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Joe Hall interviews Brian Chappell on Marketing Pilgrim about Social Media Marketing.

"Last week, I came by a video on IM Broadcast that caught my attention. In this video social media marketer, Brian Chappell, responded to people that claim they read more »
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Ann Smarty looks at free keyword typo generators and tools that can help improve internal search, set up PPC tests and experiments and assist in the creation of combinations of mis-spelled domain names. read more »
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About a month ago I was chatting with Rand via email. He explained that he thought that the perception that SEO is manipulative was harming the industry... read more »
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"No longer will Twitter be amongst the cool internet marketing crowd or be confined to the 35 and under set (for the most part). So what’s next?" read more »
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Among the many dislocations of the current economy is the slowing of the growth in spending on Web advertising. While traffic is good and plenty of ads are being served up, the price of generic, run-of-the-site ads is falling.

PubMatic, which tra read more »
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The reason Google pulled out of the Yahoo advertising deal ... they were 3 hours away from being charged as a monopoly.

"We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day. We told them we were going to file the complaint at tha read more »
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Want to see what the next game is for your favorite European football team? Just type in the name in Google and you will get an instant answer. read more »
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Have you think optimizing your website to target local business companies?Let say for example if you are a customer and you are looking for a SEO company in Abu Dhabi. read more »
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What is your company’s brand awareness? Measuring brand awareness is important for understanding the impact of offline and online marketing strategies. Because brand awareness is affected by so many different marketing strategies, quantifying bran read more »
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Are you responsible for all your Sphinns? If so, then why the need to raise the bar? Would questioning quality of posts in the home page be enough reason rather than a call for responsibility? Will this be a good move for quality or quantity? Read m read more »
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Although paid search is far more trackable than many media - even online display advertising - many paid search campaign managers have difficulty tying detailed paid search data to actual sales. This is particularly true with long-sales-cycle campai read more »
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Obtaining links from authoritative sites is a must for any long-term Web site promotional plan. Eric Enge lists four steps to follow to increase your chances of finding high value authority links the next time you're hunting for links. read more »
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Google System - "We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full content of the page. We've had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds. The indexing change has improved th read more »
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Within the Internet Marketing Industry we have celebrities and fan favorites. In many cases if one of our industry celebrities tell us to jump we won't ask why but instead how high?

I just finished reading this post at SEOMoz written by Chenry read more »
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Amit Deshpanda makes some excellent critical points about a tool many of us take for granted. Having just compared Statistics Canada's data to Google's on certain terms, I have to say it's an eye-opening explanation of Google data that can sometimes read more »
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As search engines became more sophisticated, SEOs adjusted and evolved. Link generation is certainly a key component of today's search engine results. Here's what you need to know now. read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Everyone’s on the hunt to find a way to monetize social media. Or at least that’s what we hear. We hear about the networks themselves trying to make money. The advertisers looking for ways to pad their pockets. But what about u read more »
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We have been doing some research into how to rank in Google mobile web search. Google is the dominant player in mobile search in the US (source: Nielsen Mobile) - our test site hasn't yet been indexed in the other search engines so I'll have to repo read more »
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It has become obvious that by having the number of Sphinns required to go hot at the low count of 23 is letting a lot of unworthy stuff hit the homepage due simply to networking. One thing that makes that glaringly obvious are posts that hit the hom read more »
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from the article:
Sphinn was launched on July 11, 2007 by Danny Sullivan as a way for people in the search marketing community to connect, network and share news stories about the industry that they thought others would find interesting.

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One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the read more »
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When friends convince you to join a social network, they mention all the positive aspects of being connected. They tell you about reconnecting with friends or how sites can assist you with finding a new job. Some only want you to join these sites ju read more »
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Bob Garfield of Ad Age just posted a great new article that asks marketers why they aren’t using widgets. Garfield gives examples of great uses of desktop widgets, such as Southwest Airlines “Ding!” application, and promotional widgets, such as Coke read more »
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Increased advertising will sustain, but not drive, Digg. The company can increase its user base through acquisitions and cross its fingers with ads, but without a bigger vision, Digg won’t stick around, assuming the plan is to stay independent. read more »
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Dana Todd, Chairperson of the Board of Directors for The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization rang the opening bell for NASDAQ. read more »
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