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Avatar Posted By: Harith 82 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts posted on Twitter a message (http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/865610396) to Evan Williams (Co-founder and CPO of Twitter): "@ev, dropped you an email about http://bit.ly/2vmSAz"

The said link redirects to Dave Nylor post on his si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 7:08 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who focuses on web spam, and he's their main spokesperson when it comes to SEO and spam. According to Matt, web spam happens when website break the rules "so that their website shows up higher than it deserves to show read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Posted By: wrttnwrd 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
First in a series about SEO project planning and startup with a discussion of analytics.

Written by Tom Schmitz of Portent. Dang, my staff are clever... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Social Media
In social media marketing there are essential things to keep in mind to making your content go viral. Here's 5 great tips to assist you in the process. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 1:52 pm
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: Social Media
Do you want to become a Twitter super user? Learn how to grow and strengthen your Twitter account.


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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 7:18 am
Posted By: theGypsy 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Networking
Cornwall SEO - We are not here to write a great novel or give Tolstoy a run for his money. We are here to attract peoples attention and somehow get them to do stuff. In my case with the old linkbait, it’s getting them to give up a link, someone poke read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 5:45 pm
Posted By: Avinio 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Social Media
Social media expansion is important because this provides foundations for broader / faster mindshare, along with supporting your search engine marketing objectives. You *can* convert traffic if you target appropriately (research needed), and do not read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: aimClear 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnn.com)
Category: Networking
CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 170 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that resul read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 4:38 am
Posted By: janecopland 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Searching
Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 3:22 pm
Posted By: PaulTeitelman 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
In this informative article, TheWis describes how hackers have been able to break into wordpress blogs and steal links. He examines the technical issues, and even makes recommendations on how to prevent your wordpress blog from being hacked now and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 24, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: thejenn 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com)
Category: Blogging
Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 5:24 am
Posted By: gyutae 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
What does it take to rank #1 in Google for a set of competitive keywords? In this article, I’ll lay out the exact methodology you can use to dominate many niches in the search engine rankings. SEO is a billion dollar industry and many online busines read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 2:44 am
Posted By: iBrian 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Google *was* a links driven search engine.

But now human user data is being used to deliver results right beneath our noses. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Most of our clients have several things in common, they are normally running Wordpress and the first indication they have been hacked is either a sudden loss in rankings or the stop badware notice appearing for their name. Now Wordpress is not inher read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Here is an in depth look at three backlink checkers which do much more than just report on Yahoo Backlinks, they help categorize and organize backlinks based on anchor text, site age, whois info and much much more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 5:04 am
Posted By: toddmintz 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

BTW, please follow @d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ghennipher 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Businesses are beginning to realize that their customers need to be their new spokespeople. Some people call it buzz marketing, others call it word of mouth. It’s both of these and more. The main thing is community. A business needs a community of c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Posted By: bwelford 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 8:10 pm
Posted By: aimClear 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smvgroup.com)
Category: Paid Search
CHICAGO: Starcom, behavioral targeting network Tacoda, & comScore research reveals that a very small & unrepresentative consumer segment is accountable for vast majority of display ad click-through behavior. Fascinating stuff. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
A fantastic roundup by Danny on the ins and out of universal search and a peak into what we might expect in the future. Essential reading for anyone scratching their heads about universal search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: aimClear 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Another SEOmoz jewel discusses the CLASSIC question "I'm starting a new site and have no idea what I should do for software. Do I need to use a content management system, and if so, how do I make sure it's SEO-friendly?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 10:05 am
Posted By: ViperChill 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com)
Category: SEO
Man I'm so tempted ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlespam.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 7:04 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Blogging
Man.... did these folks just discover 'baiting' or what? This MySpace hub-bub is about a story that was Sphunnn last week; http://sphinn.com/story/24346

Mashable - Why has this flawed thinking gone so far as to warrant an official comment from My read more »
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