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Pamela Parker
Pamela Parker is Content Manager at Marketing Land, MarTech Today and Search Engine Land. She's a well-respected authority on digital marketing, having reported and written on the subject since 1998. She's a former managing editor of ClickZ, and worked on the business side helping independent publishers monetize their sites at Federated Media Publishing.
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Google Earnings Show Halt Of CPC Decline, At Least Temporarily
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