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While SERPs give project managers nice, clean numbers to report to their CEO, there's more to SEO than just ranking. William Flaiz examines the true value of keywords and some common misconceptions surrounding them. read more »
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Huge site? No problem! Avenue A | Razorfish VP William Flaiz explains how to tackle SEO for the big boys. read more »
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When you hear the word "conversion" do you automatically think "shopping cart", "secure server", or "SSL"? It's O.K. if you do, most people think along those lines when they hear talk about converting visitors to buyers. When people first started read more »
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During this past week’s Diggnation podcast, Kevin Rose offered up some insight into the Digg algorithm which may or may not be the most eye-opening of revelations. It’s something that I figured out pretty quickly and that is that there is an element read more »
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The SEO community has been foaming at the mouth lately over whether or not we need standards for the industry. Standards won't signal maturity, but will rather lead to homogenization of industry strategy. Ethical and educative issues should be addre read more »
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It's starting to seem almost unfair to MSN that so many other forces are combining to keep Yahoo out of their hands, now including Google, Time Warner, and AOL. Barry Schwartz gets the "scoop" on this story at SEL. read more »
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Yes it's time for everyone's favorite gameshow; Do we need SEO standards? - in this episode Chris Boggs chimes in with his thoughts for the 'Pro' camp. Watch as the drama unfolds!

SEO Standards Signal the Maturing of Our Industry - Search Engine read more »
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"Using these metrics, you can increase your videos' view counts and improve your popularity on the site," the blog post explains. "With this information, you can concentrate on creating compelling new content that appeals to your target audiences, a read more »
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Social Media started on message boards and now everybody is using it. You never know who has a video camera or where the footage will end up according to Li Evans from SES New York read more »
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Li Evans has a great wrap-up of her SES panel + audience Q&A. Final panelist: William Flaiz, VP SEO & Web Analytics AvenueA/Razorfish and Search Engine Watch Expert: covers Wikipedia, Flickr, Photobucket, Social Profiles, YouTube, Squidoo and more. read more »
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Search Marketing Gurus will be the vehicle driving most of the questions during the Calacanis keynote at SES NYC. Li has asked for tough ones, so lets not disappoint her eh?

The Rules:

You cannot ask "Jason why are you such an jerk?" or any ot read more »
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For edition 31 I bring you two women from two entirely different spectrums of the online universe. One woman I've come to greatly admire and respect, not just for our love of a TV Hero who wields "Mr. Pointy" (hey now, get your mind out of the gutt read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008