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Take Charge of Your Online Reputation
Whether you re just one person with a small business web site or you have the tremendous online presence of a large company to think about how you re perceived makes a big difference in your bottom line. You can never control it completely but you can learn how to monitor your reputation and put your best foot forward….
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Elsewhere…
A couple interesting blog posts I came across recently.

How to Sell Remnant Ad Inventory
Tips on how to increase the value of a website when there is more ad inventory than advertiser demand.

YouTube leads the video search marketplace
Like many people, I enjoy a good video. Especially with YouTube. Anything and everything is on there, well pretty much anything.

YouTube hosts any video it seems. From full length feature pirated movies, to news stories, video blog entries, a ton of just plain personal videos of the dog running around, to just plain hilarious videos of senior citizens dancing helping add to the 20 million visitors per month.

Hitwise just released some stats on YouTube, and their amazing 60% share of all videos watched online in the US. Compare that with Yahoo, MSN, and Google’s share of only 3-5%, and you can see why YouTube is a video traffic genius. The company gets around 100 million video’s viewed per day, and YouTube has said that they had 2.5 billion videos watched per day last month.

If you think there is nothing to see in the video search marketplace, look again, it’s hotter then ever, and YouTube is steaming up the web.

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How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking
3 easy tips to protect your website from nefarious subdomain hijacking.

Responding to Negative Publicity Online
In a previous article I talked about online reputation management. I explained why it s important to monitor your reputation online and how to do it. I also discussed what you should already be doing to manage your reputation. In this article I ll describe what you should do when the worst happens….
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Responding to Negative Publicity Online
In a previous article I talked about online reputation management. I explained why it s important to monitor your reputation online and how to do it. I also discussed what you should already be doing to manage your reputation. In this article I ll describe what you should do when the worst happens….
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The Changing Face of Link Buying
Many people who have been traditional link buyers are wrapping their links in a bunch of packaging that makes the link buy look and feel natural.

How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking
3 easy tips to protect your website from nefarious subdomain hijacking.

5 ways to beat the SEO competition in Google (e-Consultancy)
If you are wondering why your competitors are ranking above you in Google on highly trafficed keywords, it is probably because you are missing a key part in the SEO equation. To start outperforming your peers on the search engines, I suggest following these five steps:

Search Engine Strategies (SES) Brings Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training to the Mile High City (Centre Daily Times)
Recent projections anticipate that North American search engine marketing (SEM) spending will grow to $25.2 billion in 2011 from $12.2 billion in 2007. To experience firsthand the continuous developments in search engine strategy and ensure they stay on ahead of the competition, consultants, site designers, website owners, and in-house marketing professionals alike cannot afford to miss the SES …

PageRank: Acting Brand New
Late last year something went down in the SEO world literally. It was big and if you are into Internet marketing you would have noticed it. The Google PageRank of large numbers of publishers gasp the ultimate navel gazing tool took a big hit. Some dropped by two points and some by as much as 5. Should you care Does it matter And what is this PageRank business anyway Keep reading to find out….
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Search Engine Strategies (SES) Brings Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training to the Mile High City (Centre Daily Times)
Recent projections anticipate that North American search engine marketing (SEM) spending will grow to $25.2 billion in 2011 from $12.2 billion in 2007. To experience firsthand the continuous developments in search engine strategy and ensure they stay on ahead of the competition, consultants, site designers, website owners, and in-house marketing professionals alike cannot afford to miss the SES …

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SEO Step Nine Of Ten: Conversion Optimization (WebProNews)
Welcome to step nine in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: read more

Call Back For Whoever Said there are converting like 50% of a few hits/day
Someone, in the last week, said there are converting like 50% of a few hits/day
on a super targetted longtail phrase.

Who was that?

How can I find …

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SEO Being Trademarked? (WebProNews)
It seems the world we live in has recently been relocated to the ‘Twilight Zone’. The reason being, that recently a man named Jason Gambert is trying to register ‘SEO‘ as a trademark . The most shocking point in this bizarre event is that he has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. read more

What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability (Search Engine Land)
In an effort to differentiate themselves from competitors, many SEO/SEM firms come up with interesting unique selling propositions (USPs). Some SEO/SEM firms emphasize search engine advertising and create quite useful tools to help manage PPC campaigns. Some SEO firms specialize in training, again creating tools that help newbie and experienced SEO professionals optimize existing Web …

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 13, 2008 (Search Engine Roundtable)
In this week’s video recap, I discuss the major business turmoil Yahoo is going through with Microsoft, Google, AOL and News Corp. I also go through Flickr adding video, Yahoo acquiring IndexTools, Google’s new AdWords policy, the guy who trademarked SEO, how one can penalized their competitors in Google, and so much more. The video is under ten minutes long and you can win some great schwag …

Search Engine Strategies (SES) Brings Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training to the Mile High City (Centre Daily Times)
Recent projections anticipate that North American search engine marketing (SEM) spending will grow to $25.2 billion in 2011 from $12.2 billion in 2007. To experience firsthand the continuous developments in search engine strategy and ensure they stay on ahead of the competition, consultants, site designers, website owners, and in-house marketing professionals alike cannot afford to miss the SES …

Re: Free Adwords accounts ebook
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Host Color Offers SEO Consulting (Web Host Industry Review)
April 9, 2008 — ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Host Color announced on Wednesday it has added ColorSEO, a free SEO consultation service, to its hosting plans.

5 Steps To Develop In-House SEO Functionality (Search Engine Land)
In large organizations, it takes the effort of several internal groups to accomplish top level business goals. When natural search optimization for Web sites, commonly called SEO, is moved in house, it generally is the task of a combination effort from IT and Marketing. Below are five steps for moving SEO in house, as well as tips for accomplishing those steps. Click to continue …

What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability (Search Engine Land)
In an effort to differentiate themselves from competitors, many SEO/SEM firms come up with interesting unique selling propositions (USPs). Some SEO/SEM firms emphasize search engine advertising and create quite useful tools to help manage PPC campaigns. Some SEO firms specialize in training, again creating tools that help newbie and experienced SEO professionals optimize existing Web …

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Microsoft Live’s new markets
The Microsoft Live team has just launched the Live search service into 34 new markets.

The new markets include:

China - Simplified Chinese
Netherlands - Dutch
Belgium - French
Belgium - Dutch
Brazil - Brazilian Portuguese
Denmark - Danish
India - English
Russia - Russian
Sweden - Swedish
Taiwan - Traditional Chinese
Arabia - English
Argentina - Spanish
Austria - German
Chile - Spanish
Finland - Finnish
Greece - Greek
Hong Kong SAR - Traditional Chinese
Hungary - Hungarian
Indonesia - English
Ireland - English
Malaysia - English
New Zealand - English
Philippines - English
Poland - Polish
Portugal - Brazilian Portuguese
Singapore - English
South Africa - English
Switzerland - German
Switzerland - French
Turkey - Turkish
Czech Republic - Czech
Slovakia - Slovak
Slovenia - Slovenian
Latin America - Spanish

Microsoft is on the run, trying to launch into as many markets as it can in an effort, im sure, to stay side by side with its main competition in the search world, Google.

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5 ways to beat the SEO competition in Google (e-Consultancy)
If you are wondering why your competitors are ranking above you in Google on highly trafficed keywords, it is probably because you are missing a key part in the SEO equation. To start outperforming your peers on the search engines, I suggest following these five steps:

Searching Google for Girls
Search engines are popping up left and right. With people fiddling and tinkering with open source directories, and API’s. But i have never came across something like this….

Are you a girl? A girl that loves searching? Better yet, a girl that loves searching on Google? Why not try Girgle?

There is really nothing new as far as search technology goes here. Girgle is really just a pretty landing page for the AdSense search tool. Pretty might not even be the word. Its landing page is a little malformed with its heart shape thingy. The developer might have something, but they might want to spend a bit more time making it at least appear a little prettier.

Thanks to Nathan for spotting this site!

UPDATE: Girgle has changed their site to a “million dollar pixel homepage”. Thanks for the notification Orang

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SEO Step Nine Of Ten: Conversion Optimization (WebProNews)
Welcome to step nine in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: read more

Tracking a package through MSN Search
MSN has just announced that you can track packages through its MSN Search portal.

To track packages with MSN Search, simply head to search.msn.com, and enter your FedEx, DHL, UPS, or USPS tracking number.

MSN package tracker is one of the MSN Instant Answer search tools. Its great that search engines are providing all of these additional features to make our lives even more easier. But as the features grow, so does the competition and battle for the top search engine.

Who knew that search could be this exciting?

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Lastminute.com appoints Greenlight for SEO task (Mad.co.uk)
Lastminute.com has appointed search marketing agency Greenlight to apply specialist search engine optimisation (SEO) services to low-cost car hire website holidayautos.co.uk.

5 ways to beat the SEO competition in Google (e-Consultancy)
If you are wondering why your competitors are ranking above you in Google on highly trafficed keywords, it is probably because you are missing a key part in the SEO equation. To start outperforming your peers on the search engines, I suggest following these five steps:

Host Color Offers SEO Consulting (Web Host Industry Review)
April 9, 2008 — ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Host Color announced on Wednesday it has added ColorSEO, a free SEO consultation service, to its hosting plans.

Optimum7 Marketing Introduces Performance-Based Fees for SEO Services (PRWeb)
Optimum7 announces the adoption of a new type of fee structure that is contingent on actual performance. The plan is designed to provide Optimum7 clients with the peace of mind that fees they pay for Search Engine Optimization will now include a performance contingency. (PRWeb Apr 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/performance-based/seo/prweb846764.htm

Creative Advertisements: the Psychology of Flow
Attracting public attention or patronage in order to promote a certain product or service is always a tough task. In this computing era dominated by the Internet advertising online has started to occupy a larger fraction of the marketing industry. In its very essence advertising works under the same principles. In this article we ll discuss how to forge creative advertisements i that sell i ….
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5 Steps To Develop In-House SEO Functionality (Search Engine Land)
In large organizations, it takes the effort of several internal groups to accomplish top level business goals. When natural search optimization for Web sites, commonly called SEO, is moved in house, it generally is the task of a combination effort from IT and Marketing. Below are five steps for moving SEO in house, as well as tips for accomplishing those steps. Click to continue …

Become helps you search a little closer
Become.com’s search is now a little more tailored to your exact expectations when it comes to results. Their results are filtered by Product Reviews, Buying Guides, Discussion Forums, and Product Details.

Your first search results give you a look at all of the results together. However, Become has added in sub searches that categorize and filters the results based on the 4 research topics of Product Reviews, Buying Guides, Discussion Forums, and Product Details. Searches also dump recommended products with images to the right of the results, based on what you have searched for. It’s like a little shop built right into your search results. From there you can also customize the shopping by process or brand.

Become makes for a much more targeted and fun approach to search. Would I use it as my main search engine? No. I still prefer Google for their high quality lists of results.

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Methods To Employ And Avoid in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (Turks.US)
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the method of evaluating and improving a Web site based on a lot of major factors that will help a Web site get wider online coverage, attain higher search engine rankings, and get considerably large profits as well.

Search Engine bid management
There is a new tool on the market for automated search engine bid management. It has been developed by Efficient Frontier and Enlighten.

The tool will help in making the bid managements process more scientific and more efficient when dealing with the most complex paid search campaigns.

Efficient Frontier is focused on delivering advanced technology for search engine marketing performance. With that ability teamed up with Enlightens ebusiness knowledge, it might be something to add to your arsenal.

The search engine bid management tool is currently only available to customers of Enlighten. If anyone has any experience with it, or more info on it, please feel free to post your insight in the comments.

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Lastminute.com appoints Greenlight for SEO task (Mad.co.uk)
Lastminute.com has appointed search marketing agency Greenlight to apply specialist search engine optimisation (SEO) services to low-cost car hire website holidayautos.co.uk.

ChaosMap Founder, Jon Rognerud Provides the Ultimate Guide to SEO with New Book (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Jon Rognerud, Founder of ChaosMap (www.chaosmap.com) a leading internet marketing firm, unlocks the mystery of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in a new Internet marketing book.

5 ways to beat the SEO competition in Google (e-Consultancy)
If you are wondering why your competitors are ranking above you in Google on highly trafficed keywords, it is probably because you are missing a key part in the SEO equation. To start outperforming your peers on the search engines, I suggest following these five steps:

The Economics of Credibility
If you are a publisher and your business model requires you to find new customers every day then you need to keep competing for attention. In many markets that will put you in a Jim Cramer-like position where you end up making some bad calls that cost you a lot of money in the long run.

Use SEO to optimize your recession (CNET)
Tips on how to use SEO to make the most out of a recession for your business and website.

Bannister = Jae Seo (NJ.com)
161014. A few years from now, nobody will be talking about Bannister. The clue here is in the fact that he only pitched 165 innings last year. Seo was as good with more innings pitched a few years back. He isn’t on a 40 man roster right now.

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Blogged.com Offers Simple Way to Find Blogs
If you re looking for a blog search engine there s Technorati IceRocket BlogPulse Feedster and many more. So what does Blogged.com bring to the table that these other sites don t It s easy to use welcomes user rankings and just might help you get more traffic. Keep reading to find out more….
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TOTO USA Hires Search Engine Optimization Company Medium Blue (PRWeb)
SEO Firm to Highlight Retailer’s Selection of Luxury Bath Fixtures (PRWeb Apr 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/search-engine/seo-firm/prweb829204.htm

The Mindset Behind Creating Ethical SEO Standards (Turks.US)
As in running any type of business, the values of credibility are of utmost importance, and the aspect of credibility is considered as one of the major principles that area highlighted by professionals.

I, Robots.txt
In this article we will take a look at the Robots Exclusion Standard. It sounds like something straight out of a science fiction book but is really nothing more than a tool to prevent web spiders and robots from accessing a particular section of your website or even your entire website if you so desire that you don t want indexed. The standard goes by many names like the Robot Exclusion Protocol but you most likely have heard of it as the robots.txt protocol. No matter what you may call it it is a handy tool that when used properly can help increase your ranking with the various web pages….
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Yahoo Sees Rosy Future without Microsoft
Ever since Microsoft made its initial 44 billion bid on Yahoo several weeks ago the venerable search engine has desperately tried to rebuff the software giant s advances. From behind-the-scenes bargaining with other companies to announcements that the deal vastly underrates Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been working to keep his company from being purchased by the monolithic monopolist. Read on for his latest move….
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TOTO USA Hires Search Engine Optimization Company Medium Blue (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
SEO Firm to Highlight Retailer’s Selection of Luxury Bath Fixtures

PageRank: Acting Brand New
Late last year something went down in the SEO world literally. It was big and if you are into Internet marketing you would have noticed it. The Google PageRank of large numbers of publishers gasp the ultimate navel gazing tool took a big hit. Some dropped by two points and some by as much as 5. Should you care Does it matter And what is this PageRank business anyway Keep reading to find out….
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The Changing Face of Link Buying
Many people who have been traditional link buyers are wrapping their links in a bunch of packaging that makes the link buy look and feel natural.

Range Online hires former CompUSA exec to lead search engine efforts (InternetRetailer.com)
Paid search and search engine optimization firm Range Online Media has hired Will Pendergast as director of search engine optimization. Pendergast will manage Range’s SEO programs,which include site optimization, social media optimization and reputation management.

Firms use evil SEO to kill rivals’ Google rankings (ZDNet Asia)
Competition for dominance of search engine rankings is turning sour as rival companies sabotage each other’s Web sites to trick search engines into mistakenly believing them to be spam sites.

Do You Need SEO Standards For Your Company? (Search Engine Land)
The debate on the need for SEO standards continues, with no clear industry-wide consensus. Without a doubt, however, your company should have SEO standards and guidelines that convey your company’s stance on SEO—namely, clearly spelling out acceptable practices and perhaps even more importantly, definitely drawing boundaries that cannot be breached regardless of whether they may increase …

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