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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: annie7 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEO
An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 25, 2008 - 4:49 am
Posted By: Harith 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Michael Martinez: Out of nearly 1600 query expressions that have brought recent traffic to SEO Theory, I have selected ten to discuss in greater depth. I chose these ten expressions for one or more of several reasons: the visitor counts were high, o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 4:24 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Usability
Ann Smarty writes, "As a sitewide element, footers used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages and add external sitewide links. It was then so much used and abused that it turned into a some kind of "red flag" for search engines (e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 8:58 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
It's that time of year again: Time to find out if you're spending too much time on SEO and in desperate need of a break. Here's the 2008 version of "Signs You Need a Break from SEO." Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 10:34 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall writes, "The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DarrenSlatten 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Tired of reading dry, boring SEO articles? Are you looking for a story that includes such topics as Luke Skywalker, hedge-trimming, and necrophilia? Then head over to SEOmoz and check out this tragic love story, starring Darren Slatten and a fugly r read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2008 - 8:38 am
Posted By: Lid 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
This post will show you why your link request may be getting deleted, rejected or ignored. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 1:52 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
The author is relatively new to SEO, but has created a summary (in a well organized PDF) of link building tactics and ideas from various SEOmoz posts over the years.

If you decide to read only one Youmoz post this year, make it this one. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 6, 2008 - 7:25 am
Posted By: stephan 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Attribute-based (a.k.a. faceted) navigation systems make it easier for users to filter, sort, navigate, and buy. But this user benefit could cost you big-time in your natural search marketing performance if not SEO'd correctly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 3:56 am
Posted By: rustybrick 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa Barone: One of our fine Bruce Clay Account Managers forwarded me an article he stumbled across today and it was like a gift from God. How did he know I needed a good laugh today? Our AMs are always so helpful!

The article is from FindLaw and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 8:07 am
Posted By: steaprok 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google
People far smarter than I have talked about the web becoming an operating system, and search being at the center of how we access the cloud. What better way for Google to position themselves as the C prompt than to turn the address bar into a search read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 3:13 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: TCSM 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other
The ultimate checklist to make sure your website is going to be suck-free read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: ciaran 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Not content with acting as most people's default browser, Google actually now wants to be people's browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess 'so much cash' is a relative term) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 9:13 am
Posted By: inkodeR 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: Search Marketing
I'm not really sure what the term shake a stick at means?

But this list is just freaking mammoth. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 5:33 am
Posted By: steaprok 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and other read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:33 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Three years ago Todd Malicoat published a blog post titled Balancing the Link Equation, which offered conditional tips about how to improve the link profile of a website. I think of that post nearly every time someone asks for SEO advice because the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TheMcHugh 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google SEO
Useful summary of possible effects of Google Suggest and links to relevant posts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AffiliateDragon 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.affiliatedragon.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Posted By: planetc1 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tonyadam.com)
Category: Searching
Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are creating si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: Maing 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Searching
Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking when they d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: anthonyverre 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Is your SEO is being left out of key decisions and discussions? Are projects going live without any SEO input until after the launch, or are SEO struggles to get changes prioritized and live on the site? Adopt a Pro-SEO culture in your workplace. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn’t be an SEO process success metric. That’s the point I’d like to further discuss here. I’ve outlined the pros and cons of most popular SEO meas read more »
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