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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2009 - 12:56 am
Posted By: Sebastian 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts discussing various sorts of (!tasty) link condoms, Google's death penalty on rel-nofollow, err ... Google's no-longer-existent support of links to crap (?) implemented with client sided scriping or microformats ... read the source for you read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2009 - 9:59 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: SEO
Great write-up from the SMX Advanced SEO audit session. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 11:38 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediarockstar.com)
Category: Social Media
Excellent post looking back over the last 30 years of "old" social media. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 10:45 am
Posted By: SEOAly 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: Google
The last LiveBlog effort of day 1 of SMX Advanced from Lisa Barone. It's LiveBlogtastic! "Yes, yes, it’s time for the YOU&A with Matt. Where I am sure everyone will ask him very polite questions and no one will attempt to give him a hard time. Rig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2009 - 7:10 am
Posted By: SEOAly 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: SEO
The next installment of SMX Advanced 2009 LiveBlogging goodness from Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media includes a juicy nugget of gossip from Matt Cutts suggesting that the nofollow tag is dead. Okay, not exactly...but I bet you want to read the post read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2009 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: g1smd 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
Spot on write-up from Sebastian.


It seems to me that the quality of some CMS products is getting worse, not better. In the rush to add multiple bells and whistles, the usability, crawlability, and SE friendlyness has been dumped. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2009 - 6:32 am
Posted By: Harith 60 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts posted on his blog under title "Switching things around" that he is 302 redirecting his domain mattcutts.com to a new one dullest.com. Here are few important points of what Matt Cutts wrote:

- "I added an .htaccess file that will do 30 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Receptional 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dixonjones.com)
Category: Link Building
So admit it... how many of you still look at that little green bar and think "links" = "PageRank"? Well - that may be... but "Links" is not equal to "Little Green Bar" as this article demonstrates. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 17, 2009 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: JulieJoyce 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Fantastic and informative piece about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://radar.oreilly.com)
Category: SEO
Vanessa Fox: This post is about quick wins in crawlability. In many cases, ensuring crawlability also ensures accessibility (particularly access via screen readers). From this standpoint, many government web sites have an advantage over other sites read more »
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Avatar Posted By: guillebravo6 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bestrank.com)
Category: SEO
The rel="nofollow" link attribute is designed to give webmaster granular control over the flow of link equity (PageRank). Links that have the "nofollow" attribute end up passing zero equity, are not followed (crawled) and are dropped off the link g read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2009 - 9:59 am
Posted By: pageoneresults 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
"What does it take to be an SEO? What do you need to know and be good at? Last week, Edward Lewis aka pageoneresults wrote an article called HTML 4 SEO that listed out 50 or so HTML elements related to SEO. Does one actually need to know how to use read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2009 - 1:28 am
Posted By: Harith 85 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
I have followed today (11th April 2009) a very interesting informative discussion on Twitter between Graywolf and Matt Cutts. During the said discussion g1smd and Halfdeck “puped up” and Graywolf had enough energy to discuss the subject with them to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: oddcomments 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://paulpedersen.com)
Category: SEO
How do you go from being a good SEOer to being a great SEOer? Paul lays out the four core things that all great search optimizers have. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: SEO
Edward Lewis (@pageoneresults): Below is my frugal attempt at assigning SEO point values to various HTML elements and attributes within a semantically structured document. This is a general guide for assigning points based on years of working with H read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2009 - 1:35 pm
Posted By: kerstinbakerash 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Entertaining, comprehensive coverage of Guy Kawasaki's "Twitter as a Tool" (or "Guy Kawasaki is a Tool") keynote at Search Engine Strategies New York from Lisa Barone. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 21, 2009 - 10:28 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brafton.com)
Category: Domaining
In a move which can only be described as genius, ToysRUs have managed to de-index the URL Toys.com by forwarding the entire domain. Toys.com previously dominated the SERPS for the keyword "toys", holding 1st, 3rd and 4th place. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2009 - 11:19 am
Posted By: g1smd 110 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Social Media
Do people lose their marbles when they go online, or what?

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Tweepme

I rest my case. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Thomas M. Schmitz: Here in Seattle we knew that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was about to become an online only publication. Today The Seattle PI made the URL switch from seattlepi.nwsource.com/ to seattlepi.com.

Unfortunately they made a criti read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2009 - 5:30 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 123 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
Last week, Matt Cutts made reference to not being a "craphat" on Twitter, which opened up a can of worms about whether blackhat means craphat, blackhat means illegal and why he made up that term at all. He didn't – it's my term, which I used as part read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2009 - 4:59 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Social Media
I always finds Edwards posts so well researched, that I am always in awe with what he comes up with.

The post is about getting your domain branding present in your tweets and avoiding the brand visibility loss that follows due to twitter auto UR read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 5, 2009 - 8:58 am
Posted By: streko 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.barrywise.com)
Category: Blogging
In case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client’s website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jamiembrown 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jamiedigi.com)
Category: SEO
The BBC published a completely inaccurate article about the new Whitehouse.gov robots.txt - Obama isn't making data more accessible on Whitehouse.gov, he's making it less accessible. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: herndo21 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginesnark.com)
Category: SEO
The 2,400 line Robots.txt file of the Bush administration's Whitehouse.gov has experienced a resurrection in light of the slim and trim 2-liner of the nascent Obama administration's take on the subject. Some have even gone so far as to call it suppr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 13, 2009 - 6:59 pm
Posted By: MattCutts 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Other
I asked what people wanted Google to tackle in webspam for 2009. The #1 complaint was "No reviews found"-type pages. So I'm putting out a call for examples and we'll use the feedback that people send us. If these pages annoy you, now is the time to read more »
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