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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Online Marketing
Whilst it looks like search may have hit a ceiling, and online advertising in general isn't growing as quickly anymore, they're still the only things keeping the UK ad market going read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Overview of online ad market in the US.

I like this sort of data & analysis, but wish that Danny & the team would do the same for the UK's figures (which also just came out). I realise that you can't do it for every country, but as far as I'm aw read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 6:45 pm
Posted By: janecopland 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEM Industry
There are interesting pros and significant cons to incorporating SEO into universities and developing degree programmes based on the subject. Somehow, my disadvantages list got a bit longer than the advantages one... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
SNIP - The ethnographic method is an approach of studying a person or group of people by participating in the culture of interest while still remaining a bit of an outsider. At its core is the focus on cultural relativism, which is seeing something read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nma.co.uk)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com will introduce significant changes to its UK search engine on 20 October as it attempts to provide the most relevant search results on the web.

The new-look results page is focused towards giving users answers to questions directly within read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 5:48 am
Posted By: barnaseo 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 4:32 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the search results for their brand names.

They’re not talking about their own domain names or web properties e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 8:43 pm
Posted By: ciaran 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: ciaran 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:40 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Google
Dave Snyder gives us a round up of what has changed in universal search & google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Patrick Altoft writes, "The thing that really upsets most webmasters isn’t the fact that Google has decided to force the whole nofollow paid links issue on the web. Most people, myself included, believe that Google has every right to make up whateve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 26, 2008 - 7:56 am
Posted By: paisley 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Congrats MattMcGee and the other new editors. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steaprok 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
What's the deal with all this advice that Google employees like to give us, then? Of all the search engines (and of many companies of Google's size and scope), Google appears to be the most open with its distribution of information, its interactions read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Rand weighs in on why he thinks we should all ignore Google's recent advice on no longer rewriting dynamic URLs and I tend to agree with him. There's also a nice little conspiracy theory in the comments - is Google doing this just because it believe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 9:02 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Tom Critchlow takes a look at some common, and pretty awful, SEO mistakes made by UK highstreet retail websites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 2:20 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Some direct evidence countering the suggestions Google Webmaster Central blog made yesterday. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 3:18 am
Posted By: ViperChill 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com)
Category: Social Media
Once you’ve decided you’d like to create a viral marketing campaign, its easy to become too focused on the details, and miss the forest for the trees, but a good campaign is the integration of a lot of parts. Here’s a quick checklist to make sure yo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 8:37 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra O. Mastaler writes, "Knowing where key decision-makers go for information and what type of digital media outlets influence their actions can give you a competitive edge in marketing your products, developing content and securing links." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: paisley 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: hotwheel 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 9:14 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e-consultancy.com)
Category: SEO
Last week E-consultancy's Graham Charlton took a look at Ten things Asda can do better online . What I found surprising is that neither Asda, or any of the other leading UK supermarkets, rank above #9 in Google UK for the term 'supermarket'. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 5:15 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.datadial.net)
Category: SEO
Being based in the UK I find that SEOs on this side of the pond have to get very familiar with website geo-location factors. It’s an unfortunate quirk of search engines that one of the main criteria that search engines use to determine a websites lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:49 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: SEO
Stop the nonsense!

Seriously.

As an industry we need to collectively get a grip.

We our a community of people that make our money through search engines and social media platforms, and because of this we utlize these places as our playgroun read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 21, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Lyndon 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Dipping my toe into the seo recruitment world a few prejudices have surfaced and it's created a very interesting discussion. read more »
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