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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 12:05 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.prweb.com)
Category: Other Social Media
In one short press release, Matt Bacak has undone any and all of his good works in social media.

A couple strong takeaways here: Even if you are a social media rockstar, you still need to remain grounded and a bit humble. Also, make sure you read more »
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Avatar Posted By: divinewrite 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
A Google Groups thread has a response from Matt Cutts of Google, basically explaining their was a bug in Google's algorithm for detecting, what I understand to be, a form of content spam due to an IFrame. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 1, 2008 - 12:43 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
There are so many SEO tools out there with more and more releasing and existent ones coming out with new features frequently. It’s hard to keep up with all of them, test them out, and find a good fit for you. While the majority of SEO Tools are a di read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 1, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: mwilton13 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google has announced a Beta launch of a compete.com style keyword tool that has a number of advantages over the compete.com tool. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 5:34 am
Posted By: toddmintz 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: SEM
Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEO
Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! 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 Posted By: NatashaRobinson 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: In House SEM
Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) which runs a network of entertainment sites which include MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes and American Idol, GameSpy, Scout and Flektor offer read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 4:05 pm
Posted By: gyutae 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
As I find myself drifting further and further from my search engine optimization roots to focus more time and effort on exploring the worlds of social media, blogging and viral marketing, I'm sometimes astonished at the misunderstandings between the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Posted By: anthonyverre 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
Barry Schwartz continues to report porn on Google over at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such an issue, because if a kid searches on h read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 190 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 15, 2008 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: eKstreme 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
How many links does an average Digg story have when it goes popular, after a week, and after 30 days? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: webconnoisseur 237 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
Google showcased HuddleChat, a real-time chat application, as one of many test applications to show off their new Google App Engine platform a couple days ago, but received complaints that it was a Campfire rip off. Googled pulled it down and added read more »
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Avatar Posted By: webconnoisseur 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Vanessa provides more details about the Yahoo Search Monkey project which features microformats and better symantics which may change some SEO tactics for Yahoo. Another layer of complexity for SEOs, but another opportunity to improve your rankings read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 6:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com)
Category: SEM
Kent Lewis writes about his top 10 "nuggets" of knowledge gleaned from Searchfest 08. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dmueller.com)
Category: Domaining
Clek Media Inc. announced today that it has brokered the world-record sale of the domain FUND.COM for US$9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction. This would make this sale the highest ever price paid for a domain name.

The purchase price tops what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 12:29 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Digg has been shopping for a buyer for about 6 months now. It was reported today that two huge players are planning to put in a bid to buy the biggest news social community: Microsoft and Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webconnoisseur.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Dustin Woodard takes a humorous look at the many possible incantations of Digg, depending upon who they hook up with. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 2:51 am
Posted By: toddmintz 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://daggle.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
No commentary need...read the post:.) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 277 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: January 18, 2008 - 12:17 am
Posted By: toddmintz 320 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
My Search Engine Land story where I describe the 4 types of tweets & argue that Twitter is more about "What are you thinking?" than about "What are you doing?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 10:30 pm
Posted By: bhartzer 329 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Domaining
Personally I don’t see Network Solutions behavior as offensive as some others playing in the space, because they are merely attaching themselves to a domain that was initially checked through their interface, and offering it at their regular (inflat read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Search Marketing
75 million voting-age Americans have already used the Internet this year to find information about political candidates.

Earlier this year, a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed that 80 percent of likely caucus-goers between 18 and 34 years old read more »
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Avatar Posted By: webconnoisseur 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webconnoisseur.com)
Category: Other Searching
The top five search engines still think it is 2007. Apparently coding the copyright date (even manually) is more difficult than building and maintaining a highly sophisticated search engine. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Scott Hendison laments the fact that he can't get a 3 year old site in MSN despite performing all the requisite actions including creating a proper XML sitemap and using the Microsoft Webmaster Tools. read more »
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