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SEMpdx is an “all volunteer” organization, and cleaning up comment and forum spam comes with the job. However, when these time sucking waste of pixel space comes from someone that is supposed to be “in the industry”, it really ticks me off.

Sifting through several hundred morning e-mails Thursday, I ran across two newly submitted forum posts awaiting approval. One was supposed to go in our Portland “local search marketing jobs” forum and one was slated for the SEM business forum.

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Blu Drobushevich’s “Back to Basics SEO” presentation from SEMpdx’s October 14 Hot Seat event is now posted on Amplify Interactive’s site. Here’s a link to the Back to Basics SEO presentation.

Thanks to all those who attended - that was a great turnout and we hope to see more of you at the next event!

Link building has changed forever as we know it, and it’s time to either adapt to the new relevance, or flounder at the bottom of the SERPS.

When I first started offering search marketing services, I would guarantee a certain number of links per month to clients, because it seemed to me that it was all about volume.

Do you even know what Google Notebook is? Even if you do know what it is, you probably aren’t using it very much, but you may want to start, because not only is it a handy tool, it might start to affect rankings.

According to this article by Bill Slawski, there may be a new Google ranking factor coming soon.  It’s probably already on your computer, and if you’re like me, you rarely find yourself using it, although I did play with it extensively for about two weeks over the summer,  while I was contemplating giving up Microsoft Office completely.