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The Truth About Backlinks

Scott — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:38:16 +0000

This coming Thursday March 29th, I’m giving an advanced internet marketing presentation to a Meetup Group at the Portland Convention Center Red lion Inn. The program starts at 5:30 and goes until 7:30, and preregistration is required here. The tile of the presentation is “The Truth About Backlinks”, and with all that’s happened at Google [...]

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Google’s Local Policy is Stupid

Scott — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:48:38 +0000

Last night I did a search on Google because my wife had her car window smashed by some Portlandia hooligans while she was watching the Central Catholic High School play. The first result for “emergency auto glass repair” was Glass Doctor, and it was a combined local listing, so I picked up the phone and [...]

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Off Site SEO Presentation

Scott — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:23:00 +0000

I was asked to fill in at the off-site SEO session of SearchFest last week, and I worked for days on my slides, intending to give the best presentation that anyone had ever seen. I tried to pack nearly 90 slides into a 25 minute presentation, and after the first half of the slides, I [...]

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Local Search for Beginners – Feb 16th 2012

Scott — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:37:00 +0000

My next internet marketing session is geared towards local businesses, (sign up here) and is specifically focused on beginners who don’t have technical skills. Web designers who are not SEO’s are also welcome. I suppose if you are an long time SEO that has never delved into the changes in local search before, you’ll also [...]

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New Rules of SEO in 2012 – Meeting January 19th

Scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:07:22 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I’m running my own Meetup groups for 2012, and my first event has now been scheduled for January 19th, at the Convention Center Red Lion Inn. Why? Over the past few years, I’ve spoken on more panels and given more presentations than I can count. I’ve presented to multiple private [...]

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Friendster 404 Fail?

Scott — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:38:27 +0000

Friendster seems to have about 57 million 404 errors, and they have completely wiped out the vast majority of their users content. Do a site: search on Friendster.com and try to go almost anywhere - We have a few Friendster accounts, and just this morning my friend Brad who has a pretty busy 80′s fan site told [...]

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Rat Out Your SEO

Scott — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:10:26 +0000

Are you feeling guilty because you have improved your rankings unfairly? Have you bought links? Exchanged goods or services for reviews? Have you commented on blog posts, or maybe participated in forums when you didn’t even feel all that strongly, but you did it in an attempt to manipulate the search results through gaining backlinks? [...]

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Google Hotpot – Not So Hot?

Scott — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:53:16 +0000

I just tried to leave a review at Google, while I was logged in, and instead of being given the old review screen, I was asked to set up a new profile. Here, it’s easier to show you… (*update four months later the name “Hotpot has finally been dumped. What a dumb idea that was [...]

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Google Instant Effect vs. Affect

Scott — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:05:41 +0000

Google Instant was rolled out to the world yesterday, which changes the way search results appear. Rather than waiting for you to push a button that says “search”, as you type, search results will simply appear, based on whatever you’re typing. Although I HAVE seen it happen while I’m not logged into Google, I’ve also [...]

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SEO App for Android

Scott — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:28:19 +0000

The SEO Automatic URL Review for Android is finally available, and it covers all the same ranking factors that the web version does. Just like the iPhone app, the only difference between the free version and the paid version is that you can e-mail reports from the paid version. I wouldn’t call this breaking news [...]

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