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Avatar Posted By: Jill 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitelab.com)
Category: SEM
Good stuff from SiteLab:

"We’ve all heard the news by now. We’re in a recession. Or maybe not……but the economy is definitely in a downturn. Don’t fret though. Often times a recession can be the stimulus that leads your company to new heights p read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.inc.com)
Category: SEO
Inc. Technology article about optimizing blogs for increased search engine traffic.

"Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SEO) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semne.org)
Category: Blogging
After a few quick SEMNE announcements, business consultant, Ted Demopoulos took to the podium and provided everyone with an enthusiastic presentation on exactly why blogging is an essential ingredient to your online marketing mix. Read the recap her read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
More on the Search Marketing Standards discussion. ProjectPHP asks for definitions of what standards mean, and Ian McAnerin delivers with some great definitions and lots of other useful information to continue this debate. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
My latest SEL article:

Pretend you don't know anything about what your company offers and you stumbled onto it somehow. Can you tell immediately what it's all about? Can the search engines? Do this exercise with each inner page of the site as wel read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: SEO
The first in my multi-part step-by-step series at TalentZoo on exactly how to optimize your website to gain more targeted traffic and conversions.

This article focuses on the very first step in your SEO process – hunting for the keyword phrases read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 140 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I'm in Honolulu and want to meet you if you're in the area. We've got 6 so far let me know if you are interested. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 239 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Just did a spell check on my last submit and saw that Sphinn doesn't recognize the following words:

Sphinn
Google
Nofollow

:D read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 244 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Good post by Rebecca at SEOmoz about using Google Trends and KeywordDiscovery search trends data to learn when people start using various holiday keyword phrases in the engines. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insearchofstuff.com)
Category: Link Building
It's not new, but in light of Google's link buying/selling crackdown, I thought some of you might be interested in ISOS's soul sellin' link bonanza program. It won't cost much...just your soul... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Link Building
Andrew Goodman weighs in on the PageRank demotions. Andrew's take is different in that he stresses how important integrated marketing is to the internet marketing industry, and yet it is seemingly ignored by many in SEO. (Or something like that...re read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alternet.org)
Category: Google Other
Jeffrey Chester from The Nation believes Google's new marketing strategy poses a huge threat to our privacy and democratic aspirations for the Internet.

Do you agree? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 279 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Most likely, I'm just missing it somewhere, but how the heck to you send a message to someone on here? I can't find it anywhere. I see how to reply to someone who messaged you (although that doesn't always work either as I just had two errors doing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 280 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Elisabeth Osmeloski writes a good article on content creation for travel sites.

"Since content creation is the cornerstone of search engine optimization, and enticing content sells travel, finding ways to set your content apart from the masses i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 281 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
An amazing post by Gillian from SEOmoz. Partially a review of the book "Good to Great," but oh so much more! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 283 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEO
Forum member "rolf" told the community of a website design company that created a brand new site for a client completely with Flash, even though the client expressed an interest in having the website found on the search engines.

He goes on to a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hamletbatista.com)
Category: SEO
Surprised no one has submitted this yet! Hamlet Batista has an interesting article on reverse proxy, and a good discussion on whether a particular software that uses the technique is cloaking against search engine guidelines or not. Tough one to de read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 284 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
It seems that once the formatting box was added this weekend, as others have commented, we can't create new paragraphs.  All comment sentences have to run together like a big jumbled mess.  Just wondering if a fix for this is in the works? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 286 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.boston.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I don't know if this is Sphinn-worthy or not, but I can't help but want to self-promote the Boston Globe's profile that came out on me today! :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Great post by Kim Krause Berg as to why she's not into social media sites. read more »
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