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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 8:16 am
Posted By: Lyndon 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Online Marketing
"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 8:13 am
Posted By: onreact 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
These 30 "intermediate SEO" tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They're "quick and clean" on top of that, they're no "SEO tricks". read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: graywolf 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 10:48 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
“Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information. Using this software you can be following people all over the world who share your read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 12:20 am
Posted By: gyutae 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: SEO
Menlo Park based Cuil has officially launched with quite a sizable index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably a comprehensive search engine on the web. Cuil not only claims that they have found a way to massively reduce the costs involved read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 12:20 am
Posted By: ViperChill 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
or those of you who blog for the purpose of generating additional sales of your products or services (as opposed to making affiliate revenues from the traffic), and have not yet seen the benefits, there is hope. Below follow 12 of the most common mi read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 10:15 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Link Building
Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: martinbowling 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable links to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 8:41 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM
In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines and today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 19, 2008 - 10:47 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Social Media
Many companies are intrigued by the concept of social media, but have no idea how to actually integrate it into business practices. In an earlier post, we explored one approach to putting a simple social media plan in place. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 20, 2008 - 7:47 am
Posted By: neyne 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: SEM
Another excellent post by ViperChill providing a list of important resources for improving other-then-SEO skills and thus making a complete web marketer. Besides SEO, includes resources on PPC, affiliate marketing, web design, copywriting, domains, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: MariosAlexandrou 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: Google SEO
The implications of the additional search data that Google is providing are far reaching, but I think people are too busy looking up keyword data to have realized. Fortunately for me I commute to and from work on a train which means I've got plenty read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: ViperChill 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Online Marketing
When it comes to the internet, I know that our passions can get in the way and drive us all to working excessively. Sometimes you just have to take some time out and I hope you can all learn a little from my experience.

Overworking might not hav read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: vbin 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Blogging
Copyblogger says to be visible, don't worry about teaching people, just write what they want to hear. I'm not sure that's great advice. I think being like everyone else and telling people what they want to hear is exactly how you become invisible. A read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 10:18 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunder read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:31 am
Posted By: dedmond29 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEM
SEO and SEM are challenging tasks for B2B companies, particularly in industries such as Manufacturing and Industrial Technology. Here are 7 examples of how these types of companies can increase leads and revenue through creative search engine market read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: theGypsy 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialtimes.com)
Category: Social Media
The Social Times » What is social discovery exactly? Well social discovery is the usage of social tools to find relevant content. A social tool is a system which enables the sharing of content with other users. That content can be as simple as the a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Very useful list of FireFox SEO plugins from Ann Smarty on SEJ. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: Maing 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Usability
It's been a long time since I've blogged about design & usability topics, but I think we're overdue for a revisit. Luckily, in my recent web browsing, I stumbled across some remarkably innovative, uncommon design elements that made me take notice read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 7:52 pm
Posted By: eKstreme 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jordankasteler.com)
Category: SEM
Jordan hits it spot on: "When conducting keyword research think again before immediately being drawn to phrases with the highest search volume. Consider KEI, the commercial intent, and which part of the buying cycle that keyphrase belongs to." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 8:58 am
Posted By: ViperChill 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: SEO
Concentrate on publishing information which will solve peoples problems, which will naturally create the search phrases that no one else will be competing with. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 10:32 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Blogging
Jonathan Morrow of Copyblogger writes, "Have you ever felt like your blog is invisible? Well, I have some good news. Not only can I tell you how to stop being invisible, but I can give you some proven tips and tactics that will have the blogosphere read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 6:37 pm
Posted By: annie7 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Google's search string parameters. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 8:00 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Ann Smarty discusses sites that offer anyone anonymously to post a rant on other people or companies - be it a former boyfriend or a place of work. For some reason these services keep popping up quickly and that’s a complex question if that’s for go read more »
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