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Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:18 am
Posted By: lorisa 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The internet can be a scary place, especially for our children. What's the solution? Kim Krause Berg discusses the pros and cons of making "fake" personas illegal, and how to navigate social media sites safely. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Continuing with the employment theme, SEMpdx Advisory Board member Scott Orth was just laid off and he (really smartly I believe) is going to share his job search experiences via social media. Here is his initial post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-factor.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Josh Garner interviewed me about resumes & job searching with a search marketing focus. He did a great job with the piece. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 6:32 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Matt McGee writes, "In an effort to help make more connections and develop relationships within the local search industry, I thought it would be fun to put together a big list of people and companies with close ties to local search who are using Twi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 9:10 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Kalena is known for her scathing dumbass of the week series - but this one is more than just humour.

"Let me preface this post by saying that I love Google and I’m a big supporter and very early adopter of AdWords pay per click advertising. BUT read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Scottie 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingwords.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Karon Thackston sets a prospect straight- nearly everyone uses the web to research, even if they don't buy online. Ignoring your copy because people "don't buy online" could send them quickly to a competitor's site who isn't afraid to use their site read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space.

This was largely due to the fact that if your content got the most “buzz” it had a chance to be featured on Ya read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 21, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Are site wide links still effective and can getting a lot of links really fast from Digg hurt you? Since there is still a lot of interest in these two topics, Debra Mastaler shares the answers here. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Social Media
Li Evans talks openly about her father's death and how Social Communities helped her deal with her grief.

She also puts together a nice list of Online Memorial Sites for our human loved ones as well as pets. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
One word: WOW. "New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2008 - 6:07 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
the Link Spiel - Your link marketing plan is a valuable piece of information and should only be seen by the people you contract to do your work. Don't let it become a piece of information passed around assembly line style. Protect your competitive l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Link Building
There is absolutely nothing wrong with earning a link from a blog post you decide to comment on. In fact, if you comment often on blogs, it is a good way to increase the amount of inbound links pointing to your site's pages. However, there is a "rig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 8:58 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
It's that time of year again: Time to find out if you're spending too much time on SEO and in desperate need of a break. Here's the 2008 version of "Signs You Need a Break from SEO." Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 16, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: dailymoolah 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Effective local business landing pages are imperative to getting good local search rankings. Dev Basu discusses 10 Best Practices for Local Biz Landing Page design that are tried and tested methods to gain great rankings. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2008 - 11:12 am
Posted By: debram 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Going green or offering ecofriendly products is great for the Earth and developing a niche for your business; it’s also a great way to build new links to your company website. Loren Baker points out a handful of ways to attract links and attention read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: TCSM 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other
The ultimate checklist to make sure your website is going to be suck-free read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Michael Martinez: There are hundreds of search resources across the Web that may drive traffic to your sites. Those search resources usually fit into one of these categories:

1. Algorithmic search engines using their own software
2. Algori read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nowsourcing 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Kelvin Newman does a good job analyzing why just adding "add this" type buttons is a copy out in social media efforts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Maing 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
The Internet, as fragile, infuriating and enigmatic as its features can be, certainly does some things that I'd really like to see implemented, at least for beta testing, in real life. I am not a programmer, so this is piecemealed together from thin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 1:38 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Deb Mastaler questions the value of "fast, easy" links, and offers a playbook for article marketers: "Perhaps a better approach would be to add new, low-cost angles to old ways of linking. Find a method you've used in the past and expand on the tech read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: danzarrella 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:53 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Google
Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn’t be an SEO process success metric. That’s the point I’d like to further discuss here. I’ve outlined the pros and cons of most popular SEO meas read more »
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Avatar Posted By: annie7 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
A lot of successful "linkbait" is launched on the heels of breaking news or changes. We can't anticipate the future but we can plan around upcoming events, holidays, elections etc and write for them NOW. That way when the time comes you're ready and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 2:44 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website's performance. read more »
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