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Search Shorts: Link Exchanges Are So 2002

By Vanessa - July 19, 2009

Today, I was browsing apartment rentals in Riga, Latvia. I was searching via the Flock toolbar, which defaults to Yahoo search. I found a pretty good result that had all kinds of apartments, with prices, descriptions, pictures, and maps, and lots of great information about the area. This wasn’t a fly-by-night operation, autogenerated made for [...]

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Short Is The New Long

By Vanessa - July 19, 2009

I have tons of really long blog posts I want to write, have half-written, have nearly done, but clearly none of that is getting this blog updated. So, I’m going to introduce a new feature, in which I post short, random thoughts about search craziness. And maybe search awesomeness.
I’m calling it search shorts, because I’m [...]

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Technical Search Events in Seattle and San Francisco

By Vanessa - June 3, 2009

Just a quick post to mention a couple of places to get answers to all of your technical search-related questions!
First, check out my post on Search Engine Land on Google’s new ability to execute JavaScript onClick events and the continuing searchability issues with technologies such as AJAX and Flesh.
This afternoon (June 3rd) at the close [...]

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SEO Checklist with Vanessa Fox with WebProNews

By Heather - June 2, 2009

Mike McDonald of WebProNews sits down with Vanessa to talk about checklists at SMX Advanced.
Watch the Video

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Developers Welcome at SMX Advanced!

By Vanessa - May 8, 2009

What’s a key element to effective search engine optimization that leads to increased customer acquisition through search? In the immortal words of Steve Ballmer: developers (and also developers, developers, etc.).
SMX Advanced, the always-awesome advanced search marketing conference, is coming up in Seattle on June 2nd and 3rd. Last year, I programmed a developer day that brought developers [...]

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