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Here you'll find topics about the practice of search engine marketing (SEM), which involves generating traffic and sales via search engines. For more background, see Search Marketing news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Posted By: Ramkarthik 15 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Enhance the website’s appearance with Flash or optimize for search with crawlable content? Fortunately, recent innovations in Flash accessibility programming have begun to demonstrate that Flash vs. SEO is a tough choice no more. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mdjensen 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Some practical and fun advice for the organizers of SEO conferences (PubCon, SMX, and SES), like a "big bucket of bacon" to keep attendees coming back year after year. Chime in and suggest what you'd like improved at the SEO conferences! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dsnyder 1 hour 26 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
I talk about the basics of Information Environment Design, and kick of a series of video posts on the topic at Search Engine Journal. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 1 hour 58 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty writes, "Today with blog pitching for link building and awareness you just can’t say straight what you are actually up to: a link back to your site. Even if you are approaching bloggers with an awesome unique resource that is most likely read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jhnrang 2 hours 41 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.netcatalogue.org)
Category: Link Building
There is a very negative impression on web directories these days. Many webmasters and SEO firms are keeping safe distance from them. So, is the directory industry dead? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nevilrohinton 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-optimization-experts.com)
Category: SEO
We all know that keyword and keyword phrases are the foundation of the search engine optimization process, but today we will journey into a world beyond the visible keyword universe. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kat25 6 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gottaquirk.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Does a NoIndex Page accumulate PageRank? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
The SEO world, particularly the blogosphere and forum chatter, is overwhelmed with talk of how to leverage social media sites for SEO value. Tonight, Rand Fishkin is curious - which types of social media platforms do you actually get the most direct read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ChristopherHart 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jordankasteler.com)
Category: SEO
ExactFactor is an search engine optimization campaign tracking tool to add to your “free SEO tools” collection. They provide a free utility to track your search engine result positioning without having to check your position all the time. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: anthonyverre 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://themilwaukeeseo.wordpress.com)
Category: SEO
The topic finally seems to be making it’s way to the mainstream. Do I think that Bruce has got it right? Yes, Bruce got it right: search engine position and rank is dead. I think Bruce is leading SEOs astray read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AdrianS 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.epowermark.com)
Category: Search Marketing
With the holidays fast approaching, it will be interesting to see what happens with online retail in this economy. Here's a look at what is expected to happen through the next few months, and what is being done to prepare. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: EricLander 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: SEO
Follow Google's Webmaster Guidelines by the book and play around with Lynx, a text based browser to simulate what GoogleBot (and presumably other spiders) are seeing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JstaTad 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-mojo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
How bad is it to be in automotive Search Engine Marketing right now? Demand for the brand keywords driving the greatest volume of leads for Automotive OEMs have dried up this fall and really bottomed out in October. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: djmayne2001 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maynem.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Have you ever noticed how many animals are affiliated with the worlds top SEO's. Well i have and here are some of the pets behind the SEO's. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: styletime 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.redswish.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Seriously, you don’t need an expert to optimize your website for better search engine rankings. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), after all, is not rocket science. It is something you can learn and do it yourself – all it takes is some serious readi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vikramprashant 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsult.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Getting a new website indexed is important to your SEO efforts. If a page is not indexed then there is absolutely no chance of driving SEO traffic to that page. Search engines use spiders that crawl from page to page using links to navigate around t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: barnaseo 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchcowboys.com)
Category: SEM
Three striking examples showing the differences and difficulties of search marketing and optimisation in Europe. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dazzled 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyeter discusses 10 questions that you need to ask yourself to make your SEO campaigns successful. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: itcoll 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-tips-for-u.blogspot.com)
Category: SEO
Wordpress is the best platform as far as blog creation is concerned . Its due to the amazing resouces of templates available in the web and so many other factors.many people are also engaged in free wordpress blogs although the count is a bit less t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: UtahSEOpro 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Paid Search
I [Brian Carter] spoke at ScarySEO about optimizing your pay per click advertising. It was October 2008, not back in the 70's as the curtains to the left make it appear.

The presentation was based on my 5 step process for optimizing anything. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: sheilahippert 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apogee-search.com)
Category: Paid Search
Over the past couple months, it has been quite depressing for eCommerce marketers to read the news – layoffs, recession, consumers cutting back spending, etc. Unless you live under a rock, all marketers have heard that “Consumers Aren’t Shopping Onl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Psychobel 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.pushon.co.uk)
Category: SEM
No fluff, just useful stuff read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jtthomas 1 day 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vegaswebdesign.org)
Category: Search Marketing
There are billions of people who use the search engines throughout the world to find anything they want with Google being the largest search engine being used. There are a variety of reasons why people use the search engines.

The 3 main reasons a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: markthompson 1 day 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Link Building
Using the Trackur tool as a new approach to link building. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: linear 1 day 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://semscoop.com)
Category: SEM
Monetizing and measuring your traffic is smart business sense - they go hand in hand so don’t neglect the power of information when it comes to increasing exposure of your website through SEO read more »
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