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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: pittfall 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching
When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural versions read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 6:18 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Jeff Quipp writes, "Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices? I don’t think any of us can argue against it … it will happen … and in fact the transition is well under way. Accordingly, I thought t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Pascal Casing : The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. May also be referred to as Studley Caps. e.g. PascalCasing

Edward (Pageoneresults) Runs us through Pascal Casing - we a read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 9:04 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
I'm doing a talk at Gnomedex about how search continues to be part of our everyday lives -- and the issues that come with it, such as privacy. This post looks at some of those issues. I'm hoping to spark some discussion that will feed into my talk. read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: graywolf 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:19 am
Posted By: PixelBella 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jordankasteler.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Learn best practices for coding for local/mobile:
Doc type declaration, screen width, accessibility, device detection redirection, XML Sitemaps.

Nice job and great resource! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 3, 2008 - 12:43 am
Posted By: rjonesx 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Searching
The analysis is in, and you can send all the validators home. W3C HTML Validation shows little to no impact on search rankings on Google, Yahoo, Ask or MSN Live. read more »
39 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:56 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 4:05 am
Posted By: janecopland 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Searching
Rand pits Cuil against today's leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren't as predictable as he'd thought they would be. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
One of the main uses I see for FriendFeed is as a reputation monitoring and management tool.

Here are five ways to utilize the service for rep management and monitoring: read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm brings you everything you need to know from last week's SMX Local conference. He says: "I've just returned from SMX Local in San Francisco and my head is still spinning. Chris Sherman, Greg Sterling, and the rest of the Third Door Media t read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: billslawski 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.uic.edu)
Category: Tips & Tools
The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Ask.com
Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: rhcerff 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com... getting closer to core search or simply trying to increase the number of searches? Barry Schwartz gets to the nitty gritty... or not. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:29 am
Posted By: sagar13d 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.accrediteddldegrees.com)
Category: Searching
If you are looking for a particular video, an old friend from high school, or the perfect handbag, a niche search engine can help. They can make life even better if you can use them in a pinch. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: oldschool 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Best of The Web adds a local component, making a great directory an even better resource on the consumer level. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: Maing 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 8:18 am
Posted By: martinbowling 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
As I watch search marketers often continue to obsess about things like PageRank, I wanted to do a personal post / wake-up call related to our SMX Local & Mobile Search Marketing show happening next month in San Francisco, July 24-25. Because for all read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Ask.com
Time to honor Gary Price for his accomplishments as an informational professional. He's been one of the guiding lights of the search industry and deserves all the kudos he's receiving. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:32 am
Posted By: gunjanpandya 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Here Ann listed 4 tools to find your competitors keywords ranking read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 1:08 am
Posted By: andrewsho 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Some quick ideas on why you might want to optimize your site for phone number searches. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 4:29 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Searching
Could Stumbleupon’s human-filtered search results be the beginning of the next evolution of search engines that could see the all-powerful Google algorithim be made redundant?

I think Nowsourcing is on to something here. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: toddmintz 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm's excellent analysis of the Google Local / Map Algorithm which argues in compelling fashion that citations (mentions of the business without a link) play an important role in ranking well in the Google's Local Listings. read more »
2 Comments     


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