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From a sample of 1000 recent SEO jobs, I’ve gathered a snapshot view of where the SEO jobs are located around the US.

There have been well done posts and surveys talking about SEO salaries lately. And posts discussing where the talent… Read more
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Interesting post by Lisa Barone regarding hiring SEOs for In-House positions. She lists the most important attributes an applicant should have with details.

Highlights:
Technical Acumen
Analytical Mindset
Mad Research… Read more
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From Andy Beal: I like Steve Rubel. He’s a great PR professional and a thought-leader in social media, but he’s way off the mark with his new blog post: “SEO Shenanigans Pose a Clear and Present Danger to Social Media”

If you go and… Read more
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Funny - Google ranks on sore subject:
Check out the graphic, and the example is still live too. Read more
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RavenSEO considers how Google can "save itself" from vertical search engine proliferation. Read more
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In-house search marketers are doing quite well financially, according to salary survey results released by SEMPO today. Respondents reported a wide range of salaries, from virtually minimum wage to those exceeding several hundred thousand dollars per… Read more
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Citizen journalists are now covered... This “Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007” is now law!

Perhaps the presence of citizen journalism is merely too difficult to ignore any longer? Read more
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Wow! In case you missed something, here is EVERYTHING newsworthy from 2007 - by Danny Sullivan. Read more
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The government and Facebook alike get slammed for not adding simple domain redirection: "In a bricks and mortar example, this is the equivalent of spending thousands of dollars on advertising to drive people to your store. But you have two entrances -… Read more
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From William Flaiz, Search Engine Watch

"With every holiday season comes the inevitable parties and get-togethers. As with any social gathering, you might find yourself among unfamiliar company being asked about your job.

If… Read more
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It’s surreal to play a Black Hat vs. White Hat card game with the real Matt Cutts.

Special thanks to Rand and SEOmoz for organizing this event! Read more
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I’m headed to PubCon for the first time next week... I want to make the most of my PubCon experience so since I haven’t seen any special-event tracking threads elsewhere, I have started one: Read more
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Eric Ward challenges the community to find ten mistakes made within this one link-request email he received. He promises to comment here on Sphinn with the answers. Read more
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SEO industry has a bad rep - sure. So What?
Which industry doesn’t have a bad success rate?

Why should SEO be any different? Are we held to a higher standard? Read more
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Aaron Wall calls it as he sees it.

"Google tries to scare you away from renting links, but their paid link detection algorithms are at best laughable. Which is why Matt Cutts puts so much effort into trying to scare you about bought links." Read more
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From DomainTools: Matt Cutts of Google owns three domain names and one of them is a generic word: Dullest.com

The third domain: Matt tracks down a lot of dirty SEO people. So I think he registered ShadySEO.com because he wants to secretly… Read more
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My wife... told me that she never clicked on URLs in organic search results that were "really long or complicated" I thought she was crazy. I mean if you only clicked on the shorter URLs, you miss out on all these other great results that are deep links… Read more
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I’m disappointed. Is that really necessary?

People in this community put so much effort into writing good content and obsessively tracking their industry and community that why should the newest site, which is itself the ultimate… Read more
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