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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:
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Avatar Posted By: jakeshaffer 17 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gettingmorevisitors.com)
Category: SEO
In order to avoid duplicate content penalties, how much do you need to rewrite an article? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: allen.tom223 21 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://detectiveunlimited.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Only for a few keystrokes with your computer, you can begin with your search and find a person or people. You can find people for free and you can also do it with a fee read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.louisgray.com)
Category: Link Building
I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent blog read more »
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Avatar Posted By: risoknop 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seowebtips.com)
Category: SEO
I have been working with Wordpress for a very long time and I must say I have never had a single problem with it. It’s a powerful and semantic publishing platform with a focus on web standards, which appeals to me as a webdesigner. While using Wordp read more »
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Avatar Posted By: azkidseatfree 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodiva.net)
Category: SEO
Great SEO tips summed up in a fun and interesting article by the SEO Diva herself. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aseponde 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blacpac.com)
Category: Link Building
Heavily promoted, strong bidding web directory with 100% spam free policy - human-edited bidding web directory, SEO friendly. Advertise and strengthen your site now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mowzart 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: SEO
Twitter has been a hot topic again over the past couple of days with speculation circulating that the company may purchase Summize. Although much of the activity on Twitter takes place via mobile, the traffic to the website has continued to grow sub read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seoataglance 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.inboundlinksforum.com)
Category: Link Building
Spam free tutorial shows how to use forums to build quality relevant inbound links for your website. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 6 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Rand Fishkin writes "Over the last couple weeks, I've seen some very cool new (and older, but "new to me") tools in the search marketing field that I think are worthy of testing to see if they make a good fit for your organization. I know I don't co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DevinDavis 6 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.g5searchmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Why Advertising Matters for Local Businesses read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chornak 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pittsburghseogroup.com)
Category: SEO
Many web designers don't use HTML tags where they are meant to be used this is a good example of when not to use header tags. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: palmerseo 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppchero.com)
Category: Paid Search
Share your PPC success story read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JuicyJuice 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.beacontechnologies.com)
Category: SEO
Article discussing elevated expectations with low-end SEO packages and why they can sometimes be unrealistic. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: beussery 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Paid Search
Great first installment of what promises to be a most informative series about PPC by the guru himself, David Szetela. David covers persuasive techniques and more.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEO
Enter the SEO sharpshooter specialist, focused on attaining organic prominence as quickly as possible under pressure. The objective is to push the nasty content as far down the SERPs as possible and, if necessary, debunk the credibility of the damni read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
It ALMOST seems like a standard in the industry…the mysterious link builder…hiding behind closed doors…where do they get all those quality links? How can I get some of those much sought after links for my client? The answer to this old-age question read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HayMeadows 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.haymeadows.com)
Category: SEO
Yes, it seems recently that using keywords in their exact order can actually work against you. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnLessnau 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lessnau.com)
Category: Link Building
I am constantly searching high profile search phrases to see how and why certain sites rank so highly. Often I am surprised the things sites do with unnatural linking that still work wonders.

I thought hidden hit counter links were rendered usel read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
The Link Spiel: That old saying "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old "swap with me for PageRank" type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop yo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fayans 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thoushallblog.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging.

Here's 15 of the most under read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
"I can promise you that even in highly competitive markets, with a little creativity, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit of opportunity in this area." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: netwheel 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobrien.com)
Category: Search Marketing
SEO rapper hits it again... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KenJones 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Does your content creation and management plan consist of merely a fire-and-forget-it perspective? Then you may be missing out on ways to not only strengthen existing rankings but bolstering new ones. You may be making costly mistakes without even k read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peterryan 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.arteworks.biz)
Category: SEO
Matt Foster puts in his two cents about Jason Gambert's Wikipedia hoax. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: richiepear 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://attributor.com)
Category: Link Building
Rebuttal to Louis Gray's post that links are declining in traffic importance plus some stats on link opportunities for top blog sites read more »
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