discuss certification in any way. In my opinion this is another bankroll for Google, there is no way they can monitor every single agency t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 6:38 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
How to get 800,000 visits from Google.com in just 7 days! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 6:49 am
Posted By: robwatts 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: SEO
Changing a domain can be an exercise fraught with hurdles, do it wrong and it can mess up years of hard work. This post takes a look at things you need to consider when doing so. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TCSM 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Searchlight Digital today released their first tool, allowing you to test massive multivariate tests on anything you can think of. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:06 am
Posted By: Lyndon 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: SEO
Wordtracker has a cool new tool out, here's how to apply some interesting keyword strategies. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 9:10 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Kalena is known for her scathing dumbass of the week series - but this one is more than just humour.

"Let me preface this post by saying that I love Google and I’m a big supporter and very early adopter of AdWords pay per click advertising. BUT read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TCSM 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Yahoo
It's finally happened; Jerry Yang has announced that he will leave Yahoo. More news inside. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JeffMHoward 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.datadial.net)
Category: Search Marketing
The natural results in Google drive more than 70% of search traffic, though only account for 12.5% of online spend.
Why is this? Take your pick.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teifion 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Paid Search
ne of the most basic rules in marketing is test test test. Whatever you’re doing, no matter how small, test it to make sure it performs to the best of it’s potential. However, testing takes time, and let’s be honest, it isn’t exactly thrilling. Wors read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mridout196 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seounique.com)
Category: Google SEO
Seems that Google have changed the way they export their PR to the toolbar with updates happening on new blog posts as recently as last week.. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 17, 2008 - 7:53 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Other Social Media
With Twitter the phase of “do we really need it?” is over. So what are the Twitter tools that really make a difference for SEO and overall business users? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 1:18 am
Posted By: robwatts 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Interesting move from Google, it's the 1st time I've seen them go granular, but hey, what's with the dig at shadyseo! ;) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TCSM 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Link Building
An interesting look at the mechanics of how something goes viral, be it linkbait or presidential campaigning read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 1:49 pm
Posted By: Wiep 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: SEO
Everybody who works for an SEM agency, has worked for one in the past, or just visits Fortune 500 company websites from time to time, has probably had this thought at least once or twice; “If only they got it…”. Well, within the next 5 years, most l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: zigojacko 12 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
38 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 8:13 am
Posted By: Ramkarthik 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google
Google sucks when it comes to telling people what search queries your PPC traffic arrives from. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 12:39 am
Posted By: AutomotiveSEO 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
To properly organize yourself and your work and to make your clients happy, you should definitely have your own backlink reporting system. Of course, the reporting method can vary from client to client based on two major facts: read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattSawyer 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
I'll credit this to Jonah Stein because he was the one who pointed it out to me, but said he didn't blog so I could do it. The Akismet stats page clearly shows that since about August 2008 the ratio of Ham (legit blog comments) to Spam has been in d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattSawyer 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://holisticsearch.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Twitter has become the new bloggers playground, with Andy Murray (Tennis Player) and even Obama twittering on a fairly regular basis (although I would suggest the Obama postings may become slightly less frequent ;)). However it has also become a com read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattSawyer 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e-consultancy.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Although decent organic search engine optimisation (SEO) continues to rely hugely on content, the standard of copy needed to work effectively continues to rise.

It used to be that some fairly horrific keyword stuffing could see a website soaring read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2008 - 5:18 am
Posted By: bhartzer 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Social Media
No surprise that Twitter is often the channel doing the best job breaking interesting news and breaking Lisa Barone into giggles. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: barnaseo 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
"What degrees should upcoming SEOs and SEMs obtain?" - was the question of a poll at SER. Have a look at the results and share your thoughts... read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: streko 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viralconversations.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Deanna Writes...
"Seeing as how we are currently in a serious economic recession, more and more major companies are relying on what is known as “word of mouth” advertising to generate buzz for their products. These techniques are a cheap and effec read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 7:09 am
Posted By: barnaseo 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: Link Building
Essential insights on link development from Eric Ward: look for passion & partners and pretend once in a while that you work for Google ´making sure search results are good for your particular industry´... read more »
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