SilentlyScreaming

A weekend workshop to get your own internet business completly up and running - sounds like a good idea, if it works..? read more »
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Twitter is a fun Web 2.0 communications tool that allows users to deliver quick messages of 140 characters or less. Twitter has become more than a communication tool — it's a source of angry, funny and awkward messages that would be sometimes best l read more »
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Two simple but effective free list building methods with details of how to do them, useful! read more »
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Good Blogging survey results with some useful answers to common questions.. read more »
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The discussion of whether twitter is a waste of time seems to be ongoing, although it seems there are good reasons to tweet and to want more followers... read more »
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I just came back from Google and they have updated their translation tools.

Less than a month ago the options were English to 10 languages and those same 10 languages back to English. 20 options, and to be honest I was happy with that. I went on read more »
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O.K. I am going to pick on The Times because it is funny. Today they published an article entitled Searching to get to the top of Google.

Most of the article is O.K. and it is nice to see SEO getting mentioned in a major newspaper, however some o read more »
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It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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Barry Schwartz posts at Search Engine Land about the Google -60 penalty and some interesting indications from Google reps that seem to acknowledge the penalty exists. read more »
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With brand bidding opening up on Google AdWords next Monday, Tesco have become the 1st major UK brand to announce they won't be bidding on their competitors. read more »
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Very surprised these tactics actually still work! read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Another great post by Patrick that looks at factors involved in the decision to either sell blog posts, of keep them at home.

Good read! read more »
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apparently it's till possible to build your subscriber list for free, if you know how and where to go...
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everyone need to learn how to write. Content is the King of he web! read more »
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Thoughts on the algorithm of Stumbleupon and how stumbling your own site might permanently harm its traffic. read more »
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Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. read more »
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SEOmoz's Rebecca serves up an interesting case study regarding "how-to" write titles and headlines for social media submissions. read more »
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NetSol has apparently started engaging in a practice that Google deemed ban-able 2 years ago: subdomain spamming. The twist? They're not subdomain spamming with their sites... they're doing it with *yours*. read more »
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A great post by Patrick about ways to make sure your blog is in ideal condition to perform its duty before you guest post somewhere else ... since you'll be driving people back to your own blog.

Very interesting! read more »
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From SEOMoz, Someone is trying to register "SEO" as a service mark. Apparently, the guy who's doing this has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. That means he has passed the preliminary review by the Trad read more »
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Search Engine Land -

Images don't help your articles rank higher (there is a but...)

Google News currently can't fetch revisions to articles
Timing your articles for specific releases won't help it rank better in Google News

You need te read more »
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Beginning April 1, 2008, Google has officially changed their display URL policy. In short, what that means is that the URL that shows in your ad absolutely must be the URL that visitors get to when they click on your ad. read more »
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The quote from Caroline McCarthy of The Social is worth the price of admission. And then there's the photo of Google's VP of engineering ... read more »
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Google is giving the ability to select your own time on you emails so you can have proof that they were snet when YOU say they were, allowing for the possibility of never being wrong again. read more »
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