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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 10:09 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: SEO
Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "pr 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: Avinio 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Social Media
The latest analysis from Nielsen’s focuses on “bounce rates”. unique visitors are a bad way to measure traffic, traffic from loyal users and search engine traffic are the kind of traffic you’re aiming for, etc. The problem here is that he doesn’t un read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: tonyadam 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: PixelBella 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google AdWords
View case study. Brian Carter shows how to use Google AdWords to prioritize local search marketing efforts. Article covers four ways to get a good number of geotargeted clicks from local AdWords campaigns:

1. Geotargeting at the Campaign Level
2 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 5:05 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evilgreenmonkey.com)
Category: SEO
"I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in t 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 - 11:00 am
Posted By: theGypsy 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
Love it, hate it or indifference; Karma is talked about more than enough - some perspective on the road to Nirvana

- Plurkable - Now, real quick, I would like to say that I think the ALGO is good for new Plurkers, but I think it stinks for more e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seriously, first comic sans and now variations of Times, Plain Serif, No Serif, Vanilla and Arial. At least I hear CTR is up. :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa gives some perspective on the SEO start-up process. So, does it match yours? I know ours is a little different.

Lisa Barone - In many instances, the search engine optimization process officially starts with the site review. It's when your op read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 4:55 pm
Posted By: planetc1 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 17 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 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 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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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEM Industry
DazzlingDonna (Donna Fontenot) has put together a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:21 pm
Posted By: seanmag 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google
Brent Payne, SEO Manager of Chicago Tribune does a nifty job of deciphering the responses Matt Cutts gives during an interview with Eric Enge. Does Brent "nail it"? Only one man knows for sure... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 8:37 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://schmearch.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google’s primary data center crashed yesterday. What’s to blame? Linkbait. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ffnstuff 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogaboutyourblog.com)
Category: Domaining
Quick guide for selling your blog read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Gab writes: "Here’s just a partial rundown of the awesome folks I had the privilege of meeting and talking to at SMX Advanced!" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: PixelBella 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Brian Carter speaks about Twitter to NOOBs. He's following >800 people finally has friends! The biggest question from the audience? "Why?" He explains that most of us on Twitter are "nerds or journalists, geeks or search marketers, but there are som read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 5:56 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gonzo-seo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
| Gonzo SEO | Put on your white hat or black hat and get back to marketing! If you don’t like the way something is, be the leader and take the steps to fight back. It’s going to be hard, and it would be a lot easier to just write about it – but noth read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 10:21 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webanalyticsbook.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A clever idea for sorting out who the real pros are among web metrics analysts. Hint: It involves the Samsung web browser. :-) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Posted By: gyutae 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
I know you advanced guys are cringing right now. But bear with me. Ok. So true (non cgi/php) proxies come in a few varieties. HTTP(connect to port 80), HTTPS(connect to ports 80,443,sometimes others) and SOCKS4/SOCKS5(can connect to any port, but ha read more »
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