Jill

Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitelab.com)
Category: SEM
Good stuff from SiteLab:

"We’ve all heard the news by now. We’re in a recession. Or maybe not……but the economy is definitely in a downturn. Don’t fret though. Often times a recession can be the stimulus that leads your company to new heights p read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.inc.com)
Category: SEO
Inc. Technology article about optimizing blogs for increased search engine traffic.

"Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SEO) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 12:15 am
Posted By: Jill 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semne.org)
Category: Blogging
After a few quick SEMNE announcements, business consultant, Ted Demopoulos took to the podium and provided everyone with an enthusiastic presentation on exactly why blogging is an essential ingredient to your online marketing mix. Read the recap her read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
More on the Search Marketing Standards discussion. ProjectPHP asks for definitions of what standards mean, and Ian McAnerin delivers with some great definitions and lots of other useful information to continue this debate. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: Jill 110 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
In reviewing the "What's New" posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.

Unfortunately, the good stuff was few read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Posted By: Jill 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Holly Buchanan has a great article on how to break stereotypes by using User Personas.

From the article:

How many times have you sat down to write a piece of copy and the ideas simply did not flow? It used to happen to me a lot, until I star read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
My latest SEL article:

Pretend you don't know anything about what your company offers and you stumbled onto it somehow. Can you tell immediately what it's all about? Can the search engines? Do this exercise with each inner page of the site as wel read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: SEO
The first in my multi-part step-by-step series at TalentZoo on exactly how to optimize your website to gain more targeted traffic and conversions.

This article focuses on the very first step in your SEO process – hunting for the keyword phrases read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 139 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I'm in Honolulu and want to meet you if you're in the area. We've got 6 so far let me know if you are interested. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Jill 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: SEO
Thought I'd stir up some additional SEO controversy here and point out my article over at Talent Zoo.

"Have you been held hostage by a search engine optimization (SEO) or search marketing company who claims that your search engine rankings will read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 19, 2008 - 10:58 pm
Posted By: Jill 167 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I've been busy the past few weeks and haven't had a chance to trawl the "What's New Posts" like I usually do. In reviewing them today, it seems like the percentage of get-rich-quick posts and blogs are overtaking those having to do with search marke read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 1:56 am
Posted By: Jill 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEO
A High Rankings Advisor subscriber wonders if there's some SEO software he can get that will SEO his site for him. I tried to let him down easy... ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2007 - 3:25 am
Posted By: Jill 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO Chick, Julie Joyce asks, "As a world class SEO, could you be replaced by an ape?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 11:21 am
Posted By: Jill 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Blogging
Cool post by Li Evans showcasing many of our most popular posts and articles. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 238 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Just did a spell check on my last submit and saw that Sphinn doesn't recognize the following words:

Sphinn
Google
Nofollow

:D read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2007 - 5:46 am
Posted By: Jill 238 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Just noticed links in Sphinn comments are no longer nofollowed. Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I haven't been browsing much during the week.

When did this get put into place, and is it permanent?

Is it actually a good idea? I n read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 1:27 pm
Posted By: Jill 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Not really search marketing related, but since many of us write for a living (while we're not SEO'ing), I thought this forum discussion on the pros and cons of copyright laws and whether we should have them or not, might interest you. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Good post by Rebecca at SEOmoz about using Google Trends and KeywordDiscovery search trends data to learn when people start using various holiday keyword phrases in the engines. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 249 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insearchofstuff.com)
Category: Link Building
It's not new, but in light of Google's link buying/selling crackdown, I thought some of you might be interested in ISOS's soul sellin' link bonanza program. It won't cost much...just your soul... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 8:44 pm
Posted By: Jill 251 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketmotive.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
John Marshall from MarketMotive has a great post about not paying for traffic. He says, "I may well be packed-to-the-gills with hubris, but why am I so sure that paying for traffic is always wrong?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 28, 2007 - 8:32 am
Posted By: Jill 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lonelymarketer.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A nice post complimenting Robert Clough on how he handled my supposed criticism of his advertising model. I totally agree that Robert handled it nicely, and I would like to think I would have done exactly the same! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Link Building
Andrew Goodman weighs in on the PageRank demotions. Andrew's take is different in that he stresses how important integrated marketing is to the internet marketing industry, and yet it is seemingly ignored by many in SEO. (Or something like that...re read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 8:30 am
Posted By: Jill 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
My latest Search Engine Land article:
"Fall is the time of year when we start to look at where search marketing is heading. Looking at the latest search marketing conference agendas, articles, and online news in the SEM space, it certainly appears read more »
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