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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evilgreenmonkey.com)
Category: SEO
A programmatic solution to running and managing a network of micro-sites for link juice as explained during the Give It Up session at SMX Advanced and touched upon in SEOMoz's Whiteboard Friday Give It Up video.

Probably not the brightest idea to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
"One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google's index search is built on the same mechanics as its web sear read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:03 am
Posted By: Gab 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide a case st read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: Gab 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:34 am
Posted By: planetc1 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Microsoft
Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 5:51 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Have any of you started to notice the new Google trend URL results showing up in the SERPs? Is Google just trying to get lots of search traffic when people type urls into the search box? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: Maing 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: YoungMaster 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
A nice little widgetbaiting experiment, Slightly Shady style. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: seanmag 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Stephen T, in-house SEO at LocateTV does an outstanding job visually walking us through the process of implementing enhanced listing parameters in Yahoo SearchMonkey, with SERP results that include photos, links, etc.

Applying these tactics cou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 7:24 pm
Posted By: infatex 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.managednetworks.co.uk)
Category: Google
The blogosphere was amazed earlier this year when it realised the true size of Google. Think Google is the King Kong of search? Think a million King Kongs and you’re getting close. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:21 pm
Posted By: seanmag 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google
Brent Payne, SEO Manager of Chicago Tribune does a nifty job of deciphering the responses Matt Cutts gives during an interview with Eric Enge. Does Brent "nail it"? Only one man knows for sure... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HamletBatista 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: Google SEO
In Erick Enge's interview I could not help but wonder that the advice Matt gives seems to create a situation where Google was spamming (using off topic links). Last year I posted about a link I found within the official YouTube video gadget that was read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://digg.com)
Category: Social Media
Great example of about every single social media rule on Digg completely broken..

I believe everyone should get into social media and become a Digg and Reddit user... Right after you read a few articles from the Social Media column on SEL.

ht read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:44 pm
Posted By: ciaran 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hannah 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Part 4 of Richard's excellent SEO guide for recruitment / job sites.

According to NORAS 2008 survey one third of respondents found their recruitment agency via a search engine, and for 9% of respondents the internet is the ONLY resource they use read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: Gab 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Veteran recruitment SEO Richard Baxter gives us the downlow on what to do with those vacancy pages that both target the longtail yet also get filled/change quickly. Useful for ecommerce detail pages too! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: martinbowling 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 6:58 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Every webmaster needs to know this. Essential stuff. I wonder why Google thinks this is an indication of spam? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 7:51 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
The SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards page is PR0 and no longer ranks.

"This seems to be a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years and it is totally white hat." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 11:46 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.friendfeed.com)
Category: Networking
Good news -- now you can have your activity on Intense Debate, brightkite.com, Diigo, Mister Wong, and tipjoy as part of your FriendFeed. Bad news. Despite asking twice and being told FriendFeed is just too busy, Sphinn still hasn't been added. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google
Oh, sweet. You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: ciaran 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.distilled.co.uk)
Category: Paid Search
Will & the boys are running a competition to raise funds for the Burma cyclone appeal. All you PPC demons need to get on it now. read more »
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