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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2008 - 4:34 am
Posted By: mrconn 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.garryconn.com)
Category: Google Searching
Doing a simple search for the term blog reveals some interesting information found in the SERP. There is absolutely no mention of WordPress or any other blog publishing platform. Yet, there are three instances of Google mentioned.

Ironically, af read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 19, 2008 - 9:14 pm
Posted By: robwatts 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Loren Baker has had his google account suspended.It's having a huge impact. Is your business safe? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cybercoded.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Following Google Trends and publishing content based upon Google Trends can indeed score you quite a bit of traffic. This is of course assuming that you can get your content indexed within the small time frame when certain keyword phrases are hot. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.masonworld.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mark Mason has created a script that looks for various stats for the major article directories and ranks them. His purpose for this directory is to help people find the best directories to post articles in. The more popular the directory, the strong read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeDammann 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Blogging
I have asked Matt a few questions regarding search engine friendliness of platforms, recent security issues with wordpress and what he plans to do in the future. Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 7:24 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
"There is an excellent paid only WebmasterWorld thread on the topic of why would the best SEOs decide to take on client work, as opposed to building out their own ideas and cashing in on those ideas. The rational is, if they are the best, why not ma read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm
Posted By: YoungMaster 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
A quick tip from DaveN about getting a link from your Twitter page. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Usability
When talking about usability, most people will refer to "simple things" like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your Web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.

Stuff like that is important (the point of driving read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 9:51 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask for your experience on what’s the real benefit from them. Many webmasters are eager to get them but read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: Gab 133 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
There are so many free tools and software programs for SEO enthusiasts that it almost becomes overwhelming and difficult to grasp the “right” tools to use in your SEO efforts. Everyone has their own personal preferences which makes this predicament read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 3:32 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Blogging
What goes around comes around. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 12:04 am
Posted By: Avinio 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.scope.is)
Category: Social Media
Stories of failure are more common than success stories when it comes to social media. But since this is a new platform, you can expect a lot of mistakes while people are "getting it". I've listed 6 common mistakes companies make when they enter soc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of letting employees use social media at work, and how to make it work in the benefit of employers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 11:25 am
Posted By: vbin 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
This is a guest post from kd kelly. kd kelly, aka dotlizard, who has learned a harsh lesson or two in her time on the internets, and wants to warn us about the dangers of social media as it relates to trusting relationships that end in lies, decepti read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Loren Baker provides an excellent plug to an article written by Dave Harry on the nuances of link building and keeping a diverse yet strategic keyword expansion plan in focus from the ground floor up on a link building campaign. Loren also provides read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 10:18 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunder read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Very useful list of FireFox SEO plugins from Ann Smarty on SEJ. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: steaprok 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 9:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Sphinn turns one year old tomorrow, July 11! This is a look at Sphinn's early days -- including some of the "firsts" that happened when we were all figuring out what Sphinn was, how to use it, and how to say the name. :-) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepronews.com)
Category: Google SEO
Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI is the hottest trend in Google today and the secret behind Wikipedia’s runaway success as the top raking site for just about anything you can imagine on Google.

In short, LSI considers the words around your main k read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.masonworld.com)
Category: SEO
Everyone wants to make a Federal case out of SEO. In this post, Mark breaks it down simply for the newbie. You can get 80% of the SEO benefit for 20% of the effort if you follow Mark's 5 simple recommendations. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
From the page: "Finally, Google has added a “privacy” link to its home page which directs users to Google’s Privacy Center which contains a link to Google’s Privacy Overview and Privacy Policy plus other product specific privacy statement. The Priva read more »
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