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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: michddot 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Blogging
"Explore blog comments and discuss what can be done to turn them into real conversations... Via the Internet, you clearly have access to a huge inventory of information and knowledge. However that is not the most amazing aspect of the Internet. Mo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: tobrother 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Almost exactly a year after the last release, the latest version of Firefox, the world’s second most used browser, arrived today in over 70 languages, and it’s already spreading like wildfire to users around the globe. Firefox (Firefox) 3.5 has some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 4:55 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: SEO
Michael Gray shares a live example and writes about his experience with launching a site, with NO LINKS, and having it indexed quickly after developing an XML Sitemaps strategy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
Shaun Anderson over at Hobo-Web.co.uk has just released an awesome new wordpress plugin. "Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers all a flutter. I asked Marty if he could sit down and modify read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ianmacfarlane 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.lbi-netrank.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Microsoft has launched a new "Get the Facts" campaign, this time promoting Microsoft Internet Explorer. The marketing teams may have been a little *too* enthusiastic - the campaign has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vermasaurav 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google SEO
By far the most important news to come out of ‘Advanced 2009 is Google’s blurt-of-a-revelation that they removed the algorithmic benefit from internal page rank sculpting, “about a year ago.” The change also affects how Google handles noFollowed ou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2009 - 7:38 am
Posted By: rjonesx 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google SEO
A new methodology for coaxing Google to respider otherwise orphaned pages when performing sitewide URL rewrites. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hobo 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Brains for the rest of us from SebastianX. Miss at your peril. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 8:10 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
Andy Beard takes a look at FeedBurner's change to now include tracking of FriendFeed subscriber data. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2009 - 1:37 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google
Ruud Hein writes, "A lot, an awful lot, has been said about The No Follow Issue but one thing I miss so far is Trust. With what feels like sleight of hand, Google has done away with a huge chunk of Trust in the relation it is trying to build between read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 3:54 am
Posted By: TomDemers 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
"Being an authentic corporate blogger means finding a way to balance your voice with the goals of the company you‘re representing."

Great post on how to be authentic without "crossing the line". read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 8:32 am
Posted By: onreact 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
Google will penalize you immediately for comment spam links to bad neighborhoods and lift the penalty once the comments get cleaned. Excellent case study. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 7:04 am
Posted By: Sebastian 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
What I can’t stand is when a search engine tries to tell me how I’ve to link (out).

Dear Googlers, please –WRT to the implementation of hyperlinks– leave us webmasters alone, dump the rel-nofollow crap and rank our stuff in the best interest of y read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 8:09 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts sent a shockwave through the advanced SEO community by saying that site owners could no longer perform “PageRank sculpting” using the nofollow tag in the way they’d previously thought. Now Matt’s posted more e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2009 - 6:00 am
Posted By: vangogh 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
About 2 weeks ago Danny Sullivan highlighted that Google follows Javascript links, and that sculpting PageRank using rel=nofollow no longer works. Matt Cutts shared that second bit to the shock and awe of the SEO industry at the recent SMX conferenc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2009 - 10:58 pm
Posted By: MattSiltala 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Blogging
Blogs can run into problems with duplicate content web pages. This is most easily and simply avoided by the right robots.txt file. Surprisingly some top blogs do not use this approach. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 7:16 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post from Andrew Goodman: "Long term, search fails when site owners try to "tell" search engines which pages are important, short of burying the unimportant ones in their architecture so they're literally invisible. Importance shouldn't be arb read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2009 - 12:56 am
Posted By: Sebastian 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts discussing various sorts of (!tasty) link condoms, Google's death penalty on rel-nofollow, err ... Google's no-longer-existent support of links to crap (?) implemented with client sided scriping or microformats ... read the source for you read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 7:16 am
Posted By: theGypsy 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
I am personally starting to believe that host level issues might actually be something we should be looking at more. Ann has some interesting info to add to the fray... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2009 - 8:11 am
Posted By: theGypsy 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Danny via Search Engine Land - One of the changes really shouldn’t hurt many sites, impacting only a “power SEO” technique commonly called PageRank sculpting that I’d say fairly few use. The other has a bigger impact and potentially means thousands read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 10:45 am
Posted By: SEOAly 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: Google
The last LiveBlog effort of day 1 of SMX Advanced from Lisa Barone. It's LiveBlogtastic! "Yes, yes, it’s time for the YOU&A with Matt. Where I am sure everyone will ask him very polite questions and no one will attempt to give him a hard time. Rig read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JeremyLuebke 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Domaining
If this new ICANN proposal called “Rapid Suspension System” goes through, I can cheaply file a complaint to get your affiliate landing pages taken down immediately. Shoot first and ask questions later! Think about that… I file for next to nothing, c read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Link Building
Eric Enge -(...) the focus of this post is not to tell you to build great content and promote it well (although you should do that). The focus is on putting together a map of what defines breadth for your market space and implementing a link buildin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Posted By: Jill 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
From Vanessa Fox:
"Web applications need more than technology to thrive. They also need customers. And more often than not these days, those customers are acquired through search. But how well can this new world of the web that Google is ushering i read more »
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