Hundred Dollar SEO

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What is the Internet?

A series of tubes? - Sen. Ted Steven
For porn? - Avenue Q
Widely misused?
Where I found my last job

Whatever you answer is ok with me. Whether you see it as an informational resource, a way to pirate content, a source to make money, or a hurtling dump truck — it […]

URL: http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/a_statement_followed_by_a
Title: A Statement Followed By A Question Separated By A Colon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Meta: The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, is an award-winning publication covering world, national, and * local issues. It is updated daily online and distributed weekly in select American cities.

The Onion warms my heart by forcing […]

A couple of months ago I had a wonderful day — I was the undisputed 2nd Sexiest Man in SEO. Not only that I was the first result for Sexiest Man in Search, which is more of an accomplishment considering that there are 29 times the number of results and the search for the sexiest […]

Url: www.FoundationSeattle.com
Title: Foundation v5
Meta: N/A

The Foundation Seattle is a group that throws parties for charity events for organizations in Seattle and gets matching funds from companies like Microsoft. Right now they only show up for the domain name. Which is unfortunate, they really could use search both to their advantage and to the advantage of […]

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Craigslist is both a bane and a boon to your work. It is popular, easy, highly effective, and frequently abused.
Here are some tips for getting better results from Craigslist:

Get a Craigslist account – This will make posting and reposting quicker and easier.
Write like you are advertising – You are given plenty […]

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Search Marketing is more than just search engines. One of the most amusing things to me is when people boast that they get the vast majority of their traffic from Google — sometimes as high as 80%. It is difficult not to laugh at that. Having a business that is entirely contingent […]

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In the early weeks of April there has been an explosion in a very odd phrase, Bacon Bra, go search it. I’ll wait. There is quite a bit of content. But alas, no image content. The web results contain numerous versions of the original image from Flickr, but image search doesn’t […]

Today’s SEO review is of James Kinloch site. Yesterday he stopped by to comment on “Are you Doing Opt-in Wrong?” and invited me to check out his site. He wants the phrase creative SEO.
What is Creative SEO?
To qualify as creative you need to be doing something that is notably out side of the norm. Link […]

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Opt-in is all the rage. Seth Godin says don’t interrupt your viewers, get their permission and you will have a dedicated channel. The major problem with permission marketing is, most of the time, you don’t actually have my permission.
I get e-mails from Target, TicketsWest, Wild Ginger Restaurant in Seattle and Wrrl because […]

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Over the last week I have seen a surprising rush of people in my life “getting” Twitter. It seems that every few weeks there is a little spike in the number of tweets that come in to me. I have a pocket of friends that sign up for everything, and don’t […]