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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. A company looking to place ads on search networks posts their campaign through Trada and their community of SEO experts contributes keywords and terms to the campaign. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

searchengineland.com

All Things SEO. Enterprise SEO. Overview: What Is SEO? Video: What is SEO? SELs Guide To SEO. Periodic Table Of SEO. SEO Columns. How To: SEO. Google SEO. SEO Library. Our SEO Events. How To: SEO. Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. No keyword data in competitive intelligence/SEO tools. Perhaps you (like me) use competitive intelligence or SEO tools to monitor keyword performance.

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How the Power of Positive Thinking Turns into a Successful Business

Duct Tape Marketing

During a trip to Western Kansas with her family on New Year’s Day 2011, Laura watched the scenic Flint Hills roll by, while her feet were propped up on the car dashboard. In the summer of 2011, Laura’s daughter wore one of the first prototypes, “I am confident,” to volleyball practice, and gave mom great feedback.

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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

ConversionXL

In 2012, MarketingSherpa posed the question , “Did optimization or testing demonstrate ROI in 2011?” However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough. Did those 30 new SEO pages cause the rise in conversion or was it just noise or something else? Measuring ROI of optimization is hard.

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Why Your Business Needs An App

YoungUpstarts

In our internet-obsessed world, business owners need to understand things like search engine optimization (SEO, which is the practice of making a web presence as appealing as possible to search engines ) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements. But by 2011, 35 percent of Americans were toting around a smartphone.

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The Complete Small Business Marketer's SEO Toolkit :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Below is a list of the tools many SEO pros turn to when they want to initially size a site up.

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