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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 10:02 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
A profile in FireFox is the collection of extensions, bookmarks, settings, passwords, and user preferences that are saved for you in a separate set of files. Creating several such sets of preferences opens the whole wealth of opportunities for SEOs read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: Maing 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Today I am going to add a few useful FireFox plugins that can also be very helpful for exploring backlinks. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Case in point: the recent SMX Advanced conference in Seattle apparently had a lot of blackhat emphasis this year, much to the shock and horror of some. But is it really as evil and bad read more »
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Avatar Posted By: goodnewscowboy 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Very pithy post. In a sentence, Don't use the meta keyword tag. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 12:18 am
Posted By: martinbowling 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Rishil writes "As I have often stated, I work with many small clients, especially in the medical field. There are few problems associated with this market, none of them unique, but they're a pain to deal with for the revenue that you make on taking read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 3:19 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Link Building
Great post from the one and only Spider Dave Snyder!!

SnydeySense - As is true with most content centered link strategies, it is likely going to take you more than one lesson or unit plan to achieve your link goal. You will need to not only learn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 6:52 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 94 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 Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: mercylivi 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
A blog is one of the best and easiest ways to generate fresh, up to date content for your site as well as link love.Here comes 25 Blog Optimization Tips Even Dear Old Dad Could Ace plus 10 bonus tips for your mom too ;) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: goodnewscowboy 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Short but excellent advice on using different countries colloquialisms to optimise for. (It's not a misspelling...read the article) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 2, 2008 - 8:06 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty looks at four free tools for tracking the anchor text used in your backlinks, and the inbound links to your competition. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Calamier 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
buybigtires talks about how to posture yourself for international growth, and taking advantage of differences in language and spelling for different cultures. A great place to start optimizing for international search results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: goodnewscowboy 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Although the title uses the search word, this is an excellent post to use for site design/redesign. It talks about human habits and websites. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: goodnewscowboy 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A very good primer on favicons. The following advice is new for me:
"To add your new favicon so it appears in the location bar and bookmarks, in the tags of each page's code add this..."

Prior to this I just put the favicon on the root of my si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 11:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattmcgee.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Being a moderator at Sphinn is pretty time-consuming, but it's also fun! I've killed thousands of submissions and accounts from users spammers trying to game the site for exposure, a free and followed link, or whatever else they're trying to accompl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:09 am
Posted By: aimClear 103 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 Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 8:04 am
Posted By: tamar 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbiztrends.com)
Category: Other Social Media
In spite of the fact that I have always been an early adopter of new technology — or communications-based tools, social media turns me off. When I think about why, at least 10 reasons come to mind.

(I really enjoy the linkbait title, btw.) ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 7:08 pm
Posted By: neyne 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Blogging
Another must-read list of WP plugins from Graywolf read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 3:17 am
Posted By: shimsand 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: SEO
Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 2:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Very cool breakdown and tool from DaveN - very handy.

Snippet - I can see that I have too many internal links, I still like the 100 links on a page rule, so that means I need to do some culling, most probably in my NAV .. any way externals links read more »
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Avatar Posted By: goodnewscowboy 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Great article on securing proper link love on e-commerce sites. The top two tips are:

1) Don't allow visitors to enter the secure areas of the site until they are ready to check out

2) Use absolute URLs in all site navigation and shopping cart read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Registering multiple domain names is, and should be, common practice for businesses wishing to protect their brands. Once purchased, what you do with these domains can have a positive or negative impact on your main URL. Here are some tips on how to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: annie7 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

Please join the discussion! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 1:26 am
Posted By: Wiep 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEO
Adam Audette explains the concepts of designing optimized site architectures for efficient spidering by search engines. read more »
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