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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: toddmintz 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
David Mihm discusses why it is advantageous to be an early adapter of technology as opposed to a herd follower. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mediafortemarketing 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mediafortemarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
The sun is still shining, but it's time to start thinking about planning online holiday strategies. Ideas to help you connect with your customers online during the holidays. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scottfish.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Everyone on the SEMpdx Board is extremely excited that Danny Sullivan will be the keynote speaker for Searchfest 2009. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa Williams most excellent guest post at the SEMpdx blog where she talks about trying to get her Google de-indexed client back into Google's good graces. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 8:11 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: toddmintz 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 93 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 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 5:23 am
Posted By: toddmintz 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
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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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 6:17 am
Posted By: toddmintz 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM
I blogged Matt McGee's SEO Success Pyramid Presentation at the SEMpdx SEM Hot Seat last night...here's what he said: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 4:45 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Social Media
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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Avatar Went Hot: May 14, 2008 - 12:20 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
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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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketingperformance.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEMpdx, along with Corvent LLC, will begin hosting monthly search webinars. Our first webinar will feature Stoney DeGeyter who will talk about "Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website". It will take place on 5/22/08 at 1 EDT/ 10 PDT. Re read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 12, 2008 - 10:41 am
Posted By: toddmintz 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Link Building
Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn't evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won't be able to acheiv read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
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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Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: toddmintz 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEM
(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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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: March 21, 2008 - 10:24 am
Posted By: toddmintz 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
I asked each SEMpdx Searchfest 08 speaker to reflect upon last week's event and I got some really good answers. Here they are... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 19, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Where I argue that the premium content offerings from Rand & Aaron are win-win for them as well as for their subscribers. I also state that their tremendous visibility in our industry (aka "Celebrity") is a necessary pre-requisite for them to succe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mediafortemarketing 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mediafortemarketing.com)
Category: Blogging
Blogging is a way of life and truly second nature for search marketers. For some business owners, it's an intimidating prospect. Let's challenge our clients and ask the question, “Why wouldn’t ya?”. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 6:02 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Marty has a great post in Search Engine Land discussing 9 tactics for reputation management in social media.

Great post! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 6:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com)
Category: SEM
Kent Lewis writes about his top 10 "nuggets" of knowledge gleaned from Searchfest 08. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: ScottFish 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scottfish.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Managing reputation online is serious business - your reputation can make or break sales. Here's a few tips on how to get a handle on managing reputation and dealing with negative PR. read more »
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