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Topics related to the search engine marketing industry in general. For more background, see SEM industry news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://copybrighter.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 9:24 pm
Posted By: Jill 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who's attended a conference can relate, especially if you're somewhat shy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 3:44 am
Posted By: seosurvivor 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Follow up on Sphinn post: Top SEO Firms Paid for by the Following...

Back in June, you read the story about the Most Dependable awards being given to SEOs and Web Design companies, amongst others.

In short, a company named Goldline Research ca read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 10:51 am
Posted By: Jill 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2008 - 5:31 pm
Posted By: cre8pc 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: SEM Industry
Leading off the 6th Anniversary Cre8asiteforums Interview series, Kim Krause Berg interviews Rae Hoffman. Great videos included! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 12:58 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imediaconnection.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Extensive 6-page article on getting the most out of conferences by Lee Odden at TopRank. Includes tips from Brad Berens (iMedia), Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman, Kevin Ryan, David Berkowitz, Heather Lloyd-Martin and Michael Brito. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 10:03 am
Posted By: Wiep 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: SEM Industry
If you are planning on hiring a search consultant, here is a mini-glossary along with a checklist of Q&A to help you separate the wheat from the chaff; or if you prefer, the can-do’s from the no-clue’s. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 8:38 am
Posted By: Jill 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great post by Mark Jackson about the creepy feeling he gets when he sees search marketing companies paying for the honor of being deemed "best." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bloommedia.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Alex discusses an interesting idea for managing enterprise new media clients and how the payment on results model extends to large multi-national clients. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.realityseo.com)
Category: SEM Industry
In October of 2006, when I [Mike Valentine] was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 10:54 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Jill is someone who needs no introduction round these parts. I had the pleasure of interviewing her last week on the topic of Google, ethics, old-school marketers, Cuil and the myths of social media. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 6:59 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Danny Sullivan will be speaking at SES San Jose! In addition to Danny's return to SES, there will be lots of other must-see panels.

Check out Greg Jarboe's predictions for the top stories to come out of the conference. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 6:47 pm
Posted By: Eddings 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yourseomentor.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Garrett Pierson interviews Dave Snyder of Snydeysense.com, Dave shares some great insights on SEO and Social Media. Although Dave is a big guy (6’2 ½´ and 285lbs) in this interview he admits that he cries often, so you gotta check this out! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2008 - 6:21 pm
Posted By: cre8pc 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Very affordable! Speaker list:

* Debbie Weil - Author of the Corporate Blogging Book
* Kevin M. Ryan - Vice President, Global Content Director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch
* Geoff Livingston - Author of N read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 12:19 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yourseomentor.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Garrett Pierson had the wonderful opportunity to talk a bit with the crazy and funny Dave Harry aka TheGypsy. If you don’t know who Dave is then shame on you because you are totally missing out on his very valuable and hilarious content at his famou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Posted By: rodonnell 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 6:05 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEM Industry
David Mihm is more than just an SEMpdx Schwag Ho. He is one of the top experts in the ever-growing specialty of Local Search Optimization and he focuses his consultancy on helping small business clients generate online revenue in their respective m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: jimhedger 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Though he writes that he dislikes writing about this topic, Barry was right to cover it. We have a collective problem of our own making... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 7:44 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone writes, "Michael Gray gave Google the day off and decided to pick on women instead, or more specifically, BlogHer. Michael claims that the BlogHer conference is guilty of sexual discrimination. He's offended that there weren't any male s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 2:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced subject with the SEO expert, who is respectfully tight-lipped on specific techniques, the next best subject was how he manages to stay relevant in a sea of noise. The self-proclaimed shameless marke read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Gyutae Park writes "I want to give a little background information on my various SEO experiences and then outline what I think is an ideal career path for aspiring newbies to become SEO rockstars." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 11:19 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
The video of "You&A With Matt Cutts," a session at SMX Advanced where Google's Matt Cutts took questions from the audience on a wide variety of topics has been posted on SEL. Additionly, recaps of the "Give It Up" session have now been posted as the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: onreact 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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