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Everyone has a story on how they got started in the SEO industry. Mine starts in 1998 in an extra bedroom in Northern Michigan. read more »
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With SearchMonkey, you can enhance your LinkedIn listing (in addition to many other listings). Here's a before and after screenshot. read more »
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How to build branded search demand by advertising on the sites that share the most common links/traffic. read more »
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QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. read more »
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Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things you should do on a regular basis to position yourself to be successful in your job search whenever that time read more »
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Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Information on some great tools for getting an edge on your AdWords competitors. read more »
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Everyone has heard about the SEOmoz Pro Membership, but is it worth the price tag? I recently subscribed to their membership and this was my impression. read more »
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"When I was asked if I was “plurking yet”, I thought it had something to do with baby vomit. But no, it is once again another Web 2.0 name and once again another lifestreaming service that tries to imitate Twitter, while at the same time it tries to read more »
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
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At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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Could Stumbleupon’s human-filtered search results be the beginning of the next evolution of search engines that could see the all-powerful Google algorithim be made redundant?

I think Nowsourcing is on to something here. read more »
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Matt Cutts posts lots of new docs, links about IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, Better definition for doorway pages, Robots.txt. read more »
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Adam writes... This post will explore several arguments against using nofollow for internal PageRank™ sculpting. It is based on a presentation I did at SMX Advanced. You can view my presentation slides here, however the deck is very brief since I on read more »
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John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away t read more »
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Lee Odden how-to: “Digital Asset Optimization” refers to the practice of taking inventory of a company’s marketable, digital assets & implementing a process for keyword optimization & promotion to relevant channels. (Easter Egg: Check out Lee's HTML read more »
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David Mihm's excellent analysis of the Google Local / Map Algorithm which argues in compelling fashion that citations (mentions of the business without a link) play an important role in ranking well in the Google's Local Listings. read more »
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Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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Today, ShoeMoney and Marketing Pilgrim provided great insights into why they think search engine optimization has no future.

I don't agree. Times infinity. Nyah nyah phbltbltbltblt. So there. 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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SEO isn’t a dying industry, it’s an evolving industry. Yes, the Search Engines’ algorithms are changing, but they always have – and always will. One thing you change today, may not work a week from now. Isn’t this how it has always been? read more »
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David Wallace provides an impressive and informative look at what is appropriate when submitting articles to social media sites. He explains proper title, description and category selection etiquette, giving clear examples and elucidating on why th read more »
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First things first, let me say that although I am an SEO guy I love social media to bits and have been involved with various sm sites for some time now. This post has been sitting on my to do list and at last I have found time to rank my top ten fav read more »
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One of the benefits to spending time on Twitter is that it's a great way to network. But if you are new to Twitter, it can seem difficult to find people that are in your industry or that share your interests. Here's some tips to help get you start read more »
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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