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Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2008 - 11:05 am
Posted By: TheMadHat 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM
A handy list identifying the various types of clients you may run into. Extremely official and scientific...and funny as hell. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:18 am
Posted By: lorisa 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The internet can be a scary place, especially for our children. What's the solution? Kim Krause Berg discusses the pros and cons of making "fake" personas illegal, and how to navigate social media sites safely. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2008 - 11:27 am
Posted By: zigojacko 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Usability
The worst mistake you will make as a web site owner is to ask someone to “look” at your web site. It’s like the dreaded, “Do I look fat?” question. There’s never a safe answer. For starters, someone may look slim standing up, but resemble the Buddha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 29, 2008 - 7:02 am
Posted By: cre8pc 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Usability
Requirements gathering are something I teach. I’ve been laughed at for bringing up the topic to search engine marketers and those new to web design. Yet, in nearly every case of site testing, there is no site requirements documentation and I can tel 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 20, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: SEM
I'm not going to try to explain John's post in a couple sentences but I will say that by the time you're done reading it, the strong statement he makes with his post title doesn't seem that radical any more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 9:10 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Kalena is known for her scathing dumbass of the week series - but this one is more than just humour.

"Let me preface this post by saying that I love Google and I’m a big supporter and very early adopter of AdWords pay per click advertising. BUT read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 18, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Posted By: MiriamEllis 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal, Danny Sullivan, Matt McGee, Dana Lookadoo and myself are all sending the same message about Local to Google. Here's the question for you: Do you think of Google's Local applications as wikis? Probably not, but Google does. This arti read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 12:12 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
“Experiment or die, there is no try.” That was my call to action, Yoda inspired, last week to a group of international C-level executives. And I meant every word of it. There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. I fundamen read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
Good just released 'SEO Starter Guide'. In a 'graywolf-style' rant, Ian sobers us up with the hypocrisy of Google, yet again.

Ex: Page 6, dynamic url's, google says, in the starter guide, 'rewrite them'. huh?? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cre8pc 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Usability
If you’re checking the pulse of the search engine marketing industry, you may notice a changing heartbeat. For starters, SEO is not that “mysterious little thing that person does for us” anymore. In that honorary chair now sits The Usability Consult read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 11:46 am
Posted By: JohnCarcutt 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Jeff Quipp and Search Engine People announced this morning the purchase of the well know Search Marketing Blog/Resource SEO-Scoop.com. Never fear, Donna is still there and sounds like they have big plans. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: linkmoneydotorg 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
I think the requester was crafty evil. They brought it to a professional that has talent and excellent credentials. I'm thinking that they knew that it would be impossible to do in 20 days, but they would very happily take advantage of every thing read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2008 - 5:07 am
Posted By: aimClear 25 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Social Media
Maybe it's emotions...Maybe it's somehow legal, but it feels like the WORST kind of violation to see paragraph after paragraph of scraped content, from a blog post we poured ourselves into. Making things worse, the human modification tactic is enoug read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 9, 2008 - 1:14 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Ruud Hein talks about the The mushroom strategy.... find a need or question online regarding a product or service you sell. The idea is to turn this need into Helpful Content.

The key is to be genuinely helpful and put the other’s needs first read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cre8pc 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogs.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Kim Krause Berg's Cre8pc Blog and Dr. Pete's UserEffect blog selected for Blogs.com Top 10 Customer Experience, Tech, and Business Strategy Blogs.

Kim and Pete are Usability and SEO consultants. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewMiller 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand at SEOmoz points out some good ways to find out if sites you've linked to in the past have fallen into spammers' hands, which could cast a shadow on your site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 6, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: SEOkevin 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kevinandthegooglebots.tumblr.com)
Category: Google Other
A SEO cartoon about Kevin and those damn bots. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 3:47 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Kim Krause Berg writes, "For me to stick with online communities for a dozen years and tolerate the incredible voyage that is Cre8asiteforums, I’ve come to learn some lessons that I thought might be helpful to share. Whether you Blog, Twitter, own a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 3:49 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
When it comes to spam on Google.com and Google Maps, Google is talking out both sides of its mouth. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: LeilaDee 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Funny (and slightly sexist) way to look at 3 stages of SEO learning...tongue in cheek. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 1, 2008 - 6:50 am
Posted By: cre8pc 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Usability
My debut article in SEL's "Just Behave" column.

"By making more information available online, our habits are changing. We’re teaching one another new tricks and evolving together." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.onlinemarketingconnect.com)
Category: SEM
The surest way to successfully construct a building is to follow a blueprint. Just like construction blueprints, while each SEO blueprint may be unique, each will also contain similar details to ensure success. What details should a search marketing read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: billslawski 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google SEO
A review of the 159 granted patents assigned to Google (169 if Exaflop counts.)

A little more than one third focus primarily upon search indexing algorithms, and almost two thirds were developed in-house rather than acquired. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: leftthebox 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Notes from the Google Q&A Webmaster Chat. Dave put together some of the the answers for common questions from the session today. He broke it down and wrote about the questions and answer he found to be the most interesting. read more »
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