SEO

Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 3:57 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEO
Adam Audette offers evidence that his father, John Audette, was the first person to use the term "search engine optimization". read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Rhea 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Search industry blogger, Lisa Barone, joins the We Build Pages team as Senior Writer. She'll be responsible for writing, setting the direction and tone for content creation, and will serve as a brand evangelist. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 9:54 am
Posted By: ANOnym 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
If you haven't been checking Webmaster Tools, then you probably don't know that you can get a list of pages that have broken links, pointing at your site. You can contact the site owners to ask them fix the links to get links instead of spending hou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Vanessa Fox explains the details on an excellent addition to the data provided by Google's Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 7:58 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 6:35 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: News Sites
Maki writes, "So what do you do? One method that works is just to use references to heighten content relevance and styling your articles in a catchy format that is easily accessible. What this template looks like will of course, depend on the specif read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2008 - 2:58 am
Posted By: AdamAudette 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEO
Here's a free script for analyzing spider behavior (you'll need some entry-level command line skills to run it). It's mighty handy for log analysis - do things like list all 302s, 404s, 500s, or any other status code segmented by user agent.... find read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: ViperChill 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A strange new bug in the search feature of the Yahoo Directory seems to be showing sites either hosted or extensively cross-linked with the site you are searching for. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:14 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Rand doesn't buy the "flash is now SEO friendly" spiel for a second. Here's why... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: Hawksdomain 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.makakmedia.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Google SEO for small businesses wanting to keep things local. Something I will definitely be working on for my day job website! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:29 pm
Posted By: Wiep 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A reference sheet for those doing email marketing campaigns. It's primarily aimed at newsletters, but can also be applied to sales messages, transactional emails, or even discussion lists. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 9:16 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 216 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 »
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Avatar Posted By: mike.tekula 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEO
Adam Audette of AudetteMedia offers a characterically well-written and thorough explanation of Information Architecture in web development as it pertains to SEO. Simply put: invaluable. Read it now. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 12:45 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Online Marketing
"If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria’s Secret, it wouldn’t be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn’t need search engines to find Victoria’s Secret product read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 3:18 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Social Media
You know why there's "nofollow" and "dofollow." Now you need to know why "unfollow" happens. A lucky 13 microbloggers share why you may suffer the ultimate Twitter FAIL. Great post by Brian Carter (follow-up to his 14 reasons he'll unfollow you) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 3:05 am
Posted By: TimDineen 247 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: In House SEM
Interesting post by Lisa Barone regarding hiring SEOs for In-House positions. She lists the most important attributes an applicant should have with details.

Highlights:
Technical Acumen
Analytical Mindset
Mad Research Skills
A Think Outside T read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
Dear Google,

It would be more un-evil if you would make it easier to opt out of that new data sharing “feature” (your word) that you recently added to Google Analytics. I tend to be much more forgiving of you than some of my friends, so please le read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 7:34 am
Posted By: toddmintz 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEM
Adam Audette's link-building post which originated as his Searchfest 08 presentation. Yeah, this is a way over-done topic, but Adam uses a very fresh approach here and I recommend checking it out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 8:26 am
Posted By: SiteMost 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
This post isn’t going to be inflammatory, walking you through the ABC’s of why Twitter is good and why you should use it.

Rather, the post is here to make you think about Twitter in a way that you might not have before - to use as a scouting and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 12:40 pm
Posted By: aimClear 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Covered by SEOmoz: Rand's first US Keynote Address at SEMpdx Portland. It was charming and technically amazing. Any city in America would be proud of what SEMpdx has accomplished. 2 training tracks, and over 250 conference attendees! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 6:23 am
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Ian Laurie (SMX West Search Bowl team) wants Rand Fishkin go into the light, um, I mean have a Mac. If enough people donate $2.00 he'll send Rand one, otherwise he will donate the money to Habitat for Humanity.

Full disclosure: Ian is my boss. B read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 297 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Now that the Desphinn feature has gone live, I wanted to talk about some next developments we have in mind for Sphinn. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 11:48 am
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 297 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
We're pleased to announce the release of a new "Desphinn" feature on Sphinn, which effectively allows you to vote down a story that you do not agree with... read more »
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