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So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
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Hot ass social media tips from Chris Winfield, Justilien Gaspard, Fionn Downhill, & Jennifer Laycock. SearchEngine People's Jennifer Osbourne hits the ball out of the park with her coverage from SES San Jose. read more »
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What happens when you do everything right and Google is just broken. read more »
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streko "i hate your seo writes:" "So much debate over blackhat crap again post SMX “give it up” session. I just figured I would help everyone out and make some ways to tell if you should consider yourself a “blackhat seo”. read more »
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Finding SEM employees is a challenge. Job sites, blogger job boards, trade organizations & word of mouth are usual recruiting channels. This post offers a list of common & creative recruiting sources from SEMPO & SEMmoz to Miami Ad School & SEM head read more »
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Lee Odden how-to: “Digital Asset Optimization” refers to the practice of taking inventory of a company’s marketable, digital assets & implementing a process for keyword optimization & promotion to relevant channels. (Easter Egg: Check out Lee's HTML read more »
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Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) reflects, in an absolutely gorgeous post from the heart, on his life as an industry muse. "Travel brings with it perspective. I like to think each time I leave, I come back a little wiser, a little older, a little closer to bui read more »
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Houston, I think we got us a another discussion! read more »
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(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. read more »
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Lee Odden's Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." read more »
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Comscore reports starting 1/08 implied Google's search volume was heading south. Many analysts interpreted this to mean Google’s Q1 2008 would suffer. That's a big WOOPS according to The Wall Street Journal and AdGooroo. David Szetela adds useful an read more »
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SEOmoz's Rebecca serves up an interesting case study regarding "how-to" write titles and headlines for social media submissions. read more »
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Muhammad Saleem writes: "This post is part 4 of 10 in our groundbreaking series on how freelancers can use social media and the principles of simplicity to build their business." read more »
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Lee Odden writes: "Personally, I think if a SEO firm outsources part of a client’s SEO or social media marketing program, they must be actively, if not intimately involved with the work." Otherwise, it’s pretty much a crap shoot what the client is a read more »
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Lee Odden Guest Post: Contributors: Brian Solis, Neil Patel, Chris Winfield, Mike Moran, Rohit Bhargava, Jeremiah Owyang, Muhammad Saleem, Jason Falls, Other sources: Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Charlene Li, Andy Hagans, Pete Cashmore, Chris Brogan, read more »
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Sphinn community stalwart Todd Mintz bares his soul to inspire us all. Friends, we're defined by the ADVERSITY we OVERCOME. Anyone can be cool when it's easy. Run Todd run...score Todd score... read more »
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CNET News.com: Networked Insights obtains third-party social network data by mining public social networks (profiles, feeds, and the like), working with 3 external companies (reps declined to name them) that sell social data. Facebook is out of boun read more »
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Daily SEISMIC search marketing shifts = NO such thing as studying too much! :) Starts TODAY! Come on SES make yourself heard! Let em' hear ya' shouting outside People! read more »
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Wicked MAD = Dumbass of the Week by Ask Kalena: "EVIL site scraping bastards STEAL content from this blog within hour of me posting it. They scrape Marty & Niall Kennedy’s blog and others, listing us all as “contributors” F'Wads. WTF? read more »
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Prospective clients have colorful & eerily similar Google PPC disaster stories. Skyrocketing costs, plummeting conversions, difficult or impossible to attain paid rankings threaten PPC viability. Show this post to clients. read more »
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Once your client has that ‘AH-HA’ blogging moment there may be NO stopping them. This post is packed with terrific insight for getting SEM clients started blogging. read more »
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A scintillating interview podcast with "Mr. Twittering in the Bath" himself. You heard it here first :) read more »
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Pitfalls in having a blog that’s like a remote island that no one knows about, no one can find, or that they wouldn't like to visit for ANY reason ANYWAY. read more »
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Over-tweeting, only twittering LINKS, etc... The age ol' freakin' tragic tweet-story if ya' ask me. read more »
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