Search Marketing
rss feed

Here you'll find topics about the practice of search engine marketing (SEM), which involves generating traffic and sales via search engines. For more background, see Search Marketing news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
Show Me: Newest | Oldest | Most Sphinns So Far

Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2007 - 7:05 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 492 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Back by popular demand - one year later! read more »
39 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2007 - 3:48 pm
Posted By: tamar 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
I often get asked to review a web site and give quick feedback on the site’s SEO. The issue: Is the site doing well, or in desperate need of SEO help? To answer those questions, I’ve developed a speedy system to go through a site and take a quick SE read more »
34 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 6:17 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 175 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: vanessafox 485 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: SEO
But why is this quiz so wrong? Too many of the questions go beyond the science and into the art of SEO, where things are fluid and changing and open to interpretation. The quiz is more accurately a test of how much of your personal SEO philosophy ma read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2007 - 8:17 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 449 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
When you start reading down the list, you might think Michael has gone absolutely bonkers, until you get to his explanations further down the page. read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2007 - 5:10 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 545 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
Imagine you’re Google for as moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job! read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
130 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 5:38 am
Posted By: peterdavanzo 458 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkjuicy.com)
Category: Link Building
In-depth interview on cutting edge PR and linking strategy. "If Google wins what’s going to happen is the market will go underground. You’re going to have to "know a guy" to get you links." read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 2:02 pm
Posted By: Hobo 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Wow! Aaron Wall really delivers an impressive piece:

"I recently created the internet marketing mind map, covering just about everything I know about online marketing." read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 3:48 am
Posted By: webuildpages 468 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Link Building
A few days ago the Cool Aid and FUD was passed around here about a site that was penalized in rankings because they sold a few links. Jim believes Google doesn't, nor ever will, penalize sites for selling links. Find out why! read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 262 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 10:43 am
Posted By: Sebastian 457 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
Here is my book on server sided redirects. It's a longish draft intended to bore you to death with geeky language and dull quotes from protocol standards and similar technical documents. For entertainment purposes it comes with search engine bashing read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 5:48 am
Posted By: barnaseo 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
65 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: davidmihm 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEO
Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 9:56 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: ciaran 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
45 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 10:52 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: SEO
Does Vanessa Fox really believe that? Read this post to find out... read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 9:57 am
Posted By: Maing 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
There are a number of tools that aggregate plenty of useful SEO related information on one page. The idea is that you can quickly evaluate any page and get an instant access to each individual source for more information. read more »
4 Comments     
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 »
60 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 5, 2009 - 6:50 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Search Marketing
I always look forward to Tamar's yearly roundup of the best in Search, Social Media & Internet Marketing...

"Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. " read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 80 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
After Linkscape launched, some people didn't want to be included in it. Eventually, we got information posted for exclusion. But then there was a debate on whether that will exclude you or not. So, a discussion about how it works. read more »
110 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 9:54 am
Posted By: SiteMost 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I am curious if anyone else has noticed a trend over the past year or so where people (I have nobody specific in mind) in the search marketing business seem to increasingly gravitate towards becoming a “SEO celebrity”. It’s a bit like like moths to read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: martinbowling 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
12 Comments     


Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. What would you like to see Google’s... (20)
  2. Considering In-house SEO? How to e... (19)
  3. Are You Ignoring the Cries of Your ... (19)
  4. Online Profiling – The good, the ba... (18)
  5. AdWords Using Google Moderator For ... (17)
  6. Is There Really Such a Thing as a S... (16)
  7. Local SEO Predictions 2009 (15)
  8. Search for SEO eBooks and PDF Tutor... (14)
  9. Why you should avoid WebProsperity! (14)
  10. Why executives don't 'get' social m... (13)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX West - Feb. 10-12, 2009
• SMX Munich - April 22-23, 2009
• SMX Social Media Marketing - April 29-30
• SMX Advanced - June 2-3, 2009

Search Marketing Now

Learn more about search marketing through free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site Search Marketing Now.

Upcoming Webcasts: