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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: billslawski 322 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
Frequently used words, or stop words, were often ignored in search engine indexing, but sometimes they can be significant to a search, like one for the opening line of a Shakespearean soliloquy, "To be, or not to be?"

If using compression inte read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 322 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Interesting idea by Dazzlin Donna ... can you go without search news for 24 hrs?

She provides some reasons for doing so too! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 6:20 am
Posted By: annie7 322 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Tips & Tools
Very useful post on robots by Sebastian - must read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 10:25 am
Posted By: vangogh 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
5 sites with free search engine optimization tools that can help add value to your website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 5:25 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Social Media
"Don't think that you can just release something online and expect it to snowball into an avalanche--in many cases, offline marketing and awareness is just as important, if not more, than online marketing." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SEOBook summarizes a fascinating 66 slide powerpoint by The World Association of Newspapers, titled Shaping the Future of the Newspaper read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 6:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other
The New York Times reports that traffic to Google Maps has grown sharply over the last year, and this increase does not appear to be at the expense of MapQuest traffic. MapQuest is still generating 10x as much traffic as Google Maps.

Very Intere read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 7:32 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yellowhousehosting.com)
Category: SEO
Steven Bradley asks "Would you offer your SEO services for commission only? As a small business owner would you request someone to market your site based only on how many sales you make?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 21, 2007 - 6:57 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 411 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchmarketingexpo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Everyone ready for Cali in February? It will be about 20 below here in NY so I will be beyond ready at that point... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 7:21 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 414 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
It’s no longer a secret that Google is working hard on developing social features across the board. Now they’re putting a face on all the content generated by users on Google Maps by integrating their Google “Shared Stuff” profiles.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2007 - 6:12 am
Posted By: ViperChill 415 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Social Media
It hit me that there are many established companies out there who have lost huge chunks of the potential share of the online market purely due to the fact that they haven’t been properly monitoring their brand online. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2007 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: planetc1 416 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
From 10e20 comes a list of tips and tricks that can help you become more successful (and get your stories on the homepage) on social news website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 10:03 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.snowboardjohn.com)
Category: Blogging
You are the active marketer - your blog is your passive “direct response” back up. That’s the reality even if you don’t want it to be.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dblogged.com)
Category: SEO
The main goal of this technique is to take over a #1 position for a highly competitive keyword by creating a constant stream of thousands of new backlinks all year around. Why settle for #15, when you can have the #1 spot? The next time you write a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chriswinfield 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Poignant, inspirational and extremely personal post by Marty Weintraub explaining why the IM-NY Charity Party (before SMX NY next week) means a bit more to him than a normal conference 'event' and how we can all give back... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 7:30 am
Posted By: fantomaster 426 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Link Building
What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2007 - 9:57 am
Posted By: aimClear 426 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcthink.com)
Category: Google AdWords
ppcThink's FlyingRose, proven PPC-provocateur, raises eyebrows again with compelling Broad Match case study data. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 5, 2007 - 7:06 pm
Posted By: LittleMissSEO 427 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Exactly how much opinion is too much opinion when it comes to discussion on Social Media sites like Sphinn? Can an initial negative opinion spur a positive outcome through discussion or should the entire discussion be avoided entirely for fear of "m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 1:29 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 429 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Danny has mentioned this in a comment here and there, but I really think it needs a little more publicity. Please tell a friend about this.

Sphinn users can now notify the moderators when you find spam. Just use the Contact form:

http://sphinn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
It's important to zero in on the niche social news sites that are right for your business. The ones that your potential customers or partners are reading right now. Here’s how to identify these sites and make sure that you won’t just be wasting your read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 1:00 pm
Posted By: byosko 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.instigatorblog.com)
Category: News Sites
SocialRank is a new tool launched by MindValley that allows them to launch niche blog aggregators. They've already launched 30 sites, their goal is to launch 1,000.

Think: TechMeme but for knitting, biking, religion, startups and much much more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 2:27 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 430 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: SEM Industry
"Want to go to a Conference? Why do you want to go? What are you going to do when get there? What’s your game plan? To get the most out of a Convention, it’s important to have clear goals and a game plan going in." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: Jill 432 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO Hack professing his love for me, umm...kinda sorta ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 2:02 pm
Posted By: 0thelisa 433 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Social Media
Michael Gray writes:

"If you’re one of those people writing 3.1416 ways to optimize your blog titles with wordpress plugin THX-1137 and you’ll triple your subscribers with some meaningless traffic ponzi scheme, I’m talking to you. Are you really read more »
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