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Widely recognized as the world's most popular search engine, Google defines searching to the degree that some people say they "googled" something as a synonym for searching. For more background, see Google news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 1 day 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: sodapopseo 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
a link builder had the 'nerve' (for lack of a better word), to post a public link exchange offer in not just a Google Group but in the the official "Google Webmaster Help" group, for all Googler's to see. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google AdSense
When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: infatex 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google SEO
PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm
Posted By: Harith 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
55 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: ciaran 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 2:50 pm
Posted By: annie7 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2008 - 4:30 pm
Posted By: mercylivi 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEJ explaining When, Why and How to Use Noarchive read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 2:57 am
Posted By: TCSM 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Google SEO
The ultimate guide to where people click. This data is the result of 36,389,567 searches and 19,434,540 clicks. The results make for interesting reading... read more »
27 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 12:49 am
Posted By: ThirstyPony 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
WebCEO, WebPositionGold and other automated rank reporting software may be going the way of the Dodo. read more »
30 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
A Google patent granted this week explores how a search engine might look at queries that contain stopwords or stop-phrases, and determine whether or not the stopword or stop-phrase is meaningful enough to include in search results shown to a search read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 10:58 am
Posted By: onreact 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.com)
Category: Google SEO
Forget Google Zeitgeist, Trends and Adwords Traffic Estimator as well as the Keyword-Tool. Google Insights for Search is the new killer keyword research tool we will work with daily and gladly. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Barry Schwartz details some juicy new data Google is sharing about searcher behavior. You can compare search patterns by category, by location (!), and over certain time frames. It's basically search data porn for marketers. :-) read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:13 pm
Posted By: rjonesx 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google
The 302 Hijack has reared its head again. Search Google from "gmail.com" (no quotes). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Wow - Patrick knocks another one out of the park. A simple but elegant idea for getting lots of traffic from your competitors. Look how the URL is bolded in the title - really nice idea. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:35 am
Posted By: MarketingMinefield 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google
According to Google themselves, their goal is to hire people who are "as passionate about their lives as they are about their work" - so why is it that a company that's concerned about the quality of their employees can’t seem find anyone decent for read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Great post from Ann Smarty: "I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!" read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: Cowley 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Google Searching
Essential reading if you want to optimise your Google Product Search feed. Google have released a new Google Product Search Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your impressions, clicks and feed items. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: mvandemar 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Betcha those guys at eHarmony would have never thought of this dating advice! Thanks for the tip, Google! :) read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 8:01 am
Posted By: storyspinner 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Google
Pierre has a great piece here about the people who are helping to build the street views you see in Google Maps, along with some funky pictures too! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 8:00 am
Posted By: mercylivi 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google SEO
The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
23 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 11:23 am
Posted By: gyutae 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool') may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to b read more »
24 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: northrock 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2008 - 3:28 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
I don't care what you think about Toolbar PR, you know you're gonna check it... read more »
11 Comments     


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