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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Blogging
Design guidelines to create a effective Twitter profile. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://12seconds.tv)
Category: Blogging
Classic video of sales guy's point of view of Twitter. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
With the recent Yahoo update we are noticing that Yahoo is flagging harmful websites within their search results. See screen shots of the warnings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Some advertisers are detecting if Google's AdBot is checking the destination URL and sending the AdBot one page and the actual end user (the searcher) a different page. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google serving ads based on keywords not relevant to your ads. Learn how Google is hurting your Quality Score. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: SEM Industry
I [Marios Alexjandrou] was instant messaging with a friend the other day and he wrote that he thought the SEO/SEM job market was hot right now i.e. a lot of open positions. Having gone through a job search a couple of times in a little over a year, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Posted By: annie7 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
The questions:

So why do you use Google Webmaster Tools?

Do you set up separate account for each site?

Do the tools let Google see too much into your own practices?

Please share your thoughts! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 2:53 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: Local & Maps
How to get the businesses with multiple locations in the same city (e.g. two Starbucks on opposite corners) to rank for the same local search query, or something to that effect. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://battellemedia.com)
Category: Water Cooler
John Battelle points out the Google is hiding chuck Norris read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 1:45 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
"In other words, among the daily deluge of millions of news items, stories, announcements, press releases etc., that scream at all of us, there are a couple, and just a couple, that indicate or lead to a real linking opportunity or a strategy idea." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: SEO
General overview of the nofollow tag and how the search engines use them read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 8, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
A recent post on statistics I gleaned from looking at 2,500+ Sphinns resulted in a request for me to look at one area I had missed. Jeff Quipp wanted to know which sites had their posts go hot most often. Here's the data! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: khalid 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: SEO
Just had a meeting with a client who is paying $350 an hour for their SEO consultant for 2000 hours a year. Yep, that is close to 700k per year.

And what an SEO consultant, a truly forward thinking kind of consultant! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 8:25 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dotsauce.com)
Category: Domaining
During a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors a resolution was passed which will end domain tasting as we know it. The discussion was sparked in response to the scandalous practice of Network Solutions hijacking domain searches in recent read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkdiagnosis.com)
Category: Link Building
Uses Yahoo data and is one of the best link analysis tools I've seen. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: blogrush 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Pretty cool that Bush still ranks where he should in other engines. And pretty cool that Google made that fix last and no one has found a way around it... I guess... :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 6:22 am
Posted By: OliverTaco 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Social Media
Like many of its bretheren, the Socializer relys on finding a direct post URL to the 50 or so sites that it supports.
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I'm going to go out on a very wide and stable limb here and say that nothing any of us create should be on citeulike. My wif read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cheezhead 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cheezhead.com)
Category: Other Searching
Vertical search engines like Indeed.com are taking publisher content and making their own Web pages via permalinks - advertising included - and publishers should not be happy about it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Google Other
Google indexed my current blog post and started ranking it as the second search results for the targeted key word in just 40 minutes! Just how fast is Google indexing? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.openwhitepages.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Came across this interesting site in an analysis of my back links. The OpenWhitePages looks to be an online phone book where one can add their own information. Just enter in your telephone number and you can add your business name, description (no H read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Google SEO
An antedotal story about Matt Cutts at PubCon's Meet the Google Engineers. Forget Larry and Sergy...Matt Cutts IS Google. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bnownlater 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.smtusa.com)
Category: Google Other
Looks as if the Google Toolbar 5 Beta is going to capture 404 errors and DNS errors, while serving up a custom error page with "site suggestions" and "search suggestions". Is this Google's way fo cleaning up their index of 404 error pages? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 7:47 am
Posted By: Wiep 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Vanessa Fox revisits common site structure choices, how they’re handled by Google, and how that impacts SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 6, 2007 - 11:10 am
Posted By: EricLander 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Bookmarking
From passing link juice to providing users with online communities for sharing bookmarks, social bookmarking sites have become a necessity in web site promotion. Here, Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal provides 125 sites and discusses the impo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: evision 281 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisionsem.com)
Category: SEO
An article of tips for optimizing Acrobat Reader Files (PDF) for best search engine results.

* Tips to better rankings & click-throughs from search engine result listings for your PDF’s.

* Including active links within PDF’s to increase the read more »
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