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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vangogh 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: vangogh 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Is Plurk really a player in the big game with the likes of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? Who are these Plurkers and should you bother with yet another social profile? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Wiep 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: SEO
URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Very often with large dynamic sites webmasters just can’t do without pagination. Apart from usability here they come across another serious issue: duplicate content.

The thing is that all pages normally have identical titles and meta description read more »
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Avatar Posted By: storyspinner 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEO
Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Blogging
One James Duthie has taken a break from his World Blogging Tour to write a post at his home sweet home. Of course because he's been away he's decided to write about his adventures in guest blogging...

| Online Marketing Banter | The principle i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: PixelBella 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Matt McGee offers us a chance to collaborate and write a blog post on his site. Join the GroupThink Tank. Submit your favorite SEO tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Searching
Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:06 am
Posted By: cchris 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: storyspinner 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Water Cooler
KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm looks why InfoUSA, SuperPages, Acxiom, Localeze, Yelp and InsiderPages are so important in local search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 4:57 am
Posted By: khalid 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: SEM
TheVanBlog : Best of June links. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bbcarter 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Some killer stuff on here. I like Gridjit and finally tried NoiseRiver. Good stuff.

TechCrunch says "There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter anno read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: PixelBella 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google AdWords
View case study. Brian Carter shows how to use Google AdWords to prioritize local search marketing efforts. Article covers four ways to get a good number of geotargeted clicks from local AdWords campaigns:

1. Geotargeting at the Campaign Level
2 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:57 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 8:32 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: SEO
It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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