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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 1 hour 52 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So you want to get back into Google? Confused on when is the right time to send a reconsideration request to Google? Google has a nifty video on the topic now: read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peterryan 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.arteworks.biz)
Category: SEO
Matt Foster puts in his two cents about Jason Gambert's Wikipedia hoax. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: migaveli 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://piloseo.com)
Category: SEO
Great article about traditional agencies and their lack of understanding and respect for SEO and SEM. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steaprok 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
This is pefect example of why I don’t use Sphinn anymore. And yes, I realize the irony of writing that statement and then posting a screen shot of Sphinn. I was curious to see if a comic we wrote (which has a gravestone with Sphinn on it) had be “sp read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ViperChill 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google SEO
OK, I’ve had it with link building; I’m done. Tossing in the towel. Waiving the white flag, no fight left in this link ninja. Google, you win! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchviews.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Far too many traditional advertisers still don't understand the importance of search marketing as evidenced by recent article in AdWeek discussing how large ad agencies market themselves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
You ever wonder what Google thinks a good SEO does. Well now you have to wonder no more. Google has recently updated its help center article to include what to look for in a good SEO along with what type of SEO scams to look out for. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Posted By: JGFox 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bramblog.com)
Category: SEO
From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Avatar Posted By: STACKS 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://piloseo.com)
Category: Online Marketing
I have noticed that Amway, Quixstar for those in the US, is making a huge marketing push. It appears that they are spending a ton of dough on TV commercials in an attempt to distance themselves from their reputaton as a pyramid scheme. It seems to m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chris-hooley.com)
Category: Water Cooler
In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

S read more »
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Avatar Posted By: CLatham 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.justindavy.com)
Category: In House SEM
An interesting rebuttal to Dave Pasternack's dressing down of in-house SEMs. Recently, Pasternack published an article dismissing the contributions and benefits to in-house SEM. Here is the other side of the coin. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchviews.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This here jam goes out to all the marketers who want to lay some search industry knowledge on their peeps at the water cooler. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 6:54 am
Posted By: mpilatow 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous "seven words you can't say read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 16 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Ok, maybe I am being a tad cheeky today, but Matt decided to highlight the interview he did, so why not? Reading the article on USA Today he mentions;

“In a nutshell: Google ranks sites based on popularity. If authoritative sites link to you, you read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Display Advertising
Ouch! Where's the worst place to advertise your "Put Your Feet Up" site? On a CNN story about six severed feet! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: delelles 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://piloseo.com)
Category: Link Building
I have a problem. I really really like links. It’s getting out of control and I don’t know if I can be saved. As an SEO and X-List blogger I have an unnatural obsession towards links. I just can’t get enough. To most of my friends links are a utilit read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Posted By: SearchBuzz 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Social Media
Lately, there's been a lot of buzz about a new Twitter competitor called Plurk.
In my opinion this new micro-blogging platform has taken the conversation to a whole new level.
read more »
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