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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 10:53 pm
Posted By: gyutae 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
In my opinion, good (and I emphasize "good" here) SEO software helps to automate repetitive tasks and is beneficial for the community in spreading SEO awareness and teaching best practices. Here’s what some of the top SEO’s and members of Sphinn ha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 2:35 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Well, strike me dead for hubris, I'm pretty proud I got to 1,000 Twitter followers in just 6 months. See the graph of that journey on Twitterholic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: martinbowling 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Brian Carter writes "Should SEO Success Be Measured By Rankings? Traffic? Conversions?

There's been a lot of discussion in the SEO community over the last few months about how important rankings are or are not, and whether the main goal of SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: TCSM 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other
The ultimate checklist to make sure your website is going to be suck-free read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jonhenshaw 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google AdWords Interview on the New Quality Score Changes read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 7:21 am
Posted By: PixelBella 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: SEO
Brian Carter wanted to be the first to post about SEOmoz's Expert Training Session in Seattle. Without giving away the content, he links to photos, speakers bios and discusses how SEOmoz knows how to throw a party. IMHO they did a 5-star job! Good s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: clickfire 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Brian Carter's clever, funny list of reasons why SEO can't help Barack Obama. Not for the curmudgeony or die hard Obama supporters. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 11:30 am
Posted By: yourseomentor 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Social Media
So if you haven't seen this interview yet it is a must see. Check out what the average Jane thinks about Twitter, RSS, Blogs, and Logs. Let's just put it this way this blonde thinks that RSS is a disease!!! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: profwebs 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Good point about looking at your traffic with a certain amount of skepticism. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ViperChill 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
You can, with Twitter's new search engine, which they just bought from Summize. I've already written about Summize before. I miss Summize and its cool colored blocks. Oh well.

I started using it tonight in a way that's making Twitter fun again. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: SEM
A SMX Local Mobile Presentation:

And I'm [Brian Carter] presenting it here to you in a variety of ways, since I know some of you like video, some like slideshows, some just like blog posts... for the blog post only, keep scrolling down. Best way read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: Drupal 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Like Avinash Kaushik says about web analytics, "The goal is not to collect more data – it’s about extracting insight from this data.”

The Get Elastic Blog provides 7 tips to remember when using the keyword tool, how you can apply keyword research read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: martinbowling 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable links to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
When people are angry they are anything but rational, so the amount of brand damage they can do for you is near limitless. Imagine if a person or small group has reach to a group of people entering your space, and tells them that you are unethical, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Some killer stuff on here. I like Gridjit and finally tried NoiseRiver. Good stuff.

TechCrunch says "There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter anno read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 6:53 am
Posted By: profwebs 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Brian continues on in his "comical" way of explaining what is important in an SEM campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: PixelBella 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"Desperate SEO tries to recreate the Star Wars Kid phenomenon to drive web traffic" OR "Brian Carter auditions for role of Luke Skywalker" ...and looses part. What will he stoop to next for linkbait? Start your 4th of July celebration early! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:53 pm
Posted By: dlarson104 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 3:49 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Dell has sold $500,000 of hardware using Twitter (from discounts/specials), and
Other people are doing more modest things like selling t-shirts.

The reason Twitter works for sales is, not only is it a communications tool just like a phone or em read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 7:08 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who focuses on web spam, and he's their main spokesperson when it comes to SEO and spam. According to Matt, web spam happens when website break the rules "so that their website shows up higher than it deserves to show read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Paid Search
It's one of those industry concepts that comes out of nowhere one day and

* Everyone gets excited, and
* Seth Godin writes a book about it, and then
* Everyone says it all the time, and
* Yadda yadda yadda.

Yeah, long tail i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.michaelgalpert.com)
Category: Social Media
Coolest ever cuz it's got videos of popular twitterers saying what they think it is.

Starring
Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid)
Alex Harris
Scott Beale (@laughingsquid)
Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee)
@AndrewParker
Evan Williams (@ev)

and more... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Social Media
I looked at my following list tonight and thought "who the heck are these people?"

You once looked like you might be cool, you might have something to say, but you've remained anonymous and now you've been ejected from the brianstream.

Sorry, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
So I was going about my business today when I received an email from Sphinn editor Rob Kerry of Gate2Media aka evilgreenmonkey, who was tipped by Sphinn guardian SlightlyShadySEO. The message went as follows: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 23, 2008 - 8:13 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: SEM Industry
There are lots of different people out there calling themselves SEOs. Some of them are actually really good. But, for today, let’s take a look at 11 sure fire signs that your dealing with a bad one: read more »
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