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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 6:36 am
Posted By: aimClear 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.venture-skills.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Social Media users are becoming stable bread & butter users of blogs and Pro link baiters but few understand how diverse (or not) these groups are. How do social users differ from “normal” traffic? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 13, 2008 - 2:07 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 327 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
The already wounded Ask.com has another horizon on the problem. Apparently there is now a class action lawsuit regarding failing to stop "click fraud" for their advertisers. I guess people really want their 8 cents per click back. I honestly hope th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 327 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: News Sites
I think these guys should spend more time drinking on Saturdays rather than conducting serious interviews divulging useful information about Stumbleupon.
This interview is important to reinforce why you shouldn't continually stumble the same sites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 13, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: SeoDesignSolutions 328 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: SEO
Are you yielding the highest possible return in search engines from optimizing your pages internal links? If not, then maybe it’s time for a link audit.

So much time is spent being myopic over link building and external links that people often f read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 13, 2008 - 3:17 am
Posted By: Wiep 328 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Lots of companies will happily accept link building opportunities for just about any crappy website, because they only see the quick, short buck. For this group of companies, I’ll be diving into the art of getting links for crappy websites today. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 13, 2008 - 3:07 pm
Posted By: Gab 329 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Truly everyone has a good reason to hide their referrer(outranking their affiliate program for key terms, blackhat traffic, fear someone else will clone your site/copy your traffic source, or general paranoia). I’m going to approach this from a blac read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 2, 2007 - 9:37 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 399 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Other
Barry discusses the future of Google, and other firms online.

His closing remarks include:-

"If big corporations wish to avoid that ugly epithet, they must work hard to ensure individuals feel their rights are being fully acknowledged and resp read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 1, 2007 - 11:09 am
Posted By: theGypsy 399 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney had a piece over at Search Engine Land that was a fun little (near) rant that could help save more than a few people some hair loss.

SNIPPET - I often feel sorry for small businesses. I do. Too often they don't have the funds, time or res read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 2, 2007 - 9:36 am
Posted By: Lyndon 399 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEO
Jill Whalen shares how she charges her clients. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 3, 2007 - 3:47 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.daveshap.com)
Category: SEO
A collection of resources on internal linking structure read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 1, 2007 - 12:38 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://social-bookmarking-seo.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
This was a fun story to read. Zaibatsu and Msaleem are neck and neck on getting 1000 of their stories hitting the Digg homepage. Good profile and background on these top Diggers.

Who's your money on? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Wiep 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
Anyone in for a flashback to 1996? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aglobalwarming 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I thought I would write an amazing post with all my secrets to make it to the Digg homepage on your first try... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 1, 2007 - 1:31 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
Google launch a service that they don't own the brand on, and do you really think this being "open" is for your benefit? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 31, 2007 - 5:20 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Great post by Lisa from Ignite, really enjoying the stuff those guys are producing lately. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 401 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
I often struggle with the true viability of Social Media Marketing outside of the realms image management and brandng, not to mention the fickle nature nature of said 'social surfers' - Seems that Jeff has it figured out though;

SNIPPET - I’ve ha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 401 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seocog.blogspot.com)
Category: SEO
I always enjoy a good rant. Melanie went on a good one that deals with an all-to-common cluster-duck in this industry – crappy/shady SEO providers that provide steaming piles of advice to clients. It is not only frustrating to those trying to purvey read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 31, 2007 - 3:52 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 401 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Get your unofficial "PageRank Victim" Badge now....

You feel Google has treated you unfairly in their result rankings lately, and perhaps scolded you for selling text links? Here’s the officially unoffical “PageRank Victim” badge for your blog or read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2007 - 8:35 am
Posted By: Lyndon 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technosailor.com)
Category: Social Media
from the page "A lot of PR folks these days seem to have the idea that social media is where it’s at amd that they need us to be effective. They are absolutely correct." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: SEO
Looks like someone wanted to buy $200M worth of link equity read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2007 - 9:47 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Networking
Richard MacManus discusses Plenty of Fish, and compared it with Facebook.

Whilst the traffic numbers might not seem to compare, the CTR is much higher, and may make PoF a $1B two person company (Markus just hired an assistant) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2007 - 6:39 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Blogging
After 10 years of online publishing, 4 years of blogging for a plethora of blogs, being a SEO for three years and being paid for blogging several times by now I finally am convinced that I know how it works. This is my list of 101 ways to make your read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sebastian 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Lots of good reasons NOT to sphinn this video.
* My server will be down for 15 minutes or so at 4:00 am
* It's frigging hilarious, err geeky
* You've better things to do
* 5 minutes of laughing on a Monday is not part of your job description
* read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lucia 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://money.bigbucksblogger.com)
Category: Link Building
Here's your chance to eavesdrop on PPP Posties reaction to Advertisers asking them to remove paid links from their posts? Getting reincluded by Google may not be easy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2007 - 5:52 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Other Social Media
While Digg gets worse each day and looses traffic (it’s at an all time low by now according to Alexa) specialized social news communities gain momentum. There are plenty of them by now, sadly most of them poorly customized Pligg applications but som read more »
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