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Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. read more »
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From Aaron Wall: "What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age." read more »
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Part two of Reilly O'Donnell's analysis of where to find SEO talent. Reilly acts on Rand Fishkin's suggestion and compares the results of the February 2008 SEOmoz SEO survey with the data from the SEMPO members list. read more »
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DoshDosh: Viral marketing is the process of using peer-to-peer communications in order to rapidly spread information about a brand or message. The term ‘viral’ stems from the concept of a ‘virus’, a self-perpetuating phenomenon which infects whateve read more »
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What goes around comes around. read more »
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Agencies are facing a growing number of challenges differentiating themselves from their competitors given the number of search marketing agencies in the market today. Ken Clark suggests agencies begin employing the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a way read more »
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Knowing that the search marketing industry is currently talent constrained, I wanted to take a look at where the search marketing talent was located. To get a feel for this I chose to use SEMPO's member roster as a baseline to assess where search m read more »
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Video and Post from Li Evans on 5 Easy SEO tips to optimize a website, great quick reference for beginners. read more »
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It's been a long time since I've blogged about design & usability topics, but I think we're overdue for a revisit. Luckily, in my recent web browsing, I stumbled across some remarkably innovative, uncommon design elements that made me take notice read more »
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"Cease and desist with the 3 way links and arrest the development of your satellite sites" read more »
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A good list of high level seo tips. I'm not sure its the ultimate list, but I do think its somewhat realistic in that it helps to portray SEO as marketing and not a magic black box.

I really liked the fact that he mentioned passion for the topic read more »
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This series is aimed at beginner to intermediate SEO’s or in house marketers working to design a search engine friendly website able to attract new candidates or potential clients. read more »
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As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? read more »
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Karon Thackston shares the story of a client who begged for content rewrites when their rankings slipped and then makes a good case for why the client needed to leave the content alone. 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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Basic rookie mistakes of publishing press releases these days. Plus new free tool www.PressReleaseGrader.com takes a look at your press releases to see if you're making these mistakes. read more »
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This morning I was handing off a project to a developer and found myself ranting about the common mistakes developers make when coding HTML. These boneheaded mistakes can cause search engines to choke when it comes to indexing your websites. And its read more »
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Where can you earn the most money in search marketing? Reilly O'Donnell analyzes data from Indeed to show you the top cities to earn big salaries as a search marketer. read more »
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Jessica Bowman writes... When you outsource SEO, you don't outsource responsibility and accountability for getting the job done and driving more traffic. Even though you may outsource SEO completely, you really should invest the time understand SEO read more »
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Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to l read more »
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Should help a lot of people :) read more »
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Reilly O'Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. read more »
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1. Creative and Playful
2. Innovative
3. Connectors
4. Community Enablers
5. Information Mavens read more »
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When you hear the phrase "in-house SEO expert" or "in-house SEO," certain things immediately flash to mind. There's the glamour bits built around the perceptions fostered from hearing of six-figure salaries, or direct involvement in big projects and read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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