Great new! My favorite Local Search Marketing company, Relevant Ads just earned their Google Authorized Reseller Status! Great job guys!
Read the article here.

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Friends of mine at MarketingSherpa.com just let me in on web-based training session they are hosting tomorrow. I’m fairly certain there’s a cap to the number of attendees who can participate. If you’re interested in attending the webinar tomorrow, just click here.
Viral Marketing taps the social arena on the web to drive massive traffic to a website very [...]

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According Reuters, Yahoo! CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang has stepped down from his role after a long-bitter year of not-so great performance for the world’s 2nd largest search engine.
The buzz is that this change in leadership may provoke a new negotiation with a potential buyout from Microsoft. Of course, after being turned down twice, I [...]

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As you know, I’m passionate about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Meetup.com has given me the opportunity to synergize with my peers and offer marketers a chance to sit in on discussions that could help improve ranking in the search engines.
I use to offer my Meetup Group as a workshop format, but have since gone back [...]

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Thought you might be interested. Here is the email I just received from Yahoo!:
Dear Advertiser,
We wanted to reach out to you directly regarding Google’s decision, announced earlier today, to terminate the advertising services agreement that the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement, and is disappointed that [...]

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I was recently asked to review a small business website (Fretzels.com) and give some recommendations that may help improve traffic generated from the search engines, aka: Google, Yahoo! MSN, etc.
The article, Boost Your E-commerce Site’s Search Ranking, features a link to a video review I did of the Fretzels website and includes some great tools [...]

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I had the honor of speaking about SEO as an opener for Mark Victor Hansen at a business networking group last night. Of course, I warned the audience that I’m a “techie” not speaker, and still pulled off a good SEO Primer.
Mr. Hansen was an incredible, inspirational, educational speaker. Beyond reading several of his Chicken Soup [...]

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I had the great pleasure of attending what I remember to be one of the most useful Internet Marketing lectures I’ve ever attended. I thought I was just attending the Orange County meetup of meetups, appropriately named the MEGA Meetup, which was held at the Kettering Center in Irvine. This was Dan Safkow’s baby, where [...]

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Are you attending the B2B Demand Generation 2008 Summit? Yes, it’s a 4 hour flight from Orange County, but if you can make it, MarketingSherpa.com is confident that you’ll fly home with a knowledge of how to generate more quality leads to your website.
Click here for more info.
MarketingSherpa.com puts out an endless amount of literature [...]

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Don’t miss this SEO Blogging and Marketing Workshop in Irvine August 27th, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Marshall Reddick Learning Center. Here’s why attending this workshop is a no-brainer if you’re trying to market your website without a blog:
What You Will Learn

How blogging can drive traffic from Search Engines & elsewhere
Where [...]

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