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Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. read more »
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6 easy steps to 301ing your Yahoo! store. read more »
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Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers read more »
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Sugarrae writes "Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):

This “community” is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and delud read more »
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In October of 2006, when I [Mike Valentine] was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO. read more »
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Part two of Reilly O'Donnell's analysis of where to find SEO talent. Reilly acts on Rand Fishkin's suggestion and compares the results of the February 2008 SEOmoz SEO survey with the data from the SEMPO members list. read more »
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Agencies are facing a growing number of challenges differentiating themselves from their competitors given the number of search marketing agencies in the market today. Ken Clark suggests agencies begin employing the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a way read more »
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Like Avinash Kaushik says about web analytics, "The goal is not to collect more data – it’s about extracting insight from this data.”

The Get Elastic Blog provides 7 tips to remember when using the keyword tool, how you can apply keyword research read more »
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Ever been asked, "How much additional traffic can I expect from your work?" William Flaiz explains the folly of traffic prediction metrics. read more »
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Google have AdWords advertisers who have been with them for 6 years, a Google Cookbook, apron and more schwag. I got pictures. read more »
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Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
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Sephy raises some important questions - like where did 759 bugs disappear to in 24 hours or so, whatever happened to supporting old versions of Wordpress, will post revisions bloat your database to an unmanageable size, and the fact that turning any read more »
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On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and memes used in comments on a daily basis. Each section is broken down in detail to help you boost you 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 link building challenge of big brands isn’t in obtaining new links, but in using the strength of these links optimally. Converting link juice isn’t very hard, but certainly worth the effort. read more »
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The wet dream of all webmasters is to get to the frontpage of Digg or Reddit. After reading how Cracked.com did it on Digg (hit the frontpage) I decided to write a follow up for StumbleUpon. That’s how it works: read more »
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Why am I not surprised (screenshots and video evidence included!) read more »
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Here's a free script for analyzing spider behavior (you'll need some entry-level command line skills to run it). It's mighty handy for log analysis - do things like list all 302s, 404s, 500s, or any other status code segmented by user agent.... find read more »
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Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use 'lay the smackdown' and 'url canonicalization' in a single sentence. read more »
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In July 2006, SEOMoz released their now famous page strength tool - a better metric to quickly assess a site / page’s relative importance and visibility.

Today SEOMoz released a new, improved tool to evauate websites, the Trifecta. Here is a ran read more »
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If you’ve been around Twitter long enough, certain patterns start to emerge. People start to develop tweeting habits, and for better or worse, those patterns tend to stay fairly stable, at least in my experience. Some people are composite creatures read more »
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Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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So you've landed an interview for that SEO job you've always wanted? Use this checklist (available as PDF) to ensure you are ready to go! read more »
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