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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:45 am
Posted By: Ruud 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 12:29 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
How can you make sure that your blog or website will stand out of the crowd and attract visitors?

In one word: branding. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Posted By: mbeijk 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal shows why it is important to claim your business. It important that this is being brought to the attention to Small Business Owners like Eric Stein said on SMX East on monday read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 2:46 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other
A theme has quite a few things it has to take care of, and a lot of themes out there don't take care of all of these. This is a checklist that should help you prevent getting into trouble when you start using a new theme. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 7:10 am
Posted By: SEOidiot 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://deanhunt.com)
Category: Google Other
Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: graywolf 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wired.com)
Category: Google
Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Posted By: mblumenthal 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google Searching
Streets have gone AWOL, cities have gone missing and SMB's are feeling the pain of not being able to generate driving directions to their business! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: Sugarrae 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: mbeijk 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal got up early to report about the newly posted Quality Guidelines for the Google Maps / Local Business Center and the option to apply for re-inclusion. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 12:28 am
Posted By: fjnotebook 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conferencenotebook.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Did you notice those guys with the "Greedy, Link Sellers, Drunks, SEM SEOs" signs outside of the conference center at SES San Jose? :>> [PHOTO] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webdevlounge.com)
Category: Blogging
Joost's on a roll today. Here is a list of his 8 must-have WordPress SEO plugins (several of which he has also written). This dovetails with his "WordPress SEO Guide" and should be bookmarked by anyone carrying out WP optimisation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 7:10 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Blogging
Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the pl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: jdevalk 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Domaining
The conclusion: all other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Link Building
Erik-Jan discusses B2B link building and concludes that different goals are required than in B2C link building. He also explains why B2B link building is easier AND more difficult than B2C link building. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:10 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
Really great interview and glimpse into the mind of one of THE best social media marketers in the game today. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bloommedia.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Alex discusses an interesting idea for managing enterprise new media clients and how the payment on results model extends to large multi-national clients. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:01 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
With the rising popularity of web browsing, social media news sites, and iPhones, a mobile section is fast becoming a feature every good social communities must have. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 5:52 pm
Posted By: socialpyramid 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: News Sites
As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jdevalk 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google SEO
Martijn provides an excellent insight into why you should be using KML files on your site, and how to do that! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:22 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: SEO
In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: Gab 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Web Analytics
My post builds on a great article (and plugin) from Joost De Valk. What if, like me, you’ve created a bespoke sidebar, that isn’t quite dynamic enough to talk to a plugin like this? I’ve hard coded my sidebar links. How do I track what exit clicks t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: cemper 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingfan.com)
Category: Google SEO
Johannes Beus of Sistrix revisited the "first anchor text" debate again last Monday and got some nice results in conjunction with image links. We translated his test results to English. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seguru 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.webmasterradio.fm)
Category: SEO
Care to know who's taking the reigns of the all new SEO Rock Stars? You should check this out, the guest line-up is truly steller. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Posted By: isaSuperstar 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Digg has made some new changes today worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site. read more »
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