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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 3:23 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: Google SEO
Micheal Martinez debunks the "Google only passes the first anchor text" debate. Discuss... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Wiep 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: pamcakes 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.purposeinc.com)
Category: SEO
DK - the PubCon Poker Tournament guy - announces Think Tank 2008, an amazing networking opportunity that is guaranteed to be a great time as well. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 5:29 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Matt McGee writes, "KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, has a story online that follows a theme I’ve written about before: the Internet as a small business’s enemy. In the story, we learn that some small businesses in the town of San Anselmo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: iBrian 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Media are a gamed community that exists to serve self-interested parties, and truth has never gotten in the way of a good story.

When search marketers complain about others manipulating the web and or media, at best it can be described as hypocri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 8:46 pm
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 78 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I think that you'll all agree that spam prevention is getting better with our increased moderator team, despite the much steeper increase in member numbers.

We have however seen a number of instances where Sphinn has been referred to as an easy s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Domaining
- John Andrews - Matt said yes, keywords in the URL can help rankings, but you don’t need that in order to rank. I would like to expand on that, as I understand it. Since I blogged about Matt’s comments, I have seen several SEO discussions online th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: Burgo 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
If you've been on twitter today, you would have seen a lot of people voicing their disgust at Jason Calacanis' words during todays keynote. In particular, Rand Fishkin twittered that he left in disgust. And it was bugging me that I couldn't find out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Most of our clients have several things in common, they are normally running Wordpress and the first indication they have been hacked is either a sudden loss in rankings or the stop badware notice appearing for their name. Now Wordpress is not inher read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: johnandrews 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google SEO
"We have a deal with GoDaddy that if you sign on with GoDaddy you're automatically registered with [Google] Webmaster Tools" and more from Matt Cutts, live from San Francisco. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 17, 2008 - 3:43 pm
Posted By: baiduyou 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Aaron Wall on preemptive spam penalties and Google's relationship with SEO companies.

"What is worse about this game of passing arbitrary judgement is that many of the best known SEOs praise each other in public only to snitch on one another in p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: miketighe 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: SEO
A good and fair article on why big brands downplay SEO dealing with everything from brand politics to the sites technology. It seems that the bigger you get the harder it gets to do good SEO. What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.russianmarketer.com)
Category: Domaining
To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging “the current .SU operators to make it clear to the .SU registrants the issues surrounding the domain, as well as to freeze new registrations until its future is clear”. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 8:48 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 6:30 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Blogging
Building SocialBlogroll.com gave me a chance to learn a few new techniques. In this post I discuss how to use RSS auto-discovery and feed address consolidation to increase your subscription numbers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: mvandemar 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
NetSol has apparently started engaging in a practice that Google deemed ban-able 2 years ago: subdomain spamming. The twist? They're not subdomain spamming with their sites... they're doing it with *yours*. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketingperformance.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyter looks at how many web developers abuse the H1, H2, H3, etc. tags - not that they are necessarily spamming but rather sloppy in their design tactics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 11:21 pm
Posted By: bwelford 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Blogging
John Andrews is always someone who is worth reading. Here he encourages those who care about writing in a search engine visible way to share their tips to create memorable posts. It's a good initiative to get involved with. Let's all see what we read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cabel.name)
Category: Searching
Japanese adverts no longer show URLs for products, but search terms instead. If this phenomenon goes worldwide, there will be huge implications for the SEO/SEM industry.

Maybe written Japanese makes it harder to find snappy, memorable domain name read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: SEO
These days anyone can label themselves an SEO and begin publishing and building an audience. At first, a few basic posts like “make sure you have good title tags” will attract readership and comments like “wow.. this is great advice! Now I’m getting read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 7:34 am
Posted By: toddmintz 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEM
Adam Audette's link-building post which originated as his Searchfest 08 presentation. Yeah, this is a way over-done topic, but Adam uses a very fresh approach here and I recommend checking it out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 7:32 am
Posted By: mvandemar 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 23, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: theGypsy 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Searching
SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Brian has always been one of my favorite bloggers and I'm glad he too the time to answer some of my questions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 7:37 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google SEO
If a site now has 7-8 sitelinks, shouldn't the old indented listing it used to have go away? How does it benefit the user when the first 9 links of a SERP all point to a single site? Frustrating.... read more »
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