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Kim Krause Berg was kind enough to post a guest post on the Blizzard Blog to help our travel, tourism and hospitality clients tackle some usability issues.

The tips are good ones and I thought it was something others would find useful. read more »
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Carrie Hill, who has written about post-click marketing on Search Engine Watch and will speak on the subject at SES San Jose, gives her perspective on 4 key questions about post-click marketing, including: why it's taking off now, and what's the MOS read more »
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"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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Sometimes as global audiences we get inundated with "causes" that we ignore those "Donate" buttons because we see them over and over again. Unfortunately for Non-Profits, the offline blindness they have to overcome has now really become the same is read more »
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An entry in the Marketing Pilgrim scholarship contest by Nathan Linnell, this is a great analogy for PPC, SEO and their sometimes forgotten friend Analytics. I will use this analogy (slightly shortened) to explain the different parts of SEM to clien read more »
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Nice advice and a great linkfest round up as well. The only bad part is having to wait 2 weeks for the next installment ;0)

- Search Engine Watch - This first part will address the bread and butter of an online marketing campaign – Analytics, SEO read more »
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This is the test site from the video that Google has up for FriendConnect. Try out friend connect and see how it works. I actually found myself liking it. Really easy to use. read more »
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Twitter and LinkedIn: for small business owners, they're two tastes of social media that taste great together. The question: Who gets Twitter in your LinkedIn network? And who got LinkedIn via Twitter? read more »
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Like "green building" - investing the time to make your site last on the web is key to long-term succes. read more »
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We got logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, Cre8asite, the Search Engine Roundtable and others. All for our special moms! Happy Mothers Day! read more »
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If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won't make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. read more »
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One of the best descriptions of how to use social media sites effectively. This concept can be difficult to explain to clients. Mary makes it incredibly easy to understand by putting social sites into a context everyone can understand. read more »
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Do SEM companies care about their employees? I worked for this company as well and experienced much the same treatment (though I was not a designer I was ... well not a designer is the best way to put it I guess). Are other SEM companies like this? read more »
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Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! read more »
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Guest post from Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) delving deeper into the qualitative aspects of Social Media Marketing - great post and the threat of violence too!!

Snip - Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach read more »
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Performing SEO on blogs can be a daunting task especially if its a WordPress blog. With the plethora of plug-ins available that are designed to help your SEO and the multitude of set-up options what is best for you to use? Carrie Hill and Mary Bowli read more »
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From Sméagol to Gandalf the Grey, which LORT character are YOU???
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Great heads up from SearchEngineWatch - I LOVE crazy egg and have tests set up on various aspects of many clients' websites. Not only that - it's free to try and buying more monthly views is really affordable.

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Excellent information about the use of title tags in SEO. read more »
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