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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Social Media
David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Where we set forth the Internet's "Power 15" for brand influence. If your brand rocks on these 15 sites, your sales should rock as well. By contrast, bad news on these sites can really hurt your business. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 1 day 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 8:11 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 1 day 9 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Scott Hendison offers his opinion as to whether the SMX Advanced "Give It Up" speakers strayed into black hat territory. Excellent review of the session. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Domaining
Are you an unhappy Sonics fan that just lost their basketball team? Here's one way to get back at Clayton Bennett. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: SEO
Scott Hendison writes about 10 important SEO factors that an intermediate level SEO needs to understand in order to do optimum work on his/her site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Scott Hendison writes an excellent WordPress reference article for a Wordpress novice user. Great advice from true WordPress expert. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: toddmintz 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Google SEO
I had a great conversation with Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced. I didn't get to tell him all that I wanted to, so here's my do-over... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM
Ian Lurie's very blunt post which argues that many good things will happen to folks who invest in professional SEM services even though the results are hard to lay out precisely in advance of the campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
In this guest post, SEMpdx member Jerome Thorp argues that MVC Site Architecture should be used with care because though it apparently is endorsed by the search engines, it seems to go against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: toddmintz 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Aaron was one of the best presenters at Searchfest 2008 and I had a great conversation with him at dinner following the show. Aaron will be bringing the Online Marketing Summit on the road this summer with a stop in Portland on August 5th. He agreed read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: SEM
A guest post on the ShoeMoney blog by anonymous female SEO who says...well, the title says it all. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Scott Hendison's Top Ten Things he learned at SMX Advanced. Whether you attended the show or not, Scott's gleaned some good nuggets that are worth highlighting and examining closely. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Guest-posting on Problogger, Mark Dykeman describes Seth Godin's "blogging dip" and relates his own experiences to Godin's ideas. Very open and revealing, Mark hit a home run with this post. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
SEMpdx Member Tracy Chapman shares with the Yahoo PPC folks (and us) why she won't allow her Yahoo accounts to be optimized without her consent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: toddmintz 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm's excellent analysis of the Google Local / Map Algorithm which argues in compelling fashion that citations (mentions of the business without a link) play an important role in ranking well in the Google's Local Listings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Looks like Microsoft has openly acknowledged Wikipedia favoritism...

"We realize that often you just need to get a sense of what your query is about. Wikipedia is great for that — you can learn enough from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia artic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://massa.techndu.com)
Category: SEO
Bob Massa's excellent post on a rarely talked about topic where he does an excellent job explaining what most SEO veterans know instinctively (when and how the campaign is making progress) but might find hard to quantify. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 31, 2008 - 11:30 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Adam Audette offers the six guiding principles that he uses to run his company, and unlike similar posts, educates and guides without becoming preachy or didactic. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Google Other
Where I argue that online reputation management isn't just about beating down negative information but creating a fully realized multi-dimensional portrait within Google's SERPS that would impress a diverse group of people who might be checking up o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 5:23 am
Posted By: toddmintz 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
An aweseome post by one of the final Twitter holdouts, David Mihm, where he owns up to the errors of his ways and describes how he came to see the light. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 6:17 am
Posted By: toddmintz 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
I blogged Matt McGee's SEO Success Pyramid Presentation at the SEMpdx SEM Hot Seat last night...here's what he said: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 4:45 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Where I demonstrate how widely and deeply Twitter has permeated so many different facets of people's lives.

Sphinn users that are included in this story: @leeodden, @dannysullivan, @mattmcgee, @lyndoman, @audette & @onreact_com. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Where I make the argument that Social Media is "the New Communication" and make analogies between embracing the social media medium / lifestyle and taking the type of trip that Dr. Albert Hoffman (R.I.P.) invented. read more »
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