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Avatar Posted By: ckata 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Surely the topic of using negative keywords for organic search engine result pages has come up before but I've not seen any discussions myself. We posed the question on our blog and now I want to know what everyone thinks about it, and why the big read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Local & Maps
I was doing some research looking for additional local directories in the city of Toronto for some of our local clients. After searching on the obvious "toronto business directories" I came across a ZIPLocal listing on Page 1 of Google which contain read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
We've come across so many SEOs who only want to charge their clients for rankings and neglect conversions. Clients do SEO in order to get traffic to grow their business. By ignoring this fundamental fact, SEOs are limiting their potential to earn mo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 237 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
After coming across several clients who had inadvertently hired very shady or less than reputable search engine optimization companies we decided to write a set of questions a business should ask when evaluating search engine optimization companies. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.purposeinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Tony Clifton is back in Vegas for another run of sensational shows and decided to join in on the PubCon Charity Poker Tournament put on by PurposeInc.com!

Tony, while well known for his exceptional talents as a lounge singer / entertainer has bee read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Networking
The boomer generation is fast becoming a top marketing demographic. Have a look at this list of 19 boomer related social media / networking sites we came across while doing some research for a prospective client.

Do some research into the size of read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 316 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Some first impressions of the CMA (Canadian Marketing Assocation Conference in Toronto. One of the coolest things I've seen - Quick Codes!

We'll be posting more as the day progresses. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Water Cooler
We're all working hard to grow our businesses. Over the last few years, I've concluded that creativity is a huge part of being successful in business. I've also concluded that it's the creativity in an individual that has a large role to play in the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Water Cooler
We've been running our blog for several months now and the one area we've found challenging is adding blogs to our blogroll. Perhaps we're being way too strict on the quality of sites we're adding, perhaps not. The sole entry goes to Courtney Tuttle read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Does anyone else think John C. Dvorak is the perfect co host to keep a show on topic? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://arstechnica.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This is rediculous! I've seen the infomercials, and he likely deserves the criticism! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
A list of 6 proverbs and their applicability to online conduct and intermet marketing in general. Have a look, we think you'll enjoy the information! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailymoolah.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Daily Moolah brings to our attention a free heatmap application. I'm interested in knowing what people think of the tool after they've used it.  read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo!'s acquisition of newspapers appears to be saving them. Find out more... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seekingalpha.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google still on top of search - is anyone surprised? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbabel.com)
Category: Other Searching
Wow. I am surprised I'd not heard of this myself! Has anyone else missed this one, or we alone? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.startupbooster.com)
Category: Bookmarking
A really nice twist on bookmarking. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://scobleizer.com)
Category: Blogging
A great post by Robert Scoble re Twitter. Well worth the read. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seekingalpha.com)
Category: Google Other
Google shares hit an all time high and it has a market cap of close to $175 billion. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
A little while ago, the Google Ad Words team released a new tool designed to help advertisers create ad texts. If you are running a PPC campaign, the tool can be found by accessing the campaign management tab, clicking on tools and then clicking on read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Other Searching
We've put together a short list of 10 People Search sites we feel are worth participating in.

If you know of others, or disagree with our list, please comment with your recommendations! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dvorak.org)
Category: Microsoft Other
Why am I not surprised :) ? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.iqcontent.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A really good useability study that claims users don't click on Google AdWords ads. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Other Social Media
PopURLs.com is an interesting site which aggregates the feeds from the most popular sites online today and places them all one single easy to read page. If you don’t have the time to setup your own feed reader with all of these URL’s take PopURL’s o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 354 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Social Media
AOL is launching a new collaborative multimedia story telling service called BlueString at TechCrunch 40. The site ,is a Flex application that lets you pull in all your image, video, and audio content from across the web and mix them together into a read more »
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