{"id":345,"date":"2007-02-21T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/345"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:39:02","slug":"seo-magic-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/seo-magic-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Magic Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally decided what I&#8217;m going to talk about in my portion of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/Events\/?launch_pg=EventPage&#038;launch_sel=1000078\">SearchFest<\/a> on March 7th.<\/p>\n<p>From 10:45 to Noon, in Miller Hall, at Portland&#8217;s World Forestry Center, I&#8217;ll be sharing an  SEO Basics session with Stanford Davis, of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.straight-on.com\/\">Straight On Internet Consulting<\/a>.  Stan is going to discuss the Top 10 SEO Mistakes he sees, and here&#8217;s the description of my session:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are the magic bullets that will help you rank higher in the search engines? Do they even exist? What are the strategies that used to work,\u00a0 that you should avoid in 2007? What can you do to pursue better rankings today? Even more importantly, what strategies should you plan for in the future? All that and more in 30 short minutes, with time to spare for Q&#038;A.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re a professional web marketer, I don&#8217;t expect you to pass up the advanced session, with Stoney deGeyter from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polepositionmarketing.com\/\">PolePositionMarketing<\/a>, Rand Fishkin, from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/\">SEOmoz<\/a>, and Matt McGee from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marchex.com\/\">Marchex<\/a>, but there should be some informative tidbits that will help even the seasoned search engine aficionado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally decided what I&#8217;m going to talk about in my portion of SearchFest on March 7th. From 10:45 to Noon, in Miller Hall, at Portland&#8217;s World Forestry Center, I&#8217;ll be sharing an SEO Basics session with Stanford Davis, of Straight On Internet Consulting. 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