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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 7:11 am
Posted By: mvandemar 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SamIWas 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Google Other
So who will Lyndon be writing the retraction statement for? Nintendo that's advertised, the advertising agency who made the fake vid, or YouTube who gets all the links!? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: iBrian 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Media are a gamed community that exists to serve self-interested parties, and truth has never gotten in the way of a good story.

When search marketers complain about others manipulating the web and or media, at best it can be described as hypocri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 5:21 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: dsnyder 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hjortur 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.scope.is)
Category: Other Social Media
If you answer yes to more than three of those question, you most likely have a tweeting-problem. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 10:42 am
Posted By: martinbowling 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: SEO
As usual Graywolf is outing the big boys shady tricks, a good read on HP's newest trick. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google AdWords
I'm sure the title of this post is going to make a few folks upset. Don't worry, the content is going to really make you mad. Not at me, but maybe at yourself, and especially at whoever taught you how to split test.

That's because, for most Adwor read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 11:53 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
Say it with m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
The changes to the language in the Google Reconsideration Request that were discussed on SEO Scoop back on December 3rd and on Smackdown again on the 18th, have finally gone through.

Kudos Matt Cutts! :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2007 - 9:33 am
Posted By: mvandemar 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Changes promised by Google engineer Matt Cutts have been implemented... for the most part, anyways. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2007 - 9:22 am
Posted By: Sebastian 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google removes XML feeds from Web search results. So unless Google provides a procedure to prevent feeds from accumulating PageRank whilst allowing access for blog search crawlers that request feeds (I believe something like that is in the works), i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 17, 2007 - 3:33 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
This entry is NOT a common anchor text entry. It instead describes how to use anchor text to rank more highly and for more terms, than if you'd thrown the same link text at a page over and over. It's not a "simple" overview of anchor text, but rathe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2007 - 1:46 am
Posted By: eKstreme 334 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
So it looks like now in addition to screwing with our traffic reporting, MSN could potentially be damaging our AdSense earnings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOish 346 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Question for Danny:

Do you feel it healthy that many of the moderators of Sphinn are also part of vote "alliances" and "groups" who vote for each others stories and who do not vote for others?

Is this a community or is it a "good ole boys" net read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Or, I guess more to the point would be, who forgot to follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 8:52 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
You’re absolutely right when you say that search engine nitpicking should not force you to throw nofollow crap on your links like confetti. From your and my point of view condomizing links is wrong, but sometimes it’s better to pragmatically comply read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SamIWas 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidefacebook.com)
Category: SEO
This should help create a few rather useless apps, solely for the purpose of some inbound link juice. Get your Facebook app today!! :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 12:05 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 361 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
From SEL - Google is now allowing you to control which sitelinks get shown under your URL. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2007 - 5:41 pm
Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 363 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: Google SEO
Vanessa asks whether Universal search is doing something new.

Is Google grabbing blog results and including them in prominent search positions. Blog Search also gets a small slap for being a bit out of date. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2007 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
How Google spawned a new cottage industry: Negative Paid Linking. And lent a new twist to the old protection racket. (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2007 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
So did Answers.com pay to have 1.5M link happy bloggers pouring link juice all over them from Wordpress.com read more »
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