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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 9 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Barry's post from 2005 still rings incredibly true. Let's assemble a thread of proposed ethical standards for this community so it doesn't implode. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: aimClear 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://marcgrabanski.com)
Category: Google SEO
What happens when you do everything right and Google is just broken. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 2:53 pm
Posted By: aimClear 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.streko.com)
Category: SEO
streko "i hate your seo writes:" "So much debate over blackhat crap again post SMX “give it up” session. I just figured I would help everyone out and make some ways to tell if you should consider yourself a “blackhat seo”. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: News Sites
Here’s a perfect example of how to shoot yourself in the foot on Digg read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnn.com)
Category: Paid Search
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John McCain's campaign will stop advertising on several Web sites that have vilified Barack Obama as unpatriotic and, in one case, compared the Democratic nominee-in-waiting to Adolf Hitler. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other
NYTimes Blog: Google is expected to unveil a new ad-planning tool for agencies and marketers at an industry conference on Tuesday. Word that the Internet search giant has something up its sleeve surfaced when the Advertising Research Foundation, whi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm
Posted By: aimClear 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Finding SEM employees is a challenge. Job sites, blogger job boards, trade organizations & word of mouth are usual recruiting channels. This post offers a list of common & creative recruiting sources from SEMPO & SEMmoz to Miami Ad School & SEM head read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Gab writes: "Here’s just a partial rundown of the awesome folks I had the privilege of meeting and talking to at SMX Advanced!" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Hey, it's SEL...too fun not to bookmark (Gotta like Greg Sterling's commitment to journalism): "This afternoon Yahoo confirmed that it had entered into a paid search deal with Google. That deal is described by Yahoo in its press release and by Googl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 7:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
Lee Odden how-to: “Digital Asset Optimization” refers to the practice of taking inventory of a company’s marketable, digital assets & implementing a process for keyword optimization & promotion to relevant channels. (Easter Egg: Check out Lee's HTML read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
[At the risk of being publicly supportive of the folks who bring you Sphinn] A cursory glance at session titles belies the intense depth of SMX Advanced 2008. WHO'S GOING? :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:09 am
Posted By: aimClear 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) reflects, in an absolutely gorgeous post from the heart, on his life as an industry muse. "Travel brings with it perspective. I like to think each time I leave, I come back a little wiser, a little older, a little closer to bui read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts has now elaborated on Google's role in policing the truth. [Marty note: I bookmarked the SEL story because Barry Schwartz's commentary lends additional perspective to the original which is Sphunn here: http://sphinn.com/story/48361 ] read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Copyblogger serves up an overt bait and switch headline on this motivational post aimed @ the blog's intellectual-sweaty-masses audience: "Oh, those dreaded ‘F’ words. ‘Finish’, along with ‘focus’ and ‘follow through’ are words that make creative ty read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 10:06 am
Posted By: aimClear 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Houston, I think we got us a another discussion! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Google's in-house analytics "Evangelist" dishes Web Analytics career advice for agencies, a Beginners Guide To Web Analytics, and muses about an email he received: "the Robots Are Out To Get Me!" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Greg Sterling revisits his Oct 2007 post with today's "SEL-suggestion" for Microsoft. "10/24/07 SEL: A Live Search box & related ad inventory is almost sure to make its appearance on Facebook in the near term," blending true search and social media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Contextual Ads
WSJ Small Business: Concerns mount slowing economy may hurt online-ad market. Silicon-Valley start-ups developing new approaches. Younger demos tend to HATE old-fashioned online, like traditional "banners" to promote brands. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: aimClear 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdWords
This technique of crawling & scraping sites for content themes and targeting pages through the Google Content Network is nothing short of brilliant. I bought the scraper today myself. This us hyper-targeted stuff. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.ericgoldman.org)
Category: Google AdWords
It looks like courts/lawyers are finally getting savvier about broad matching. This is some wild stuff and a must read for SEM legal buffs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: aimClear 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnn.com)
Category: Networking
CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Networking
Do you know of any other police forces in the world who use Facebook for fighting crime? If not, why the hell is Greater Manchester Police the first and only police force doing this? This is a fantastic idea. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 26, 2008 - 6:09 am
Posted By: aimClear 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Lee Odden's Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Today Google was slapped with a an advertising fraud lawsuit that will be fascinating – and important – for AdWords advertisers to watch. read more »
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