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		<title>March Event: Social Media Smack Down</title>
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Join Marshall Kirpatrick of Read Write Web website as he moderates a  lively discussion on the pros and cons of Social Media today. In the Pro  corner will be Kelly Feller, Social Media Strategist at Intel and Kent  Lewis of Anvil Media and SEMpdx. In the Con corner will be Jerry Ketel of Leopold  [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/pafsocialmediasmackdown/">March Event: Social Media Smack Down</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/pafsocialmediasmackdown/</link>
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		<title>Link Building for the SEO Professional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogosphere SearchFest 2010 Session
Link Building for the SEO PRofessional
Speakers:
John Andrews – JohnOn.com
Adam Audette – AudetteMedia
Moderator:
Todd Mintz
Liveblogger:
Nick Herinckx of Anvil Media Inc, a Portland Oregon SEM agency
Session Details
General Link Building

The old saying, &#8220;build great content and links will come naturally&#8221; just isn&#8217;t true, there is so much great content on the web that nobody knows about.
In [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/link-building/link-building-for-the-seo-professional/">Link Building for the SEO Professional</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/link-building/link-building-for-the-seo-professional/</link>
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		<title>Advanced SEO Tools, SearchFest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to leverage advanced SEO tools to improve the performance of your website. 
Speakers:
Rand Fishkin - SEOmoz
Richard Zwicky &#8211; Enquisite
Moderator:
Scott Hendison
Liveblogger:
Live blogging by Rachel Andersen of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM Agency.
Session Details
10 Problems SEOs Face &#8211; and the Tools to Solve Them (Rand)
Find all tools mentioned here: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/10-seo-tools

Indexation Data: ignore site command &#8211; [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/advanced-seo-tools-searchfest-2010/">Advanced SEO Tools, SearchFest 2010</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/advanced-seo-tools-searchfest-2010/</link>
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		<title>Up-to-date strategies for achieving prominence within Local Search listings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local Search SearchFest 2010 Session
Up-to-date strategies for achieving prominence within Local Search listings.
Speakers:
Mary Bowling – SEOverflow
Matt McGee – Small Business SEM
Chris Silver Smith –KeyRelevance
Moderator:
David Mihm
Liveblogger:
John McPhee of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM agency
Session Details
David Mihm has taken the stage to discuss the important stuff, cocktails after the session. OK, now the real introductions…
Mary Bowling starts first. Local search [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/portland/up-to-date-strategies-for-achieving-prominence-within-local-search-listings/">Up-to-date strategies for achieving prominence within Local Search listings</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/portland/up-to-date-strategies-for-achieving-prominence-within-local-search-listings/</link>
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		<title>Tools And Competitive Intelligence Session at SearchFest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tools &#38; Competitive Intelligence SearchFest 2010 Session
Learn more about your competitors. This session will teach you how to gain the insights necessary via tools to help facilitate advantageous business decisions.
Speakers:
Neil Patel – ACS
Jordan Kasteler – Search and Social
Brian Carter – Fuel Interactive
Session Details
Brian Carter was the first speaker for this session. His talk is about [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/tools-and-competitive-intelligence-session/">Tools And Competitive Intelligence Session at SearchFest 2010</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/tools-and-competitive-intelligence-session/</link>
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		<title>Landing Page Testing: Don’t just create . . . test.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Landing Page Testing
Great session full of tips, and excellent advice about how to deal with landing page testing and optimization. Please bare with my gross spelling and grammatical errors, and special shout out to Evan Davies for the use of his laptop.
Mary Huffman kicked off the session by offering 10 aspects to test on your [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/landing-page-testing-don%e2%80%99t-just-create-test/">Landing Page Testing: Don’t just create . . . test.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/landing-page-testing-don%e2%80%99t-just-create-test/</link>
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		<title>Blogosphere Session at SearchFest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogosphere SearchFest 2010 Session
Boosting Performance Through Connection
Speakers:
Matt Inman – The Oatmeal
Rebecca Kelley – Formally  10 e 20 now a TBA company
Session Details
Rebecca started off the session with the Basics of Blogging. Why should you have a blog? It&#8217;s easier for your website to create content with a blog. Blogs also brings traffic to the website, [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/blogosphere-session/">Blogosphere Session at SearchFest 2010</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/blogosphere-session/</link>
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		<title>Making Friends &amp; Generating Business (Facebook) SearchFest 2010 Session</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making Friends &#38; Generating Business
4 Point Plan for Facebook Domination
Speaker: Will Scott
1st remember to have a good time&#8230;and don&#8217;t interrupt people having a good time.  Rules:

Be real
Give to receive
Don&#8217;t be a jerk

4 Point Plan to Facebook Domination

Get team involved
Reach out to current fans
Give reason to get involved
Make new friends

Hold internal competitions

Ask employees to recommend your [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/making-friends-generating-business-facebook-searchfest-2010-session/">Making Friends &#038; Generating Business (Facebook) SearchFest 2010 Session</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/making-friends-generating-business-facebook-searchfest-2010-session/</link>
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		<title>Paid Search Track: Competitive Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogosphere SearchFest 2010
Live blogging from Leisa Hall of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM Agency
Speaker: Mike Roberts, SpyFu

Know the keywords that your competitors are buying and get to &#8220;the best&#8221; keywords they have. What happens when a competitor buys a keyword? They are willing to bet their hard earned cash that the keyword is going to [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/pay-per-click/paid-search-track-competitive-intelligence/">Paid Search Track: Competitive Intelligence</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/pay-per-click/paid-search-track-competitive-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Learn how to create content to drive search traffic . . . and, motivate visitors.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Content SearchFest 2010 Session
Learn how to create content to drive search traffic . . . and, motivate visitors.
Speakers:
Heather Lloyd Martin &#8211; SuccessWorks
Stoney DeGeyter &#8211; Pole Position Marketing
Moderator:
Todd Mintz
Liveblogger:
John McPhee of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM agency
Session Details
Todd just introduced Stoney&#8230;there&#8217;s some confusion on which microphone to use at first, but looks like we&#8217;ve got it [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/learn-how-to-create-content-to-drive-search-traffic-and-motivate-visitors/">Learn how to create content to drive search traffic . . . and, motivate visitors.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2010/learn-how-to-create-content-to-drive-search-traffic-and-motivate-visitors/</link>
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