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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Blogging
Which keywords should you use in your title? In your blog post? Optimize your posts for more search volume if you use Wordpress! Wordpress plugin that adds convenient sub menu style links to Google's Keyword Suggestion tool, KeywordDiscovery's free read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 1 day 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Sweet Google Logo Music Video Done to Michael Jackson's Just Beat it...lol! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Eric Enge and Rand discuss white, gray and black hat link building techniques that were mentioned at SMX Advanced. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
:) You have to see Matt Cutts' moves in this music video! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwords.blogspot.com)
Category: Google AdWords
New version 6.0! This version includes new bulk editing tools, better downloading for account statistics, and a new option for updating minimum CPC bids. We've also listened to users' requests for support within AdWords Editor for CPC placement targ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.grokdotcom.com)
Category: Google Searching
Take a look at Google’s 1998 homepage and see if you can guess its most innovative feature... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: SEM
The SEM Daily page lists some of the top resources (18 of them for now) for paid search/sem and their most recent blog posts. Similar to AllTop.com while leaning towards a PPC focus with a healthy dose of SEO mixed in. More resources will be added read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Don't forget to count and measure your micro conversions! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://flickr.com)
Category: Water Cooler
What the...a freaky Danny cut out on flikr...found this funny picture in the "Search in Pictures" post on Search Engine Land today. All credit to Search Engine Land for the find - here is that post url:

http://searchengineland.com/080321-120131.p read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Searching
iMedix is one of the more exciting vertical search engines on the market. Not only are they a recipient of the Best New Startup Award from the Crunchies, they're also very highly regarded in the marketplace by a lot of smart players. Not everyone's read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Do you agree with these numbers? $1.35 - Average value to a retail Web site of a visitor who comes in through a search result. $1.91 - Value of someone who comes through a paid search ad. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingsherpa.com)
Category: SEO
PDFs are a great way to publish content. They are consistent, lockable and high-quality. But if PDFs aren’t created properly, search engines won’t be able to index what’s inside -- resulting in a huge waste of quality content. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://roshanbh.com.np)
Category: SEO
Covers the most common ways to quickly rewrite urls so they are more friendly for search engines and users. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcdiscussions.com)
Category: Google AdWords
The AdWords quality score is a sore spot for some advertisers, a non issue to others and a mystery to others. I receive dozens of e-mails a week with paid search questions and more than half of them are in some way related to the AdWords quality sco read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Rimm-Kaufmann shares some excellent advice about building and managing huge keyword lists. It really is "all in the bidding". From the article: "Getting tail bids wrong en masse is suicide." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clixmarketing.com)
Category: Google AdSense
David discusses the latest and greatest way AdSense publishers can make money - with video advertisements. David says: "These media types are scary to many advertisers because they seem to be so far outside their “text ad comfort zone."...advertiser read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 152 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysmblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
Excluded keyword limits have increased from 50 to 250 to help relevance read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Search Marketing
1. How-To Customize Your Google Analytics Dashboard; 2. Google Analytics KPI Gadget for iGoogle; 3. SAP Business KPI Community; read 5 more... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.youtube.com)
Category: Google AdWords
On this channel, you can watch Fred Vallaeys, our AdWords Evangelist, discuss conversion tracking and bid management, learn the basics of ad quality, receive tips on how to brainstorm negative keywords, or view a webinar on the AdWords Conversion Op read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Paid Search
Sometimes a marketer makes a mistake by pulling the trigger before aiming. We have all done it - I know you’re lying if you tell me it hasn’t ever happened to you.

Does this cycle happen more often than we would like to admit?

Perform Minimal read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clixmarketing.com)
Category: Microsoft
Letter to Microsoft that makes a lot of sense - if the acquisition is approved on all fronts, they should make swift use of Panama. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apollosem.org)
Category: Google AdWords
My natural inclination is to share. I like sharing information, personal stories, problems, news, tools, life, etc. It’s just who I am and I think that’s one reason I love this industry…

That was until I felt the wrath of Google over the past wee read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apollosem.org)
Category: Google AdWords
I believe the Quality Scores that are visible to us in AdWords are only there to give us a vague idea of keyword relevancy to everything else - which is nothing new. Perhaps the new part is that I think REAL Quality Scores are dynamic and change EVE read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apollosem.org)
Category: Blogging
You have to see this picture - very funny! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameszol 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcdiscussions.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Earlier today I came across what I will describe as the most uninformed, embarrassingly inaccurate description of AdWords I've ever seen that wasn't written as a joke.

The title of the article linked to above is Tech Solutions Your Small Biz' Can read more »
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