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Avatar Posted By: danperry 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danperry.com)
Category: SEM Industry
I wrote a post about a sad experience I had with a moderator at Pubcon, and Brett Tabke provided an insightful response, and asked for suggestions. Ask and ye shall receive. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 16, 2008 - 6:03 pm
Posted By: iamafurling 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com)
Category: Blogging
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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Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 7:20 pm
Posted By: Justilien 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Link Building
Elisabeth Osmeloski discusses at SearchEngineWatch.com why all links are paid for in one way or another. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: Rhea 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: SEO
What's in your SEO Toolbox? David shares SearchRank's list of must-have SEO tools including Keyword Discovery, SearchStatus, ClickTracks, Ranking Manager, GWC and Bzzster. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 3:40 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rheadrysdale.com)
Category: Social Media
Do you follow 10? 50? 100? 300? 1,000? 5,000? The sky’s the limit and you’re a social whore?! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: billslawski 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: SEO
There are a number of reasons why rankings within search engines may decrease. Some of them might not be that obvious. Provides a number of things to explore, and resources, to understand why rankings may have dropped. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Posted By: gyutae 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Every day we get businesses coming to us looking to improve their search engine rankings. They want to talk about an SEO campaign but one quick look at their site and we see that SEO may not be the right approach for them. Usually in these cases the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 9:19 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web-strategist.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Traditional marketing is usually a head on approach where marketers carpet bomb screaming messages fighting for the attention of their community. Today, social media is really a lateral strategy. The most savvy brands will figure out how to “energiz read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: Sugarrae 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.goingcellular.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
As the title might suggest, an article about the possibilities for the future of mobile advertising, including mobile web advertising, sms advertising, mobile search advertising and Google's apparent and suprising (to me) suggestion for monetizing t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 6:22 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: Blogging
Today’s brain food comes from Patrick Bisaillon (aka Pat Biz) from Piggy Bank Pie! In addition to growing the readership of his own blog, Patrick’s had some recent guest-posting success with John Chow’s blog and also at Darren Rowse’s blog (ProBlog read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 1:43 am
Posted By: billslawski 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google AdWords
"Around August 20, 2007 many clients’ Google AdWords accounts saw their cost/conversion skyrocket — in one particular case we saw it was over 100% increase. It was caused by a corrupted “Expanded Broad Match” algorithm."

Why does Google refuse to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: St0n3y 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.stepforth.com)
Category: SEO
Ross Dunn says "Ask's portion of the search market is a mere 4.3% (src. Hitwise) so it is understandable that optimizing for Ask is a low priority in the eyes of many webmasters. That said, despite the company's rather infamous advertising campaigns read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Justilien 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Link Building
Sage Lewis discusses Link building: the killer skill needed to escape from Page 4 to Page 1 in organic rankings. It's a puzzle we're all trying to solve. Here's how to start putting the pieces together... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 1:50 pm
Posted By: RobertClough 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Irma Wallace of SearchRank and Jessica Bowman, the in-house search marketing manager at Business.com, are interviewed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 5:43 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
Lee Odden takes a detailed look at how to promote your website using Universal Search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 9:24 am
Posted By: bhartzer 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shavingoccam.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Tony Wright isn't naming any names, but he's been in contact with no less than 4 different SEOs who either work for an agency or an in-house marketing team that claim to make more than 6 figures on the side. He asks, "if you are making 6 figures in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 9:43 pm
Posted By: sniehaus 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.closed-loop-marketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf (also known as one of the fathers of the Internet) spoke at WebbyConnect last week, and is on record as saying "Search Engine Optimization does not work." I cornered him in the hallway afterwards so he could cl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 11:33 am
Posted By: DanThies 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Link Building
There are two important aspects of successful link building. Finding the right balance between building authority and PageRank vs. getting anchor text is key to making the most of your SEO efforts... and renting links is not the only answer. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 2:44 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Google Other
Let’s face it—most of the wailing about Google has to do with the fact that people are fascinated by the prospect of sucking in traffic from Google Search and quickly sending it away for cash via AdSense. Even in the relatively rare instances where read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 1:02 am
Posted By: bhartzer 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.justilien.com)
Category: Link Building
eMarketer recently published a study that says that more than three-quarters of people trust consumer recommendations over any other type of ad. Justilien asks, "how are you incorporating that into your link building and internet marketing strategie read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 10:43 am
Posted By: Sebastian 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
Here is my book on server sided redirects. It's a longish draft intended to bore you to death with geeky language and dull quotes from protocol standards and similar technical documents. For entertainment purposes it comes with search engine bashing read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 1:02 am
Posted By: thejenn 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A new survey shows over half of marketing execs run a Google search before making hiring decisions. That's fantastic if you rule the SERPs with flattering results touting your brilliance. It might not be so great if that shot of you doing a keg stan read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Posted By: aimClear 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: SEO
Fancy SEO tactics don't mean SQUAT when the client ERASES HTML title tags in favor of "Welcome to Our New Site." Andrew Shotland offers tips to avoid such nightmares with good client communication and planning. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 12:53 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Link Building
If Danny Sullivan's report over the weekend that Google is in fact reducing the PageRank for sites that are suspected of selling paid links isn't enough to send the entire paid links industry underground, then I don't know what is. Add to this the s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 4:46 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 327 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Eric Enge takes an in-depth look at hidden text on the SEOmoz blog. read more »
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