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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
Now that Adobe & Google are getting Flash indexed is it time to let your graphic designer go crazy? Popular blogger Ian Laurie is holding-up a big yellow caution sign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: Google AdWords
The team at Portent Interactive is answering your questions about PPC. --- This post is all about finding killer keywords for your campaign. --- Ask your own question in the comments.

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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://twistori.com)
Category: News Sites
This is so cool! Click on any of love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish and see all the hopes, dreams and despairs of Twitter users scroll across your screen. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Here is one to show the execs. Attracting your sales or conversion audience takes more than posting a bunch of brochure verbiage. It's about recognizing how the Internet operates and cultivating that reality.

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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.microsoft.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
"Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and com read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 159 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
As SEO-people and bloggers and marketers we are all good at crafting SEO-to-SEO linkbait. All you have to do is toss up a list of your favorite Firefox add-ons or keyword research tools and you'll get a hundred links.

The real test is in the comm read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Ian thinks SEO Confessions is a sleazy ‘get ranked quick’ scam dressed-up in black sunglasses and spikey hair.

"If someone tells you they have software that completely automates the SEO process, run, screaming. Do not get in the car, do not accep read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Social Media
Portent Interactive President Ian Lurie provides an actual HTML template for creating your very own Social Media Press Releases along with step-by-step directions on how to create them. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seocritique.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Poor Harry Potter. Obviously Harry has never been to a wizarding conference where he could meet famous magicals from around the country and the world. Harry could make lots of friends and take part in time-honored traditions like exchanging spells a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 266 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Networking
This week the Search Engine Optimization Group on Facebook topped 800 members. Included among the members are many long-time, well-known and highly regarded SEO professionals, including the group's officers listed here:

Ammon Johns
Andy Beal
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Yahoo
I got a Yahoo! Button in the mail today. Well, um, actually it was addressed to my wife and her business. But she said I can have it so I got a Yahoo! Button in the mail today!

Would you like to see my shiny purple Yahoo! Button.
I'll show you w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jeffpaul.tv)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Lately when I have been turning on my television I have been greeted by an excited Tina Milano and Kelly Britz gabbing with each other about Jeff Paul's ten free website businesses opportunity, excited, thrilled and with their boobs strategically fr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to https://fortress.wa.gov)
Category: Google
Every now and then I look to see who is hiring for Internet talent. It is a great barometer of the industry. I was surprised to see Google looking for the best of the best on our State job board. Kudos to Google! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Search Marketing
The first step in any search marketing project is keyword research, deciding what keywords you will optimize for. How do you find the words that both describe what your website or document is all about and match the words and phrases that people are read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 286 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Google
Why are people reporting that their Google PageRank is going down but that their rankings are unaffected?

Tom Schmitz at Marketing Piranha thinks he knows and shares all. This is a detailed discussion of how PageRank works, the chaotic nature of read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 291 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Searching
I must say that I like the new design and interface that Yahoo! is using for Search.

This morning I was doing a SEO run and my link stats were coming-up blank. I went to see why and, well shucks, everything was different.

Go to http://search.y read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 321 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Blogging
In its feeds, Feedburner does not provide a link to the original content. Instead the company provides a link to Feedburner. That link is then 302 Temporary Redirected to the original content. (See an example in the original post.)

My understandi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 332 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Domaining
Are gangster-style domain name protection rackets the next big scam?
This morning I received the following email:

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Dear CEO

We are Shanghai SPS Network Technology Co., Ltd which is the domain name register center in Ch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: SEO
SEO is not evil and anyone who says it is, especially after all this time, is either angry that they’re not getting any or they are trolling. I think we can all agree that there are more lackluster or ineffective PR campaigns than effective ones. Th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 343 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Now appearing on The Sphinn Zone, it's The Spam Thread.

Nothing is more pathetic than a SEO or SEM professional sending Spam to another SEO or SEM professional.

Let's out the Spammers!
When you get an email, bring it here an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 349 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Blogging
I often ask, "Are you blogging in a vacuum?" If you want to attract readers and build a loyal audience, if you want to generate buzz and word of mouth marketing you must do more than write strong articles or stories. You have to leave the virtual co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seocritique.com)
Category: SEO
Q. What does SEO and W3C validation, or any other type of validation, have to do with each other?

A1. Everyone seems to have an opinion.

A2. Reading discussions about it is like casually scratching your back on a bed of rusty nails. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 354 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A Great Step-by-Step Tutorial w/ Video & Pictures!

Use Google Analytics filters to create detailed, easy-to-read on-site search reports. Ian Laurie, President of Portent Interactive, writes, "I've seen conversion rates jump by as much as 20% on s read more »
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