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Avatar Posted By: DaveDavis 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Facebook announced a new round of changes to its site design and user interface today - in addition to changing the location of it’s ads.

In an announcement on July 20th Facebook states that the changes will result in a “cleaner, and simpler desi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:26 pm
Posted By: northrock 36 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 15, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopscentre.com)
Category: Google SEO
This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into acco read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 29, 2008 - 12:55 am
Posted By: DaveN 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google
I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Posted By: mercylivi 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other
A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things you should do on a regular basis to position yourself to be successful in your job search whenever that time read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 3:54 am
Posted By: modernnomad84 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bradleyspencer.com)
Category: Google SEO
Do you think it's possible that Google factors CTR on their organic listings too to maximize the tasty-ness of their results? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
With the recent changes in the way Google and Yahoo are ranking country specific TLDs, Adam has put together a fantastic post listing all the official or best domain registrars for each ccTLD. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.redflymarketing.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Short article on using PPC typo campaigns to optimize for organic rankings with lower competition. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 1:18 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.serpzone.com)
Category: Paid Search
Tired of PPC? Try new PPC! Here is a good list of 14 alternate sources of paid search traffic that you might not be aware of. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Surely the topic of using negative keywords for organic search engine result pages has come up before but I've not seen any discussions myself. We posed the question on our blog and now I want to know what everyone thinks about it, and why the big read more »
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Avatar Posted By: wanderer 150 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
I just noticed over the last two or three days that in Google's organic search results, related keywords (e.g.law for a search phrase containing lawyer, dentistry for a search phrase containing dental, surgery for a search phrase containing surgeon, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Local & Maps
I was doing some research looking for additional local directories in the city of Toronto for some of our local clients. After searching on the obvious "toronto business directories" I came across a ZIPLocal listing on Page 1 of Google which contain read more »
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Avatar Posted By: agreen 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcwhiz.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Creating locally targeted PPC campaigns? Here are a few tools and some advice on creating them for success. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Twistermc 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcwhiz.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Five handy firefox extensions to help you out with SEO and PPC. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 5:04 pm
Posted By: gyutae 206 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I thought the text of the Tarzan-esque email is worth sharing not only for its absolute funniness, but also as an example of what n read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
We've come across so many SEOs who only want to charge their clients for rankings and neglect conversions. Clients do SEO in order to get traffic to grow their business. By ignoring this fundamental fact, SEOs are limiting their potential to earn mo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: agreen 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcwhiz.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google announces that demographic targeting will now be available for AdWords users in the US & UK. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brianchappell.com)
Category: Link Building
Brian Chappel offers up 30 link buying tips, including a list of Dos and Donts. Somebody distract Matt for a day or 2 :)

Good piece! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Blogging
If you take a look at the Winning the Web homepage, you’ll notice that it has changed from displaying full posts to now short excerpts - 100 word summaries of each post followed by a “Continue Reading…” link. Why have I done this? I think this chang read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SamFreedom 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com)
Category: Google SEO
Another excellent article with very specific recommendations to make your images actually go to work for your website. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Yahoo have announced their first weather report/update of 2008. They're inviting feedback on the update over at their SiteExplorer forum. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Interested what you can track for your clients or your own site? Hopefully this gives you some ideas. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kimota 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
SEO is about bringing traffic from the SERPs to the website. But with our reputations becoming attached to the websites we perform SEO for, does our responsibility go beyond that? Should a good SEO also look at how the site converts that traffic int read more »
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