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Paul O’Brien is an old-hand at the online marketing game. read more »
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Linkscape is something significant. read more »
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Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, a read more »
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Zvents, a local online search engine and advertising network, announces that it had raised $24 million from several investors, including Nokia's venture capital unit, AT&T Inc., and digital map data company Navteq. read more »
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38 significant marketing conferences - missing anything? read more »
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Reporters and venture capitalists often ask me to name some of the top vertical search engines. Because I believe strongly that search will become a dynamic industry of very search specific sites and concepts, I decided to compile a listing of what read more »
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Internet marketing is supposed to be enjoyable and allow you more time do the things you enjoy. However, if you are finding yourself almost enslaved to your desktop and working more hours per day for yourself than would be legal at a "proper job", t read more »
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You see, the media has only one focus - large, metropolitan areas - because the threat of mass extinction is just irresistible I guess. So, if you don’t live in New Orleans, but you are in the same hurricane path as the city is, then you will be ign read more »
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MtvU, MTV Networks' collection of TV and Web properties that target the college student universe, today launches 25 Web sites dedicated to individual U.S. schools. read more »
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Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
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Last week at SES, I sat in on the Black Hat, White Hat session. The panelists gave their definitions of “white hat” and “black hat”, and then talked about particular techniques, such as paid links, and whether they thought they were OK or not. The p read more »
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This is a funny look at some of the booths at the SES conference that I'm attending. read more »
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Zvents' local search engine announced that it will be collaborating with Microsoft Corp. to enhance the events and local promotions experience on for MSN's local experience. Through the collaboration, Zvents’ platform will bring new capabilities to read more »
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a groundbreaking new application that combines the Zvents' leading local search capability with the iPhone's unique strengths to change the way users discover, plan and share local places and events while on the go read more »
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Online marketing has become one of the best ways to promote local businesses and attract the right audience. Consumers are constantly searching the Internet for their specific interests; your goal is to compel consumers to attend events. 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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Apparently, TopRank thinks that what we all need is another book about people who wear the "best Nikes" in their manufactured niche group rather than one about those who are renowned for actually HELPING people. Don't waste any time, drop everythin read more »
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Brilliant diagram of the search landscape mapping the online, general web search engines and related components in vertical search blended with the offline, local search players and respective incumbents. read more »
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Zvents launched federated local search today blending business listings with events, sales, movies, restaurants, sports, concerts, conferences, and other things to do. read more »
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There is a fascinating SERP artifact which almost prompts me to question whether or not there is no more valuable focus in SEO than anchor text. read more »
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There are a myriad of tools out there. But what are the best tools? Search Engine Roundtable investigates for us. read more »
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We have a way to turn off Google personalized results. Why not a way to turn off Google Universal Results?

(1) Is this something you want?
(2) If so, how would you like to see it implemented? read more »
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Lee Odden says from a personal observation standpoint, he noticed he's not logging into Facebook much anymore and many of the updates he gets are irrelevant to his interests.

Reader Poll: Are You Still Excited About Using Facebook?

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Respected PPC Expert David Szetela shares series of GREAT posts & free eBooks related to resources that can be used to educate new PPC employees. read more »
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Tested analogy for explaining SEO to win friends and influence people. read more »
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