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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Posted By: onreact 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Blogging
Veteran SEO blogger Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA asks "What suggestions would you offer a beginning blogger?" and offers 10 of his own. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 12:07 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Link Building
"More and more conventional link building methods, like directory submission are of less and less value, Google does not even recommend high quality paid directories any more. In fact soon we’ll see a situation where all artificial ways of link buil read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 8:26 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchandsocial.com)
Category: Link Building
Have you ever received an email from someone requesting a link exchange touting that they have a valuable link to offer you? Ever purchased a link from a broker at a particular cost based on metrics over negotiation? How do they usually declare that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 8:21 am
Posted By: bloggeries 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google
Interesting take on this by none other than Catfish himself. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 5:48 am
Posted By: barnaseo 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 2:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.

Rustybrick/Barry: "I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 5, 2008 - 1:43 pm
Posted By: kelvinnewman 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Casanova-ish KevGibbo shows how a career in PPC will give you plenty ideas for charming the ladies or the guys read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 10:53 pm
Posted By: gyutae 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
In my opinion, good (and I emphasize "good" here) SEO software helps to automate repetitive tasks and is beneficial for the community in spreading SEO awareness and teaching best practices. Here’s what some of the top SEO’s and members of Sphinn ha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 3:15 pm
Posted By: beussery 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beussery.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google removed "directory submissions" from their Google Webmaster Guideline suggestions earlier today! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 3:18 am
Posted By: jameszol 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Firefox Add-on that let's you see your daily AdWords stats and perform keyword research on the fly. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Melanie Nathan writes an awesome guest post over at Sugarrae.com talking about the new Compete Pro. Some great info about how and what you get with the service, a must read for anyone looking seriously at getting a subscription. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 12:18 pm
Posted By: storyspinner 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.streko.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Streko's got a hilarious survival guide - if you're going to SMX, you'll have to read this!

Remember, don't ask crazy people for directions! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 9:10 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Online Marketing
40,000 Reasons the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose Was a Success...... and all the more reason to make sure you go to the IM Charity Party at SMX East.

Check out the great pics!! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 9:10 am
Posted By: nixancrasto 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.business-standard.com)
Category: Blogging
Business Standard Article on how negative blogs can destroy reputation of companies that spend crores of rupees promoting their brand. Includes quotes from eBrandz CEO Milind Mody. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: martinbowling 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian Carter writes "After about 3,500 tweets, I started to have ideas about how my twittering could be more effective.

These tips may help you get more attention, engagement, clicks, replies, and new followers." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 6:58 am
Posted By: martinbowling 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: Search Marketing
laura callow gives some much needed insight into SEM during an economic downturn read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 3, 2008 - 6:30 am
Posted By: gyutae 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
Well the fact of the matter is that “do-it-all” SEO software and SEO consultants can easily exist in harmony. Automated tools can make SEO’s more efficient but nothing can ever compare to the customized work of a highly-qualified SEO professional. read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 8:50 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.prospectmx.com)
Category: Social Media
I [David Brown] am pleased to be here writing my first ‘official’ ProspectMX blog post on a subject that I truly love - Twitter!

If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, maybe we should start with a brief explanation. Twitter is a ‘Micro- read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 8:43 pm
Posted By: ciaran 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 4:32 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the search results for their brand names.

They’re not talking about their own domain names or web properties e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
I have been pretty obsessed with the topic of Information Environments as of late.

From their structure, to the way that we let them interact with the search engine bots, a full understanding of our Information Environments is the basis of a stro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Dave Snyder write "Lately the search engine results pages in Google have been alive with the sounds of Microblogging platforms.

I have come across quite a few long tail, non-competitive search queries as of late that have actual individual uttera read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Eric Ward writes, "As link builders, one challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Link Building
Marty Weintraub writes, "This avatar profile is much more common than one might think. It’s also a fuzzy role, in terms of intent and ethics. Anonymous DoFollow link building avatars line the underbelly of social media link-juice mining, spooging po read more »
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