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	<title>SEMpdx &#187; SearchFest 2009</title>
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		<title>SEMpdx Presents SearchFest 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Schnepp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Search Engine Marketing conference to feature national thought leaders, workshops Portland, Ore. – Nov.23, 2009 – SEMpdx is pleased to announce the launch of its fourth annual Search Engine Marketing conference, SearchFest 2010. Joining the search engine optimization and pay-per-click tracks this year is a new category sure to be of interest to public relations, advertising, and other marketing professionals: Social media. SearchFest 2010 takes place at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-presents-searchfest-2010/">SEMpdx Presents SearchFest 2010</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-presents-searchfest-2010/">SEMpdx Presents SearchFest 2010</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Search Engine Marketing conference to feature national thought leaders, workshops
Portland, Ore. – Nov.23, 2009 – SEMpdx is pleased to announce the launch of its fourth annual Search Engine Marketing conference, SearchFest 2010.

Joining the search engine optimization and pay-per-click tracks this year is a new category sure to be of interest to public relations, advertising, and other marketing professionals: Social media.

SearchFest 2010 takes place at the Governor Hotel in Portland, <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-presents-searchfest-2010/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-presents-searchfest-2010/">SEMpdx Presents SearchFest 2010</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SEMpdx at the 2009 Innotech eMarketingSummit</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you going to the 2009 eMarketingSummit at Innotech? The eMarketingSummit kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday 4/22) and if you look at the agenda, you'll see some pretty heavy involvement from SEMpdx. SEMpdx board member David Mihm will be doing a presentation @ 1pm on Wednesday "Local Search Marketing Strategies" Past SEMpdx President Kent Lewis served as this year's eMarketingSummit chairperson, and he's moderating a session @ 3:30 on Wednesday "Just the Tips Please - Implementing a Successful Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/">SEMpdx at the 2009 Innotech eMarketingSummit</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/">SEMpdx at the 2009 Innotech eMarketingSummit</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Are you going to the 2009 eMarketingSummit at Innotech? The eMarketingSummit kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday 4/22) and if you look at the agenda, you'll see some pretty heavy involvement from SEMpdx.

	SEMpdx board member David Mihm will be doing a presentation @ 1pm on Wednesday "Local Search Marketing Strategies"
	Past SEMpdx President Kent Lewis served as this year's eMarketingSummit chairperson, and he's moderating a session @ 3:30 on Wednesday "Just the Tips Please - Implementing a Successful <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/events/sempdx-2009-innotech-emarketingsummit/">SEMpdx at the 2009 Innotech eMarketingSummit</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SearchFest Hot Seat Panel Review Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hallie Janssen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Last month at our SearchFest SEM conference, we reviewed House of Antique Hardware's web site in our Hot Seat portion of the event. After the event Bob Treuber, Marketing Director, and David Norris, Chief Technologist asked if they could continue the dialog between the panel as they had a few questions after hearing feedback from the panel. They also wanted time to explain to the panel why they had implemented certain things and why they hadn't. The Hot Seat lead to a great offline conversation Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/">SearchFest Hot Seat Panel Review Continued</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/">SearchFest Hot Seat Panel Review Continued</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[

 


Last month at our SearchFest SEM conference, we reviewed House of Antique Hardware's web site in our Hot Seat portion of the event. After the event Bob Treuber, Marketing Director, and David Norris, Chief Technologist asked if they could continue the dialog between the panel as they had a few questions after hearing feedback from the panel. They also wanted time to explain to the panel why they had implemented certain things and why they hadn't. The Hot Seat lead to a great offline conversation <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-hot-seat-panel-review-continued/">SearchFest Hot Seat Panel Review Continued</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SearchFest 2009 Reflections</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-reflections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Mintz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempdx.org/?p=1297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I asked SEMpdx Board Members, Advisory Board Members, and Conference Bloggers to offer their thoughts about our event...here's what they said: Mike Rosenberg: What a great event! A few days removed and I cannot think of one thing that really went wrong (and being one of the organizers with an ear to the venue that is a good thing). I believe we had our “best-year-ever” in many regards…most attendees, best speakers, most sponsors, great keynote (thanks Danny and Pixelsilk), great lunch Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-reflections/">SearchFest 2009 Reflections</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-reflections/">SearchFest 2009 Reflections</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I asked SEMpdx Board Members, Advisory Board Members, and Conference Bloggers to offer their thoughts about our event...here's what they said:

Mike Rosenberg:  What a great event! A few days removed and I  cannot think of one thing that really went wrong (and being one of the  organizers with an ear to the venue that is a good thing). I believe we had our  “best-year-ever” in many regards…most attendees, best speakers, most sponsors,  great keynote (thanks Danny and Pixelsilk), great lunch <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-reflections/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-reflections/">SearchFest 2009 Reflections</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SearchFest 2009: Beyond Theory, SEO Tips from the Trenches</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel@anvilmediainc.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Speakers: Microsoft's Derrick Wheeler, NYTimes' Marshall Simmonds, Yahoo's Laura Lippay and Search Engine People's Jeff Quipp. Moderator: ISITE Design's Steve Kemper Microsoft.com: Taming the MSCOM Beast Derrick Wheeler Senior SEO Architect + Microsoft's SEO definition - the process of influencing the structure of content and authority of a site to increase the number of quality visits (Structure &#62; Content &#62; Authority). But always make sure you have compelling offers. + The Beast Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/">SearchFest 2009: Beyond Theory, SEO Tips from the Trenches</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/">SearchFest 2009: Beyond Theory, SEO Tips from the Trenches</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speakers: Microsoft's Derrick Wheeler, NYTimes' Marshall Simmonds, Yahoo's Laura Lippay
and Search Engine People's Jeff Quipp.

Moderator: ISITE Design's Steve Kemper

Microsoft.com: Taming the MSCOM Beast
Derrick Wheeler
Senior SEO Architect

+ Microsoft's SEO definition - the process of influencing the structure of content and authority of a site to increase the number of quality visits (Structure &gt; Content &gt; Authority). But always make sure you have compelling offers.
+ The Beast <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-beyond-theory-seo-tips-from-the-trenches/">SearchFest 2009: Beyond Theory, SEO Tips from the Trenches</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building and Growing Your SEM Biz session at SearchFest 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Bullock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Building and Growing Your SEM Biz - SearchFest 2009 3pm in the Vista room Speakers Rand Fishkin - SEOmoz Adam Audette - Audette Media Anne Kennedy - Beyond Ink Moderator Lisa Williams - Media Forte Marketing Session Details Anne is the first speaker for this session. Her presentation's title is A Proust Questionnaire... for Business. A perfect business happiness, to Anne, is a great team, contended customers and profits. Anne specifically places the team aspect before all. What is Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/">Building and Growing Your SEM Biz session at SearchFest 2009</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/">Building and Growing Your SEM Biz session at SearchFest 2009</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Building and Growing Your SEM Biz - SearchFest 2009
3pm in the Vista room
Speakers
Rand Fishkin - SEOmoz
Adam Audette - Audette Media
Anne Kennedy - Beyond Ink
Moderator
Lisa Williams - Media Forte Marketing
Session Details
Anne is the first speaker for this session.  Her presentation's title is A Proust Questionnaire... for Business.

A perfect business happiness, to Anne, is a great team, contended customers and profits.  Anne specifically places the team aspect before all.

What is <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/building-and-growing-sem-biz-session-searchfest-2009/">Building and Growing Your SEM Biz session at SearchFest 2009</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SearchFest 2009: Site Analytics Session with Eric T. Peterson</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hallie Janssen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lisa peyton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portland oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web analytics portland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By Lisa Peyton Officially titled 'Site Analytics: How to get the most out of your site without increasing your budget' the session includes 3 analytics experts: Eric T. Peterson, Ian Lurie and Bob Garcia. Eric T. Peterson resides in Portland, OR and is the author of book and blog, Web Analytics Demystified, http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/. He is also known for several other resources on web analytics including The Big Book of KPI's and Website Measurement Hacks. Ian Laurie is the Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/">SearchFest 2009: Site Analytics Session with Eric T. Peterson</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/">SearchFest 2009: Site Analytics Session with Eric T. Peterson</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Lisa Peyton

Officially titled 'Site Analytics: How to get the most out of your site without increasing your budget' the session includes 3 analytics experts: Eric T. Peterson, Ian Lurie and Bob Garcia.

Eric T. Peterson resides in Portland, OR and is the author of book and blog, Web Analytics Demystified, http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/. He is also known for several other resources on web analytics including The Big Book of KPI's and Website Measurement Hacks.

Ian Laurie is the <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/searchfest-2009-site-analytics-session-with-eric-t-peterson/">SearchFest 2009: Site Analytics Session with Eric T. Peterson</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SEO For WordPress &#8211; Blog Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottfish@fishseo.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sf09]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>SEO For WordPress Session with Jordan Kasteler - Search &#38; Social, Rick Turoczy - Silicon Florist, and David Wallace - SearchRank. Moderated by Scott Hendison. These blogging pros discuss different tools and plugins that can be used to optimize your blog for Search Engines, but also maintain a social media friendly blogging platform. The Q&#38; A section discusses the scalability of WordPress for a web site's blog. Utah SEO - Jordan Kasteler Use a robots.txt file to ensure that your Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/">SEO For WordPress &#8211; Blog Optimization</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/">SEO For WordPress &#8211; Blog Optimization</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[SEO For WordPress Session with Jordan Kasteler - Search &amp; Social, Rick Turoczy - Silicon Florist, and David Wallace - SearchRank. Moderated by Scott Hendison.  These blogging pros discuss different tools and plugins that can be used to optimize your blog for Search Engines, but also maintain a social media friendly blogging platform.  The Q&amp; A section discusses the scalability of WordPress for a web site's blog.



Utah SEO - Jordan Kasteler

Use a robots.txt file to ensure that your <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/wordpress/seo-for-wordpress-blog-optimization/">SEO For WordPress &#8211; Blog Optimization</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Social Media session at SearchFest 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Bullock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Social Media - SearchFest 2009 "Auditing Sleazy Linkbait, a Social Media Marketing Discussion" 1pm in the Vista room Speakers Dawn Foster - Fast Wonder Neil Patel - ACS Matt Inman - Next Dating LLC Moderator Mike Rosenberg - EngineWorks Session Details The first presenter was Dawn Foster. She's going to talk about how brands are using social media. Why companies should participate in social media: People - gives people a place to engage with your company Product Innovation - Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/">Social Media session at SearchFest 2009</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/">Social Media session at SearchFest 2009</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Social Media - SearchFest 2009
"Auditing Sleazy Linkbait, a Social Media Marketing Discussion"

1pm in the Vista room
Speakers
Dawn Foster - Fast Wonder
Neil Patel - ACS
Matt Inman - Next Dating LLC
Moderator
Mike Rosenberg - EngineWorks
Session Details
The first presenter was Dawn Foster.  She's going to talk about how brands are using social media.

Why companies should participate in social media:

	People - gives people a place to engage with your company
	Product Innovation - <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/social-media-session-searchfest-2009/">Social Media session at SearchFest 2009</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Monitoring your Reputation: Tools for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottfish@fishseo.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reputation Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Coverage of the Online Reputation Management session at Search Fest 2009 Speaking on this panel is Todd Friesen, Tony Adam - Yahoo, Marty Weintraub - aimClear and moderating is Anne Kennedy - Beyond Ink. Tony Adam: Where to monitor your reputation Check out the RipOffReport - this is one of the irst places to check out any negative mentions o your website or brand. Using the "intitle:" command allows you to see if people have mentioned your brand in a negative way. The Conversation Read more [...]<p><a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/monitoring-your-reputation-tools-for-success/">Monitoring your Reputation: Tools for Success</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a></p>
</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/monitoring-your-reputation-tools-for-success/">Monitoring your Reputation: Tools for Success</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Coverage of the Online Reputation Management session at Search Fest 2009


Speaking on this panel is Todd Friesen,  Tony Adam - Yahoo, Marty Weintraub - aimClear and moderating is Anne Kennedy - Beyond Ink.

Tony Adam:  Where to monitor your reputation

Check out the RipOffReport - this is one of the irst places to check out any negative mentions o your website or brand.
Using the "intitle:" command allows you to see if people have mentioned your brand in a negative way.

The Conversation <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/monitoring-your-reputation-tools-for-success/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/searchfest-2009/monitoring-your-reputation-tools-for-success/">Monitoring your Reputation: Tools for Success</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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