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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattmcgee.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Being a moderator at Sphinn is pretty time-consuming, but it's also fun! I've killed thousands of submissions and accounts from users spammers trying to game the site for exposure, a free and followed link, or whatever else they're trying to accompl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 1:36 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 3:16 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Loren Barker writes "SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from the masterminds of the search marketing industry; and have not yet registered read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: mpind 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Social Media
Many search engine optimizers are still stuck in the past. They practice SEO 1.0 or less. These SEOs fail to adapt to the new Web 2.0 media environment and attempt to apply rules of the older web to the new situation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 3:34 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other
After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 6:49 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Social Media
In addition to learning so much about social media, Neil shares tips on Pronet Advertising, runs ACS SEO, and created a start up named Crazy Egg. I asked him about his rapid accent and where he sees the future of social media heading. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 11:16 am
Posted By: martinbowling 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Brett Borders writes "When negative or unflattering information about you or your company appears in the search engines, it's easy to panic. But before you rush to make a slew of new pages and profiles, you should be aware there is a more effective read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 10:01 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Posted By: Kimota 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.abc.net.au)
Category: Link Building
Well, well, well. The Australian media have really taken up the story with the long running show 'Media Watch' making the Lyndoman linkbait story and how it duped the Daily Telegraph their lead feature!

There is a full online transcript plus ther read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 3:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Why does Google celebrate obscure artists and architects with special logos, but they won't do one for Memorial Day? Makes no sense to me. Barry shows some of the other special logos today at various search engines and forums. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:01 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: martinbowling 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Link Building
lyndoman writes "As long as Google uses links to a website to help it rank its search results, people will develop content to attract links. We know that when trying to rank for a competitive keyword things can get a little dirty in the SERPS. Peopl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.flipsquare.com)
Category: Domaining
After a year of domain investing, Aaron of Flipsquare shares 5 mistakes he wishes he never made when starting out. Also includes some great tips on finding undiscovered domain properties. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 7:14 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Google
Lisa Barone writes, "The sensational outrage over Lyndon Antcliff's fake news story has officially reached a level that can now only be described as Utterly Ridiculous. Sparked by a comment by Matt Cutts over at Sphinn, Search Engine Land and others read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Online Marketing
I have compiled a list of what I believe to be the top 100 domains based on estimated monthly visits. These are the companies that have found the success that most SEOs are striving for. To identify them, I downloaded lists of the most popular (US) read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 8:48 pm
Posted By: soulfood 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: Social Media
The Mozzer explains his approach and gives top tips on social media marketing, insisting the quickest way to kill a viral campaign is by giving it to your public relations department. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 10:00 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Jill via SEL - I find new discoveries all the time when using Google's "site:" operator for the websites I review. If this isn't something you currently check for your websites or for those of your clients, you may be missing some important informat read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:07 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Currently expected to launch sometime next week, if no further bugs or issues are discovered, the Reddit community has been vocal in what they like and hate about the new designs. Since the release earlier this month on May 7th, 2008, there have bee read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 2:32 pm
Posted By: BrettFromTibet 46 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
AboutUs.Org was one of the great free Wiki resources for webmasters looking to create a page about their websites, and get a little bit of link love flowing to start things off. It appears, as of this week, that AboutUs.org is now automatically addi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 5:38 pm
Posted By: Hobo 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
Andy Beard with an intelligent response to DaveN on the use of nofollow on blog comments. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: Hobo 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginemarketing.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Now that is an impressive round-up of opinion! read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 7:08 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 46 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 Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 11:43 am
Posted By: MarketingMinefield 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Social Media
1. Getting people to vote for me on other social media
2. Verifying information before posting
3. Getting acute problems resolved
4. Interviewing people and generating content for my blog
5. Being one of the first to know a story read more »
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