Meg

Avatar Posted By: neerav 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bhatt.id.au)
Category: SEO
Day 2 of SMX Sydney started off solidly and finished with an unexpected twist before we headed underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the after party.

Any Aussie SEO's who didn't attend should kick themselves because of the opportunities they m read more »
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Avatar Posted By: neerav 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bhatt.id.au)
Category: SEO
In an unexpected twist to the end of Day 2 at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan exposed a possible case of blackhat cloaking by Flightcentre.com.au read more »
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Avatar Posted By: neerav 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bhatt.id.au)
Category: Search Marketing
I've just spent 4 hours summarising 18 pages of notes for people who couldn't attend SMX Sydney and also because I don't think anyone else has blogged about it in any detail. Will do the same tomorrow for Day 2 of SMX Sydney.

Enjoy. Neerav read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Snoskred 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.snoskred.org)
Category: Blogging
Today the Aussie Bloggers Forums have opened the doors to the public. You don’t have to be an Aussie to join the forums, all nationalities are welcome. Unlike other forums out there on the web, questions are welcome and you will find lots of friendl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigpond 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google
Google have ruined Andy Beard's Christmas. Bad Google. Bad. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 9, 2007 - 1:47 am
Posted By: aimClear 210 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ventureskills.wordpress.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Mailing lists, IM groups, stumbles, forum posts...do these aggressive schemes to maximize social media traffic actually work? Tim Nash & "caring slaves" (researchers) pour over site owner provided logs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Meg 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://silkcharm.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
Sick of providing free social media consultations? Sound familiar? I'm sure this isn't Australia specific. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Meg 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.snoskred.org)
Category: Google Other
There’s a lot of people very unhappy with Google right now, and rightly so. We gave them too much power, and it is time to take it back. This post gives you everything you need to STOP using Google today, completely. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 8:12 am
Posted By: mblair 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Bookmarking
How to manipulate RSS feeds in Yahoo Pipes to keep an eye on the things that matter to you in Digg, Sphinn and Pligg clones. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 4:22 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Who let those Sphinn misfits start a new blog - Brian fires off with a look at how disorganised our lives are becoming, and some ways to stay in control. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2007 - 2:05 pm
Posted By: socialmedia 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emomsathome.com)
Category: Google SEO
It appears that mommy bloggers got hit in the last week with another Google smackdown. Wendy is livid as the Google SERPS are still full of junk. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 9, 2007 - 9:08 am
Posted By: kensavage 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Loren Baker gives some nice tips on SEO friendly domain registration : Don't block your WhoIs, just register in your DOG's name, under a Mailboxes Etc. address... and other tips. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gamermk 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogpond.com.au)
Category: Blogging
Meg starts on this rant attacking the often attacked partial rss feed and it only gets better ;)

Dear RSS Tease,

There’s a good chance I unsubscribed to your blog yesterday.

You see, I set yesterday aside to get on top of Google Reader, as read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Web Analytics
Having chanced upon appearing on the Alexa Top10 Movers and Shakers, I thought it worth mentioning it as a quite healthy source of traffic, however short lived. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 6:29 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties on place for a few sites, but it is less o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 10:08 am
Posted By: aimClear 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
Our good friend Andy Beard suggests that Andy Greenberg of Forbes "got it totally wrong when he wrote GOOGLE Scares The SEARCH Crowd." In many ways GOOGLE should be "worried about the BLOGOSHPERE reaction" to the PR debacle. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 255 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 15, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: KangoTraveler 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.meangene.com)
Category: Google SEO
I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2007 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timeforblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
Nice list of all those things you do that screw up your blogging. Don't think this about marketing? Blogging is one of the best marketing tools you can use online when done correctly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2007 - 7:01 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
The new split RSS feed statistics actually reveal data you have never had available before, if you look carefully and understand how a reader came to subscribe to a particular URL. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 10:31 pm
Posted By: EricLander 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
This is obviously a wildly popular topic, but the implications go beyond a simple number representative of PageRank. Advertising programs and new organizations make it a point to game the system of links and PageRank -- so it's interesting to see h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 12:49 am
Posted By: bartimus 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
The Google God has been angered once again. Looks like some sites got the big green finger. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 272 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogpond.com.au)
Category: Google SEO
Meg has been gaining tons of search traffic, however some of it she doesn't actually want. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 9:10 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
Grab a coffee, in fact you might need a thermos as it is quite a long response to the apparent "public face" quality hit my site seems to have incurred over the last week.

I even reveal 2 links that send me over 3000 visitors per month between th read more »
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