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Don Campbell has a pretty good overview of Yahoo Search Monkey and it’s relevance for online marketers.

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Just got off the phone with Robert Silverman of Statepoint Media, a service that distributes advertorial to local newspapers, who claims that while the big dailies are busy falling off a cliff, local newspapers are thriving.  He’s talking about the kind of local papers you pick up in the hotel lobby or in a box […]

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Best Passover Book Title Ever. I thought the book cover was such a classic that it deserved a submission to This Is Broken, a site I found several years ago that I loved. It features bone-headed product design choices such as this […]

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Jon Carder, CEO of Mojopages, just asked Matthew Berk if they have ever run into any problems crawling other review sites.
Matt: we are respectful of who we crawl - we typically contact the publisher first and often have partnerships.
My POV is Google does it so why shouldn’t you?
Another question re what about negative reviews?  Neither […]

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For all of my readers who are not at the Kelsey conference feel free to ping me with any questions you would like me to ask any of the speakers.
Info on the speakers here.

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As a follow up to my post on the true cost of SEO I recommend you check out the SEO Success Pyramid on Matt McGee’s blog.  I recently was explaining how SEO works to the board of one of my clients in the flooring industry and they found it very helpful.  Thanks Matt.

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Read it again.
And if you are in the Jewish investment mood I recommend finding out about a donor advised fund from JCF.

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Nothing local or SEO about this.  I just heard that Danny Federici, keyboard player for the E Street Band, died yesterday.  The iPod will be tuned to Springsteen for the rest of the day in memory, particulary “The River”.

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I may have given the wrong impression with my previous post that Grayboxx is shutting down when in fact they have been acquired.  Sorry for the confusion.

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I have been following the recent mapspam sightings with great interest. Location is a key factor in local search, so it’s no wonder that “entrepreneurial” marketers are doing there best to screw with Google’s (and other’s) fabulous mapping creations. To some extent I am willing to look the other way when a fellow […]

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