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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 10:30 am
Posted By: ericbramlett 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Stay here and get straight to my answers? For really real? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 9:32 pm
Posted By: divinewrite 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
A Google Groups thread has a response from Matt Cutts of Google, basically explaining their was a bug in Google's algorithm for detecting, what I understand to be, a form of content spam due to an IFrame. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
John Andrews makes the argument that dropping affiliate links in an appropriate context is valid behavior for marketers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: AlhanKeser 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:44 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Other
Google keeps expanding, there's no doubt about this. But more interesting is how each expansion allows them to handle an entirely different type of data(be it credit cards, cell phone contacts, or email contacts) that can be used to better classify read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: bbcarter 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: Social Media
Seth Godin writes:
"I typically write posts that are three to six paragraphs long. I try to be clear and direct. And yet, just about everything I write is misunderstood by someone. (Not the same someone, alas)." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 3:25 pm
Posted By: zigojacko 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e-consultancy.com)
Category: SEO
I found this article interesting from e-consultancy.com, detailing, in their opinion, the five most annoying SEO myths. Makes a good read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 24, 2008 - 11:14 am
Posted By: styletime 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google
Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can only b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEO continues to evolve. Need more evidence that Google uses bounce rate to test their SERPs?

Here’s are screenshots from one of my sites (it’s a “white hat” site or I wouldn’t be posting the footprint here). The first shows overall traffic: read more »
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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 Posted By: iBrian 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcdiscussions.com)
Category: Paid Search
"Out of my tracked 1,000 clicks 110 of them landed me on a dead page. " read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 5:44 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already developing. So below, some clarification read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://uknetmonitor.blogspot.com)
Category: News Sites
Only short, but this quote is good: "continued dominance of the discussion forums over straight blogs as the crucibles of where corporate reputations are being made and broken" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
Heads up - Google is pushing on more human-user signals. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Search Marketing
by Jeff Quipp.


There is obviously a great deal of power in being able to hide certain search results from the majority of searchers. With this power however, comes great responsibility. This responsibility becomes even more important if one con read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chrisking 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imediaconnection.com)
Category: Google Other
Interesting story about changes Google made in July of 2007 to its calculation of bounces and the resulting data inaccuracies. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 18, 2008 - 9:37 pm
Posted By: dailymoolah 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Laura Callow delivers awesome insights backed up by research and data, on why User Generated Content and SEO are a great match for each other. If you haven't thought implementing UGC onpage and through citation sources yet, this is a read makes a gr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MelC 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adcentercommunity.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Jim Sterne imparts some of his wisdom as the first ever industry expert to guest blog on the adCenter Community Blogs and Forums!

Mind The Gap! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: amsall 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
"With the introduction of the new system, Google’s CSE is able to index full sites using sitemaps with on-demand flexibility." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 6:44 pm
Posted By: NeO 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google search has now added voice recognition software to their search application on Apple iPhones. Now, iPhone users can request Google results without having to type... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: robgarner 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Interesting column by Gord Hotchkiss, especially when contrasted with Nicholas Carr's recent Atlantic Monthly article. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RemarkablePotential 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
They might not be as envogue as some of the more recent web 2.0 developments but a good forum presence can be one of the most effective forms of social media marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: montydad5000 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.montysmegamarketing.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Looks like everyone and their brother is getting sued this week. Who's next? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Other Social Media
HP Social Computing lab published a highly detailed report on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Digg.com and Google's YouTube, they concocted not one but three ways t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: bhartzer 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.onlinemarketer.com)
Category: Blogging
John thinks it's useless. No one wants to read inaccurate, unedited reporting. read more »
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