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"More and more conventional link building methods, like directory submission are of less and less value, Google does not even recommend high quality paid directories any more. In fact soon we’ll see a situation where all artificial ways of link buil read more »
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Hallie Janssen gives a nice summary of one of the sessions that I would have liked to attend at SMX, but couldn't because it was scheduled at the same time as the "Analytics every SEO needs to know". Looks to me like it was pretty good, and the lin read more »
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Summary on the today's frist morning session of SMX Advanced. Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques, and then I felt that I should revise a bit once I heard Matt Cutts refute (yet again) many of the techniques that were discussed. He asked the aud read more »
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Recently, we've seen multiple stories that were hot in our space get featured in mainstream media...this being only the latest example. read more »
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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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Several members of SEMpdx got to spend time in New York, and this is President Kent Lewis's well rounded coverage. read more »
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Aaron Wall writes, "A wide array of paid and free tools make it both cheap and easy to track your online reputation. The first point of contact is typically via customer emails, comments on your own site or web analytics data. But not everyone who c read more »
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Kent Lewis writes about his top 10 "nuggets" of knowledge gleaned from Searchfest 08. read more »
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A timely interview with marketing guru Seth Godin about his upcoming book, Meatball Sundae. SEMpdx is hosting a free Webinar featuring Seth Godin January 15th, where he will give away copies of his new book to the first 300 registrants. Visit www. read more »
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The interview appears to have taken place on September 24th, but was published today.

Covers following of links (mentions javascript being followed)
Robots.txt (pages blocked can be returned in search results, and can accrue PageRank)
Noindex a read more »
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Good breakdown of the SMX conference on local and mobile search marketing. read more »
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An excellent summary of Search Engine Strategies San Jose by Scott Hendison of SearchCommander and SEMpdx. His open and honest style makes for entertaining and informative reading. You'll get all the best SES San Jose secrets here. read more »
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The bulk of the article is focused on the many benefits of forming a local SEM organization that we've learned one year into the life of SEMpdx.

Only a true Northwesterner would understand why a Portlander getting his city disrespected by an ex-C read more »
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