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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 6 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 Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kelseygroup.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Those innovative Ask.com/AskCity maps are gone. History. Must be part of the promise to focus on core search. ;-) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nohero 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://looklinklove.com)
Category: News Sites
People don’t want to believe the truth when it comes to social networking sites. There are two ways to get an article to the front of digg. The article must either be from a website that has a well established reputation with Digg users, or the subm read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Searching
Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm looks why InfoUSA, SuperPages, Acxiom, Localeze, Yelp and InsiderPages are so important in local search. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dalka 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Closest proxy to having Dave Naylor with a webcam that I've ever seen in text. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 29, 2008 - 12:55 am
Posted By: DaveN 11 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 5, 2008 - 6:52 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Domaining
At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Danny asks about the Lyndon Antcliff incident where he got a lot of exposure for a fake story. Was this link bait that went to far? Matt says they don't want to be the "truth" police. Matt says it was different than a prank like April Fools. It was read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Aaron Wall via SEO Book.com - By relying on old websites to clog up the search results Google virtually guarantees that you need to buy links to rank a new site. The only question is who is getting paid! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 7:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
Lee Odden how-to: “Digital Asset Optimization” refers to the practice of taking inventory of a company’s marketable, digital assets & implementing a process for keyword optimization & promotion to relevant channels. (Easter Egg: Check out Lee's HTML read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: rustybrick 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon. My life is now complete! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:09 am
Posted By: aimClear 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) reflects, in an absolutely gorgeous post from the heart, on his life as an industry muse. "Travel brings with it perspective. I like to think each time I leave, I come back a little wiser, a little older, a little closer to bui read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts has now elaborated on Google's role in policing the truth. [Marty note: I bookmarked the SEL story because Barry Schwartz's commentary lends additional perspective to the original which is Sphunn here: http://sphinn.com/story/48361 ] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 3:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Why does Google celebrate obscure artists and architects with special logos, but they won't do one for Memorial Day? Makes no sense to me. Barry shows some of the other special logos today at various search engines and forums. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: graywolf 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Google Other
The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a de read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: billslawski 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Linkbaiting false stories, using sockpuppets in social voting networks, engaging in comment spam and forum spam, being solely self promotional in venues where self promotion is frowned upon?

Small business can benefit from engaging in conversatio read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 8:48 pm
Posted By: soulfood 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: Social Media
The Mozzer explains his approach and gives top tips on social media marketing, insisting the quickest way to kill a viral campaign is by giving it to your public relations department. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: theGypsy 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
...and the drama continues...

SEL - Disclosure is a key point made by Matt. Now, if the article says the sources are not validated or the article is speculation - would that be sufficient? Would Google soon require us to slap on a nosource (aka n read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Mobile Search
If you own a web site, or work on one, it might be time to start thinking about how your site looks on a phone, how people use your site, and how mobile search might influence whether your site will be found in searches made by people using phones. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Copyblogger serves up an overt bait and switch headline on this motivational post aimed @ the blog's intellectual-sweaty-masses audience: "Oh, those dreaded ‘F’ words. ‘Finish’, along with ‘focus’ and ‘follow through’ are words that make creative ty read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ZakNicola 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Google SEO
From the Page: "OK, there are one of three things going on here:

1. Google’s trying to throw you off the scent deliberately, because they don’t want you to "adjust" your links.
2. It’s just an oversight. The point was to explain the differ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that ha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 10, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: rustybrick 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM
I love videos! I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast. For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.

I have d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dalka 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chicagotribune.com)
Category: Google Other
"I asked it for directions from my home to the Merchandise Mart," she said. "Google tells me to get on the correct bus, the CTA 52A South Kedzie, then take it to the Orange Line. That's also correct, but the Orange Line is referred to as a subway. G read more »
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