JulieJoyce

Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
2 Comments     
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
15 Comments     
Oh no, it wasn't an SEO Chick who titled that...nuh-uh, it was Google! Oh yeah. Google in all their relevant wisdom, made that remark. Go ahead. Read it. Tsk, tsk, tsk... read more »
1 Comment     
Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
11 Comments     
Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
Discuss     
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 »
11 Comments     
Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
3 Comments     
KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
11 Comments     
I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
3 Comments     
Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
10 Comments     
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
5 Comments     
Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
Discuss     
Nice post from Rand on leveraging customers for link building. Here's to more "headsmacking tips". read more »
5 Comments     
Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
3 Comments     
Dazzlin D - Don’t get me wrong. I know that “the world” (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don’t really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, read more »
Discuss     
DazzlingDonna (Donna Fontenot) has put together a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. read more »
1 Comment     
Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
2 Comments     
Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
6 Comments     
Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
30 Comments     
A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
6 Comments     
Marty Weintraub writes, "SEM industry writers, conference organizers and attendees are passionately defending, disparaging and debating ethics surrounding so-called “gray/black hat tactics” presented @ SMX Advanced Seattle. I was surprised to find s read more »
Discuss     
Get more out of Twitter and use it as a business tool. Twitter can boost your marketing efforts - learn how. read more »
Discuss     
QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. read more »
40 Comments     
Funny that this quote/title was first spotted (for me at least) on Plurk... (dats 2 in one day Li!! woot)

Search Gurus - Twitter, you just got funding. Twitter, you really need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are h read more »
3 Comments     
Tony Spencer discusses the issue of Google posting to forms and indexing the results, with a real world example of his Craigslist style classified site. read more »
1 Comment     
Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
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
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008