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SEO Competition: R4000 to be won

March 14th, 2008 · 28 Comments

springleap.com has just announced an SEO challenge.
http://www.springleap.com/posts/view/springleap-seo-competition-r4000-in-prizes
At noon (South African clocks) on the 1st April (Just over TWO weeks time), if you are in one of the top 3 organic positions on google.com for the term springleap (no quotes - just the word springleap), you’ll be a winner.

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Tags: search · seo · springleap

SEO Course

January 30th, 2008 · 26 Comments

I took some time off yesterday morning from debating the Eskom Load Shedding to hang out at the Quirk eMarketing breakfast, where Rob Stokes was speaking about Search. I was expecting a bit of fluff on what search marketing is, and the basics on SEO (getting visitors for free from the search engines) and PPC [...]

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Tags: search · seo · where i'm blogging

Persistent Pitching

June 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Do you remember that scene in the movie Boiler Room where Seth gets the call from the newspaper salesman trying to get him to buy a subscription?
I got a request to join my Linkedin from a guy I didn’t know and he didn’t give any details of who he was or why he wanted to [...]

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Tags: search

Google Web History

June 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Move over Digg and Delicious - here comes Google Web History.
I don’t know why they didn’t do this ages ago, although the privacy issue is going to become a HOT topic again.
When searching google you can now “note this” and the google web history will take note.
Meaning you can remember sites you thought were interesting, [...]

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Click Fraud could be decreasing legitimate Click Revenue

May 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The report by Fair Isaac which has sparked debate in the Search Marketing industry yet again, claims that click fraud on the major search engines such as google and yahoo is around the 10 to 15 percent level. This far exceeds google’s claims that their filters and engineers have cut down click fraud to under [...]

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Tags: search