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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 1, 2008 - 8:18 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Paid Search
Pay per click budgeting is not a topic I thought you could devote a whole blog post to, when I first started doing PPC in 2004. But I was wrong.

Here are the five most important budget-related topics in pay per click advertising: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 12:45 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: Social Media
As the post title suggests I’m talking about uSocial. Specifically, uSocial.net. I’m not sure what they prefer to go by and we won’t know too much more until they launch on December 1st. When I hope you choose not to do business with them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 24, 2008 - 6:42 am
Posted By: robwatts 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: Social Media
Rishil looks at Be A magpie, a new controversial twitter monetisation scheme.. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 5:44 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already developing. So below, some clarification read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 23, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.websitemagazine.com)
Category: Social Media
As director of an advertising agency that manages social media campaigns, I was recently brainstorming recipes for social media success. Every formula I came up with included personality.

In Social Media, Personality is Key
You can be controvers read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 8:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Networking
Geographic - Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed:

In recent times I [Brian Chappell] have compiled two interesting Social Network Reports. The Social Network Geographic report and the Social Network Traffic Report. Both reports conveyed some in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 6:11 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
Sugarrae gives insights on how to promote a brand new blog. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: bbcarter 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://raven-seo-tools.com)
Category: Social Media
Jon Henshaw writes:

"I've been to several PubCon conferences in the past, but this year something different happened.

"It wasn't that there were more panels and the speakers were better than ever (which they were).

"Instead, it had more t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: zigojacko 21 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Other Social Media
"It was a marathon evening for media buffs as Barack Obama beat rival John McCain to become the United States' first African-American president-elect. You couldn't miss it on Twitter, as the microblogging service exploded with election updates, comm read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 6, 2008 - 7:26 am
Posted By: martinbowling 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://briancartersocialmedia.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian Carter writes "If you already tweet a lot, you can turn that into a huge advantage on Facebook.

How?

Install the Twitter App for Facebook.

Everytime you tweet, it changes your Facebook status.

So what?

Whenever your Facebook fri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter is this year’s main buzz and so far it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Millions of people spend hours micro-blogging on Twitter and even big brands are embracing Twitter to grow their business.

With such Twitter global use it definitel read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 9:13 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://briancartersocialmedia.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
I collected 15 exceptional twitter personas who were sporting cool staches.

I want you to Vote for your favorite TWITTERSTACHE read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
As a seo I wanted to know - how many words or characters does Google count in a link? What’s best practice when creating links - internal, or external? What is the optimal length of a HTML link? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 6:44 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
The whole white hat vs black hat distinction is huge in SEO.

* Which techniques are unethical? (Black Hat)
* Which are controversial? (Gray Hat)
* Which tactics are too risky? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.staygolinks.com)
Category: Google Searching
Barry Welford - Clearly Google is the biggest winner in this. However just do a Google blogsearch of ‘payday loan’. Of the top 10 results currently appearing, five of them are entries containing mumbo-jumbo sets of words including the words payday l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: ciaran 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 2:35 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Well, strike me dead for hubris, I'm pretty proud I got to 1,000 Twitter followers in just 6 months. See the graph of that journey on Twitterholic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 8:23 am
Posted By: Lid 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog-well.com)
Category: Other Social Media
BigPonds recent debut on Twitter leaves most customers dissatisfied and angry. But what if they took a step back and looked at what Twitter is about before jumping in? They just might make a go of it read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 25, 2008 - 1:57 am
Posted By: Rhea 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cesarserna.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Cesar Serna has been trying to pimp his newest project, Soxialize (which rocks), and he took the time to detail some tests he did with StumbleUpon. Great insight and figures that show where the real value in SU comes from. Not a surprise to most of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 25, 2008 - 8:07 am
Posted By: Gab 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Many biz dev folks reading this could benefit from it as well.
Expert SEOs can often spot such ‘client assets' but that process can be optimized by simply asking the client the right questions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 7:20 am
Posted By: planetc1 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Social Media
Dev Basu writes... Sometimes it can be pretty hard to come up with creative social media link bait ideas for otherwise un-interesting small businesses. After brainstorming for a bit, I think I’ve come up with some ideas that can be applied to almost read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 21, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Lyndon 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Dipping my toe into the seo recruitment world a few prejudices have surfaced and it's created a very interesting discussion. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 16, 2008 - 6:12 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
The emergence of social media has been a game-changer for newspapers and magazines. On the one hand, they have seen their print numbers continue to drop as more and more people turn to the internet to get their news and information. On the other han read more »
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