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As silly season draws to a close, Traffick weighs in with its sixth annual Infinite Regression Awards -- an ode to circularity at its finest. This time by newcomer Matt Larkin.

We would have included the Best/Worst Sphinn About Sphinn as a catego read more »
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Did you notice those guys with the "Greedy, Link Sellers, Drunks, SEM SEOs" signs outside of the conference center at SES San Jose? :>> [PHOTO] read more »
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How can I increase conversion on my product pages? How can I maximize my site search? Why isn’t anyone using my 800 number? These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself when trying to fill the gaps that your eCommerce website may have. read more »
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I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
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Google-friendly ain't what it used to be.... read more »
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33 Reasons Why You Should Go to the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose read more »
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Barry Schwartz details some juicy new data Google is sharing about searcher behavior. You can compare search patterns by category, by location (!), and over certain time frames. It's basically search data porn for marketers. :-) read more »
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If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. Building links in this fashion cannot help but build a successful campaign. read more »
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Lauren Vaccarrelo does a great job reviewing the Google Ad Planner, which has been in beta testing for about a month now. read more »
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Danny Sullivan will be speaking at SES San Jose! In addition to Danny's return to SES, there will be lots of other must-see panels.

Check out Greg Jarboe's predictions for the top stories to come out of the conference. read more »
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If you are planning on hiring a search consultant, here is a mini-glossary along with a checklist of Q&A to help you separate the wheat from the chaff; or if you prefer, the can-do’s from the no-clue’s. read more »
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Proof positive that there are indeed women among the most successful search marketers in the industry. Perhaps they're just too busy working with a growing clientele to toot their own horns. read more »
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3 nice tips from Gabriel Goldenberg on how you can make use of Archive.org read more »
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Interesting look at PPC that uses others trademarks read more »
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Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com reviews Google's updated keyword research tool and finds much to like. Perhaps most pertinently, Andrew reminds us that the tool was created not to facilitate keyword research for SEO purposes but to help AdWords adver read more »
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Forget the screen shots and video, give Google's latest experiment a sphinn! read more »
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Knowing that the search marketing industry is currently talent constrained, I wanted to take a look at where the search marketing talent was located. To get a feel for this I chose to use SEMPO's member roster as a baseline to assess where search m read more »
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The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
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5 steps to make your Wordpress blog accessible on mobile devices. read more »
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Google has updated their Google Algorithm for Flash announcement, and I've got the details... read more »
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Carrie Hill, who has written about post-click marketing on Search Engine Watch and will speak on the subject at SES San Jose, gives her perspective on 4 key questions about post-click marketing, including: why it's taking off now, and what's the MOS read more »
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Does the Microsoft Yahoo controversy have deeper meaning? Could patent 361 be the Holy Grail of our industry?

Read about the mystery worthy of a movie. read more »
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So you finally implemented web analytics. Now what? What metrics should you look at? What do those metrics mean? read more »
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Johannes Beus of Sistrix revisited the "first anchor text" debate again last Monday and got some nice results in conjunction with image links. We translated his test results to English. read more »
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Most bloggers recognise the importance of search engine rankings. Search engines deliver the highest quality/most qualified traffic on the web. And best of all… it’s free. Thus, establishing visibility within search engines for relevant keywords & p read more »
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