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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 7:24 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer c read more »
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Avatar Posted By: searchcommander 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Google Other
Google's SSL cert is expired ;) heh read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bpcombs 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apogee-search.com)
Category: Link Building
Curious what the Google "penalty" of Pay Per Post bloggers actually entailed, Apogee Search ran a controlled test with PPP bloggers. The results of Phase One are found in this article. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brianwhite.org)
Category: Google SEO
Brian White (from Google) shows what happens when you are a bit too quick to write a paid post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kimota 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A fantastic example to demonstrate the strength of knowing what drives customer participation. By being clever in identifying the best revenue streams and eliminating the others, this guy has turned a mediocre site into a cash cow, by giving users w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 3:07 pm
Posted By: OliverTaco 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Look, we all make mistakes (though I am rarely in place to make such a super spectacular one!) but what is really rare is to have someone 'man up' and apologize.

Not a wimpy political "I am sorry it could have been interpreted as blah blah" but a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: scottclark 251 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Post a page about what you know. That's the concept. But here, it's done with a twist. And it looks good. Check it out.

It's only a test, not a real product.

But, being able to post ads and pass page rank from the pages is a far cry from any read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 13, 2007 - 10:20 am
Posted By: MattCutts 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Google
The Guardian says that "update Florida" happened in Christmas 2004. But Florida happened in November 2003. Who fed The Guardian bad dates? Fess up. :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: Josey 254 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://momentumseo.com)
Category: Google
A personal account of how Matt Cutts of Google has what it takes when it comes to black hat SEO, and the Vegas story to prove it. A lesson on how anything can and will happen in Vegas. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Purposeinc 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.purposeinc.com)
Category: Google SEO
I don't know if I can describe it any more than the title :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2007 - 6:24 am
Posted By: northrock 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Link Building
Matt Cutts walks us through a concrete example of paid posts and shows why the major search engines don’t want to be affected by links within paid posts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2007 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: EstebanPanzera 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts writes an entry on Google Webmaster Central Blog about paid links and its chronology, also includes Q & A. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2007 - 7:54 am
Posted By: JohnWeb 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://johnmu.com)
Category: Google Other
The long anticipated announcement by John Mueller (aka JohnMu and Softplus) that he will be joining the Google Team in in their Zürich (Switzerland) office, joining the team around the Webmaster Tools as a Webmaster Trends Analyst.

We all anticip read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2007 - 9:22 am
Posted By: TimDineen 370 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.exposureonline.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
I'm disappointed. Is that really necessary?

People in this community put so much effort into writing good content and obsessively tracking their industry and community that why should the newest site, which is itself the ultimate community-builde read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2007 - 2:20 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
The Google Webmaster Central service has gained a new "Message Center" area that will initially be use to notify site owners of official spam penalty problems and eventually used to communicate about other issues related to site inclusion at Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Posted By: vanessafox 401 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: Usability
If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.

(Finally! I have written a post about something oth read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2007 - 1:50 pm
Posted By: vanessafox 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I have searched the internet and could find nothing quite so sphinn-worthy as a blog post about my cats. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 408 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Welcome to Sphinn! Thanks so much for agreeing to beta test the site. This is the place to get a fast rundown on what's going on plus give us your f read more »
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