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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Scott Hendison offers his opinion as to whether the SMX Advanced "Give It Up" speakers strayed into black hat territory. Excellent review of the session. read more »
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Are you an unhappy Sonics fan that just lost their basketball team? Here's one way to get back at Clayton Bennett. read more »
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Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Scott Hendison writes about 10 important SEO factors that an intermediate level SEO needs to understand in order to do optimum work on his/her site. read more »
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Scott Hendison writes an excellent WordPress reference article for a Wordpress novice user. Great advice from true WordPress expert. read more »
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I had a great conversation with Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced. I didn't get to tell him all that I wanted to, so here's my do-over... read more »
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In this guest post, SEMpdx member Jerome Thorp argues that MVC Site Architecture should be used with care because though it apparently is endorsed by the search engines, it seems to go against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Aaron was one of the best presenters at Searchfest 2008 and I had a great conversation with him at dinner following the show. Aaron will be bringing the Online Marketing Summit on the road this summer with a stop in Portland on August 5th. He agreed read more »
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Scott Hendison's Top Ten Things he learned at SMX Advanced. Whether you attended the show or not, Scott's gleaned some good nuggets that are worth highlighting and examining closely. read more »
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Good look at international SEM read more »
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Hallie Janssen gives a nice summary of one of the sessions that I would have liked to attend at SMX, but couldn't because it was scheduled at the same time as the "Analytics every SEO needs to know". Looks to me like it was pretty good, and the lin read more »
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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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Summary on the today's frist morning session of SMX Advanced. Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques, and then I felt that I should revise a bit once I heard Matt Cutts refute (yet again) many of the techniques that were discussed. He asked the aud read more »
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An aweseome post by one of the final Twitter holdouts, David Mihm, where he owns up to the errors of his ways and describes how he came to see the light. read more »
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Where I demonstrate how widely and deeply Twitter has permeated so many different facets of people's lives.

Sphinn users that are included in this story: @leeodden, @dannysullivan, @mattmcgee, @lyndoman, @audette & @onreact_com. read more »
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I'm gearing up for a 1-hour webinar that I'll be doing for SEMpdx next week. I've got more information on that below, but the SEMpdx crew asked their members to submit some questions that they would like to get answered during the presentation. Inst read more »
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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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Recently, we've seen multiple stories that were hot in our space get featured in mainstream media...this being only the latest example. read more »
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Yesterday, Dan Perry twittered that he was looking for criteria to evaluate SEO interns. As I answered him, I realized that social networking has really turned the criteria of evaluating employees / contractors on its head. Perhaps Seth Godin is r read more »
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Our Searchfest 08 event was tremendously successful and represented an opportunity for our audience to not only learn from the best Search Marketing Professionals in the industry, but was a wonderful networking and business opportunity for anybody i read more »
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(Not an April Fools Joke). I asked several of our SEMpdx members to offer their analysis on this very important topic and they've offered some terrific information. read more »
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My last post got pretty personal...this follow-up post takes me back to the core reason why I write search engine articles: to offer value to the search engine community via education. This post focuses on how best to utilize your keyword research read more »
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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