JimSpencer

Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: jdevalk 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Domaining
The conclusion: all other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dedmond29 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://getgood.typepad.com)
Category: Blogging
"First things first. No matter what we'd like to believe, there is no such thing as the perfect pitch. One person's spam is often another person's breakfast."

Key points to consider when pitching bloggers as well as strategies for making the conn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 6:15 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEO
Many companies still don't take advantage of SEO. There are many, however, that issue press releases on a regular basis. What they don't understand is that press releases can be part of your SEO efforts, and can be used to gain presence in the edito read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 12:20 am
Posted By: JimSpencer 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: SEO
Should a local business setup a Merchant Circle account to network locally with other businesses? How can it effect search results and promote your primary site? Read on to find out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: martinbowling 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Social Media
brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable links to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Jill 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEO
Derek Edmond answers some of the questions asked by LinkedIn folks on why they don't trust SEO. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: Social Media
Mark Dykeman writes "I’m going to stick my nose into the Feldman/Israel situation. Sort of. Actually, I’m going to suggest a better use of everyone’s time. It would be for a charitable cause and it would promote social media to boot. Everyone wins." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: dedmond29 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkedin.com)
Category: SEO
There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: dedmond29 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Here is a checklist of valuable questions and details to look for in a web analytics package related to your search engine marketing efforts, regardless of website size or company budget. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 1:59 am
Posted By: northrock 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: PixelBella 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Brian Carter speaks about Twitter to NOOBs. He's following >800 people finally has friends! The biggest question from the audience? "Why?" He explains that most of us on Twitter are "nerds or journalists, geeks or search marketers, but there are som read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dedmond29 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The same tools that can be used to spread something sensationally false can also be used for the dissemination of accurate information as well. In my opinion, we should proactively address issues of SEM ethics and integrity before others make that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: dedmond29 91 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Search Marketing
How deep into the SEO recommendation(s) do you think SEO consultants should get?

Do you think a company should actually implement recommendations delivered (or be prepared to provide this service)

- or provide a project plan for implementa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: hjortur 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Glen Allsopp explains how he got 550.000 visitors to his clients site in only one month. Inspiring results read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Posted By: wrttnwrd 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
First in a series about SEO project planning and startup with a discussion of analytics.

Written by Tom Schmitz of Portent. Dang, my staff are clever... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
Dear Google,

It would be more un-evil if you would make it easier to opt out of that new data sharing “feature” (your word) that you recently added to Google Analytics. I tend to be much more forgiving of you than some of my friends, so please le read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 2:19 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pearsonified.com)
Category: Blogging
Because of the way they are misused all over the Web, categories have grown to become something that we regard in a purely user-centric light. We think of them as navigational tools and guides for users, but in reality, categories are a powerful too read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tim Nash does it again with a great analysis of using PDF's for SEO. Well worth the read. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 19, 2008 - 8:04 am
Posted By: graywolf 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Blogging
If you're migrating from one domain to another or moving from a development domain to a live one, moving Wordpress is never fun. Here Joost brings it down to 10 easy steps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cashtactics.net)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Widely known but heavily under-utilized. Yahoo Groups are one of the best ways to conduct market research online. This resource is nothing new, in fact it’s been used for a long time now. However not a lot people really talk about it. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: casieg 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEO
As I have noted in previous posts, the majority of my friends and family don’t really have what I like to call a “firm grasp” of what I actually do for a living...So, for my New Year’s resolution I decided I would just start lying.

“Yes, we do p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 22, 2008 - 10:45 pm
Posted By: dedmond29 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: Paid Search
Andy Komack has compiled a list of 200+ negative keywords to consider when building PPC campaigns. Failure to incorporate negative keywords costs you money, and can impact CTR, which in turn has an effect on PPC quality scores. Keywords organized read more »
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Avatar Posted By: organicapex 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Blogging
Joost shares some great tips to Speed Up Wordpress.

This is probably the best wordpress blog post i've read after the last one by Maki. read more »
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