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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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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2009 - 2:58 am
Posted By: ciaran 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Jane Copland is leaving SEOmoz & Seattle. Their loss is Ayima & London's gain. Apparently Martini's share price went up 20% at the news. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2008 - 12:40 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Danny Sullivan announces that Search Engine Land has a brand new look along with new features, including a return to allowing comments directly within their stories plus a new “Members Only” section.

Danny makes a special request to all the loya read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2008 - 12:50 pm
Posted By: khalid 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEM Industry
6 days in Chicago, the first time for me being in the windy city, the first time that I went to a big SEO conference, the first time that I freeze my butt off anywhere I go. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2008 - 8:02 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Yesterday at SES Chicago 2008 I (Manny Rivas) met up with Jordan Kasteler a.k.a Utah SEO Pro. Not one to miss a cool opportunity, I whipped out my pocketCam to ask him a few questions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: theGypsy 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://johnmu.com)
Category: SEM Industry
- Johnmu.com - A different angle of attack is to redirect only search engine crawlers to a different site. By doing this, they can make it look like the pages of a website moved to a new domain name. In general, when search engines find redirects li read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 1, 2008 - 2:11 pm
Posted By: barnaseo 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Tad: "After 11 years of web working as web developer, blogger and SEO both in agencies and freelance I have collected a list of 30 timeless tips to get, convince, keep and deal with clients." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 7:20 pm
Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.newedgemedia.com)
Category: SEM Industry
New Edge Media is proud to announce that Kate Morris will be joining their ranks as the Director of Client Strategies. She will be responsible for client interaction, account management, and paid and natural account optimization. She will also serve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: AlhanKeser 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEMPO had a rocky first year, with people questioning whether it should even exist and taking bets on how long it would be around. You've come a long way, baby -- the the floor of the NASDAQ. Huge achievement for the group and by extension, search m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imbroadcast.com)
Category: SEM Industry
In memory of our friend and one of the founders of IMBroadcast.com Leif Nissen, who has left us, but at the same time will always be with us. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 10:12 am
Posted By: theGypsy 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: SEM Industry
| Squareoak Social Media Blog | It’s incredible the deluge of junk and spam out there originating from hack SEO and SEM service providers. If you’re a business owner or a marketing director who’s new to search engine optimization and marketing it’s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 18, 2008 - 7:32 am
Posted By: WillSEOForFood 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brandtheweb.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Discusses the economic downturn and its affects it is having and will have on the SEM community. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: mpind 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The session code named: "Give It Up: White Hat Edition - This session has SEOs sharing favorite, little-known and powerful techniques that wont get you banned in search engines from trying."

Thoughts? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 6, 2008 - 9:42 pm
Posted By: firebreatherseo 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Richard Baxter at SEOgadget covers the SEO for Web 2.0 session at SMX London 2008.

Speaking:

Nathan Buggia, Live Search Webmaster Central, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft
Tom Critchlow, Head of Search Marketing, Distilled
Mikkel deMib Svends read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 1:18 pm
Posted By: firebreatherseo 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Richard Baxter at SEOgadget summarises points of interest gleened from the international and social media SEO track on day 1 at SMX London 2008.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 1, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEM Industry
However, as search engines takes a more and more active roll in the community and SEO bloggers continue to publicly discuss previously untapped link sources, little known but effective methods, and conversations held in private, I’ve found myself as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 1:51 pm
Posted By: Seosally 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great interview with Craig Newmark - mentions thoughts on where he thinks the net/communication is going. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 3:23 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ws.arin.net)
Category: SEM Industry
Major hat tip to @neyne for finding this:

According to ARIN's whois information, seomoz.org is owned by the one, the only dotnetdotcom.org

Yes, ladies and gents, the same dotnetdotcom.org bot that SEOmoz lists as a source of data for their con read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Posted By: firebreatherseo 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A couple of days ago Micheal posted his assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. This caused Sphinn comments to be closed and a lot of fireworks. Now, read more about the bots that never were on SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Some insights into the data that SEOmoz revealed today about what their sources for the Linkscape tool are, and what those sources reveal about things behind the scenes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2008 - 1:58 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The IMNY Charity Party during SMX East raised more than $13,000 for The Ronald McDonald House.... I'd say that was a super success. Thank you WeBuildPages and all the wonderful sponsors. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2008 - 10:41 am
Posted By: Wiep 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
If you’re a graduate looking to move into online marketing, you could do very well for yourself in SEO. Here’s Richard Baxters guide to getting a job in SEO and making a rockstar career for yourself. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Rhea 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Search industry blogger, Lisa Barone, joins the We Build Pages team as Senior Writer. She'll be responsible for writing, setting the direction and tone for content creation, and will serve as a brand evangelist. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 6:45 pm
Posted By: janecopland 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEM Industry
There are interesting pros and significant cons to incorporating SEO into universities and developing degree programmes based on the subject. Somehow, my disadvantages list got a bit longer than the advantages one... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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