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One of the reasons that search marketing is expected to grow within the next 5 years from a 15.8 billion dollar industry to 44.5 billion dollars is that advertisers love the fact that they can succinctly measure the ROI garnered from this medium o read more »
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Although the projections and numbers differ depending on the source there is no denying that the future of local search is upon us now! According to a Piper Jaffray 2007 research paper 30% of all queries contain a city, state or zip code. Furthermor read more »
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If you are willing to spend up to several hundred dollars you can (theoretically) get a fully featured product to help you take your content and place it on a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.

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Sadly, some of the worst web sites in the travel industry come from campgrounds. read more »
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Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I thought the text of the Tarzan-esque email is worth sharing not only for its absolute funniness, but also as an example of what n read more »
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Go pimp your worthless Directory **** elsewhere. I have permanently closed this site as the majority of directory owners/operators are crooks looking to make a fast buck. I have chosen not to sell this site nor participate in any directory related b read more »
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John Andrews has a point, you better get to know Matt Cutts now before its too late! read more »
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Did you ever wish that the organic, natural or editorial search results (why can’t we ever stick to one name in the search space?) would behave a bit more like the paid search results? Wouldn’t it be great if you could control the copy that appeared read more »
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With the shopping season race about to start most online retailers have maxed out their paid search campaigns, unleashed the SEO folks, increased their ad media buys and are still looking for incremental volume that will help move the needle. They n read more »
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Rumors of a resetting of Google PageRank, dropping the rel="nofollow" attribute, and dropping of the backlink counts and more.

They're all rumors but it's fun to speculate sometimes isn't it? :) read more »
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Article discusses five of the most important areas for PPC success: Keywords, Ad Copy, Destination URL’s, Organization, and Analysis. read more »
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The SEO world has been following with rapt attention the news of dozens of directories' penalization by Google. For a very long time, directories were the mainstay of linkbuilding, and they do retain an important role in linkbuilding to this day, a read more »
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Business 2.0 magazine is shutting down even though it has nearly 600,000 subscribers. read more »
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All of you out there that think you have experience with SEO please raise your hand. Now the ones that think SEO is or includes pay per click campaigns put your hands down. Who thinks SEO is making sure that Meta information is filled out for each o read more »
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Too lazy to do 301s? Have Yahoo do them for you... read more »
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