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Unless action is taken to free up links, firms are expected to report losses in search engine rankings. Congress must act to pass SEO bailout legislation. read more »
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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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I [Brian Carter] recently wrote some related posts about Tweetbait/twitter viral retweets and monitoring your reputation on Twitter (ORM).

So...

How do you monitor which of your tweets people retweet?

-- What's important about that?
-- Wha read more »
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Good tips to pass on to potential clients. Matt Foster says, "I personally am glad that somebody is cracking down on firms which make overreaching promises. Here are 5 tips to avoid becoming a victim of bad SEO firms." read more »
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The Washington State Attorney General announced in a press release yesterday that it was suing a Redmond-based SEO company, Visible.net. According to the Complaint, Visible also does business under the name WebMarketingSource.com, Caputures.com, and read more »
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FTA: In essence, the state attorney general contends that these entities have ripped off their mostly mom-and-pop clientele through a pattern of unfulfilled performance promises and financial shenanigans. While the clients may be on the smaller end read more »
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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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Some thoughts on how entrepreneurs might leverage search engines, search engine data, and social media (in this case, blogging) to inspire innovation via keyword research, search result analysis and blog outreach. read more »
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Its good to see something "official" from Google regarding SEO. Even if you don't agree 100% or perhaps even have evidence that contradicts something within the 22 pages, it's good to have some information straight from the horse's mouth. read more »
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If you’re checking the pulse of the search engine marketing industry, you may notice a changing heartbeat. For starters, SEO is not that “mysterious little thing that person does for us” anymore. In that honorary chair now sits The Usability Consult read more »
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Lisa speaks on the power of blogging and giving people a voice. read more »
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I tend to agree with Hugo about the risks involved with making sweeping generalizations that a search engine like Google intends to do away with something that has been a critical element of ranking for some time. I believe they will develop new an read more »
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The session code named: "Give It Up: White Hat Edition - This session has SEOs sharing favorite, little-known and powerful techniques that wont get you banned in search engines from trying."

Thoughts? read more »
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Kim Krause Berg's Cre8pc Blog and Dr. Pete's UserEffect blog selected for Blogs.com Top 10 Customer Experience, Tech, and Business Strategy Blogs.

Kim and Pete are Usability and SEO consultants. read more »
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My debut article in SEL's "Just Behave" column.

"By making more information available online, our habits are changing. We’re teaching one another new tricks and evolving together." read more »
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A veritable road map to some invaluable information on a wide variety of topics ranging from usability to design to ad placement to earning the trust of your audience. The information sources are as varied as the information itself. read more »
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It’s not just the US candidates that have taken up social media and started using it as a political tool. Countries overseas are also getting into the social media landscape. Romania has the first Prime Minister in the European Union to get both a read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Pamela Lund, who I accused of having emotional intelligence, gives three steps for avoiding and dealing successfully with unhappy clients.

Awesome presentation she gave at ScarySEO!

Its actually applies to any clients in any industry... not ju read more »
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A well-respected industry peer recently wrote a piece attempting to compare SEO vs. SEM in terms of their share of ad revenue compared to their share of search traffic. He provided some fairly robust data points that seemingly pointed towards SEO as read more »
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Black belt Zima-master MARTIN BOWLING takes on the controversial US Election: its effect on Twitter, online reputation management, and the world!

"There are several key factors that I would like to talk about...

* Partisanship and online reput read more »
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What good is a pretty design if it doesn't entice your visitors to do what you want them to do? The answer - no good at all! It's like having a mansion at the bottom of the ocean. Understand the motivation and psychology of your target audience o read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes "Search engines tell marketers not to spam them. Many search marketers also advise newcomers not to spam. Spamming issues get debated online. But what is search engine spam? What’s it look like? How’s it smell? And why do searc read more »
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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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Look, I know this is less about search than it is an Amber Alert, but seriously, the people on this community have a lot of online presence. If there is any way I can convince you to Thumb the Amber alert, or re-tweet it, or whatever, I like to thin read more »
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