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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Link building sucks. There I said it. Of course it's been said before and most people who have even the slightest bit of experience with it can tell you the same. It's tedious. It's monotonous. It's mundane. True link building is marketing. But that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skelliewag.org)
Category: Blogging
Some bloggers spend more time with a whiteboard or notepad than they do actually writing content, and dedicate more words to outline a growth strategy than they do to actually writing content! Some of the world’s most popular blogs are the result of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: danzarrella 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has neve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 10:21 am
Posted By: 0thelisa 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Bruce Clay's Susan Esparza steps in for Guestwhore week and explains her strategy for looking trim in conference photos.

"First things first, stop eating junk food. Soda is right out. All that chocolate from Valentine’s Day? Verboten. And don’t e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 5:48 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Blogging
Keyword research is a fundamental part of online marketing of all kinds, and that definitely includes blogging. Blogs are famous for ranking well in search engines thanks to their structure and frequently-updated content, but if you don’t use the wo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 10:21 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A really comical post by Aaron (Mad Hat) about preparing a post for Sugarrae. Be sure to check out the video too ... Aaron I want to party with you! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: khalid 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: SEO
Just had a meeting with a client who is paying $350 an hour for their SEO consultant for 2000 hours a year. Yep, that is close to 700k per year.

And what an SEO consultant, a truly forward thinking kind of consultant! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 2:23 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Jeff Quipp does a very rare interview on the SEP blog... Rob Kerry (aka EvilGreenMonkey) is the Editor of Sphinn, and one of Danny Sullivan’s right hand people! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NewSkill21 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Networking
Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.

The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that web read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 11:46 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: SEO
Shimon Sandler posts the detailed criteria needed to determine the right Keywords to optimize for the most cost-effective SEO campaign vs bidding on them in a PPC campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jstein 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Aaron Wall noticed that SearchGuild.com, which was one of the first major search marketing portals, news sites and forums which just kind of died off over the past 2 years after endless hacking and bad hosting, just sold on SEDO for the low low pric read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 6:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Reputation Management is a serious online service that needs timely attention, although not enough people do it justice and simply monitor feeds online for mentions of said brand / product / service. There’s many forms of ‘negative reputation’ onlin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 222 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlespam.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 7:52 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
If its true that only 16% of people actually read blog postings, and the other 84% only scan ... then writing blog posts in a scannable format is CRUCIAL!

This post highlights 6 of the most important elements to consider! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: scottclark 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google
Michael's call to arms digs into the issue of how Google's influence and policies affect the future of monetized web properties in a "top-down, dictatorial manner." Is Google scaring people into a particular way of doing business that benefits Goog read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 7:04 am
Posted By: aglobalwarming 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
Shana describes why she loves Twitter. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: seanmag 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
The SEO industry has its fair share of detractors claiming a majority of SEO’s are everything from “snakeoil salesmen” to downright “slimy”. The best way to overcome this perception, use it to your advantage and position yourself as a reputable pro read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jstein 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Blogging
Whether you are a consultant, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, a blog can be a great tool to promote yourself. But the mistake that many blogs make is placing too much emphasis on promoting what they offer, and not enough focus on the pe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian of NowSourcing interviews Glen Allsopp of ViperChill. Great Interview, Men!! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 10:21 am
Posted By: SiteMost 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Have you been trying to "fly under the radar," engaging in activities outside of Google's guidelines but subtly so as not to get caught?... Well, think again! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 8:40 am
Posted By: tamar 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
In an emergency podcast tonight, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson spoke live to the Digg community about some changes and developments on the site. Here's the lowdown (in a not-so-liveblogged format). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 10:58 pm
Posted By: mattstoddart 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: SEO
Shimon demonstrates how to calculate the internal link percentage to make individual pages "resource-rich" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: tonyp 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very funny article about the importance of PageRank size. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 10:57 pm
Posted By: planetc1 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
Jake Matthews says... I am becoming a big fan of the organic approach to StumbleUpon (SU) and the ways you can connect with members finding like minded users in demographic and interest areas.

The StumbleUpon social tool was built for discovering read more »
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