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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Domaining
Are you an unhappy Sonics fan that just lost their basketball team? Here's one way to get back at Clayton Bennett. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: SEO
Scott Hendison writes about 10 important SEO factors that an intermediate level SEO needs to understand in order to do optimum work on his/her site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Scott Hendison writes an excellent WordPress reference article for a Wordpress novice user. Great advice from true WordPress expert. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM
Ian Lurie's very blunt post which argues that many good things will happen to folks who invest in professional SEM services even though the results are hard to lay out precisely in advance of the campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: SEM
A guest post on the ShoeMoney blog by anonymous female SEO who says...well, the title says it all. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Guest-posting on Problogger, Mark Dykeman describes Seth Godin's "blogging dip" and relates his own experiences to Godin's ideas. Very open and revealing, Mark hit a home run with this post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Looks like Microsoft has openly acknowledged Wikipedia favoritism...

"We realize that often you just need to get a sense of what your query is about. Wikipedia is great for that — you can learn enough from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia artic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://massa.techndu.com)
Category: SEO
Bob Massa's excellent post on a rarely talked about topic where he does an excellent job explaining what most SEO veterans know instinctively (when and how the campaign is making progress) but might find hard to quantify. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Google Other
Where I argue that online reputation management isn't just about beating down negative information but creating a fully realized multi-dimensional portrait within Google's SERPS that would impress a diverse group of people who might be checking up o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Where I make the argument that Social Media is "the New Communication" and make analogies between embracing the social media medium / lifestyle and taking the type of trip that Dr. Albert Hoffman (R.I.P.) invented. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Can a lifestyle brand create a total shopping experience within the confines of the web?

Alex Hughart argues that online retailers need to "lifestyle" via images & words in order to capture consumer attention. She definitely offers a smart viewpo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketingperformance.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEMpdx, along with Corvent LLC, will begin hosting monthly search webinars. Our first webinar will feature Stoney DeGeyter who will talk about "Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website". It will take place on 5/22/08 at 1 EDT/ 10 PDT. Re read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stuntdubl.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"NLP seemed to go well beyond SEO for me. It has become more a philosophy that has helped to structure my way of life in being more solution oriented than problem oriented."

We can all do worse than follow the examples of the smartest folks in read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.quicksprout.com)
Category: Networking
C'mon folks, do I really need to tell you what this is about? Another brilliant post by Neil. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
A quick post that makes the argument that if you can categorize your Twitter followers into distinct groups and do some "strategic tweeting" towards each group, you can increase the volume and value of your Twitter conversations. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEM
Adam Audette argues that many of the problems faced in our industry are because of the limitations in our language to describe what we do for a living. He believes that we're "internet marketers" and that SEO is only a portion of what we do (and it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A guest post from SEMpdx member Amber Case, describing Jott, a voice to text service that now allows direct posting to Twitter. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scottfish.com)
Category: Display Advertising
Scott Fish describes 7 different types of ads that businesses can use to drive sales...and some of the choices aren't obvious and are ones I wouldn't have thought about. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Brian has always been one of my favorite bloggers and I'm glad he too the time to answer some of my questions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
The Seattle SuperSonics have hired an SEM firm to help sell more tickets (after telling the community they're moving to Oklahoma City ASAP, abandoning 41 years of basketball history). This might be my first "rant"... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conceptualist.com)
Category: Domaining
Sahir Sahid's blog post where he attempts to explain the concept of "value" simply and then basically says that "value" is defined differently by different people.

The blog post is interesting...the level and quality of comments to this blog post read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainnamenews.com)
Category: Domaining
A while back, people (including me) did Sphinn posts criticizing Network Solutions and some of its policies. Well, there is now a class action suit against Network Solutions for their actions plus ICANN was also named in the suit for allowing Netwo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Domaining
The behavior of Network Solutions today in regards to this domain name is far fishier than John McCain's "alleged" behavior...I'd like to hear their explanation of what happened here. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: Blogging
You would think an organization like CNN would know the reprecussions of their actions (and at least attempt to consider how the blogosphere would react to such a sudden termination), but apparently not. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainnews.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Allegedly, this guy is an SEO (http://www.domainnews.com/editors-bios/matt-robson/) yet he writes the following:

"Your homepage probably isn’t worth a link..."

"Know your competition, and you will know how many links you need to gain."

...a read more »
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