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Avatar Went Hot: November 27, 2008 - 8:43 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google SEO
Tad makes some great improvements to Google's rankings for SEO, with a bit of help from SearchWiki! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: jdevalk 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://eduardblacquiere.com)
Category: Google SEO
"Google calculates PageRank on the total network of sites Google has in its index. From that point of view a non-indexed page can’t accumulate PageRank, because Google can’t determine the relative value the page. Or can it?" read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 12:43 am
Posted By: renesilva 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://on.eti.me)
Category: Google SEO
Google recently announced amongst the inner SEO circle headed up but Matt Cutts that they have developed a way to penalize video bloggers who are ‘Stuffing’ their video blog posts with keywords! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEO continues to evolve. Need more evidence that Google uses bounce rate to test their SERPs?

Here’s are screenshots from one of my sites (it’s a “white hat” site or I wouldn’t be posting the footprint here). The first shows overall traffic: read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 10:11 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google has just added a new document inside the Google Webmaster Help archive which lists down all the best practices for a Blogger to succeed. The guide contains many tips for making the most of your blog....

....Pretty basic but useful :) read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 9:22 pm
Posted By: bbcarter 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.newedgemedia.com)
Category: Google SEO
By Manda Otto, from New Edge Media:
"I received my invitation to officially beta test the new SEOmoz toolbar late Wednesday afternoon. I was all over it a mere 5 minutes later."

They got permission to post this review- the first one. I verified read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 3:12 pm
Posted By: GetPageOne 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo.getpageone.com)
Category: Google SEO
I wrote a summary of the helpful Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for our SEO clients to use as they develop new pages or make changes to existing pages. Sort of a bullet list of Google's SEO guidelines. Maybe it will be useful to you read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: ViperChill 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bizcommunity.com)
Category: Google SEO
Working for one of the largest agencies in South Africa, I can confirm we haven't been contacted by Google to discuss certification in any way. In my opinion this is another bankroll for Google, there is no way they can monitor every single agency t read more »
17 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Can Matt Cutts detect paid links embedded in content when he is looking right at them? read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2008 - 8:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Shaun Anderson made a summary of Google's recently released SEO Starter Guide by highlighting all techniques you should try to avoid. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 3:21 pm
Posted By: hugogill 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Web standards and Google .... read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 1:18 am
Posted By: robwatts 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Interesting move from Google, it's the 1st time I've seen them go granular, but hey, what's with the dig at shadyseo! ;) read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 7:25 am
Posted By: JemimaGarthwaiteSEO 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Richard Baxter of SEOgadet uncovers and explores Quantcast's practice of including hidden links within its tracking code. It can be seen on pages such as Digg.com Last.fm and Technorati. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 5:29 am
Posted By: AffanLaghari 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Seems like someone made a profile on SEOBook, threw some spammy links to it, and it made to Google's first page. Yahoo Site Explorer shows 200+ backlinks where many seem to come from guestbooks, forums, and .jp/.tw sites. The keyword 'lindsay lohan read more »
26 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 9:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
SER (supplier of juicy topics lately;0) - Does this surprise anyone? Well, we know a few things. We know Matt Cutts of Google, a very influential person at Google, has wanted Google to remove PageRank from the toolbar for a while now. We know Adam L read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Interestingly I was watching some threads over the weekend where peeps were losing it on a few boards... now we know...

Search Engine Round Table - I decided to wait on reporting on this thread until Monday morning, to see if things settle. In sh read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 10:09 am
Posted By: onreact 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEOmoz is right, more than that: The key phrase SEO company is not the exception. Take a look at the more generic terms SEO and search engine optimization and you’ll quickly realize that the Google results there are even less relevant. read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 5:08 pm
Posted By: barnaseo 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Shaun from Hobo shares the results of another SEO test: "What does Google count, when it finds two links on the same page going to the same internal destination page?" read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: bbcarter 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pixelposition.com)
Category: Google SEO
Dana Lookadoo writes:

"Two Days of Search Training that will make you so good it will be Scary IT WORKED!!!! I spent two days in training, living and breathing search. I gained knowledge that will help elevate my clients’ rankings, and I am no lo read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2008 - 2:33 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Toolbar PR is something many webmasters have no more trust in. The common opinions are:

* PR (change) often seems to have nothing to do with rankings;
* Toolbar PR seems not to reflect the true website authority. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: billslawski 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google SEO
A review of the 159 granted patents assigned to Google (169 if Exaflop counts.)

A little more than one third focus primarily upon search indexing algorithms, and almost two thirds were developed in-house rather than acquired. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google have downplayed the importance of PageRank sculpting and Graywolf follows this up with a useful analogy. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 6:15 am
Posted By: DanielMcskelly 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A nofollow waiting to happen? Probably, unless Google want their domain to become the world's biggest spam farm. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2008 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dixonjones.com)
Category: Google SEO
A small “Google awakening” happened on Tuesday night. There seems to to be a “Google Glass Ceiling” in the serps for certain types of sites. Mileage might vary, but if your site is pulling more weight than Google thinks it should, there is mounting read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: EricLander 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google Sitelinks is an automated program that displays between three and eight indented links for the top ranking website shown for particular search query. This blog post is dedicated to my research of the Google Sitelinks program and will include read more »
3 Comments     


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