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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 12:35 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webguild.org)
Category: Google Other
Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. By law, Google is required to report layoffs publicly and with the SEC however, Google has managed to get around the legal requiremen read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: billslawski 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google SEO
A review of the 159 granted patents assigned to Google (169 if Exaflop counts.)

A little more than one third focus primarily upon search indexing algorithms, and almost two thirds were developed in-house rather than acquired. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 4:16 am
Posted By: Silver 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google Other
Li Evans of Key Relevance does a great review of the Google Analytics and Google Conversion University session at eMetrics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Posted By: firebreatherseo 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A couple of days ago Micheal posted his assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. This caused Sphinn comments to be closed and a lot of fireworks. Now, read more about the bots that never were on SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google's community edit feature has become the playground for blackhat local marketers. Any business that has not been claimed and validated is susceptible to hijacking, and the affiliate spammers have hijacked some of the best known national brands read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
David Naylor does the Calcanis dance, saying "I Quit!", but of course he then mentions he'll be back later. His frustration with whatever Google glitch / penalty / error / ban is affecting his blog's indexing has prompted him to throw in the towel. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 2, 2008 - 1:31 am
Posted By: Lisadit 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chewie.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Dean Chew goes through a big breakthrough with Syndk8's release of Auto Pligg Submitter. Pligg is basically a clone of Digg. Some of our most beloved sites, like Sphinn is using the Pligg engine. What can this release do? Spam the heck out of your read more »
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Avatar Posted By: danielhorton 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: SEO
DaveN ( David Naylor) SEO. Takes yet more abuse on his blog. Recent comments go beyond physical threats as the attacker wants to video his abuse. Iv'e had similar threats too from Dave's blog, fortunately we don't have to look too far to see where i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 2:33 am
Posted By: miguelstil 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 5:58 am
Posted By: dougs123 241 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.asapventures.co.uk)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Are companies paying affiliates to change links? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 30, 2008 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 251 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
My Internet Marketing List of last week got one heck of a response - 22,000 unique visitors in 3 days. Even though most of you losers didn't subscribe to my RSS feed, it gave my limp, damp ego a nice boost. In the interest of beating a good idea to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 23, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: theGypsy 258 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Searching
SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 21, 2008 - 1:58 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Ian Lurie's unfortunate experience with Alaska Airlines leads to an insightful post on 10 ways a business can best apologize if they screw up. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vbin 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: SEO
Search engine optimization received no love from the credit card issuer's small business guide, which published some oddly contradictory advice about being found in places like Google or Yahoo. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TinPig 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.tinpig.com)
Category: SEO
The SEO Community shouldn't wonder about their reputation when "experts" advocate deceitful tactics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.asapventures.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
Man it is jst creepy that I fit many of these traits. Does this mean I am a good SEO or just MAD?

large number of dyslexics - not sure waht tahts about.

large number of left handers - yuppers on this one.

all are obsessive - isn't eveyone? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 1:23 am
Posted By: shansen11 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A CEO's perspective of SEO, SEM, PPC and ROI. Having just returned from SMX West, my take on the realities of the industry and then suggestions on how to get Senior Execs to buy off on aggressive on-line marketing in a way they understand. Also a pe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 1:45 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 320 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Blogging
Shoemoney has promoted offers even he calls a "scam" (repeatedly), copied linkbait from others, and much more.
And yet he calls SEOs slimy.
I don't normally give into flamebait, and don't normally like to call people out on such things, but I made read more »
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Avatar Posted By: biker 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cdfnetworks.com)
Category: Google AdWords
As if it wasn't bad enough with confusing quality scores and bids changing all the time, now Adwords is saying to bid on general terms instead of specific terms. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 2:51 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 340 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
In todays No-Follow world, the "U Comment I Follow" blogs are the rebels of the blogging world. This is your guide on how to find them, in order to make the most of your comments, anchor text, and time. It's an easy trick to do, and is well worth th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 7:13 am
Posted By: fantomaster 351 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: SEO
Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially compon read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andy 351 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hosting-netexplorers.co.uk)
Category: Other Searching
Interesting article about the costs incurred producing a professional website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 8:27 pm
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 351 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evilgreenmonkey.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Offline ad agencies still don't understand the importance of a URL in ads, so why don't you take advantage of this fact? I've posted one of the many ways that I use a company's advertising for my own affiliate profit. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andy 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://savewikipedia.wordpress.com)
Category: Google
Cutting review of Google's latest plans, Google Knol. read more »
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