It seems every day we are faced with new SEM opportunities from MSN, Google, Yahoo, Ask, and, shortly, AOL. With demographic and geographic targeting now available, quality scores to consider, the long tail, copy and landing page tests, and increasing bid rates, where does one begin? If someone was already familiar with the concepts of […]

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Search Engine Journal launched a free SEO Clinic today for sites lacking experience with search engine optimization.
As you can imagine, they don’t have the resources to support everyone who walks through the door so each week, one challenge will be met by a respectable group including Loren Baker, Carsten Cumbrowski, and Garret French who will […]

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I want to take a moment to share with my RSS readers, significant improvements I’ve made to the blog to improve the user experience on site. I’ve spent so much time focused on content and reaching out to an audience that I neglected proper scripting and clean design.
Everything appears to be fixed.

Homepage archiving was broken […]

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I’m passing you off to another blog on this one as DeWitt Clinton has developed a wonderfully simple enhancement for your site that will add OpenSearch of your domain to IE7 and Firefox 2
How cool is that!?
What is OpenSearch you might be asking??
OpenSearch is an attempt to standardize search methodologies to share search results across […]

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attap, an innovative company with potential to be a favorite of mine, has launched a fun enhancement to their buzzvote service that allows anyone to easily create and host visually appealing polls for product recommendations. Gone are the boring polls or product specific ratings with difficult comparison functionality; with BuzzVote you can display a […]

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If you are as much an online marketing dork as I am, a fun way to spend your afternoon is with the soft-launched Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator with which you can meshed and changes feeds to create an output that is more powerful, useful and relevant.
Consider what could […]

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My favorite CSE, Google Base (I still prefer “Froogle” don’t you?), has made a significant enhancement to the quality of their product engine with the addition of product attributes to the feed specifications.
As I hope you know, Google Base allows stores to upload product feeds so that their audience can find, consider, and compare said […]

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