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Avatar Posted By: robwatts 1 day 13 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: SEO
Interesting take on the recent Flash now crawlable by Google announcement: It is no coincidence that Adobe’s press release pointedly states that the new Flash crawling technology is only accessible to Google and Yahoo. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:25 am
Posted By: scottclark 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: martinbowling 14 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 - 10:45 am
Posted By: EricLander 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: amabaie 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yackyack.co.uk)
Category: SEO
A great rant piece on the stupidity of negative SEO. Although the problem might not be as prevalent as the post implies, the arguments are well-placed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 30, 2008 - 4:38 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google
Does Google allow some Google Bombs based on corporate PR agenda and diffuse the rest? How can Google possibly avoid the intertwined politics of some bombs? What exactly is the fine line between kosher link building, paid linking, good SEO and blac read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 29, 2008 - 7:39 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
From post, "While some small business owners are on board with the idea of search engine optimization many still aren’t. However, even with those who aren’t quite on board yet, there’s an increasing awareness of this thing called search marketing an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 1:33 pm
Posted By: Gab 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google Other
Update: Matt and Mike VanDeMar have shown me Mike's blog, which apparently had this problem withOUT using GA - so it could be some other issue. However, Google is still indexing site searches. So it appears that Google Analytics is exonerated, (I lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 2:46 pm
Posted By: cre8pc 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Usability
When was the last time you got excited about buying online? When did you last feel madly driven to toss items into an online shopping cart? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 4:40 pm
Posted By: vangogh 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: SEO
A list of things that Good SEOs will do. Some examples from the post:

1. Don’t always tell you what you want to hear, right from the start.
2. Use a teaching oriented approach.
3. Start strategic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 29, 2008 - 8:40 am
Posted By: aimClear 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Sphinn community stalwart Todd Mintz bares his soul to inspire us all. Friends, we're defined by the ADVERSITY we OVERCOME. Anyone can be cool when it's easy. Run Todd run...score Todd score... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 8:46 am
Posted By: DanielScocco 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Great post from Site Visibility looking at the search industry from the perspective of 9 UK SEO bloggers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 8:48 am
Posted By: aimClear 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
WTF: Nobody Else Sphunn It...GO FIGURE :) I sent it to my mom...she thought it was cool beans. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: Sebastian 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google said they ignore reconsideration requests unless the link spammer has removed all traces on the Web. Unfortunately, getting inserted links deleted at all places is impossible. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yackyack.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
There’s a little bit of buzz about today over Googles subscribed links feature. I thought it might be handy to share my view on it. The view being one that is informed from 3 perspectives. A google user a site owner and an SEO. I’ll stick to three c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 26, 2008 - 3:59 pm
Posted By: Wiep 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great post by Diane Aull. "I was talking recently with a friend who's been trying to hire an SEO to work on her company's website. She was surprised to find out how much it could cost to hire a good SEO (by "good" I mean those people I was willing t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 25, 2008 - 10:06 am
Posted By: Sebastian 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts asks Webmasters for their feedback on possible changes of the way Google treats the NOINDEX directive. Except "leave it as is" I've not yet seen a reasonable argument. With this pamphlet I provide background info as well as a solution tha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 22, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Link Building
Link building is crucial, but linkbait tactics that worked this year may not be as effective next year. This session focuses on the underlying quality as well as ingenuity needed to get other websites to link to you early and often. It will also exp read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 10:21 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Never underestimate the screaming-obsessive lowdown fanaticism of a committed social site user who’s really pissed off. From Digg’s famed Bury Brigade to the vulgar rhetoric of the StumbleTroll Wars, marauding packs of member-vigilantes gang up to v read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 9:54 am
Posted By: SiteMost 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I am curious if anyone else has noticed a trend over the past year or so where people (I have nobody specific in mind) in the search marketing business seem to increasingly gravitate towards becoming a “SEO celebrity”. It’s a bit like like moths to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 10:05 am
Posted By: bhartzer 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Your search marketing efforts build the incoming links and link juice which help lend authority and ranking to your site. Sometimes there is nothing wrong with sharing that property with the right people, and letting the ‘wrong people’ go thirsty. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 1:28 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog-well.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
I often get questions about creating, maintaining, and optimizing an online presence from small businesses and non profits; how to get into search engine results, how to redesign an old site, what tools are available that are useful, inexpensive or read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Wiep shows us Five easy link building strategies that don’t involve scavenging, hunting, baiting or other work intensive tactics. Using easily accessible data and contacting people that are already familiar with your website in some kind of way is n read more »
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