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Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
In what appears to be a reversion back to the way Google originally handled 302 redirects a few years ago, it looks as if now it has again become possible to hijack websites in the serps. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 1, 2008 - 1:53 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 10:54 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Jill is someone who needs no introduction round these parts. I had the pleasure of interviewing her last week on the topic of Google, ethics, old-school marketers, Cuil and the myths of social media. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:35 am
Posted By: MarketingMinefield 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google
According to Google themselves, their goal is to hire people who are "as passionate about their lives as they are about their work" - so why is it that a company that's concerned about the quality of their employees can’t seem find anyone decent for read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:49 am
Posted By: Lyndon 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Blogging
"I’m not bored with what I DO every day, actually, nor am I bored with the industry in general. I am simply bored with writing about it, because the online space is becoming incredibly cluttered with people who seem to know absolutely nothing about read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 83 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 Posted By: ANOnym 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Michael Vandemar brilliantly debunks statements made against him by Michael Martinez, showing that lying online with plenty of evidence available, probably, shouldn't be done. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vangogh 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
For anyone who hates having to change their passwords because it means memorizing a new one, I built this nifty little tool that generates strong passwords with built in mnemonics. Please, feel free to share this with your family members who still i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: mvandemar 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kichus 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: SEO
I am not claiming this as an ultimate checklist. But if you follow this, you may identify at least a couple of errors which might be causing poor performance in search engines. The checklist also contains solutions for each of the errors. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 7:11 am
Posted By: mvandemar 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOAddicted 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: Web Analytics
Are you sure looking into the correct numbers at Google analytics reports? You might be missing these options and most probably staring into incorrect data. Get your stats refined from unwanted data with just 3 filters. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: mvandemar 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Searching
Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 2:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Should Google be more upfront in it's promotion of Google Health about the possibility of a data mishap? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: eKstreme 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
How many links does an average Digg story have when it goes popular, after a week, and after 30 days? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mvandemar 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stevepavlina.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Do you honestly suffer from a shortage of good ideas in your life? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: theGypsy 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: mvandemar 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
New WordPress comment form spam protection plugin, plus I introduce the LinkMyPics widget to help convert hotlinking into links. Please Note: some pics on the page might be considered NSFW, but they are well below the fold and only PG13. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 3:17 am
Posted By: kichus 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: SEO
No... I am not going to repeat the same old stories of Google Analytics and your ROI. This is just much simpler analysis using excel sheets and common logic. Of course you require to collect some data to start with. A detailed step by step approach read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 16, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Posted By: kichus 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: SEO
How you measure your SEO success, is that only the Ranking Reports? or should you use other KPIs? A detailed post about how to measure your SEO success matches with your actual Goals. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: mvandemar 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: onreact 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.deepjiveinterests.com)
Category: Blogging
Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind "white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works" slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it's not SEO or soon people will spit on us i read more »
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