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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 3:14 am
Posted By: jameskm03 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but r read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 7:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Other
This is my attempt at a post about what the future of the SEO and Google will be. I'll be the first to admit that some of the stuff I say is (IMO) pretty out there as far as predictions go, but I'd love to get some feedback from the sphinn community read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 7:14 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Google
Lisa Barone writes, "The sensational outrage over Lyndon Antcliff's fake news story has officially reached a level that can now only be described as Utterly Ridiculous. Sparked by a comment by Matt Cutts over at Sphinn, Search Engine Land and others read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Posted By: mphung 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imediaconnection.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A marketing blunder by a Papa John's affiliate quickly spread across the blogosphere, leading to a potential PR nightmare for the entire brand. This story's got a bit of everything (but hold the anchovies): the power of bloggers to shape a story, a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: theGypsy 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
...and the drama continues...

SEL - Disclosure is a key point made by Matt. Now, if the article says the sources are not validated or the article is speculation - would that be sufficient? Would Google soon require us to slap on a nosource (aka n read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 7:18 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
With today’s high Internet connection rates webmasters don’t think they should bother much about their web page size and load time. Still this parameter remains essential both for SEO and usability and these tools will help you trim down your page s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2008 - 8:10 pm
Posted By: nsmseo 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Marty of aimClear gets the last laugh after being cyber-harassed by nasty SU Trolls.

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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 7:47 am
Posted By: Wiep 359 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Vanessa Fox revisits common site structure choices, how they’re handled by Google, and how that impacts SEO. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 360 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepronews.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Here is a list of what I consider to be the Top 10 dumbest web site decisions ever, in reverse order, David Letterman style. Get ready to cringe! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
Patrick Altoft takes a look at the essential skills required in the competitive SEO marketplace. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search will not dump their clueless and ineffective search quality project. They're proud to be the one and only bigger search engine that spams.

Even when they apologize to the Webmaster community, they're not able to tell the truth. They read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 6, 2007 - 9:35 pm
Posted By: gyutae 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Google SEO
If you own or work with a search engine optimization company, or even if you're just hoping to better your search engine placement, then you are probably aware of the recent acquisition frenzy that took hold among the major search engines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicks.ws)
Category: Google AdSense
I’m wondering if there’s any connection between this and a thread on Digitalpoint that claims their ads are being blocked. There’s some confusion that the missing ads may be related to some database errors that the site was having last week, though read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 12:09 am
Posted By: rmccarley 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.14thc.com)
Category: SEO
Guest author Wit steps in to explain the top 10 SEO myths and why you should care about them (or not). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 4:14 am
Posted By: gyutae 370 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
In a popular SEO article that received over 50 votes on Sphinn last week, Vinny Goldsmith outlines 6 things that he knows (thinks he knows) about SEO. However, I felt the need to refute every single one of his points. Who do you think is right? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 27, 2007 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 373 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emomsathome.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Need to find traffic sources other than Google? How about a list of 27 ways to find it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 27, 2007 - 3:28 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 374 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com)
Category: Other Social Media
As social media optimization continues its rise as a bona fide business objective, more and more professionals – marketers, PR folks and even IT pros are claiming expertise and responsibility for it. It seems to me alleged social media experts are p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2007 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 374 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Link Building
It appears that Google took the opportunity to update their web master guidelines regarding paid links. The changes essentially reveal that buying or selling links that pass PageRank can penalize a site not only in its Google Toolbar PageRank status read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2007 - 10:53 am
Posted By: BartTheBear 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Amazon’s Alexa traffic reporting service has little credibility left among people who follow traffic trends. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2007 - 10:45 am
Posted By: toddmintz 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Linda O'Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against drugs.

She urges people to "Just Say No."

Apparently, other communities besides search marketers have issues with Wikipedia... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 24, 2007 - 8:11 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 377 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Other Social Media
"The online world has changed in the recent years where Web 2.0 style social sites and blogging have become omnipresent. The new web is still predominantly populated by bloggers, early adopters and Internet specialists. The John Doe webmaster uses, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 4:15 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 380 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Behind the scenes, we've been working on some new features to reduce spam and encourage quality posts. Here's a rundown on what's coming. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 10:43 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
There are countless companies that target real estate agencies and individual agents, offering “complete web site packages” and “custom solutions” that always include “search engine optimization” so you can “maximize your traffic and sell more house read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 1:11 pm
Posted By: beanstalk 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Online Marketing
Rand discussed the dark side of Wikipedia and those who would edit it for "ulterior motives". read more »
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