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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 1:40 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Jim Boykin & We Build Pages has evolved.... no more link buying. Explains a bit about why Pat, Rhea, Lisa & Quality Girl are there....

"Buying links passed the tipping point long ago… you must get over it, and evolve, or be ready to face what mig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:32 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Google
Interesting question from Jeremy. What are your thoughts? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
I really enjoyed researching the article and seeing how companies are starting to use social media communities as a way of filtering their content and coming up with the most popular and interesting material... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 2:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.

Rustybrick/Barry: "I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 26, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: toddmintz 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoautomatic.com)
Category: SEO
Check out Scott's awesome free SEO tool...input your domain and it evaluates your site on lots of different SEO criteria. Great job by the Search Commander! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2008 - 11:12 am
Posted By: debram 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Going green or offering ecofriendly products is great for the Earth and developing a niche for your business; it’s also a great way to build new links to your company website. Loren Baker points out a handful of ways to attract links and attention read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2008 - 6:26 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com)
Category: Search Marketing
(Disclaimer: There is good news here too - but only if you take immediate action. Warning: Some of this is considered ‘advanced SEO’). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evilgreenmonkey.com)
Category: SEM
"For almost a year, Keyword Spy have been email spamming both my personal email address and Sphinn (on a weekly basis), regurgitating announcements about its launch and features." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Scott Hendison's Top Ten Things he learned at SMX Advanced. Whether you attended the show or not, Scott's gleaned some good nuggets that are worth highlighting and examining closely. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 12:01 am
Posted By: Aviva 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tropicalseo.com)
Category: SEM
Andy calls it like he sees it. To be a successful CEO:

* be in it for the money
* increase usability
* harsh criticism is effective
* run the company with an iron fist
* cut the optimism crap read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 321 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stephanspencer.com)
Category: SEO
Stephan Spencer shares some quick and good advice about "Deconstructing Google Snippets", and discovers that the official Lord of the Rings web site is keyword stuffing! Ha! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fthead9 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialnewswatch.com)
Category: Social Media
The bloom may be off the del.icio.us rose as it's growth appears to be slowing/falling especially compared to social news sites. I know Yahoo was under considerable pressure to not change del.icio.us but the numbers clearly point to the fact that le read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Palatnik 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://palatnikfactor.mypodcast.com)
Category: Online Marketing
In order to be successful at online marketing, an industry that changes almost daily, research is a crucial part of our business. I wrote a piece on the search engine journal titles, The Importance of Research: A 2008 Resolution, which inspired me t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 7:31 am
Posted By: swags2804 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: SEO
"SEO" company games the rankings - hilarious conversation ensues. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: Burgo 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkjuicy.com)
Category: Link Building
Another of Peter Da Vanzo's link building interviews; this time with the Queen of Links, Debra Mastaler! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2008 - 6:25 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Aaron has a lot of plans ahead in 2008. Check them out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2008 - 8:38 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
OMG this started yesterday and is officially driving me MAD!!! What a pile of steaming OLD news.... Ok, that's it I must go write my own rant!!!!

I shall return! (see retort; http://sphinn.com/story.php?id=21024 )

Dave read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2008 - 8:38 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediatrader.com)
Category: Social Media
A great piece detailing some tactics and techniques that can be used to help convert Stumbleupon visitors to more regular site visitors.

From the page: "Stumble Upon users are notoriously impatient with users spending an average of 10-20 seconds read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 6:22 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Collective Thoughts interview with MyBlogLog - good read for their current and future plans of the popular user tracking service. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Palatnik 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://palatnikfactor.com)
Category: Social Media
Myspace has announced a new partnership with Zazzle. Find out how this can change the social media landscape. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fthead9 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adage.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Research released today by ComScore defies long-cherished beliefs that people don't care enough about package-goods products to do online search about them or go to their websites. The study found a majority of U.S. consumers visited at least one pa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 8:48 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Social Media
Microsoft wins Facebook's hand. Microsoft agreed to invest $240 million for a minority stake in Facebook Inc. that values the social-networking site at $15 billion, beating Google in a closely watched contest. As part of the deal, the two companies read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2007 - 9:08 pm
Posted By: Wiep 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: News Sites
Tons of people have been using the Digg shout it feature lately. Some Digg users consider the shout out feature to be the most effective way to get a story on the Digg homepage. Others, however, feel that it's nothing more than an easy way to spam o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2007 - 9:39 am
Posted By: BrettFromTibet 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Some people find social media to be a lot more exciting than old-fashioned SEO, and they would love to make a career out of it. But social media marketing can be very volatile.
This article explores some of the challenges and ethics of social medi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 3:45 am
Posted By: WaltVerastegui 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Searching
Arnold Zafra at Search Engine Journal points out several new features from the latest StumbleUpon Search Reviews update. Some of these enhanced features includes:

- Displaying your StumbleUpon friends who have rated particular sites.
- Expansion read more »
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