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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 9:24 pm
Posted By: Jill 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who's attended a conference can relate, especially if you're somewhat shy. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: raghavanrp 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Google = Knol, Wikipedia ? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
I personally feel if a Google Bomb was actually kept quiet on keyword that was not currently “watched”, done through a diverse set of website and out of the blogosphere/news it would still work, until it was eventually brought public. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Smart move by Google. Skype users have been hungry for a way to use the Skype service, at least with WiFi, on the iPhone since it came out, but Skype has been silent on the option. The workarounds I have found have all been duds.

Google Talk is l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Posted By: EricLander 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
John Carcutt wins the Search Engine Journal blogging contest, and donates $10,00 in prizes... "One of my best friends growing up recently moved to a remote area of Mexico to build and operate an orphanage. I plan on donating a majority of the prizes read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: martinbowling 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yairba 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Joost de Valk has mindmapped his knowledge on SEO for Wordpress Blogs into a wonderful guide on establishing high rankings via optimizing a Wordpress Blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed a new light on the issue, or on the difference between some SEO blogs and our audiences. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Steve Ballmer was egged today in Hungarian University of Economy. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: SEO
From time to time I come up with some nice SEO analogies. Analogies really help the lay person understand why people in our business do what they do. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Searching
Jaan provides a nice list of ways to get help and answers from the Big 3 (or from others in the know). As we all know from experience, this stuff tends to get buried so that it is really hard to find what you are looking for, so bookmark this! Somet read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google
I'm a big fan of Google Alerts and use it a lot. Jaan presents a way to use it that I never thought of before - to track new back links. Good stuff. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Wizard or no, this doesn't appear to be for the faint of heart. There's definitely going to be a learning curve. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Greg argues that it won't. I agree.

Especially when the article he discusses says this:
"In fact, as we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out"
you realise that they have confused we (geeks read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: bhartzer 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Ask.com
Here's a list of 12 search engines that could eventually replace Ask.com. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 10:19 am
Posted By: 4cdawgs 183 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 Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 2:43 am
Posted By: incrediblehelp 185 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
I was thinking over the weekend on what I actually get out of the websites I visit on a average day. You go to you YouTube you going to watch some funny or informative video. You go to your favorite SEO forum or blog you’re going to get the SEO info read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo
In light of Microsoft's aggressive takeover attempts, Yahoo is throwing big bucks at retaining surviving employees after dumping hundreds. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 210 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://youtube.com)
Category: Paid Search
Paid search. In rap video. Seriously. And good. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Jaan discusses the evolution of Super Bowl TV commericals and how they are moving online. He even gives his prediction of who will win the 2008 game. Read more to see who it is... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 4:28 pm
Posted By: nols1199 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Glen Allsopp writes a great list about how to effectively use social media as a marketing tool and how to engage properly within the communities. Before jumping into social media with client objectives the people performing the tactics need to under read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 19, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 230 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Google
Tad gives us 12 reasons why Webmasters shouldn't put all dozen of their eggs in Google's basket..... instead look out for some alternatives? He says, "People, let’s unite for a more social and democratic media. Don’t trust robots, trust humans." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I must say I didn’t think I would find someone defending Gene marks comments like Adam has. I remember Adam from posting on Web Pro World and I think he is decent guy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 9:58 am
Posted By: incrediblehelp 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Gene lists 10 things your small business DON’T need in any particular order:

1. RSS Feeds
2. Spam Filters
3. Antivirus Software
4. Blogs
5. Search Engine Optimization
6. Mobile Applications
7. Customer Relationship Management Software
8. A read more »
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