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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: Gab 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Google Other
Mike Blumenthal published a fascinating interview/case study into how one personal injury lawyer in LA got himself banned while the competition continues to spam. As usual, Google is unresponsive on the whole (Maps guide Jen is the tiny exception). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 9:11 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: SEM
David scores Matt's first post-Marchex interview where he questions Matt about search, photography, life, and his future plans.

See Matt McGee in Portland at the next SEMpdx Hot Seat event 5/20: http://www.sempdx.org/Events/?launch_pg=EventPag read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Infinite 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Celebrating a small business owner who "gets" the importance of online marketing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 12:15 am
Posted By: Jill 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seosurvivor 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
In another case of major mapspam (discovered first by Imnotadoctor), a SMB-local internet market firm, Big Local, has captured many of the top positions in the Google Maps "onebox" for the category "internet consulting." Below are some examples from read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Posted By: bledsoeut 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Search Marketing
This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 8:23 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialmediamom.com)
Category: Social Media
Kristen M. invited me to write about being a Social Media Dad on her "Social Media Mom" blog. In the article, I wonder how young is too young for a child to start blogging....would love to hear your thoughts! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 3:47 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Danny Sullivan writes, "At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 17, 2008 - 1:35 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Online Marketing
David Mihm shares "the ten most essential strategies that I have found to be effective for maximizing my clients’ online presence since 2004." He covers the whole range of online marketing options in short, digestable chunks. Great stuff! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 8:06 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ibegin.com)
Category: Local & Maps
An thoughtful response by Ahmed of iBegin to the recent Yahoo Affiliate Mapspam reports asking:

•What is mapspam?
•What is a reasonable approach to to the varying forms of it?
•How do we respond to it?.
•What are the technical and human limits read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 2:47 am
Posted By: earlpearl 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
An excellent article, Mike, and excellent suggestions. It is an unfortunate byproduct of universal search and multiple algo's that the effort by Google to provide "better information" is at times providing "inferior and erroneous" information. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: timcohn 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Blumenthal's update on Google's plan to address their Local Business Center categorization issues which have affected small businesses since LBC's inception. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 10:24 pm
Posted By: christographer 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Many of you have had your entire portfolio of clients blown up because you relied on several core link building tactics that were doomed to fail. Your job now should not be to blame Google for your situation, but to recognize what matters now, what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: AutomotiveSEO 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Online Marketing
All in all, the Purple Cow is a good read and if you do get it, enjoy the ideas and remember to put them into practice. A book like this waxes poetic on marketing ideologies but it’s useless if you don’t take that big step to create a Purple Cow. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Halfdeck 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Eric Ward: "...research of a well thought out link building campaign gives me a rush. The execution is fun too, because this is when the links actually start to appear, but the execution is really just the residue of the process, just like a diamond read more »
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Avatar Posted By: linkmoses 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Here we go again... The Associated Press (AP) is suing news aggregation site Moreover and parent company VeriSign, claiming copyright infringement for, among other things, linking to the AP news without permission (here's the complaint in PDF format read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 12:00 am
Posted By: CameronOlthuis 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.investors.com)
Category: SEO
Why it's advantageous for smaller businesses to focus on SEO instead of PPC. Some great quotes in there from one of our own, Chris Winfield. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 2:18 am
Posted By: Wiep 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Sometimes the answer to a link building problem is to accept the reality of the market you are in, and cut your losses. Sometimes the answer is spend an incremental amount to try a vertical approach. Either way, the key as always is to recognize you read more »
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Avatar Posted By: davidmihm 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Local SEO expert Matt McGee provides a great look at what REALLY goes into local SEO & what makes it so difficult in many cases. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andrewsho 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: SEO
Did you know that some of the biggest sites are using your business data to rank well while simultaneously preventing you from ranking with a "nofollow" tag? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 10:03 am
Posted By: earlpearl 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal describes how Yahoo! Local allows MapSpam, that violates TOS, is lucrative, easy to do, possibly violates the spirit of laws in 22 states, and doesn't seem to have a method to prevent it's widespread use. This is just the latest of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 7:15 am
Posted By: Lyndon 306 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google
From the page, "I thought it might make a fun post to make a list of some of the ones that made me scratch my head a little, and wonder why Google might be interested in things like a waterproof cellular telephone case, or a medical instrument that read more »
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