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Avatar Posted By: SEOAly 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Search Marketing
This is an insightful post on the pitfalls of businesses allowing their greed and desire to up incoming revenues to take precedence over actually fully developing a valuable product or service. Many marketing departments identify the potential inco read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 7:03 am
Posted By: steaprok 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
You know there are days where you really just cant believe the things you see. Cruising on over to the Martha Stewart blog you’ll read how they are running a contest and REQUIRING a link back to Martha’s Blog to be entered … (screen shot for posteri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Great illustration of the interaction and interdependence (is that a word?) between the various factions of search marketing, with a touch of humor thrown in as well. Would be great for getting corporate honchos to understand the necessity of each read more »
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Avatar Posted By: phaithful 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://awis.blogspot.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Alexa "now aggregate[s] data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users."

"The new rankings should better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader popul read more »
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Avatar Posted By: phaithful 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://manojjasra.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
If you loved the board game Monopoloy, then you're really going to get a kick out of Box.net's new Internet board game: Googolopoly. Instead of purchasing property, in Googolopoly you buy shares in companies like Double Clikc, SalesForce, News Corp, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 16, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Posted By: kichus 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: SEO
How you measure your SEO success, is that only the Ranking Reports? or should you use other KPIs? A detailed post about how to measure your SEO success matches with your actual Goals. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 12:01 pm
Posted By: william 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://paulmcdevitt.wordpress.com)
Category: Bookmarking
During this past week’s Diggnation podcast, Kevin Rose offered up some insight into the Digg algorithm which may or may not be the most eye-opening of revelations. It’s something that I figured out pretty quickly and that is that there is an element read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 22, 2008 - 10:45 pm
Posted By: dedmond29 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: Paid Search
Andy Komack has compiled a list of 200+ negative keywords to consider when building PPC campaigns. Failure to incorporate negative keywords costs you money, and can impact CTR, which in turn has an effect on PPC quality scores. Keywords organized read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
John Andrews call for Sphinns in return for a link -- while jokingly done -- still raised a serious issue. Should a post get pulled if Sphinns are bartered or pulled? Can search marketers figure out the right way to treat the issue, which in turn mi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: SEO
Graywolf exposes the potential Gray Hat techniques that Match .com is employing! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2007 - 9:22 am
Posted By: TimDineen 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.exposureonline.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
I'm disappointed. Is that really necessary?

People in this community put so much effort into writing good content and obsessively tracking their industry and community that why should the newest site, which is itself the ultimate community-builde read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 11:27 am
Posted By: skinner 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google Other
Has anyone else here heard about this (apart from Danny Sullivan that is)? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 5:38 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
The bulk of the article is focused on the many benefits of forming a local SEM organization that we've learned one year into the life of SEMpdx.

Only a true Northwesterner would understand why a Portlander getting his city disrespected by an ex-C read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 11:11 am
Posted By: toprank 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Conferences are great for networking and the more niche you get the better. The Women's Luncheon is a great way to network with the big shots and pioneers in the SEM industry. RSVP soon! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 9:27 am
Posted By: LocalHound 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.convertoffline.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Ever wonder why some good articles don't receive many sphinns... well wonder no longer... here they are. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 9:53 am
Posted By: ANOnym 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.improvetheweb.com)
Category: SEM
Even if you subscribe to most SEM blogs, there are still other places to gain insight from. Read posts from Ammon Johns, a recognized Internet marketer, at Cre8asite Forums, his website and other places and improve your marketing strategies overnigh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2007 - 3:34 pm
Posted By: tamar 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: SEO
Shimon Sandler provides a quick reference guide that should help you optimize your site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 11:08 am
Posted By: kelvinnewman 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk)
Category: SEM
I’ve heard of a few automated SEO systems which don’t sound like a complete con. But nothing that’s got me worried for my job, there are plenty of good reasons why automated SEO will never take off. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2007 - 8:39 am
Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yodel.yahoo.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
In a bit of fun, Yahoo's Flickr staff create "Faceball", spread it around the world and lament Google's lack of balls. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 10, 2007 - 9:43 am
Posted By: qwerty 428 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
The news that's been going around lately about Matt Cutts' recent talk at WordCamp 2007 is "...that underscores in URLs are now (or at least very soon to be) treated as word separators by Google."

But in an August 10 post about the presentation i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 10, 2007 - 8:57 am
Posted By: LanceLoveday 428 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.closed-loop-marketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
I was one of those people who looked down on buying links for a long time. It just seemed wrong - and surely the brain trust at Google would clamp down at some point. I just couldn’t believe that buying your way to the top of the organic results cou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2007 - 9:54 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 429 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Yes, we're slow -- sometimes not available. We're working on it -- hang in there! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 10, 2007 - 8:20 am
Posted By: lmandzok 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginetigers.com)
Category: Paid Search
While bidding on competitor brands is not against Google policies, this guy buries a phone number in the display URL. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2007 - 1:32 pm
Posted By: Lisaweb 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pcworld.com)
Category: Google
Google mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer's site. Hehehe... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: johnandrews 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 400 for the first time.

Sites like Digg show hundreds and sometimes thousands of votes because their members participate and exercise t read more »
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