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Topics related to the search engine marketing industry in general. For more background, see SEM industry news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Search Engine Watch Forums Names Chris Boggs Associate Editor
Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 12:39 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Great news for the industry: bogglesmymind takes over as Associate Editor of Search Engine Watch forums. Chris Boggs will be working with Aussiewebmaster to take forums to the next level. read more »
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The Shrinking Window of Opportunity for Independent Webmasters - Get In Before It’s Too Late
Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 1:43 am
Posted By: Wiep 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
As the web matures and Google improves its search results with the most relevant sites, it’s going to become increasingly difficult for small publishers to get ahead. Get going before it’s too late. read more »
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Search Engine Strategies Awards in August
Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: cre8pc 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
San Jose SES hosts new industry awards. read more »
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SEO: Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job
Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 5:30 am
Posted By: Wiep 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Our industry is hot. Red hot. As such, just about every idiot who has ever coded a page of HTML will tell you that they "do SEO." read more »
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Marketers: Are You Charging Your Clients Enough?
Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 4:51 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Your clients are enjoying more exposure and tangible results than they ever did before. If you don’t know how to properly sell this value to your clients, you could be losing money and not even know it. read more »
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Would you attend a Greyhat SEO panel at SES/SMX/SBM etc.?
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:53 am
Posted By: Gab 13 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion my network
Category: SEM Industry
The conferences have already had link buying panels, but they were pretty tame as far as things go. Would you attend a panel that focused solely on greyhat SEO at an SMX/SES show?

There's nothing shameful about wanting to learn and even use greyh read more »
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Six Questions With Vanessa Fox
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 12:15 am
Posted By: Jill 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more! read more »
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Jason Gambert - New Low in the SEO Trademark Saga
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: theGypsy 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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SEORipOff.com : Stain of the Search Marketing Industry
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 7:54 am
Posted By: annie7 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
SEORipOff.com - a complaint site where companies who have been ‘ripped off’ by an SEO firm can blast the company they contracted. So what are your views on SEORipOff.com and how do you feel niche service review or complaints sites fit in the busines read more »
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Small Business Marketing Unleashed, We Miss You
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 5:17 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Jennifer Laycock writes, "The first ever Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference has come and gone and I've had a full week to unwind and decompress. When we first announced our conference last fall, I had more than one person drop me an email read more »
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The Future of Search Conferences: Smaller Is Better
Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 7:48 pm
Posted By: willscott 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Great writeup by Matt on Small Business Marketing Unleashed. It was a great show and his post captures nicely some of the intangibles. read more »
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SEO: a service covering many specialities
Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Wiep 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk) my network
Category: SEM Industry
As this short guide should hopefully illustrate, SEO is not a “one size fits all” service - it is an umbrella terms for a range of usually very specialised approaches. read more »
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Are you #1 in Google? It Doesn’t Matter
Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 4:13 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
"The era of being number one is Google has left. The age of Conversion rates, qualified traffic, and site wide analytics has descended upon you." read more »
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Unleashed Opening Session: A Common Sense Approach to Online Marketing
Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 6:10 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Li Evans recaps the opening session of Search Engine Guide's "Small Business Marketing Unleashed" conference. Speakers include Jennifer Laycock, Wendy Piersall, Matt Bailey, and Matt McGee (yours truly). read more »
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Is Wordpress suitable for SEOs?
Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Most of our clients have several things in common, they are normally running Wordpress and the first indication they have been hacked is either a sudden loss in rankings or the stop badware notice appearing for their name. Now Wordpress is not inher read more »
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“SEO” to Become a Trademark? - WebProNews Video Update
Avatar Went Hot: April 17, 2008 - 2:47 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://videos.webpronews.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
The online community has been in an uproar since the news that someone is in the process of obtaining a trademark for the term “SEO.” Jason Gambert of Modern Consulting Solutions has gained approval from the Trademark Office and is now moving toward read more »
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Search Engine Optimization Firm Sued, Required to Pay More than $100K in Fees
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:03 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
An "SEO agency" called Internet Advancement has been sued by Washington State and required to pay over $100,000 in fees for scamming its clients. Among the restitution includes penalties against offering services to new members and requiring refunds read more »
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Gab interviews 3 SEO stars: Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 7:39 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae all get together and share some insider secrets with Gab. It's not too long but there's some nice takeaways both for affiliate and blackhat projects as well as whitehat linkbait projects. A good read! read more »
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Study: 80-Percent Of Searches Are Informational, 10% Are Navigational & Transactional
Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 7:06 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
A great new study out of Penn State with reasonable accuracy suggests that only 10% of search requests are for transactional purposes.

Good information to have when constructing new content for client sites! read more »
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SEO Trademarker Responds: Community Standards
Avatar Went Hot: April 12, 2008 - 8:28 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Jordan McCollum writes, "Remember earlier this week, someone was trying to trademark the acronym ‘SEO’? A helpful little comment on our post on that news just pointed me to the 'enterprising marketer’s' response, posted Wednesday. And if you didn’t read more »
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Blogging Under False Pretences to Become a Crime in the UK
Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 3:21 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal! read more »
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Why Search Marketing Standards are a Bad Idea
Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 11:58 am
Posted By: WebGeek 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
The biggest problem with SEO standards is we’ll get some half baked, half assed, implementation that’s just as bad as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As a concept it’s seems like a wonderful idea, everyone agrees to a set of established teachin read more »
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Reputation Management Explosion - Review of SEM Compare
Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 8:45 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
There’s a new site allowing public reviews of SEM companies and you just know that means trouble. The site is called SEMCompare and is brought to us by the same people who launched the Search Marketing Standard magazine. They already have a few nega read more »
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A Face In Our Crowd
Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Our Searchfest 08 event was tremendously successful and represented an opportunity for our audience to not only learn from the best Search Marketing Professionals in the industry, but was a wonderful networking and business opportunity for anybody i read more »
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Happy Birthday aimClear!
Avatar Went Hot: March 31, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: bigpond 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Despite all the best efforts of the StumbleTrolls, the guys at aimClear celebrate the first birthday of their blog. Happy birthday, guys :) read more »
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