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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 2 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: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: robsnell 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seminhouse.com)
Category: Yahoo
When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade! Think bigger than that! Roll out a nationwide chain of lemonade stands and cash out with an IPO. SEO Jessica Bowman was one of the first in the Yahoo! Brains to drain, but look who's laughing all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: storyspinner 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Water Cooler
KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Wiep 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEM Industry
You want to build a good relationship with your search engine optimization specialist. You need to know that your provider has integrity, knowledge, skill, and resources. Here is how I would evaluate an SEO were I looking to hire one. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aussieseo 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aussieseo.com.au)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO consultants constantly come under fire for the fees that they charge. How much is too much? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Faris 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: SEM Industry
"This is a complicated situation, but one of the key questions is very simple... What is Yahoo's incentive to continue to compete?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 1:40 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Google SEO
Li Evans writes, "Inherently Flash itself still has optimization drawbacks. So Google's saying they can crawl buttons, urls, etc. in Flash, but that doesn't mean that Flash offers the best way to be optimized for the content you are trying to presen read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Converseon 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mikemoran.com)
Category: Search Marketing
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran, announces his departure from IBM and joins Converseon as Chief Strategist. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchviews.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Far too many traditional advertisers still don't understand the importance of search marketing as evidenced by recent article in AdWeek discussing how large ad agencies market themselves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
For those who don't know Adobe already (did) have a Search SDK for Flash, indeed I have it on my machine now and Google have been using it for some time, so is Flash SEO Friendly? (answer no) So I was a bit surprised to see an announcement and went read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: tonyadam 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 8:53 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
When people are angry they are anything but rational, so the amount of brand damage they can do for you is near limitless. Imagine if a person or small group has reach to a group of people entering your space, and tells them that you are unethical, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:57 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: davidmihm 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Blogging
Matt McGee weighs the pros and cons of his popular comment-followed blog. Some interesting discussion and advice from readers in the comments. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Dear SEO Bloggers, I’ve been reading SEO blogs for quite some time and while I appreciate the input you offer up on a regular basis, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It seems that more and more of your posts state your opinions or theories, as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Ask.com
Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: rhcerff 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com... getting closer to core search or simply trying to increase the number of searches? Barry Schwartz gets to the nitty gritty... or not. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:34 am
Posted By: planetc1 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Microsoft
Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Greatfulbread 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.fryewiles.com)
Category: Usability
Having used the new Firefox 3 Address bar for a week now, I have greatly enjoyed using its keyword feature.

Taking that a step forward I dissected the feature a bit from a usability stand point and how we, as SEOs/Page title masters can help impr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: rustybrick 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:25 am
Posted By: scottclark 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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