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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dangerouscompetition.com)
Category: Blogging
Don't confuse the strategic and tactical goals? A good turn on the discussion of website analytics versus competitor intelligence. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pbarnhart.wordpress.com)
Category: Web Analytics
My wife was wondering why 60% of her web site traffic was showing as “direct entry” - she couldn’t imagine all of these visitors were typing in her web site URL from scratch. At the same time, I was working with a client that was depending on the ‘ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Social Media
David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Where we set forth the Internet's "Power 15" for brand influence. If your brand rocks on these 15 sites, your sales should rock as well. By contrast, bad news on these sites can really hurt your business. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnLessnau 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lessnau.com)
Category: Link Building
I am constantly searching high profile search phrases to see how and why certain sites rank so highly. Often I am surprised the things sites do with unnatural linking that still work wonders.

I thought hidden hit counter links were rendered usel read more »
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Avatar Posted By: onreact 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pingpongpie.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google breakdance anybody? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 11:32 am
Posted By: mercylivi 1 day 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being the essence of the Internet like linking overall. (So undoubtedly, we can’t do without them.) Sec 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: mcramer 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.surfcanyon.com)
Category: Google SEO
This is a fun look at the top 100 Google results for "John McCain". There's also a mild comparison to the results for "Hillary Clinton" looked at last month. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu)
Category: SEO
Should You Invest in the Long Tail?

It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 6:16 pm
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
Want to take your blog to the next level? DoshDosh (Maki) gives great advice ... fancy yourself of the Editor-in-Chief, and not just as a writer.

Excellent point! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DaveKeffen 11 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Networking
Well once again Twitter have crashed this afternoon.

Are they pushing things too far?

We were all prepared to give them a lot of slack with traffic volume issues, problems with the Reply section not working for the last few days etc, etc, but read more »
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Avatar Posted By: matthewdiehl 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.matthewsdiehl.com)
Category: Domaining
It was only a matter of time before we saw one of the first TLD Management services get launched but who would have thought in less than 24 hours? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 11 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 12 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 28, 2008 - 2:29 am
Posted By: sagar13d 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.accrediteddldegrees.com)
Category: Searching
If you are looking for a particular video, an old friend from high school, or the perfect handbag, a niche search engine can help. They can make life even better if you can use them in a pinch. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: ViperChill 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Regular and frequent visits by the crawler is the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent and deep crawls is to develop a website that search engines see as important and valuable. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 6:00 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyter writes, "Many years ago I put my site through a re-design. I worked hard to make sure everything was done just right, including the images and navigation. But one thing I failed to consider was internal linking, separate from the nav read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistapart.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Design and concepts from a member of the flickr team. Things they though of as they created and managed their own community site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Networking
Sphinn is made up search engine marketers. Search engine marketers are search engine marketers, They know PPC, they know SEO, they know how to get links to sites. Search engine marketers, the majority of Sphinn users, are not social networking exper read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MarketingMinefield 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Social Media
Even if you think Twitter is a waste of time (and not the most wonderful thing since Facebook status updates) and as a result don't have a Twitter account it's still worth registering your business name before someone else does. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: SEM
An easy-to-use keyword generation tool. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ramkarthik 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sizlopedia.com)
Category: Social Media
If you are using Ubuntu Linux and addicted to twitter, then here's a list of 8 best twitter clients that would do wonders. read more »
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