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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: SEM
I'm not going to try to explain John's post in a couple sentences but I will say that by the time you're done reading it, the strong statement he makes with his post title doesn't seem that radical any more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://briancartersocialmedia.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
I [Brian Carter] recently wrote some related posts about Tweetbait/twitter viral retweets and monitoring your reputation on Twitter (ORM).

So...

How do you monitor which of your tweets people retweet?

-- What's important about that?
-- Wha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sugarrae 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Christine Churchill is not only an amazing human being and marketer, but she is the epitome of the class and sophistication sometimes missing from this industry. And I don't toss compliments around lightly. ;-) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Rae writes her 4th post in the series of why you fail at Affiliate Marketing. "Whenever I get an email from a newer affiliate asking for advice on a site, it usually contains a 14 paragraph, in depth explanation of what they were thinking of doing a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Melanie Nathan writes an awesome guest post over at Sugarrae.com talking about the new Compete Pro. Some great info about how and what you get with the service, a must read for anyone looking seriously at getting a subscription. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steaprok 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
With all the recent discussions about finding your drive to get what you want in life, I figured it might be a good, constructive idea to follow up with some practical advice on how to avoid getting distracted and downright derailed from your goals. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
In what appears to be a reversion back to the way Google originally handled 302 redirects a few years ago, it looks as if now it has again become possible to hijack websites in the serps. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 10:30 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Jeff Quipp writes this awesome guest post on the Hobo Blog. He gives us 7 reasonably simple changes that a business owner should be able to make on a limited budget. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 10:22 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Social Media
Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Rand Fishkin writes, "Here are five solid reasons that compel SEOmoz as well as the many companies we work with/recommend to stay far away from any "guarantee" of search engine rankings." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: Maing 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 11:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Eric Ward examines the client who views link building as a purely SEO function, that is, they are interested in adding or creating content just to appeal to search engines. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JakePM 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Blogging
GrayWolf mentions: "One of the things I’d like to try but have never seen is a recently updated function/plugin. How would a recently updated plugin differ from a recently published function … well I’m glad you asked …" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google AdWords
“Any client that offers the same products or services at similar price points as other advertisers without significant differentiation in terms of website content may run into this policy.”

Google also states that it’s important to note that they read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Link Building
Six quality deep links in six days. All thanks to having a piece of unique content, and promoting that content. This is a mini case study that shows how pushing content can allow it to spread a lot further than expected. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm
Posted By: Harith 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 5:52 pm
Posted By: socialpyramid 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: News Sites
As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: BrianChappell 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://oedb.org)
Category: Social Media
This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you're working with RSS. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Posted By: northrock 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: Hannah 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 12:03 pm
Posted By: Drupal 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Do you broad or phrase match keywords in Adwords? By default, you can't see which terms Adwords uses to trigger your ads - it could be totally bogus keywords!

You need this hack to expose exact keyword referrals, or you'll spend too much on Adwor read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: justin 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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