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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.physorg.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The head of the US Senate's antitrust panel has pledged a "careful review" of the joint venture on online search advertising announced by Yahoo and Google.

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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
In a bid to boost its Web search traffic, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a deal that will make its Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard Co. personal computers ... the largest PC maker in the world.

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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Interesting ... optimizing for Google Local just got more important. With the incidence of in-car GPS units skyrocketing, and Google Maps now sending info right to Garmin units ... there's much opportunity afoot. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 113 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Over the last few months, we've been noticing what appears to be an "overactive Google filter", that we believe filters out completely legitimate results (I'd like to hear from Matt though ... it is possible that its something else). Its rare, but s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Tad has an interesting post detailing 3 different approaches to reputation management. He goes further too to identify tactics that many use to help with reputation management that really only serve to aggravate the problems.

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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://postworthy.com)
Category: Blogging
Landon offers good advice for those looking to get recognized or acknowledged by A-Listers. Leave an A-List Calling Card in the form of something to capture their attention through Google alerts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chrisg.com)
Category: SEO
Chris Garrett has a great post discussing the limitations of link baiting too often. Is the quality of traffic from link bait inferior? Will readers suffer from "bait fatigue"? Absolutely, quality content must be inserted liberally throughout.

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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wired.com)
Category: Blogging
A very interesting visual representation on what happens after you hit 'Publish' on your blog post. Someone's put in a great deal of work here!

Worth a look! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Jeff draws an analogy between predator / prey relationships in the wilds of Africa to keyword selection and the thrill of the hunt for coveted #1 position in search. What a great read!

Maybe SEO satisfies a primal instinct of ours? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: Social Media
Mark Dykeman asks "how should we define Social Media?" as the current definition at Wikipedia appears inadequate. Mark then proposes a definition, and is asking you to help.

Here's your change to help sculpt a more appropriate definition. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: SEO
Eric does a study of images appearing in the blended search results of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask for specific queries, and makes some interesting observations.

Good post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Skellie does it yet again. A fantastic post designed to help write better blog posts by laying the information out in a easy to incorporate fashion. What a great post.

She is a guru! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Social Media
Glen has a great post about 6 new features he'd like to see at Mixx. Its already more user friendly than most other social news sites, but these features requests would help even more.

Watch out for Mixx ... its definitely an up-and-comer! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 183 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org announces its 5 core initiatives that will be the focus of its social responsibility activities. Using its strong information and technology infrastructure, Google.org will partner with experienced experts in t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Great post by Dave (theGypsy) about a patent filing he came across. Microsoft would like to use your biometrics to assess your reaction to search results ... and Dave walks us through how it might go by talking to his toolbar :)

Great post! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketer.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A great summary of recent research showing the dramatic increase in the use of search in the b2b purchase process. It looks very good for our industry! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hellyeahdude.com)
Category: Search Marketing
A great post detailing 12 ways to add content to your Wordpress powered site automatically. He's not talking about black hat techniques here, but rather getting creative with other acceptable opportunities.

Great post! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediatrader.com)
Category: Social Media
A really good graphical analysis of the types of content that are popular on Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Delicious, and StumbleUpon.

Great piece for social media gurus looking for an edge! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usereffect.com)
Category: Other
Dr. Pete discusses strategies to use to get your boss to pay for YOU to goto related conferences. What an ingenious post. If you missed Pubcon in Vegas, SES or SMX in New York, or are going to miss SMX in Santa Clara in February ... this post is for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Bill Slawski talks about Yahoo possibly using information gathered from their toolbars and browser plugins to personalize and refine search results, but also to provide "Yahoo Answers" answers.

Bill rules! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.praized.com)
Category: Google
As reported by Sebastien Provencher, Google is now offering free trackable phone numbers to advertisers in the U.S., with phone activity reporting through the AdWords interface. Yes you did hear me correct ... he is asserting that the numbers are fr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Eric Enge reveals a widget case study they completed for the Cliq widget. Interesting, as it has 2 real implications:
1) widgets can be a great internet marketing/viral tool
2) as a blogger, Cliq can help increase your traffic and RSS subscribers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Some Canadian Google Adwords advertisers are switching their account to U.S. dollar accounts to take advantage of the weak U.S. dollar, and are willing to risk their account history.

Interesting ... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Social Media
A consumer advocacy group called MoveOn is claiming that Facebook's Project Beacon advertising system is ruining Christmas for many. Josh Catone takes them to task for this statement and analyzes the real impact.

Interesting piece! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingcharts.com)
Category: Social Media
Very interesting comparison of web 2.0 behaviors in the U.S vs China.

Snippet - User-generated content (consumer reviews/rating sites, forum/discussion boards, blogs, etc.) influences 58% of all purchase decisions in China, compared with 19% in read more »
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