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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Google
If this report is true and isn't a glitch in the Google system, then the SEO world, particularly keyword research will need to start educating clients who don't know they will rank differently for uppercase and lowercase keyword phrases. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This month's SEO comic focuses on the touchy subject of overseas outsourcing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Wikipedia still has uses for the SEO community. Don't believe me, then read this post by Will Paoletto. I especially like the idea of citation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ChrisLang 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkbuildingbestpractices.com)
Category: Google SEO
One of my Facebook friends just started DoFollow Tuesdays on his blog. By adding a informative advice comment on the particular subject you can be chosen to get a DoFollow tag form the site.

Nice promotional idea and a great way to get very high read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steaprok 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEO
When it comes to SEO, many small to medium players can get discouraged by the bigger players. They have more resources, so why should the smaller businesses even put forth the effort with SEO? Simple – because they can actually compete with the larg read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Contextual Ads
Contextual Advertising goes berserk! Is the example shown a prediction or an exception to the future of commercial blogging? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Social Media
Squidoo shows nofollow links and calls it a bug...or is it the future? Does anyone care about Squidoo? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Social Media
Selling our contacts has been taken to a new height with an ebay auction for a twitter account. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 185 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Web Analytics
SEO companies are at the front lines when it comes to educating customers and potential customers about what is important when looking at web statistics. I guess I’ve hit my breaking point when asked about Alexa rankings. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 6:45 am
Posted By: Hawksdomain 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lostartofblogging.com)
Category: Networking
This is a great, comprehensive guide to using Twitter - if you want to introduce someone new to what Twitter can do for them, this would be an excellent start! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jeeb90 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Searching
SearchMe.com's idea to build a search engine around narrowing searches down into categories was innovative, even though it should have been obvious. But besides that feature, does Searchme really give people a reason to return to the site? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Recently there seems to be a lot of people who clearly don’t have a clue about search engine optimisation hanging around at Sphinn. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I love the label black hat and white hat. It reminds me of those dusty old serial cowboy movies where the villain always wore a black hat. Of course very few of us in the SEO business are only white or black hat and I believe most SEOs are wearing a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: biker 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://internetmarketingsucks.com)
Category: SEO
First of all, there are a lot of SEO firms and individuals that have no clue what they’re doing. Second, some might know to build links, but the way they go about it is just pathetic. Third, you’re not going to find good testimonials for a good firm read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 2:27 am
Posted By: pittfall 194 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
It isn't the dance, but it is very interesting that the index across these two Google datacenters are different from the regular index.

In fact, with a quick query for bank, aside from subtle SERP changes, the number of pages indexed differed - 5 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 2:29 am
Posted By: KenJones 194 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand Fishkin put up this very informative post about link building and evaluating the authority of sites you may want to get links from. As the man himself states, "It doesn't get much more relevant than this." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lostartofblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
I had the pleasure of playing around with some earlier versions of the 2.5 a few weeks ago (wasn’t particularly impressed at the time), including the RC2 release from a few days ago, but decided I’d post a review when the final cut came in. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A humorous distraction, this article details some of the backlink logic or illogic of Yahoo Search. An interesting Google search result is also shown. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEO
Putting forth some time towards local search can reap big benefits. Read a real-life case study and get advice from a Seattle chiropractor on how he has achieved his excellent local rankings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: FreEntity 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Google
Google has updated its advanced search page. While most people probably don’t look at the advanced search page very often, it has some nice features, especially for an SEO Expert. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jeeb90 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Matt Cutts' legion of SEO followers are satirized in this "upfront and intelligent comic" about the SEO industry. Many SEOs do find themselves harping on what Google engineer Matt Cutts has to say, but hopefully no one becomes quite as obsessed as t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Many were surprised last week when Flickr added nofollow tags to comments and picture captions. I do think this was a long tie coming, but that doesn't mean Flickr can't be part of your SEO Toolbox still. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Other Searching
I haven't read much about Powerset until a colleague wrote this blog post. Challenging Google seems ludicrous at first glance, but someone has to do it, why not Powerset. Some of the features seem to be ahead of Google and competition is always a go read more »
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Avatar Posted By: motherduck 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stevepronger.com)
Category: SEO
Andy Jenkins (of Stompernet fame) recently sent a message to his subscribers urging them to create multiple accounts at each social network they find. Power linking techniques, or outright abuse? Is it any wonder SEOs and marketers are unwelcome on read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Is all linkbaiting good? I think choosing your linkbait with long-term ideas will help your rankings and please your visitors for months and hopefully years to come. read more »
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