jimhedger

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: October 30, 2008 - 4:01 pm
Posted By: TerryHarmon 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEO
While the rest of the SEO community was buzzing about SES San Jose and the crazy trapeze people they met at SearchBash, Jim Boykin was quietly planning an industry coup. The man literally went on a hiring spree and began tricking SEO types into trad read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 28, 2008 - 9:19 pm
Posted By: KateMorris 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brandyeddings.com)
Category: Networking
We all know that speaking at a conference is a major honor and a major horror. Some of us want to do it, but most are scared to death of public speaking. This is Brandy Eddings' tale of the scary part of ScarySEO. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: drmadcow 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beanstalk-inc.com)
Category: Google
On October 21st, 2008 Dave Bort a Google software engineer wrote "Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for f read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 12:31 am
Posted By: JeffMHoward 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOish 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imcharityparty.com)
Category: Water Cooler
We Build Pages, 10E20, BOTW, SEOmoz, Sugarrae, Frank Watson, Search Engine Journal, Sure Hits. Help us help the Ronald McDonald house, and more... this is the SMX East party to attend. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 6:58 am
Posted By: martinbowling 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: Search Marketing
laura callow gives some much needed insight into SEM during an economic downturn read more »
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Avatar Posted By: beanstalk 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Online Marketing
An excellent analysis and summary of how the current economic occurrences in the US will affect search marketers.

Huge kudos and thanks to author Jim Hedger for some great research. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: graywolf 72 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 Posted By: g1smd 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Water Cooler
After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Seoworkers 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Why Online Reputation Management is important to you. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
As silly season draws to a close, Traffick weighs in with its sixth annual Infinite Regression Awards -- an ode to circularity at its finest. This time by newcomer Matt Larkin.

We would have included the Best/Worst Sphinn About Sphinn as a catego read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jimhedger 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beanstalk-inc.com)
Category: Other Searching
Cuil has a curious habit of selecting random images and applying them against search results. More fun with Cuil as Daryl Quenet performs a vanity search and finds himself to be half of Hall and Oats. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 8:07 am
Posted By: annie7 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.distilled.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Reputation Management is much like a beauty regime. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semgeek.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SemGeek offers an exclusive interview with iProspect's President Rob Murray who is responsible for formulating the firm's corporate strategy as well as managing the company's operations. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 8:42 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "A SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers: What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What’s the difference? How are they harmful for your site?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:56 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: jimhedger 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Though he writes that he dislikes writing about this topic, Barry was right to cover it. We have a collective problem of our own making... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 2:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Avatar Posted By: semanjoe 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: cemper 148 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 Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 8:11 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Scott Hendison offers his opinion as to whether the SMX Advanced "Give It Up" speakers strayed into black hat territory. Excellent review of the session. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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