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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
They have arrived! Not too exciting, but at least they didn't just send a card. :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 24, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: BrettFromTibet 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediarockstar.com)
Category: Social Media
This candid, in-depth interview with Marty Weintraub (aimClear) has some interesting discussion on the ethics of social media marketing and the emotional underpinnings of online marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-factor.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Josh Garner interviewed me about resumes & job searching with a search marketing focus. He did a great job with the piece. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 9:10 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Kalena is known for her scathing dumbass of the week series - but this one is more than just humour.

"Let me preface this post by saying that I love Google and I’m a big supporter and very early adopter of AdWords pay per click advertising. BUT read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2008 - 1:35 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Jobs Offered
Barry asks the question... Go give him an answer.

I for one wouldn't be worried about what some turd says. You Sphinners that did should meet me in a dark alley, ok? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Obama has a new transition website up: Change.gov. Bad news — you’d be hard pressed to find it in search being both new and being untargeted toward any search terms. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: footinmouthdisease 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
This post illustrates a bad SEO scenario, what can you do when your client refuses to take your advice, but pays their bills? Definitely needs good discussion! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WebmasterT 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Tony makes some good points, however, IMO, this downturn is different than others. Basically it's a shortage of capital and more specifically banks being very picky about who they lend to. If stores can't finance inventory they have no need for our read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 10:28 am
Posted By: toddmintz 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
Where I use some NSFW language (in a nice way) to critique an unsolicited email request that came to me via LinkedIn. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 21, 2008 - 1:04 am
Posted By: johnandrews 45 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Search Marketing
The most recent instructions from the SEOMOZE people suggest that the way to get removed from their Linkscape tool (to prevent your data from being sold to your competitors, for example) is to put an SEOMOZE-specific meta tag onto your pages.

CA read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: onreact 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Blogging
Ann Smarty, one of the best SEO bloggers around, writing for Search Engine Journal etc. reports how her frequent guest blogging backfired in several cases. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 8:05 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Danny Sullivan writes, "Having written about search for years, it’s often easy for me to mistakenly assume that everyone gets it. Search is where the customers are. Surely every business owner, large or small, understands by now the importance of ap read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google's community edit feature has become the playground for blackhat local marketers. Any business that has not been claimed and validated is susceptible to hijacking, and the affiliate spammers have hijacked some of the best known national brands read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
One of the hardest thing for an SEO to manage is expectations. For many SEO consultants and firms, part of closing the deal is to get the client to believe that the work they provide is going to get them "results," however that is defined. But in do read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: ciaran 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Mel66 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Paid Search
From DigitalPoint via SE Roundtable, some Adwords advertisers are seeing minimum bids of $100 or 55 GBP. Pretty funny since supposedly Google did away with minimum bids! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Mel66 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Danny gets all ranty about Yahoo ad targeting and the Google Yahoo deal, but he makes some excellent points. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 21, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Lyndon 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Dipping my toe into the seo recruitment world a few prejudices have surfaced and it's created a very interesting discussion. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: annie7 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: SEO
There’s been lots of buzz about the worth of search engine rankings recently. Problem is, rankings checkers (or at least the process of collecting rankings data on a regular basis) are not useless. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 12, 2008 - 10:54 pm
Posted By: lucio-dias-ribeiro 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
SEOptimise writes a summary of old school vs new school SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2008 - 4:46 am
Posted By: Gab 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bestofthezlist.com)
Category: Blogging
Best of the Z List takes submissions of published posts. Editors review them. The premium material gets linked to in the newsletter, which is read, amongst others, by A List folks who've agreed to give you links/attention/social love when they like read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Online Marketing
George Michie: Taking advantage of intraday fluctuations in traffic value can be important to maximizing the efficiency of your pay-per-click (PPC) ad spend. We see statistically significant variances in traffic value on the order of 5% to 25% for m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:21 am
Posted By: storyspinner 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 9:24 pm
Posted By: Jill 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who's attended a conference can relate, especially if you're somewhat shy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 8:12 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Recently Google started blocking several of the big-name rank checking software used by many in the SEO industry. This, of course, sparked the debate on whether SEO firms should be bothering with providing ranking reports to their clients. I have to read more »
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