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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Other
Sometimes the most relevant and most popular page on the Web isn’t the best response to a query submitted at a search engine. Sometimes the best page to return to a searcher is the one most appropriate to their informational need.

How well can a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jonathancrossfield.com)
Category: Water Cooler
There are a few different ways that misinformation occurs. The problem is that the internet amplifies each of these errors to dangerous proportions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: jimhedger 1 day 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Though he writes that he dislikes writing about this topic, Barry was right to cover it. We have a collective problem of our own making... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 3:32 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Blogging
What goes around comes around. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopscentre.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Ken Jones gives us a round up of his favourite search marketing articles of the week and some personal insight (and jokes) on each piece. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 2:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 10:03 am
Posted By: vangogh 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
We all know your friend an mine Matt Cutts, over at the Google Web Spam team… but how exactly do they go about detecting and curtailing web spam? While there are a wide variety of tools at their disposal, historical factors are easily one of the mor read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: billslawski 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.uic.edu)
Category: Tips & Tools
The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
A very detailed and in-depth look at Sphinn from Edward Lewis of seoconsultants.com read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Its’ natural to want to be accepted by the “A-listers”, the “marketing gurus”, the people that have a strong presence, hundreds or even thousands of followers/subscribers/readers. The ‘in-crowd’ of conference glam shooters who have managed to secure read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: Nodoubt 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was rig read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ap.google.com)
Category: Other Social Media
You might be getting the 'rotten' end of the stick on the internet. Why?

Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.

This article addresses the likes of Flickr, MySpace read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://corporatejoseph.wordpress.com)
Category: News Sites
Is Digg too large a community for the level of moderation that it has? Raises questions about the sensationalism of titles, the narrowing of focus of submissions, and the squashing of commentary. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
"Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story, for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree:
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://everydotconnects.com)
Category: Networking
What kinds of dangers might lurk on social networks when people set out to use them for nefarious reasons?

The article explores a scam that happened on Plurk and Twitter, but raises questions about how any social network can be abused. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: welshy 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searched-designed-developed.co.uk)
Category: SEO
I've recently come across this blog - these guys seem to be writing some interesting posts.

This one's quite controversial and worth a read read more »
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Avatar Posted By: beanstalk 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Edward Lewis of the SEO Consultants Directory discusses the abuse of auto-voting at Sphinn and it's negative impact on the system as a whole. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: billslawski 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
The growth of the social web, increases in search engines understanding sentiments and opinions in reviews and user created content, and greater scrutiny of misleading business practices urge businesses to become more socially responsible.

What read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:26 pm
Posted By: northrock 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:41 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Link Building
Quality traffic is your goal, but to get there you need to study "Do Follow Psychology." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 4:47 am
Posted By: vangogh 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
Yahoo was granted a patent this week which describes how anchor text in links may be used to increase the relevancy ranking of a page pointed to by that anchor text.

It provides some details about how anchor text might be used by a search engine read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: storyspinner 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Water Cooler
KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeChurchill 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google Searching
Bill Slawski has posted an article at SEM Clubhouse about Google's recent advances in categorizing and ranking images. Looking well beyond that ALT text on the images, Google is beginning to look at how the images are used on the site, who (and ho read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:28 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
It's Huomah.com.... David Harry's (aka TheGypsy) 2nd Anniversay of his Blog and he writes this post regarding the highlights of his blogging travels over the past two years.

Here's to many more years, Dave!! read more »
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