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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: jdevalk 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Domaining
The conclusion: all other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://copybrighter.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: sodapopseo 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
a link builder had the 'nerve' (for lack of a better word), to post a public link exchange offer in not just a Google Group but in the the official "Google Webmaster Help" group, for all Googler's to see. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Link Building
Erik-Jan discusses B2B link building and concludes that different goals are required than in B2C link building. He also explains why B2B link building is easier AND more difficult than B2C link building. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 2:04 pm
Posted By: Harith 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pixelposition.com)
Category: Social Media
Dana Lookadoo: Is a picture worth a thousand words? Maybe. Here is overview of a few photo editing tools you may consider. Determine your goals, first.

What type of photos do you need to create and edit?

* Avatars for a your Social Media p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google AdSense
When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 9:24 pm
Posted By: Jill 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who's attended a conference can relate, especially if you're somewhat shy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: ViperChill 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Online Marketing
You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new reader read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: Guillaume 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
It just couldn't get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a couple weeks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: cledford 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.3tailer.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
6 easy steps to 301ing your Yahoo! store. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 2:44 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website's performance. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: shansen11 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 4:40 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEM
Great list from Tad about some very useful new web tools made available in 2008. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Social Media
Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 10:40 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Search Marketing
I’m [Brian Carter] a big fan of the “Now Discover Your Strengths” series of books, including “StrengthsFinder 2.0”, and “First Break All the Rules”.

If you’re not familiar with these books, the big idea is:

It makes more sense to do what y read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 4:46 am
Posted By: graywolf 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Blogging
Most PR folks don’t read blogs and certainly don’t understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of mout read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 10:51 am
Posted By: Jill 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vandelay 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Some tips for those who think social media requires too much time to bother. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 3:12 am
Posted By: vandelay 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Blogging
Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 2:33 am
Posted By: miguelstil 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: dedmond29 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkedin.com)
Category: SEO
There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:18 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Ironically, it isn’t the adoption of Twitter that has me reconsidering my stance. I have spread my anti-Twitter message to just enough people that adoption would result in endless ridicule and torment. It is the emergence of Plurk, Twitter’s latest read more »
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