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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:06 am
Posted By: cchris 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: theGypsy 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
For those that are playing in PlurkWorld here are some toys and tools to start broadening your experience. I haven't played with them all much yet, so do share any experiences here if you could... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 1:26 am
Posted By: danzarrella 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 10:00 am
Posted By: pratt 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.purposeinc.com)
Category: Link Building
One of the best things about our industry, is how nice the people can be. This is a great example of just that, with a great lesson: instead of paying money for links, send gifts! read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: annie7 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

Please join the discussion! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 11:21 am
Posted By: hugoguzman 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.zetainteractive.com)
Category: Link Building
My colleagues and I have a running joke that we all strive towards getting a point where the client does the link building for us. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maxyro.com)
Category: SEO
Interesting look at some of the bloated pricing models that some "SEO Experts" still try to pawn off others. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: janecopland 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:03 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to get as many inlinks as you can). Checking that your content appeals both to your human vis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:53 am
Posted By: Gab 62 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
The conferences have already had link buying panels, but they were pretty tame as far as things go. Would you attend a panel that focused solely on greyhat SEO at an SMX/SES show?

There's nothing shameful about wanting to learn and even use greyh read more »
24 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 4:35 pm
Posted By: DaveDavis 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEO
Want to figure out what keywords a competitor is optimizing for? Want to avoid getting your keyword research ripped off? Gab shows how. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 3:06 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webusabilityhelp.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
Web design and social media marketing are two topics that I enjoy studying, and the two certainly impact one another for website owners and bloggers who are attempting to increase traffic to their site. While social media is intended to put a spotli read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 9:16 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Most of our clients have several things in common, they are normally running Wordpress and the first indication they have been hacked is either a sudden loss in rankings or the stop badware notice appearing for their name. Now Wordpress is not inher read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Here is an in depth look at three backlink checkers which do much more than just report on Yahoo Backlinks, they help categorize and organize backlinks based on anchor text, site age, whois info and much much more. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 7:47 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
In a recent strategy session, some colleagues and I were discussing a promotion where one position was to focus on a direct marketing approach and another position involved social media, networks and communities. Compared to direct marketing efforts read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 5:21 am
Posted By: gyutae 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
One of the first jobs I have to do as a consultant going into an SEO engagement is to debunk the myth that SEO is "free". SEO has never been, nor will it ever be, free traffic. It takes work, and that comes at a cost. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 8:51 am
Posted By: martinbowling 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.digidave.org)
Category: Social Media
Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me. Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I LOVE the internet. I love how it empowers, entertains, enables, etc. I believe it is the most powerful read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 4:40 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skelliewag.org)
Category: Blogging
It’s easy to get caught up discussing high-level Digg strategies and complicated metaphors, but it’s important not to lose sight of the things that make the advanced stuff worthwhile. Without the ability to gather links, subscribers and comments, yo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: 4cdawgs 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chrisbrogan.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Great discussion at Chris Brogan's blog about the use of avatars, what they mean to each person and preferences regarding faces, images, logos etc. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Yesterday, Dan Perry twittered that he was looking for criteria to evaluate SEO interns. As I answered him, I realized that social networking has really turned the criteria of evaluating employees / contractors on its head. Perhaps Seth Godin is r read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Other Social Media
For this round of the ‘How Would I Do This…’ I am looking at an article on CNN called ‘How do you know your love is real? Check Facebook’. I am also going to tie in my previous post on the overuse of stock photography. read more »
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