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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 10:51 am
Posted By: Jill 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2008 - 1:09 am
Posted By: samirb 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: martinbowling 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Social Media
sugar rae writes "Anytime someone asks how a business can use Twitter effectively, most people point to the twitter accounts of big brands like Comcast and Zappos. While both companies are definitely standout examples of putting Twitter to good use, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: soulfood 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
I've had an epiphany: Most people want to hire really crappy SEO 'professionals'.

It's the only possible reason for some of the asinine hiring decisions made by otherwise intelligent people. So, in the tradition of bloggers giving audiences what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: tonyadam 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: PixelBella 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google AdWords
View case study. Brian Carter shows how to use Google AdWords to prioritize local search marketing efforts. Article covers four ways to get a good number of geotargeted clicks from local AdWords campaigns:

1. Geotargeting at the Campaign Level
2 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: gyutae 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
In the last big Matt Cutts interview, Eric Enge managed to get Matt Cutts to say PageRank Sculpting (or siloing, for you Bruce Clay fans) was okay to do on your site and that noindex pages still have PageRank attributed to them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apogee-web-consulting.com)
Category: Paid Search
By default Google opts advertisers into everything. Whether you're launching a new campaign using Google AdWords or editing an existing one, follow these 4 steps to avoid the ignorance tax. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Networking
A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the account read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 7:51 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 12:01 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Paid Search
Jennifer Osborne has a great post that promises to help many companies improve their ppc programs by identifying common mistakes. This is a really good resource for anyone doing ppc. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 12:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Water Cooler
James, James, James my bud... what have U been drinking this weekend? .... well, some fun on a Monday morning.

| Online Marketing Banter | Perhaps looking to avoid the fallout from the money.co.uk linkbait scandal, rumours are rife that Lyndon h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Posted By: gyutae 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 11:20 am
Posted By: theGypsy 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Great guest post on ShoeMoney from Brent - go.. read and treat it as gospel ... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 6:53 am
Posted By: johnppchero 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppchero.com)
Category: Paid Search
Yikes! "I received an email this weekend from Yahoo saying that they were updating their Terms & Conditions for their search marketing accounts. In summary, Yahoo is going to optimize your PPC account without prior knowledge of or approval by adve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattmcgee.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Being a moderator at Sphinn is pretty time-consuming, but it's also fun! I've killed thousands of submissions and accounts from users spammers trying to game the site for exposure, a free and followed link, or whatever else they're trying to accompl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: mpind 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Social Media
Many search engine optimizers are still stuck in the past. They practice SEO 1.0 or less. These SEOs fail to adapt to the new Web 2.0 media environment and attempt to apply rules of the older web to the new situation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: PPCblogger 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Is this guy crazy!? Jason Gambert has delighted us with another literary and legal masterpiece in his misguided effort to trademark "SEO." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
If a Digg submissions uses vulgarity in the title or description, it is changed automatically to show “*” and censor the word. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 10:35 am
Posted By: todd 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Online Marketing
1. Send 17 Million Pieces of Direct Mail.
2. Place 50 Million Cold Calls.
3. Create a mascot and make it world famous.
4. Buy 1 Billion Pop-up Ads. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: planetc1 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching
Bill Slawski writes... When you search for something at a search engine, the search engine might not just try to find pages on the web which match the keywords that you searched with, but may first try to expand upon those keywords by finding simila read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 9:56 pm
Posted By: steaprok 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg's millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one time. As w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 14, 2008 - 2:05 am
Posted By: kevinheisler 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter and LinkedIn: for small business owners, they're two tastes of social media that taste great together. The question: Who gets Twitter in your LinkedIn network? And who got LinkedIn via Twitter? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 2:12 pm
Posted By: gunjanpandya 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. read more »
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