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The SEM industry needs highly skilled people to stay ahead of the curve for clients, so how do you find them? Is the apprentice the new intern in the industry? Industry experts chime in. read more »
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Pierre has a great piece here about the people who are helping to build the street views you see in Google Maps, along with some funky pictures too! read more »
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David Mihm brings you everything you need to know from last week's SMX Local conference. He says: "I've just returned from SMX Local in San Francisco and my head is still spinning. Chris Sherman, Greg Sterling, and the rest of the Third Door Media t read more »
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When the many strands of social media take over your brain while you sleep, you might dream thusly... read more »
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David Mihm is more than just an SEMpdx Schwag Ho. He is one of the top experts in the ever-growing specialty of Local Search Optimization and he focuses his consultancy on helping small business clients generate online revenue in their respective m read more »
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I had a great e-interview with Adam Audette and his answers to my questions had the quality of his most excellent blog posts. Enjoy! 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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Google has launched their own affiliate network, scrapping the DoubleClick Performics brand. This is a very strong sign that Google will be announcing a sale of the Performics brand very soon. It looks like they are keeping the affiliate part, how read more »
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Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
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Barry via Search Engine Land - Last night, during the Webmaster Help Group chat session, the question was brought up in the Q&A box. John Muller of Google was the first Googler to admit that Google may, on some occasions, take case into account on a read more »
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A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
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As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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Twitter is a fun Web 2.0 communications tool that allows users to deliver quick messages of 140 characters or less. Twitter has become more than a communication tool — it's a source of angry, funny and awkward messages that would be sometimes best l read more »
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eVisibility, an Internet marketing agency based in Carlsbad, has price of gas capped at $2.25/gallon for Southern California staff. read more »
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Kevin Gibbons gives us a list of very well-known companies that were too cheap to pay the £2.50 to protect their brand. 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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Veteran recruitment SEO Richard Baxter gives us the downlow on what to do with those vacancy pages that both target the longtail yet also get filled/change quickly. Useful for ecommerce detail pages too! read more »
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A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the account read more »
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Scott Allen writes,"One of the elements of site development and SEO that often gets overlooked is internal linking. When done right, you can kill two birds with one stone, and improve both search rankings and usability." read more »
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BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Case in point: the recent SMX Advanced conference in Seattle apparently had a lot of blackhat emphasis this year, much to the shock and horror of some. But is it really as evil and bad read more »
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Our friendly dutchman at yoast.com is showing off a nice feedburner style twittercounter! Looks great! read more »
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This video cracked me up. Love the cinematography, music, and old school effects. Nice job guys :) read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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My latest fascination is Friendfeed..."Easily searching content created by people you trust."

If you can just search just what your friends think and prioritize it over everything else, you have a very powerful recommendation engine.

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