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JimSpencer


The Definitive Guide to Web Spam for SEOs
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 656 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wordstream.com
Category: SEO
SNIP - Are you a web spammer? No, seriously, I mean it. If there is one area that a lot of search peeps and marketers aren't always clear on, it's penalties and filters from search engines. As such, I thought it would be a good idea to look at the many… Read more
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Pro Blogger Daniel Scocco Shares his Internet Marketing Tips
Avatar Story Found By: davidtowers 935 Days ago
News Source: http://www.insidethewebb.com
Category: SEM
Daniel Scocco, the creator and main blogger on the site Daily Blog Tips /a>runs a few very popular blogs on the web. In this interview, you can find out how the blog was made, monetization, and some words of advice for all the new bloggers out there… Read more
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An Introduction to Log File Analysis for SEOs and Webmasters
Avatar Story Found By: pageoneresults 1049 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ericlander.com
Category: SEM
"It doesn’t matter what sort of web analytics suite you choose to use... If you’re not actively reviewing your log files, you’re missing out on some key data and reporting metrics. Today’s blog post is all about log files and how you… Read more
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Do SEOs Really Need Direct Industry Experience To Be Effective?
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1068 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Pros and cons pertaining to the need for direct industry experience when working on SEO for a company and the strengths/weaknesses related to keyword research, content generation, link building, and technical recommendations, etc Read more
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30 Old Ways to Gain New Links for 2009
Avatar Story Found By: onreact 1117 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: Link Building
Not that old if you ask me but good enough for 2009. Read more
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Easy 1 Step SEO Attack
Avatar Story Found By: streko 1216 Days ago
News Source: http://wingnutseo.com
Category: SEM
Wingnut says...

"So I sent a message to ripoffreport.com asking what their policy about removing postings that are false… Not that I’m on there… just thought it would be a good question." Read more
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Conversation With An Idiot Link Broker
Avatar Story Found By: ciaran 1230 Days ago
News Source: 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
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Martin Bowling Loves Zima : Danny Sullivan is a Zima Thief?
Avatar Story Found By: paisley 1235 Days ago
News Source: http://martinbowlingloveszima.blogspot.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Published reports show clear, refreshingly crisp and citrusy tasting evidence that Martin Bowling Loves Zima and Danny Sullivan likes to make Martin Bowling cry. Read more
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Googlebot Causes United Airlines Stock to Plummet Says Tribune Company
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1249 Days ago
News Source: http://www.billhartzer.com
Category: Vertical Search
I thought this was a pretty fascinating story about how an outdated SERP in Google News created some pretty damaging buzz for UAL Corp.

FTA: The Tribune Company, in a press released late today, said that “the confusion surrounding a 2002… Read more
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On Domain Names, Size and Quality DOES Matter!
Avatar Story Found By: jdevalk 1272 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dailyblogtips.com
Category: Domaining
The conclusion: all other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name. Read more
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The Secret Sauce for the Perfect Pitch
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1278 Days ago
News Source: http://getgood.typepad.com
Category: Social Media
"First things first. No matter what we’d like to believe, there is no such thing as the perfect pitch. One person’s spam is often another person’s breakfast."

Key points to consider when pitching bloggers as well as… Read more
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Local SEO. Is Merchant Circle SEO better than Facebook + LinkedIn for Small Businesses?
Avatar Story Found By: JimSpencer 1300 Days ago
News Source: http://www.localseoguide.com
Category: SEO
Should a local business setup a Merchant Circle account to network locally with other businesses? How can it effect search results and promote your primary site? Read on to find out. Read more
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Get Google Rankings for Your Persona on 27 Social Media Websites
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1302 Days ago
News Source: http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com
Category: SEM
brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable… Read more
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Komarketing addresses ’What Don’t You Trust About SEO?’
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 1313 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: SEO
Derek Edmond answers some of the questions asked by LinkedIn folks on why they don’t trust SEO. Read more
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Not Everyone Thinks Google is the Greatest Company to Work For
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1326 Days ago
News Source: http://www.economist.com
Category: Vertical Search
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm’s personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons… Read more
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With great social media power should come great responsibility
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1326 Days ago
News Source: http://broadcasting-brain.com
Category: SEM
Mark Dykeman writes "I’m going to stick my nose into the Feldman/Israel situation. Sort of. Actually, I’m going to suggest a better use of everyone’s time. It would be for a charitable cause and it would promote social media to boot. Everyone wins." Read more
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Predictive Copywriting - Fight Big Publishers and Win in 2009
Avatar Story Found By: DazzlinDonna 1328 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-scoop.com
Category: SEO
Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. Read more
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What Don’t You Trust About SEO? ... and Why? 21 Replies Thus Far
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1328 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkedin.com
Category: SEO
There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? Read more
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The SEM Questions A Web Analytics Package Should Answer
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1329 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: Analytics
Here is a checklist of valuable questions and details to look for in a web analytics package related to your search engine marketing efforts, regardless of website size or company budget. Read more
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Google Bangin’ The "No Paid Links Drum" Again
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1335 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Category: SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can’t do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) Read more
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Friends on Twitter = No Life? "The Funniest Introduction to Twitter"
Avatar Story Found By: DanaLookadoo 1340 Days ago
News Source: http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com
Category: Social Media
Brian Carter speaks about Twitter to NOOBs. He’s following >800 people finally has friends! The biggest question from the audience? "Why?" He explains that most of us on Twitter are "nerds or journalists, geeks or search marketers, but there are… Read more
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What Defines The Integrity of Search Engine Marketing?
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1350 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: SEM
The same tools that can be used to spread something sensationally false can also be used for the dissemination of accurate information as well. In my opinion, we should proactively address issues of SEM ethics and integrity before others make that… Read more
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The Gray Area Between SEO Consulting & SEO Implementing
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1361 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: SEM
How deep into the SEO recommendation(s) do you think SEO consultants should get?

Do you think a company should actually implement recommendations delivered (or be prepared to provide this service)

- or provide a project plan… Read more
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How to Go from Nothing to 550,000 Social Media Visitors in One Month
Avatar Story Found By: hjortur 1364 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: Social Media
Glen Allsopp explains how he got 550.000 visitors to his clients site in only one month. Inspiring results Read more
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Search Engine Optimization Pre-flight - Analytics
Avatar Story Found By: wrttnwrd 1367 Days ago
News Source: http://www.portentinteractive.com
Category: SEO
First in a series about SEO project planning and startup with a discussion of analytics.

Written by Tom Schmitz of Portent. Dang, my staff are clever... Read more
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