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Check out this video of all the goodies collected from Search Engine Strategies - San Jose. read more »
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(Pssst. This is better than the other SES Swag post on the home page right now. Sphinn it if you agree! No offense to the other author.)

SES Schwag is labeled in four ways:

"Ideas We're Going to Steal"
"Recycling Bin"
"I Got This Where?"
"C read more »
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Everyone has faced it. When you initially learned about blogs and blogging you were like a wide-eyed kid who had just entered a huge toy store. There were blogs about everything you’ve always wanted! Knitting? Check! Soccer? Check! Monster-Truck-Dri read more »
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25 Essentials for Web Designers - Part of E-Marketing Performance's "Total Usability Series." read more »
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The content of your website is your #1 sales tool. Pictures, tools, and other fun stuff can be important in making your site visibly and functionally appealing, but it is the content that sells. Here are 9 (+1) tips on creating content that gets con read more »
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Could Yahoo make finding their conversion tracking code any more difficult? One would think that one could go to Yahoo Search Marketing HELP and enter "conversion tracking" and be able to find help on where to find the tracking code. read more »
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Miva sent out a mass email to their contacts asking for business information update. In the process they made over 1200 email addresses public to each recipient! read more »
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"Yesterday I attended the Internet strategy conference in Portland, and one of the speakers was Cammie Dunaway, the chief marketing officer for Yahoo.

During her presentation, she explained some new ways that Yahoo is working with advertisers, an read more »
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Send the URLs of your flagship content to Chris Garrett til this Thursday and he'll publish them on his blog. read more »
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I haven't seen this before, but Google is showing me AdWords ads that are partially targeted to my previous search queries. Looks like Google is taking personalized search to the next level. read more »
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I really enjoyed this from Christine Churchill -- how all those "little" things easily overlooked can screw you up. Did someone shove a robots.txt block on your site? Did your domain expire? Those expired SSL certificates that freak you out! Mostly read more »
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Good list of basic and advanced techniques for ranking your video content higher.. read more »
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New tool to check rankings across multiple Google datacenters. read more »
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A site’s navigation structure is extremely important in providing a rich, friendly user experience. Well designed and implemented navigation assists in the process of helping visitors identify sections and pages of the website that interest them and read more »
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Yes, another post about Sphinn. Indulge me, as we just had our 1,000 member join: MLuirette. Promise -- I won't count down 1500, 2000 and so on. Next benchmark will be user 5,000 :) read more »
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The Google Webmaster Central service has gained a new "Message Center" area that will initially be use to notify site owners of official spam penalty problems and eventually used to communicate about other issues related to site inclusion at Google. read more »
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I wrestled Lisa Barone to the ground, pinned her down and asked her 10 questions. No Lisa's were hurt during the making of this interview. read more »
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Armed with these tools I published the post, pinged Feedburner, Feedburner pinged Google and I sat back, waited a few seconds and started refreshing Google Blog Search to see how long it would take to get indexed. This is the cool part, the blog pos read more »
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Eric draws on interviews, conference sessions, and personal experience and distills it into 15 things.

#9 mentions that at SMX, I was asked if Google penalizes sites that make heavy use of nofollow on internal links throughout the site. Eric is r read more »
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Now if you write about search engine or internet marketing wouldn’t it be nice (a song comes into my mind) to have your own Digg style “Sphinn It” button on every post ?

The answer of course is YES and I am proud to announce the “Sphinn It” Butto read more »
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If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.

(Finally! I have written a post about something oth read more »
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Of the major search engines, Ask.com is the only one that has never had a URL submission form. Now you can finally submit your URLs through sitemaps and a pinging service. Of course, it doesn't guarantee you'll get listed. But it might make you feel read more »
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Amidst the excitement of this new portal for internet marketers, a lot of people didn't seem to notice that Sphinn isn't all it's cracked up to be - yet. As is, Sphinn.com is basically a popularity contest. read more »
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I had to rant about this one. Grokdotcom claims that SEOs are becoming marketers. Aruhhh?

Haven't we ALWAYS been marketers? Grrrrrrr. read more »
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Usually SEOs talk about link building as an external exercise but what about the links we look past every day? The links on your own websites can be used to increase ranking in the search engines. read more »
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