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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: Sugarrae 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 9:26 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Google
QualityGal weighs on the A Lister Link Payola debate and writes "As I was leaving a comment on Graywolf’s post about Guy Kawasaki and Link Payola, I realized I had more than a few words to say on the matter.

Google’s policy on paid links is impos read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BadSEO 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://badseo.blogspot.com)
Category: SEO
I was just checking out the Little Big Voice site again after my previous post and found that the site is not indexed in Google at all. Not one page!

Thinking that this was a little strange I had a look at their robots.txt file and found a huge e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 6:23 am
Posted By: SiteMost 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 4:21 pm
Posted By: Harith 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Blogging
"There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 9:31 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
From SEOMoz, Someone is trying to register "SEO" as a service mark. Apparently, the guy who's doing this has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. That means he has passed the preliminary review by the Trad read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 1:04 am
Posted By: martinbowling 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Link development, before search engines polluted the process into a currency for search engine rankings, was all about promotion. Links were simply a natural side effect of promoting your website. And one of the most tried and true methods of promot read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 5:41 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
The Dallas Business Journal recently ran a story on one of our clients, Wasp Barcode Technologies, describing how they went from spending enormous amounts of money on PPC to focusing more on traditional SEO and link building. The strategy paid off - read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: northrock 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
I think this stinks. I have been hoping Ask could build it's search into a competitive engine. Their interface was nice but we all know that's not enough. I'm surprised they didn't stick it out longer. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 11:20 am
Posted By: pratt 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gonzo-seo.com)
Category: Web Analytics
When you hand an analytics report to your manager do you get that deer-in-the-headlights stare? Here are a few ways to fix that. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 26, 2008 - 7:40 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 230 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
"Content is king." If you're like me, you've heard that phrase more times than you can count. And for the most part, it's true. Truly unique content can make or break your link development campaign. If you have it, you'll find attracting quality lin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Wiep shows us Five easy link building strategies that don’t involve scavenging, hunting, baiting or other work intensive tactics. Using easily accessible data and contacting people that are already familiar with your website in some kind of way is n read more »
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Avatar Posted By: leadegroot 248 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Can we add a Preview button on the Comments field, please guys? :) I'm tired of making a comment and hitting the button and when I get back to that tab an hour later, there's an obvious (trivial) issue with the comment, but I can't edit it anymore : read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 8, 2008 - 6:21 pm
Posted By: rossdunn 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gonzo-seo.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Taylor Pratt asks whether or not to charge a client who is on a monthly contract when, because of their fault, he wasn't able to provide services. It brings up a great question... how do YOU balance the strictness of a contract with the fairness of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 4, 2008 - 5:54 pm
Posted By: RobertClough 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Favorite parts are real world examples of how Twitter has been (and can be) used to actually meet people in offline situations. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 262 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
The power of having the Internet at my disposal is such people seem to want to connect and learn from each other. Word of mouth is still the best form of advertisement. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: leadegroot 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Lisa points out how Google is being just a little bit self serving in its efforts to 'teach about search marketing'.
Feels like Microsoft pushing Education packs of Office, knowing that all the newly trained employees will go off to offices asking read more »
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Avatar Posted By: emd5005 281 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Google Other
An inciteful video by Shoemoney's Jeremy Schoemaker discussing his personal opinions on Google, the no-follow issue, and SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 5:13 pm
Posted By: IncrediBILL 288 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Blogging
John delves into the issue of why his blog is a failure because it contains insightful quality blog posts vs. the success of the dumbed down link baiting blogs that pander to the lowest common denominator. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 9:13 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 289 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
I thought it would be interesting to picture how Google might look if a combination of new and existing anti-trust laws forced the company to breakup. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 10:25 am
Posted By: leadegroot 298 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Michael calls it on just how the whole "Richter Scales" incident will impact Lane badly in the long run - and proposes how she should handle it instead
(Woot! First Sphinn! :)) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2007 - 11:20 pm
Posted By: graywolf 303 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skrenta.com)
Category: Google
So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results. But questioning the the wisdom of this algorithmic choice is off the table. So they say, "Whoa. Look at that site at the top of all our results. We made them that big with ou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2007 - 9:25 am
Posted By: Wiep 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Shaun Anderson tries to visualize SEO by comparing it to a heating system. If your site was measured in heat, you could see the heat-map of your site pages, once all the links have been accounted for. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 329 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigfootwebmarketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
It is possible some other problems with the site were spotted during a random inspection.
I haven't experienced the same, but then I haven't been zeroed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 5:33 am
Posted By: andrewsho 354 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: Google SEO
A brief case study on how the magical power of backlinks can overcome just about anything. Watch in disbelief as Google ranks an application error #1 for a highly valuable term. read more »
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