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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 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 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 - 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 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: 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 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     
Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jdevalk 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google SEO
Martijn provides an excellent insight into why you should be using KML files on your site, and how to do that! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 9:51 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask for your experience on what’s the real benefit from them. Many webmasters are eager to get them but read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: aimClear 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://marcgrabanski.com)
Category: Google SEO
What happens when you do everything right and Google is just broken. read more »
26 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: Gab 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use 'lay the smackdown' and 'url canonicalization' in a single sentence. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: ViperChill 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
That question would be much easier to answer if Google demonstrated any definitive behavior when treating hyphenated terms; instead when using a hyphen in a search term, you will most likely see the mixture of hyphenated, single-word and two-word sp read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:14 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Rand doesn't buy the "flash is now SEO friendly" spiel for a second. Here's why... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: MariosAlexandrou 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: Google SEO
The implications of the additional search data that Google is providing are far reaching, but I think people are too busy looking up keyword data to have realized. Fortunately for me I commute to and from work on a train which means I've got plenty read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopscentre.com)
Category: Google SEO
This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into acco read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 6:37 pm
Posted By: KenJones 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googleblog.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 6:37 pm
Posted By: annie7 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Google's search string parameters. read more »
4 Comments     


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