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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: KenJones 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Does your content creation and management plan consist of merely a fire-and-forget-it perspective? Then you may be missing out on ways to not only strengthen existing rankings but bolstering new ones. You may be making costly mistakes without even k read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Patrick Altoft writes, "Most people spend way too much time trying to use Digg to send traffic to their websites. The time and effort it takes to understand and befriend the Digg community and get your content onto the front page is disproportional read more »
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Avatar Posted By: discuit 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: SEO
David Eaves from SEOCO outlines the history of Search Spam. Concentrating on the period between 2001 and 200. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 6:15 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty mu read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 3:07 am
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lorenbaker 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
By building in a required workflow, you can also build automated tracking systems to document any change made to the web site or link building activities, so that you can report back in time on those changes. Most development environments have somet read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Maing 1 day 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: SEO
Do you know what the New York Times, the World Bank, Wordpress.com, PHP.net and others have in common?
Their URLs suck! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Rosenco 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://freelancefolder.com)
Category: Blogging
Reading blogs with good writing is a must if you want to improve your skills as a writer/blogger. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ViperChill 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Making sure your website is mobile phone friendly should be a priority for any business that wants to be found on the mobile web. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ViperChill 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Online Marketing
Mobile SEO is quite a confusing term. I’ve been around the SEO industry for years and am involved in mobile application development but still the term is confusing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eavesy 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Many companies are getting into social media these days that you would not expect. At first I thought I had heard it all when I found out about a blender company using social media, then I heard about a dog food company using social media, and just read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: Maing 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Wiep 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: SEO
URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
It's time to lock up your daughters, and here's why: The roving spycar of Google's Street View has been spotted prowling the mean streets of London... [photo] read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Sphinn this if you think its the most stupid post you have read about the whole Flash issue.

Being indexed and being ranked highly is a totally different thing, why are people spouting so much crap about this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: YoungMaster 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.digg.com)
Category: News Sites
Kevin says - "The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users. Look for the red beta flag on your Upcoming tab - this means you now have access to the Recommendation Engine. We read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.onemanandhisblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Adam, a colleague from my days in publishing, writes a great post about why many mainstream journalists still don't 'get' blogging: "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
5 massive websites that appear to have some kind of PR penalty. Shows it's not just small blogs that feel the wrath of Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: Hawksdomain 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.makakmedia.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Google SEO for small businesses wanting to keep things local. Something I will definitely be working on for my day job website! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Digg has a similar system [to Google] for promoting breaking news stories to the homepage. Most of the time a story takes 24 hours and perhaps 200 Diggs to make it’s way through the system to the homepage but whenever a really hot story breaks (such read more »
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