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Rand Fishkin writes "Over the last couple weeks, I've seen some very cool new (and older, but "new to me") tools in the search marketing field that I think are worthy of testing to see if they make a good fit for your organization. I know I don't co read more »
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Stoney D Writes "When making changes to my website I always take the time to view them live on the web before closing up my editing software and patting myself on the back in self-satisfaction of a job well done. Even with minor changes, I like to v read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I made some changes to my sidebar and I noticed that I’ve started to build up a decent number of posts on my weird take on history, sociology, psychology, memetics, viral marketing and social media (I like to call it protoviral) read more »
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Scott Clark writes "I took note earlier of CEO David Friend and Customer Service Manager Len Pallazola of Mozy as they did some pretty fancy damage control on a negative blog post about Carbonite on Vinnie Carpenter’s blog.

As you can see, these read more »
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lnydoman writes "It took me a few moments to work out that “Ice cream” is two words and not one, as in “icecream”, or even “iscream”. Hey come on, it’s 2.30 in the AM here.
No, I do not have a payday loan blog, and no I do not sell links to any suc read more »
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Do SEO’s Really Need Clients? One question that has provoked a valid argument in my mind based on a question an acquaintance asked me a few days ago is, do SEO’s really need clients? read more »
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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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Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Barry Schwartz writes "Many of you already saw the article from the Wall Street Journal named Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan.

If not, in short it says, the company that manages the domain names, ICANN, said they will be offering read more »
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Stone deGeyter writes "There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not. When it comes read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes "It's been a big month for false positives and getting caught with spam, and I've never been one to break up a theme. Short post, but an important one that every dev team should be aware of." read more »
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Dave Synder writes "I am a slave to writing about things that I see and do in my everyday SEO efforts or searching. To me theory often fails to show value in terms of dollars. And I am in this business to make dollars." read more »
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Chris Hooley's SEO Superlatives Poll is Officially OPEN! read more »
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Mike Moran writes "Is search marketing old enough to have a good old days? If it is, then I remember them. Ah, the days when you could fire up the Overture keyword tool to see how many searches were done in the U.S. on Yahoo! for a particular keywor read more »
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Lisa Barone writes "Li Evans had a stellar post over at SEM Clubhouse entitled What Is Social Media's Purpose? Honestly, It's Not About Links. Li's post was inspired by some of the social media advice that was presented at last week's SES Toronto th read more »
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Dan Perry writes "Dave Pasternack wrote a MediaPost column today that outlines his opinion of why the “In-House vs. outsourced SEM” debate is ridiculous. It’s not surprising that he’s taking the side of agency, because that’s where his paycheck come read more »
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A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks if Google "hates" .info or .tv domains? The answer is simply no. This question was brought up at least three times last night in the Google Webmaster Live Chat event, which I documented and not only did Google's Mat read more »
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Last year, we looked at the impacts, if any, of negative SEO on websites, a discussion which arose from a Forbes article on the saboteurs of search. One year later, we're still discussing the consequences and seeing if negative SEO is still possible read more »
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Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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Marty Weintraub writes "So, I decided to wrap up SES Toronto 2008 with a seminar on accessibility, usability and SEO. First up was Jane Matz Hayes, an Information Designer at Web Feat. Jane got us all started with the concept of “findability,” which read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes "My wife, Lorna Harris, has been busy the past few months with a project she launched in beta last week: Boudica.com, a social news site for women.

Years and years ago, when we were both doing internet marketing, we got the 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 how read more »
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Ron Tovbin writes "Let’s start with the an overview of the basics. When you go to a web page, say, cnn.com , there is a lot going on behind the scenes to make that page show up in your browser. Remember, before anything can happen, a TCP/IP connecti read more »
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As I watch search marketers often continue to obsess about things like PageRank, I wanted to do a personal post / wake-up call related to our SMX Local & Mobile Search Marketing show happening next month in San Francisco, July 24-25. Because for all read more »
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Hi, my name is Tim...and I'm an SEO. I’ve been working for a small web marketing company for a few weeks now. I had a fair bit of writing experience before I got this job, but the world of online marketing and SEO is totally new to me. read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008