Jill

Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 12:15 am
Posted By: Jill 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: Jill 112 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
In reviewing the "What's New" posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.

Unfortunately, the good stuff was few read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Posted By: Jill 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Holly Buchanan has a great article on how to break stereotypes by using User Personas.

From the article:

How many times have you sat down to write a piece of copy and the ideas simply did not flow? It used to happen to me a lot, until I star read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Jill 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: SEO
Thought I'd stir up some additional SEO controversy here and point out my article over at Talent Zoo.

"Have you been held hostage by a search engine optimization (SEO) or search marketing company who claims that your search engine rankings will read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 19, 2008 - 10:58 pm
Posted By: Jill 169 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I've been busy the past few weeks and haven't had a chance to trawl the "What's New Posts" like I usually do. In reviewing them today, it seems like the percentage of get-rich-quick posts and blogs are overtaking those having to do with search marke read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 1:56 am
Posted By: Jill 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEO
A High Rankings Advisor subscriber wonders if there's some SEO software he can get that will SEO his site for him. I tried to let him down easy... ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2007 - 3:25 am
Posted By: Jill 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO Chick, Julie Joyce asks, "As a world class SEO, could you be replaced by an ape?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 11:21 am
Posted By: Jill 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Blogging
Cool post by Li Evans showcasing many of our most popular posts and articles. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2007 - 5:46 am
Posted By: Jill 239 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Just noticed links in Sphinn comments are no longer nofollowed. Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I haven't been browsing much during the week.

When did this get put into place, and is it permanent?

Is it actually a good idea? I n read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 1:27 pm
Posted By: Jill 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Not really search marketing related, but since many of us write for a living (while we're not SEO'ing), I thought this forum discussion on the pros and cons of copyright laws and whether we should have them or not, might interest you. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 28, 2007 - 8:32 am
Posted By: Jill 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lonelymarketer.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A nice post complimenting Robert Clough on how he handled my supposed criticism of his advertising model. I totally agree that Robert handled it nicely, and I would like to think I would have done exactly the same! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 8:44 pm
Posted By: Jill 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketmotive.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
John Marshall from MarketMotive has a great post about not paying for traffic. He says, "I may well be packed-to-the-gills with hubris, but why am I so sure that paying for traffic is always wrong?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 1:39 pm
Posted By: Jill 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Link Building
I had to get in on all the paid-links rants...

"My guess is that the toolbar PR penalty is just that — a lowering of visible PR in order to make a statement." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 8:30 am
Posted By: Jill 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
My latest Search Engine Land article:
"Fall is the time of year when we start to look at where search marketing is heading. Looking at the latest search marketing conference agendas, articles, and online news in the SEM space, it certainly appears read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: Jill 280 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO Hack professing his love for me, umm...kinda sorta ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2007 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: Jill 288 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Blogging
Danny, can you somehow automatically make any post about BlogRush be filtered out as spam?  <sigh> read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 12:10 am
Posted By: Jill 307 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
When I visit Sphinn, I often scan the What's New section as well as the What's Hot section. There's a lot of stuff in both of them and all I have to go on is the Title and the Description the Sphinner decides to post.

I personally know that cer read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2007 - 9:19 am
Posted By: Jill 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Blogging
Jane Copland has a good post about not having to always respond when you see negative statements about you in blogs or forums. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2007 - 5:35 am
Posted By: Jill 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A fun post from the folks at KoMarketing! I relate to far too many of them... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2007 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Jill 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Blogging
These past few weeks I’ve watched how things played out in the blogosphere after breaking the story of Google’s new “unavailable_after” tag. I have to say that what I learned was extremely interesting and educational to me! I have been writing art read more »
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