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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: theGypsy 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 6:58 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Every webmaster needs to know this. Essential stuff. I wonder why Google thinks this is an indication of spam? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Last month I had to settle £8k over copyright infringement. This week my solicitors are taking against action against Google for defamation.

There are risks and liabilities with every content development model everyone needs to be aware of. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 9:58 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Marty Weintraub writes, "SEM industry writers, conference organizers and attendees are passionately defending, disparaging and debating ethics surrounding so-called “gray/black hat tactics” presented @ SMX Advanced Seattle. I was surprised to find s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Ever wonder how Darren Rowse gets so much done in a week. I know I do.

The technique that Darren's been using more and more is what's called ‘batching’ or ‘batch processing‘. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Scott Hendison's Top Ten Things he learned at SMX Advanced. Whether you attended the show or not, Scott's gleaned some good nuggets that are worth highlighting and examining closely. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google
Oh, sweet. You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 10:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Brian Carter writes "Previously a fashion choice made only by engineers and MIT students, graph paper shirts are now all the rage in the hot, young, explosive search marketing industry. Coincidence? I think not." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: Wiep 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Last week I attended my first search conference. I gleaned a lot of valuable info and met many interesting people. Throughout the conference I compiled a mental checklist for my next conference. My hope is that my experience and the corresponding ch read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 8:23 pm
Posted By: Kimota 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Great post on what to do when inheriting a poorly managed Adwords account.

"If you've inherited a "dog" account, it could be a long, long time (like maybe forever) before minimum bids on a poor account get down to sustainable levels. It's as if G read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 4:36 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Love him or hate him.... MM does make some damn fine posts and I agree with much of this!!

- SEO Theory and Analysis Blog - Do people really think that sneaky redirects and buying links are advanced search engine optimization? What utter crap and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 2:00 am
Posted By: Lyndon 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.digeratimarketing.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Taking tactics straight from the battlefield, a detailed look at how to defeat larger and well funded opponents. Signatories of the Geneva Convention look away now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.useit.com)
Category: Usability
We should accept that the Web is too fast-paced for big-picture learning. No problem; we have other media, and each has its strengths. At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets — so long as the lea read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: northrock 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google SEO
I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

I have yet to write read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 9:56 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: annie7 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
The Yahoo patent application introduces the idea of a search category commercialization index, which could be calculated by looking at two or more metrics: (1) Number of searches within the category; (2) Number of total advertisers in the category; read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yourseomentor 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com)
Category: Link Building
Summary on the today's frist morning session of SMX Advanced. Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques, and then I felt that I should revise a bit once I heard Matt Cutts refute (yet again) many of the techniques that were discussed. He asked the aud read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 3:19 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 32 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 4, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: planetc1 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Adam writes... This post will explore several arguments against using nofollow for internal PageRank™ sculpting. It is based on a presentation I did at SMX Advanced. You can view my presentation slides here, however the deck is very brief since I on read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: theGypsy 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Vanessa Fox via Search Engine Land - Today, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have come together to post details of how each of them support robots.txt and the robots meta tag. While their posts use terms like "collaboration" and "working together", the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 12:48 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
This entry outlines basic precautions for concealing a site network from both Google and fellow SEOs who may be looking for an easy ranking(aka a penalty on your site).
Also covered are the types of niches where these sites can truly take off. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: toddmintz 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm's excellent analysis of the Google Local / Map Algorithm which argues in compelling fashion that citations (mentions of the business without a link) play an important role in ranking well in the Google's Local Listings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
OK, a post from our own Search Engine Land site, but Greg Sterling's got some great info from Google on how they're dealing with the exploding mapspam problem. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 39 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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