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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semspot.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
So I was browsing some adwords websites and I came across one that utilized an exit popup window as soon as I went to hit the back button. I was curious as to how they did that, so viewed the source and saw all the gibberish code. After decoding i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semspot.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Two simple methods you can use to rotate your affiliate banners on your website. One for beginners to simply copy and past, the other a little more advanced that uses a mysql database. Can rotate through as many banners as you like and edit them a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: rustybrick 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
Congrats to Rand on winning the most giving search blogger. Sharing the way you do is unprecedented in our industry. Thank you for all of us. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 6:40 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Other
There’s a potentially huge untapped advertising market on the Web involving personal ads read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 4:59 am
Posted By: Sebastian 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
"Dear Googlers, I believe that a dog company like Google needs to take real-world Webmasters into the boat when playing with standards like the Robots Exclusions Protocol (REP), for the sake of the SEO cats."

Seriously, that's kinda RFC for robo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 1:54 pm
Posted By: yeepage 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
It’s a question every blogger asks themselves. I want to answer it here by outlining 7 content methods that seem to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of grassroots in-bound links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 12:32 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
A very interesting post by SlightlyShadySEO (XMCP), discussing techniques that Google is likely to use to detect sites owned by the same individual, and techniques they're definitely not using.

Very insightful! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 7:05 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
It's been a while since we've heard the TrafficPower name... "Now Traffic Power's CEO is behind bars, jailed for allegedly running a housing foreclosure scam." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 1:54 pm
Posted By: aimClear 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semspot.com)
Category: SEM
Whether starting out w/SEM or involved for years, understand: NOT everything you read is true. Separating truth from speculation is about TRUSTING blog authority. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 2:31 am
Posted By: aimClear 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
Some are embarrassed by that very first blog post. Some are pretty cool. Check out kickoff blog posts from Rand to Andy to Aaron to well...even Matt Cutts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2008 - 7:50 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
It’s 2008 and you’re looking forward to growing your blog even more this year. You are eager to build a large readership and maybe even make a full-time income from it. You want greater influence and a stronger reputation. Here are 16 strategies tha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Searching
Has anyone else noticed that there are no “up and coming” search engines any more? Yeah, there’s Gigablast. But they don’t appear to be making substantial progress. Yandex picked up a lot of ground in Russia. But by and large, we haven’t seen any n read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 190 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Domaining
Yes I know that domain names are cheap ($8/yr.) but I still thought that some of you would like to know that there is a current promo with register.com to get a free domain name for the first year. You still have to enter in your billing informatio read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Social Media
Jaan has some interesting facts regarding a survey taken of 2000 American's in which half of them are creating content for the web. Yes I agree that 2000 is not that big of a number for such a survey, the results are still amazing that 1000+ are cr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMSpot 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Let me start off by saying that I do not condone using this type of technique by any means. This is an article around learning the darker side of search engine marketing, since we do not see many articles related to it. Many people ask about black h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Donna Fontenot reminisces on how she wishes sometimes she could actually share her best personal SEO secrets with everyone, without sharing them with *everyone*. :)

Are you on the "in" list with Donna...? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 191 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I know this isn't internet news but I really had to say this.

When I first came to Sphinn, I was so stimulated by your ever flowing energy and knowledge that I couldn't wait to wake up and neglect my other duties to hop into Sphinnland and learn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Link Building
Judith says: "...all links might be paid links", "...the news is paid for", and "...almost any link has been 'paid for' somehow". Interesting thoughts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 2:51 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 191 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 30, 2007 - 8:16 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 192 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Social Media
Dan Zarrella gives some great tips on social media linkbaiting! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2007 - 1:27 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 200 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.uzdarbis.lt)
Category: News Sites
Regular Reddit users will probably know this already but it's a good introduction for anyone who doesn't know Reddit well enough. Here's what you need to include in your story title in order to increase its chances of getting a frontpage. :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2007 - 1:24 am
Posted By: northrock 200 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
If Marty of aimClear were marooned on a Caribbean island and could only read 6 search marketing blogs, these are the ones he would take..... A great year end kinda post. Thanks Marty! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 5:51 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 201 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Andy Beard is now just 1 of 2 Sphinners that have produced 100 Sphinns! Way to go, Andy (and DoshDosh, for setting the mark)! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 2:00 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 201 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
Wordpress is frequently underestimated in terms of it's sheer SEO power. Here, I cover the reasons that it tends to do excellent in Google. Understanding WHY it does so well is the best way to take advantage of it's architecture, giving your sites t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 11:30 am
Posted By: prowebpromo 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Ouch - nice job bringing this to light, shoe. read more »
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