toddmintz

Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 8 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 9 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 5 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 7 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 9:11 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: SEM
David scores Matt's first post-Marchex interview where he questions Matt about search, photography, life, and his future plans.

See Matt McGee in Portland at the next SEMpdx Hot Seat event 5/20: http://www.sempdx.org/Events/?launch_pg=EventPag read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Certainly the most "out there" piece I've written to date, I attempt to link SEO with the concept of Surrealism, the art of Salvador Dali, and the mysteries surrounding extraordinary personal perception and its nexus to success in our industry.

H read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 7:55 am
Posted By: toddmintz 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Recently, we've seen multiple stories that were hot in our space get featured in mainstream media...this being only the latest example. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 5:04 am
Posted By: toddmintz 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

BTW, please follow @d read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 12, 2008 - 10:41 am
Posted By: toddmintz 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Link Building
Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn't evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won't be able to acheiv read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
Yesterday, Dan Perry twittered that he was looking for criteria to evaluate SEO interns. As I answered him, I realized that social networking has really turned the criteria of evaluating employees / contractors on its head. Perhaps Seth Godin is r read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Our Searchfest 08 event was tremendously successful and represented an opportunity for our audience to not only learn from the best Search Marketing Professionals in the industry, but was a wonderful networking and business opportunity for anybody i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: toddmintz 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEM
(Not an April Fools Joke). I asked several of our SEMpdx members to offer their analysis on this very important topic and they've offered some terrific information. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
My last post got pretty personal...this follow-up post takes me back to the core reason why I write search engine articles: to offer value to the search engine community via education. This post focuses on how best to utilize your keyword research read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 12:16 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Social Media
David Wallace's blog post on the flawed launch of LinkedIn's corporate profiles. David offers some amusing anecdotes found when searching for colleagues & shares with us a customer service snafu when he tried to get his own company profile in Linke read more »
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