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Avatar Posted By: toprank 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://visualrevenue.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Yahoo! currently intends to provide the IndexTools Web Analytics service FREE of charge to clients and partners who accept the standard Yahoo! agreement. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 20, 2008 - 4:46 pm
Posted By: toprank 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
I recall a study a while back citing over 60% of companies don't implement SEO recommendations they paid for. Here are a few tips for helping SEO clients get out of the way of their own SEO success. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketwatch.com)
Category: Google
It just gets curiouser and curioser:

"Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors met Friday to discuss responses to Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition offer, including dodging the bid by outsourcing the company's search-advertising business to Google Inc., acco read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 10:17 am
Posted By: toprank 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Web Analytics
What goals do you have for your blog? Is it making a sale, generating ad revenue or building your brand? Michael Gray looks at what metrics you should be looking at to make sure you're getting ROI on your blog. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 12:24 pm
Posted By: toprank 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
Shana put together an awesome collection of resources for marketing with social media. Well done! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 27, 2007 - 6:56 am
Posted By: toprank 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over 4 years of SEM industry blogging including hundreds of conference sessions, interviews, post conference parties, 1000's of photos and many videos all add up to a nice collection of conference liveblogging tips. Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Posted By: toprank 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Guitar hero, give aways, sushi, mini hamburgers, glowing drinks, a fake Billy Idol, dancing, debauchery and Todd Friesen getting fresh with a famous SEO's mom, all documented in photos from 55 floors up in Vegas. Fun! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cinnamonpants.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I kept the original title but it should be, "Social Media Douchebags", another clever video from KommonKraft pointing out the nasty underbelly of the social media world. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 7:45 pm
Posted By: toprank 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Paid Search
Facebook's "Flyers Pro" lets advertisers target by city, gender, age, relationship status, employer, educational level, political views, and -- are you listening, Google? -- keywords. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 7:00 am
Posted By: toprank 280 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Blogging diva Dana Larson recaps the SMX Social Media conference this week highlighting the overriding messages of community, contribution and common sense networking in order to be successful at marketing with social media. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 2:04 pm
Posted By: toprank 289 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Here's a twofer interview with Danny Sullivan and Neil Patel on the definition, legitimacy and future of social media as a marketing channel. Danny and Neil also rate the top social media sites but what's up with neither of them picking StumbleUpon read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobrien.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Paul O'Brien Sphinns a tale of SEO information overload and the respite Sphinn brings with this post involving "Sphinnisms" such as Sphanntagonists, Sphinndicators and a Sphinndex.

Re Sphinn: "A beacon of hope in this hazy storm of SEO content, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 27, 2007 - 3:38 pm
Posted By: toprank 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adage.com)
Category: SEO
Danny makes great points in his Advertising Age - Digital article of how SEO is like public relations for search engines, a near and dear topic: "Ignoring SEO is like doing an ad campaign without a PR push alongside."

He also closes it up quite read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2007 - 2:12 pm
Posted By: toprank 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
Typically, prospective SEO clients send consultants a RFP with questions about staff, expertise and process to make sure the SEO firm is qualified. But what about qualifying the SEO client? The most successful search engine optimization engagements read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: toprank 338 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Tim Mayer, VP of Search at Yahoo answers this question (thanks Mike Grehan) and more in a short video interview during SES San Jose. Thanks to Tim for being such a good sport! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 11:11 am
Posted By: toprank 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Conferences are great for networking and the more niche you get the better. The Women's Luncheon is a great way to network with the big shots and pioneers in the SEM industry. RSVP soon! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2007 - 2:44 am
Posted By: toprank 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Mike talks about his ability to create a bit of controversy by speaking his mind, suggestions for improved search engine communications, the SEO public image problem, why he joined Bruce Clay, the need for “new wisdom” in the SEO industry, thoughts read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Google Searching
A few years ago I wrote about Google's Matt Cutts saying Google wasn't likely to use "user data" to influence search results and now with personalization it's pretty much accepted. Here is a short, but interesting interview with Google's personaliza read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2007 - 9:15 am
Posted By: toprank 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web-strategist.com)
Category: Networking
If you’ve not already figured it out, the corporate website is becoming less relevant, and web marketing (and support) has spread off your domain and Google results. You also know that prospects trust the opinions of existing customers (who are ‘lik read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: toprank 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
I may not read 400 SEO blogs every day, but I read at least 50-100 one day per week and these are the things that can make it a pain in the rear experience. Listen up! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webguild.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Miss the Searchnomics conference last month? No worries, because you can watch the videos of all the speakers including keynotes from: Marissa Mayer, Melanie Mitchell, Bill Tancer and James Lamberti from comScore. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 370 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sixtysecondview.com)
Category: Blogging
The CEO of Edelman Europe has posted their analysis of the top 30 influential social media oriented blogs according to a variety of criteria including: Technorati ranking, Google PageRank, RSS subscribers, Frequency of posts & comments, Alexa rankin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 373 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google
The New York Times is reporting that as of today, Google is offering small web sites a low cost site search option for as little as $100 per year. The search results will be ad-free and displayed on the owner's web site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:33 pm
Posted By: toprank 374 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Smart phones are hot and cell phone web surfing is even hotter. Here are basic tips you can implement now to start optimizing web sites for mobile search. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toprank 377 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggerdesign.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Thomas McMahon has made a cool chicklet for Sphinn making it easy for blog readers to submit stories. He'll be adding the Sphinn chicklet to the social bookmark tool as well. read more »
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