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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 8:48 am
Posted By: Lisadit 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.baseonesearch.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Far far away in cyber space....the Jedi's (white hat SEOs) and Siths (black hat SEOs) are fighting for the best rankings in the mighty Googletrons results pages. In the first series of SEO Wars we see the mighty Darth CloakMaster (Fantomaster) take read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Barry Schwartz details some juicy new data Google is sharing about searcher behavior. You can compare search patterns by category, by location (!), and over certain time frames. It's basically search data porn for marketers. :-) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 4:18 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: SEO
Sugarrae writes "Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):

This “community” is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and delud read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:25 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imcharityparty.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Who: You!
What: Internet Marketer's Charity Party
WHEN: Monday, August 18th 8:00 - Midnight or ??
OPEN BAR! Light appetizers and good booze from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight
WHERE: Agenda Lounge - 399 S. 1st st. (right behind the conference center!) ( read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 7:24 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
"There is an excellent paid only WebmasterWorld thread on the topic of why would the best SEOs decide to take on client work, as opposed to building out their own ideas and cashing in on those ideas. The rational is, if they are the best, why not ma read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 3:13 am
Posted By: philbutler 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. Building links in this fashion cannot help but build a successful campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Kim Krause Berg writes, "It's our job, as online marketers and site developers, to make our jobs look easy. I think many of us do a great job at entertaining our spectators and maybe even some clients. We can't be softies. We have to know our playbo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.realityseo.com)
Category: SEM Industry
In October of 2006, when I [Mike Valentine] was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 8:48 am
Posted By: kwegner 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://unclepeppers.com)
Category: SEO
Uncle Peppers talks about how Sphinn has taken the fun out of being an SEO blogger. From regurgitated headlines to pointless topics, the SEO space has become completely clogged. This isn't the fault of Sphinn, but it just shows the severity of it al read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Posted By: vangogh 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever there’s a big shift in the search results, you need to know what the search engines see, and what they could possibly be changing, to try and find the source of your troubles or success. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:13 pm
Posted By: rjonesx 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google
The 302 Hijack has reared its head again. Search Google from "gmail.com" (no quotes). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 7:17 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Shaun Anderson puts together this amazing guide for "Do it Yourself" SEO for your Website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: Rhea 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
New Twitter tool - this one's from Cesar Serna and it kicks ass. Read the SEJ review of its strengths and weaknesses. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bloommedia.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Alex discusses an interesting idea for managing enterprise new media clients and how the payment on results model extends to large multi-national clients. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 26, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: soulfood 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: SEO
A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn't use any user behavior data as the article implies. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: imnotadoctor 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Google
Track official Google responses by using their own tool against them. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

All you have to do is use Google Alerts and setup a Group alert for various Google employee handles. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: imnotadoctor 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Other
eVisibility, an Internet marketing agency based in Carlsbad, has price of gas capped at $2.25/gallon for Southern California staff. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 4:16 am
Posted By: SearchBuzz 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.micropersuasion.com)
Category: Social Media

My latest fascination is Friendfeed..."Easily searching content created by people you trust."

If you can just search just what your friends think and prioritize it over everything else, you have a very powerful recommendation engine.

read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 10:08 am
Posted By: imnotadoctor 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Social Media
A funny and accurate depiction of the type of relationships you encounter in the social media world. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seosurvivor 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imnotadoctor.com)
Category: Google SEO
I never knew this, but you can setup GEO specific area of sub folders in Google Webmaster Tools. So, if you had built out state pages or city pages for your main keywords you can now tell Google to associate that page if you build in its individual read more »
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Avatar Posted By: soulfood 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Paid Search
When working with national and international Fortune 1000 clients, I often observe that their brand is so strong that it provides 80% of the conversions at 20% of the total budget spent (the Pereto principal at its finest).

This is where the Int read more »
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Avatar Posted By: soulfood 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://rich-page.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Why doesn’t every major online business offer a customer survey site like this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: imnotadoctor 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Google
I noticed that Google is putting plus map boxes on search engine result listing that have address information on that page. (screenshots) Do you have them? read more »
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