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Apr. 25, 2008 at 8:06pm by Danny Sullivan
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason had some remarks on SEO that set off the usual wave...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 12:36pm by Barry Schwartz
Earth Day Logos From The Search Engine Industry
As I posted earlier this morning, here is a quick compilation of logos for Earth Day from the search industry....
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Apr. 1, 2008 at 9:37am by Barry Schwartz
April Fools 2008 : The Search Industry's Recap
Happy April Fools Day! April Fools can be a fun but scary day for news reporters like myself. On one hand, we get to make up stories and fool people into thinking they are real. On the other hand, we have to determine which news stories are real and which...
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Mar. 27, 2008 at 8:00am by Jill Whalen
We Don't Need SEO Standards!
Last month I attended the SMX West session in Santa Clara entitled Is it Time for Search Marketing Standards? It was an interesting session, but I wasn't really sure where I stood on the issue at the time. Now that I've had a few weeks to think about it,...
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Mar. 5, 2008 at 10:28am by Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts & The Search Community Interview
I finally got around to watching Whiteboard Friday - The Matt Cutts Interview and felt it was worth pointing out. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, is a huge part of the SEM industry. Rand Fishkin's interview with Matt Cutts explores that relationship. Questions include how Matt got into being the face...
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Feb. 22, 2008 at 4:00pm by Paul Bruemmer
Is The Time Ripe For Search Marketing Standards?
Over the past ten to twelve years, various SEM practitioners have brought up the need for industry standards. I started asking the question in 1998, and others have brought it up since, but the industry seems to have a laissez faire attitude. Albeit, we've seen some standardization steps taken by...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 9:23am by Barry Schwartz
SEO Makes Oprah In Roundabout Way
SEO is making it big time, hitting Oprah! Actually, it's an SEO who will be on Oprah and not talking about his business but his personal life. Rand Fishkin is slated to share how he popped the question for his fiancee Geraldine last year. Kim Krause posted the news of...
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Feb. 8, 2008 at 3:06pm by Danny Sullivan
Socializing Before & During SMX West 2008
We expect more than 1,500 people to attend Search Engine Land's three-day Search Marketing Expo West conference later this month in Silicon Valley. A monster show! There will be sessions stuffed with search marketing knowledge and a bustling expo floor. But it needn't scare those looking to network. We've carefully...
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Jan. 31, 2008 at 9:29am by Danny Sullivan
Vote Now For SMX Search Bowl's Search Marketer Team
The nominations are in, and now it's time for search marketers to vote on which two people should represent SEMs against the major search engines in the SMX Search Bowl search trivia contest, which happens at our SMX West three-day search conference next month in California. The nomination round...
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Jan. 30, 2008 at 8:20am by Barry Schwartz
SEMPO State Of SEM Survey, SEOmoz Industry Survey, & SEMMYS Need Your Help
There are three surveys underway right now for the search engine marketing industry looking for participation. SEMPO and SEOmoz are both running surveys to collect data on the search marketing industry, while the SEMMYS are a more fun look at search marketing articles up for awards....
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 8:35am by Danny Sullivan
SMX Search Bowl: Nominate Search Marketers To Take On Search Engines In Quiz!
For years, a conference idea banging around has been a trivia quiz involving the search engines. For our SMX West search marketing conference this Feb. 26-28 in California, we've got it happening! SMX Search Bowl will have teams from Ask, Google, and Microsoft competing against each other to test...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 8:10am by Barry Schwartz
Traffic Power's CEO Jailed Over Alleged Foreclosure Scams
SEO Company CEO Arrested, Jailed: Accused of Foreclosure Scam from Search Engine Watch reports Traffic Power's CEO, Matt Marlon, was jailed for allegedly committing foreclosure fraud. The news comes from Las Vegas's News 3 station, which reports Matt Marlon was arrested for allegedly conning homeowners faced with foreclosure to give...
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Dec. 21, 2007 at 7:31am by Mike Blumenthal
Vote Now For 2007's Funniest Search Blog Posts
I'm now taking nominations for the 2007 top 10 list of the funniest/most irreverent blog entries in search. Why? The search industry is important. I mean, what industry (besides the sex industry) can singlehandedly cause Google to change its vaunted PageRank algo? However, on occasion we tend to take ourselves...
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Dec. 6, 2007 at 8:54am by Barry Schwartz
Inaugural Werewolves Search Spam Game At PubCon Vegas
Last night in Las Vegas, SEOmoz held a game featuring well-known names in the SEM industry. The game is based on a game called Werewolf, and special cards were created picturing folks in the search marketing industry. Ian Kennedy posted coverage with pictures of the event and Rebecca Kelley from...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 12:43pm by Andrew Goodman
Search Industry Nostalgia: A Reminder of How Far We've Come
If I were writing the local County Cross Country Ski Club newsletter, a retrospective might cover two or three minor changes in the field, and a watershed moment or two. Primitive skis were used by Vikings as much as 5,000 years ago. In about 1460, someone in Scandinavia discovered...
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Oct. 13, 2007 at 6:01pm by Danny Sullivan
Congratulations, Elisabeth Osmeloski & Matthew Ostrander
Elisabeth Osmeloski is well known within the search marketing industry, especially for having started and run the Search Engine Watch Forums for three years. Today, she tied the knot with Matthew Ostrander. Best wishes from all of us here at Search Engine Land! Some more pictures are below:...
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Sep. 28, 2007 at 11:27am by Danny Sullivan
Sphinn: Our Internet Marketing News Site & Discussion Forums Leave Beta
It's official. Sphinn (we pronounce it like "spin"), our social news and discussion site for internet marketing, is now out of beta. OK -- so the logo still says beta at the moment, but that will change in a matter of hours. Since we launched back in July, we've been...
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Aug. 13, 2007 at 10:29am by Danny Sullivan
Eric Enge Talks Search Engine Land, Sphinn, SMX & Search Marketing With Danny Sullivan
I mentioned last week that Eric Enge was working an interview with me as part of a series he's been doing with various search industry people. The interview is live now, a long one that covers how Search Engine Land has been evolving, the growth and development of our Search...
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Aug. 2, 2007 at 8:04am by Barry Schwartz
Forget Chores For Pocket Money -- Teen Makes $900 Per Month Doing SEO
Forget Babysitting and Paper Routes, Teen Turns to SEO from Stephan Spencer at News.com highlights one teen who earns on average between $20 and $30 a day on her blog through Google AdSense. Stephan knows 16-year-old Chloe well -- she's his daughter! Chloe she was invited to present at the...
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Aug. 1, 2007 at 7:49am by Danny Sullivan
Aaron Wall Does Q&A With Danny Sullivan
Aaron Wall of SEO Book has posted a new interview with me. I normally don't highlight these type of interviews here on the blog, but Aaron asked a lot of interesting questions that really got me thinking -- and I thought readers here might like a heads-up about it. In...
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 3:29pm by Duane Forrester
Networking: The In-House Search Marketer's Most Powerful Tool
You are a pillar. You are on an island. You are alone - a stranger in your own land. Such is the life of an in-house SEM. Or is it? True, you may be the only one in your company talking your talk and walking your walk, but you...
