KarlRibas

Avatar Went Hot: October 23, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Networking
Should you get involved in social media ... or focus on local search? The good news is that you don't have to choose one or the other. This article covers eight sites at the intersection of social media and local search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Rhea 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Search industry blogger, Lisa Barone, joins the We Build Pages team as Senior Writer. She'll be responsible for writing, setting the direction and tone for content creation, and will serve as a brand evangelist. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: samirb 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Donna does a great job explaining the 5 goals of SEO. It's easy to read and understand for even those not in our field. If you're trying to get people to understand why SEO is important, this article is a good place to start. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrentCsutoras 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.quicksprout.com)
Category: Water Cooler
For each person success means a different thing. For Neil, it was when Pamela Lund tattooed my name on her body. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2008 - 1:21 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
As previously mentioned in part 1 of this series, it’s extremely important to be able to evaluate the power of a directory for link building. Especially when you consider that the power of a directory listing is much more complicated than just looki read more »
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Avatar Posted By: CarrieHill 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Interesting take from Simon Heseltine over at SearchMarketingGurus. He contends that you have to look at the past, what's trending, what's buzzed and waned to get a clear look at where your reputation can go in the future. Definitely something to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: TCSM 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other
The ultimate checklist to make sure your website is going to be suck-free read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DaveDavis 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.karlribas.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Another great post by Karl:

Ready for a shocker? No, not that kind of shocker you pervert (Greg). The shocker that I'm referring to is the one that leads a person to disbelief and is usually attributed to hearing or discovering something that is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: robsnell 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seminhouse.com)
Category: Yahoo
When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade! Think bigger than that! Roll out a nationwide chain of lemonade stands and cash out with an IPO. SEO Jessica Bowman was one of the first in the Yahoo! Brains to drain, but look who's laughing all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 149 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 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 7:09 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Matt McGee writes, "Despite what you may have read elsewhere, last week’s SMX Advanced conference in Seattle was not a black-hat spamfest. It was one of the most educational conferences I’ve been to, and a big improvement over the original SMX Advan read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 9:56 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 2:25 pm
Posted By: Susan 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
SEMpdx Member Tracy Chapman shares with the Yahoo PPC folks (and us) why she won't allow her Yahoo accounts to be optimized without her consent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: planetc1 170 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian Clark writes... Have you noticed all the skepticism lately about social media marketing?

I invited one of those skeptics to vent here on Copyblogger last week. Bob Hoffman is the CEO of a traditional advertising agency, and he raised some v read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KarlRibas 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.karlribas.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Interested in knowing the number one reason on why I believe SMX outshines SES in the realm of Search Marketing Conferences and Expos? It's the hot plate lunches! They completely destroy those crappy box lunches at SES... hands down... and without read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 2:42 am
Posted By: pratt 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gonzo-seo.com)
Category: SEO
There are a number of great keyword research tools out there (paid tools and free tools, too). Many times, however, I really wonder if I’m doing enough work to get into the mind of the customers. Here are 3 ways you can learn what the customer is sa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 1, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Paul does it once again equating certain industry figures to action heros ... who would each be? Michael Gray, Dan Thies, Hamlet Batista, Joost de Valk, Lee Odden, and more.

Very comical! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 1:30 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
| Online Marketing Blog | Many readers of Online Marketing Blog are bloggers themselves and I’m curious about others’ experiences with business blogs that have either failed to meet expectations/goals or that were simply abandoned. Equally as intere read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 4:25 pm
Posted By: pratt 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: SEO
It seems like over the last year more and more posts have come out criticizing SEO, questioning the use of standards, and all in all, casting a dark cloud over the industry that so many of us have grown to love. I think it's time we take a stand. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 9:22 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
A common mistake made by folks who are new to SEO is a lack of focus on attracting deep links. They'll will work hard to gain new links to their sites by submitting to directories, joining organizations and filling out profiles on social networks, b read more »
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