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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: Maing 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 1:14 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Now that Google Chrome is live, I [Danny Sullivan] spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: Maing 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Searching
Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: SiteMost 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Posted By: planetc1 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tonyadam.com)
Category: Searching
Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are creating si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: annie7 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A list of 13 services that will help you monitor your website read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage" read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 12:32 pm
Posted By: Gab 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal shares a new monetization technique spammers are using in conjunction with exploiting Google Maps' long suffering mass upload feature. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: pittfall 26 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 32 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 34 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:19 am
Posted By: PixelBella 35 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 37 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 40 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:56 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 39 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 40 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 40 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 40 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: billslawski 48 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 73 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 73 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 73 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 »
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