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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vangogh 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Blogging
Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ANOnym 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reubenyau.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google doesn't have anything called TrustRank. Yahoo does. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: KenJones 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google is effectually forcing advertisers into buying more AdWords PPC by systematically setting out to neuter SEOs. They’re eviscerating organic paid link-building tactics which historically have been so critical to attaining prominence in natural read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Dear SEO Bloggers, I’ve been reading SEO blogs for quite some time and while I appreciate the input you offer up on a regular basis, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It seems that more and more of your posts state your opinions or theories, as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 1:11 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:34 am
Posted By: seanmag 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 11 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;

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Avatar Posted By: JonKelly 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other
Defense lawyer in Florida uses Google trends to show that client was not violating "community standards." Pretty clever, we'll see if it works. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: mvandemar 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Step by step guide on how to completely clean out all signs of intrusion in your WordPress after you have discovered that you have been hacked. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 6:54 am
Posted By: mpilatow 12 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 Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: martinbowling 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
For anyone who hates having to change their passwords because it means memorizing a new one, I built this nifty little tool that generates strong passwords with built in mnemonics. Please, feel free to share this with your family members who still i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: EricLander 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Posted By: chris2930 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pingpongpie.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is displaying images in the SERPS for certain searches. However, the new images are only appearing for a very narrow band of searches. Something I've never seen before. Interesting. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 8:54 am
Posted By: martinbowling 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Social Media
David Wallace writes "Besides just hoping that Twitter runs consistently without experiencing outages all the time, there are a few things I would love to see the micro-blogging service add that would make the Twitter even more useful than it alread read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 1:59 am
Posted By: northrock 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Google SEO
Dazzlin D - Don’t get me wrong. I know that “the world” (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don’t really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, read more »
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