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It displays Sphinn Hot topics, whats new, and comments.

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Some alternative predictions for 2008

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Great work from godaddy and the online communities for helping bring attention to this situation

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You can’t control who submits you to what network and provide a specific tracking URL for each. There’s a way to use Analytics and onpage stuff to track your social media efforts!

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Move over Sam’s Choice Cola and Sam’s Choice Drinking Water… there’s a brand new product offering hitting the shelves - introducing Sam’s Choice Pay Per Click services. I know you can find almost everything you need at Wal-Mart these days… but t

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Barry Schwartz tells us about his success on Reddit and wtf with Digg.

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Blogging is big business these days, with some bloggers reporting six-figure or even million-dollar incomes. There are a number of ways that these bloggers earn such large paychecks, and the best know how to do it in a way that won’t scare off reade

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I don’t often get the chance to compare traffic for a major phrase that is #1 for all three search engines. It’s an eye-opener.

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Tom discusses in some good depth one of the most important elements to any SEO firm … Account Management. It may be easy to get business, but the real challenge to growing is in keeping existing business first … then securing new clients.

Gre

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Another one of my rants: "Digg, I think you forgot that you can’t just ignore your community simply because you’re ready to sell. In fact, that’s exactly why I urge nobody to invest in Digg."

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

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Apparently you have to watch what you say when speaking at conferences. A hacker has been consistently attacking sites belonging to Stephen Spencer, his family, and co-workers and posting angry ‘ransoms’. Lame.

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Michael calls it on just how the whole "Richter Scales" incident will impact Lane badly in the long run - and proposes how she should handle it instead
(Woot! First Sphinn! )

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I’m a user at Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and my behavior differs in terms of how I choose my friends and spend time on the social networks. Are you the same?

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Intro by Rebecca: Coincidentally, Adam Green submitted this SEM post to YOUmoz last night, and it’s very informative so I decided to move it to the main blog and have it kick off SEM Tuesdays. Enjoy!

There have been a number of updates to Google Adwords and Google Analytics lately, so I thought the SEOmoz community might want a summary of them.  For the most part, I am impressed with the new features and Google should be applauded for listening to their user base and responding with these additions. 

Improvement #1 - AdWords Geographical Targeting with Google Maps

Although geographical targeting is not perfect, this new mapping feature does make it easier for the average user.  Google has introduced a new system where users can see targeted areas using Google Maps.  I like this feature a lot because it allows me to see the surrounding towns and cities which I might want to include in my targeting for a particular local client.  This is especially handy for those who manage clients outside of their geographic area. 

Some new improvements include Google’s creation of "bundles," where you can bundle together specific regions like Central America or Africa.

Where this system falls short, and this is a long standing issue with geo targeting, is the fact that a user sitting in City Example X, may not have an IP address registered to that location.  Thus, when developing campaigns it can be a good idea to develop campaigns with the city keyword as a geographic qualifier and even test the effectiveness of the polygon targeting tool. 

Here is what the map targeting looks like for a client looking to target the Toronto region in Canada:

Improvement #2 - Google Keyword Tool

Google has also improved the functionality of its keyword tool by adding features that allow you to filter results,  choose which statistics columns to display and select match types at the keyword level. They have also combined the ability to see keyword variations and site-related keywords into one tab, allowing you to see all keywords on one page.  This update isn’t a huge breakthrough, but the increased functionality is nice for those of us who use this tool on a regular basis. 

Here is a screen cap of the tool, using the ever popular "blue widgets" example.   

Improvement #3 - Google Analytics Graph Comparison

I really like the increased functionality that Google has included with this update.  Comparing date ranges has always been helpful, especially when demonstrating improvements to clients or patterns of behaviour on a site.  This new update allows you to compare different metrics like average page views and time on site to each other, and display them graphically.  

The metric comparison options change depending on which area of Analytics you are viewing.  If you have an e-commerce site, you can compare conversion rates, transactions, revenue, and more.  

Here is a screen cap of a dashboard view in Google Analytics:

Hats off to Google for implementing these useful additions.  In my opinion, the new comparison feature in Google Analytics will be especially useful.  I would be interested to hear if anyone else likes these updates…or if there are features and functions that are sorely needed and should be implemented by Google.

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Search Engine Journal’s nominations now open

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Loren Baker has opened up nominations for the annual 2007 search blog awards. I think we deserve a few nominations at the minimum. Wouldn’t you agree?

There are 24 categories and I bet you can fit Search Engine Roundtable into a few of those. For example, who rocks the house with conference coverage? Don’t you think Barry is a very giving search blogger?

So nominate us (and perhaps other some personal blogs too… cough) and we’ll be sure to thank you for adding to our trophy shelf. It is because of you, the readers, that we write, so thank you to our loyal reader base.

Forum discussion continues at Sphinn.

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Aah, Christmas — the season when no-one wants to make an extra buck and those that want to, want to do it next year.

So, as there’s nothing to do for us right now, why not kick back and read an SEO Christmas story?

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