search marketing was not the culprit that caused the dotcom bubble to burst. The main failure was the poor.. ..Unfortunately, since SEM is a relatively new industry and because it isn’t as straight forward as traditional..

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..I thought I would go straight to the source and ask them why they were using such tactics. It turns out they were shocked as well. Here’s the response that I received..

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Marketers are increasing investment in alternative media outlets, including the Internet, as their spending on traditional advertising media flattens..

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Search results are affected by the use of keywords on the page, the number of sites linking to the site, the page rank of the linking sites as well as other criteria. There have been rumors and discussions about using the age of a domain. Microsoft has…

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Google has a lot of features that you may no know about. Here are 5 lesser know ways to google

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A fun lesson in Link Building.

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Wikia Search is the new user-based, or social search engine. The brain child of Wikimedia Foundation’s founder and CEO Jimmy Wales… …Will it be a Google killer? Certainly not for sometime. The whole concept is…

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Google still remains the dominant search engine, but as an overall web presence, ACSI reports that Yahoo’s portal is boosting it’s customer satisfaction rating. According to a recent survey, Yahoo’s score rose 3.9 points…

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