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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Thomas M. Schmitz writes "This week Portent Interactive is excited to welcome our newest member of the team, copywriter Amanda Halm. Hi Amanda!

Jade asked me to write some SEO copywriting pointers that I just finished. Since these sound so propr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft
Buried in the promotional hoo-hah for "Touch Windows" is Big Blue's current spin on the Yahoo! deal (Ballmer says: "We walked away...") and Bill Gates' big vision post-retirement: building "the world's best search."

No mention of how they plan to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: Yahoo
High noon is three short weeks away... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: SEO
At a Q&A session with Google, Yahoo, and MSN, I directly asked them to provide their current opinions on using 'nofollow' on internal site links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 20, 2008 - 11:31 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://piggybankpie.com)
Category: Blogging
When you decide to rethink your blog-marketing strategy, you need to look at a number of statistics to find out exactly in which communities a strong presence should be felt. In other words, which community has the best potential to help your blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Loads of people are doing better session writeups than I, so instead I give you a completely arbitrary look at that ever popular expo giveaway, the ball point pen. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Charlene Jaszewski does a great post Live Blogging from SES NYC...

Today @ SES NYC 2008, Matt Bailey wins my vote for most entertaining manner of explaining the importance of context in analytic data: calculating the mortality rate of the “red-sh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 19, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Managing an international website isn’t as straightforward as running a site focussed on a single local market. There are several issues that need to be handled very precisely in order to maximise your traffic while maintaining a user friendly desig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 10, 2008 - 9:13 pm
Posted By: annie7 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Networking
Tips for using Twitter to grow your blog and enhance readership via TwitterFeed - some must-read advice by Loren Baker. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Domaining
Someone in the Republican party has a clue about search marketing...as well as protecting domains that might be used to attack John McCain, there are dozens of domain names related to Clinton or Obama (norealexperience.com) are registered by the RNC read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 10:19 am
Posted By: 4cdawgs 185 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
The nofollow attribute was not created to be a substitute information architecture—one for end users and a different one for the commercial web search engines. Instead of solving the problem SEOs are creating a new one. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
The Seattle SuperSonics have hired an SEM firm to help sell more tickets (after telling the community they're moving to Oklahoma City ASAP, abandoning 41 years of basketball history). This might be my first "rant"... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: mexseofan 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Analyzing Your Competitor’s Backlinking Strategies read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: SEO
With more and more personalized search results, and sites like Amazon, Last.fm, or Stumbleupon suggesting new things to explore, the web is trying to be the friend who passes me a book and says, "I think you’ll like this." But they won't replace the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 24, 2008 - 12:51 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
There are people in the search engine optimization industry who don’t understand what an “algorithm” is. Technically, there are many definitions for ‘algorithm’ but the most universally useful definition could be phrased as “a set of rules to define read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: Link Building
When is a free link not free? When you pay for it later. A post musing on free directories, questions to ask when vetting links, and blatant pimping of some other link development articles that have been useful recently. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 2, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Posted By: Wiep 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Link Building
When we analyze incoming links, we tend to focus on more or less the same set of link parameters. However, sometimes looking beyond the regular, can provide the opportunity to not only succeed in link building, but even dominate the niche you are co read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 12:25 pm
Posted By: gyutae 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Link Building
Last year, I asked a bunch of the link development pros to sit down and do an interview on the topic of developing links in regards to seo. What I ended up with as a result was a six thousand plus word tutorial on developing backlinks. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: SEO
On a large dynamic site, 500 server errors are just as bound to happen as 404s, and they're far more troublesome. Here I look at how to deal with them properly to help keep both the spiders and your users on-site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 2:53 pm
Posted By: Wiep 244 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Blogging
While WordPress is one of my favorite CMS platforms, out of the box it isn’t search engine optimized. Combine this with people who aren’t SEO aware, and publish a blog, and you almost always end up with an implementation that’s sub-optimal. Here are read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2008 - 9:23 am
Posted By: aglobalwarming 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google
John Andrews has a point, you better get to know Matt Cutts now before its too late! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 12:58 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 246 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Blogging
Came across this interesting piece that gives 9 tips for launching a new blog, and it also includes a checklist of things to do. Very good read!

Link broken ... here it is http://nerdbusiness.com/blog/9-tips-new-blog-launch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shadowdaddy 249 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://RelevantText.com)
Category: Google SEO
Boldly sphinning myself for the first time... Has Google defined 'more recent' as 'more relevant?' read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 249 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
As usual Mashable and TechCrunch have got the wrong end of the stick when it comes to SEO. read more »
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