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So, you have an active account on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Sphinn, Digg, YouTube, and all of the other social media tools and forums. You have a blog that you submit content to on a regular basis (hopefully more often than I do to my personal blog).… Read more
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Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there’s a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder… Read more
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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
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A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things you should do on a regular basis to position yourself to be successful in your job search whenever that time… Read more
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and… Read more
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Short article discussing various SEO education opportunities at the higher education level. Read more
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Basic rookie mistakes of publishing press releases these days. Plus new free tool www.PressReleaseGrader.com takes a look at your press releases to see if you’re making these mistakes. Read more
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John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away the… Read more
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Brian Carter of Fuel posts a well thought 10 Commandments of SEM. Read more
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Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything’s fixed. Read more
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Jessica Bowman writes... When you outsource SEO, you don’t outsource responsibility and accountability for getting the job done and driving more traffic. Even though you may outsource SEO completely, you really should invest the time understand SEO… Read more
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Where can you earn the most money in search marketing? Reilly O’Donnell analyzes data from Indeed to show you the top cities to earn big salaries as a search marketer. Read more
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Why does Google celebrate obscure artists and architects with special logos, but they won’t do one for Memorial Day? Makes no sense to me. Barry shows some of the other special logos today at various search engines and forums. Read more
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Google benefits from stalls in the negotiating between Microsoft and Yahoo! Indication is that Google will continue to dominate the search market for the foreseeable future. Read more
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Montana mother allegedly involved in MySpace prank which led to the hanging suicide of a teenage neighbor.

This is truly the dark side of social media and tied into the other Sphinn "Angry? Destroy Their Reputation Online!".
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Reilly O’Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. Read more
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5 easy ways to improve your search marketing resume. Read more
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"So you have landed the interview you wanted, and now you want to prepare yourself so you can walk in confidently and prove why you are the right search marketing professional for the job. Currently the search marketing industry is very candidate driven… Read more
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, but… Read more
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