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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 4:58 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 2:29 pm
Posted By: gyutae 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 6:54 am
Posted By: mpilatow 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous "seven words you can't say read more »
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Avatar Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Danny Sullivan has announced a contest to win the last remaining full-access ticket to SMX Advanced in Seattle next week. Not only that, you'll also get the chance to speak on the Give It Up! session, which was arguably the most talked about confere read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Lani 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Perhaps the most useful of entries on SEL to date. Brad Geddes writes on several PPC billing options for advertisers and agencies. Great Write Up Brad. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: kvclark 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.onwardsearch.com)
Category: SEO
Reilly O'Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shimsand 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 7:37 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google SEO
If a site now has 7-8 sitelinks, shouldn't the old indented listing it used to have go away? How does it benefit the user when the first 9 links of a SERP all point to a single site? Frustrating.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ryanlash 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ymarketing.com)
Category: Paid Search
It ain’t nothin’ but a G thang, baaaaabay! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 169 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 Posted By: ryanlash 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ymarketing.com)
Category: Yahoo Publisher Network
Yahoo! credited a bunch of our clients' accounts claiming they 'over-charged' them for Content Match clicks.

This reminded me of the 'quality-based pricing' they rolled out last year; we stopped 'testing' content match on Yahoo! shortly thereaft read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2007 - 6:44 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
I found this fascinating. The World Trade Organization found the US ban on online gambling was against international trade rules because online horse and dog gambling were still allowed. As a result, the US has to effectively pay off other countries read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 29, 2007 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: earlpearl 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEOMOZ revealed aspects of its success to date in building a paid membership base in a blog post on November 16. Here are some comments about that process, questions from forum members and responses from Rand Fishkin. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 29, 2007 - 10:24 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnbc.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
CNBC article has several comments from fuming Yahoo Store merchants: "What a complete disaster. All of a sudden, the bedrock of our company has been replaced with quicksand." And this: "...my business and reputation suffers as a result of a hosting read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in private groups), or a combination of the two. People who are allowed to view the bookmarks can read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 3:31 am
Posted By: SimonHeseltine 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rba.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Karen Blakeman lets everyone know that the link: and linkdomain: commands work again on MSN / Live, all you have to do is prefix the command with a + sign to get it to work. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ryanlash 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.adotas.com)
Category: Google
Instead they are enabling the development community and every major wireless tel-co (sans Verizon and AT&T) to build it for them :)(:

“We are not building a GPhone; we are enabling 1,000 people to build a GPhone,” said Andy Rubin, Google’s direct read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2007 - 8:28 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Google Other
Came across this on Digg (submitted there by Muhammad Saleem)

Google buys g.cn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2007 - 8:32 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Matt Cutts on last week's Google Toolbar PageRank Changes : "The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Faris 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://manojjasra.blogspot.com)
Category: Web Analytics
After its recent acquisition of the Offermatica landing page optimization and multivariate testing platform, Omniture is on a roll with another big acquisition. This time, it's the leading Web analytics competitor, Visual Sciences. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: SEM
The Deloitte Fast 500 (fastest growing companies in technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies) rankings were released today and SEM firm Didit was ranked at #11.

In our ResourceShelf post we:

+ Link to background mater read more »
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Avatar Posted By: planetc1 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
An example of SEOs that never stop working... Southern California reporter, Danny Sullivan, comes to the rescue with map information regarding the Southern California fires. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2007 - 9:39 am
Posted By: BrettFromTibet 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Some people find social media to be a lot more exciting than old-fashioned SEO, and they would love to make a career out of it. But social media marketing can be very volatile.
This article explores some of the challenges and ethics of social medi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ryanlash 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.iht.com)
Category: Google Other
"The iPhone was a milestone in terms of how people use a mobile device," said Karsten Weide of the research firm IDC.

"The GPhone, if it does come out, will help Google with distribution for their online services."

Per numerous posts by mysel read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
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