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		<title>SearchFest 2012: Marketing Challenges and the Tools to Solve Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Slowik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEMpdx Blog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempdx.org/?p=7720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Speakers: Rand Fiskin, SEOmoz Justin Briggs, Big Fish Games &#160; Summary: Rand and Justin faced off for this presentation.  The challenge?  Which marketing pro could show off the best tools to address today's challenges and opportunities. &#160; What a wonderful job Rand and Justin did summarizing internet marketer's biggest challenges and providing tools to solve them.  In the end, the presentation attendees decided Rand was the winner.  I'm not going to away all the tools Read more [...]</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/tools/marketing-challenges-and-the-tools-to-solve-them/">SearchFest 2012: Marketing Challenges and the Tools to Solve Them</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speakers:

Rand Fiskin, SEOmoz

Justin Briggs, Big Fish Games

&nbsp;

Summary:

Rand and Justin faced off for this presentation.  The challenge?  Which marketing pro could show off the best tools to address today's challenges and opportunities.

&nbsp;

What a wonderful job Rand and Justin did summarizing internet marketer's biggest challenges and providing tools to solve them.  In the end, the presentation attendees decided Rand was the winner.  I'm not going to away all the tools <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/tools/marketing-challenges-and-the-tools-to-solve-them/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/tools/marketing-challenges-and-the-tools-to-solve-them/">SearchFest 2012: Marketing Challenges and the Tools to Solve Them</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Not Just Another Tool:  My Interview With WordStream&#8217;s Larry Kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Mintz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Man, Google offers some great keyword research tools.&#160; Why should I use WordStream? I think you should use our free keyword tool for the same reason I’d suggest using any other keyword tools as an idea generator. The main differentiator between Google’s external tool and our free keyword tool is that ours is a Long Tail Keyword tool – we offer a deeper list of suggestions (up to 10,000 depending on the query you start with). We also tap a variety of different data sets (ISPs, toolbars, Read more [...]</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/not-just-another-tool-my-interview-with-wordstreams-larry-kim/">Not Just Another Tool:  My Interview With WordStream&#8217;s Larry Kim</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Man, Google offers some great keyword research tools.&nbsp; Why should I  use WordStream?
I think you should use our free  keyword tool for the same reason I’d  suggest using any other keyword tools as an idea generator. The main  differentiator between Google’s external tool and our free keyword tool is that  ours is a Long Tail Keyword tool –  we offer a deeper list of suggestions (up to 10,000 depending on the query you  start with). We also tap a variety of different data sets (ISPs, toolbars, <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/not-just-another-tool-my-interview-with-wordstreams-larry-kim/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/not-just-another-tool-my-interview-with-wordstreams-larry-kim/">Not Just Another Tool:  My Interview With WordStream&#8217;s Larry Kim</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Social Media Tracking &amp; Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hendison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempdx.org/?p=2273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I thought that Tuesday's Social Media SixPack presentation went pretty well, and someone e-mailed me asking me for my slides, so I decided to post a dry run of my presentation here. I went a bit long here. at about 10 minutes, but it might be worth watching if you want to be more efficient. Read more [...]</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/social-media-marketing/social-media-tracking-tools/">Social Media Tracking &#038; Tools</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I thought that Tuesday's Social Media SixPack presentation went pretty well, and someone e-mailed me asking me for my slides, so I decided to post a dry run of my presentation here.

I went a bit long here. at about 10 minutes, but it might be worth watching if you want to be more efficient.


 <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/social-media-marketing/social-media-tracking-tools/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/social-media-marketing/social-media-tracking-tools/">Social Media Tracking &#038; Tools</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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scottfish@fishseo.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SearchFest 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempdx.org/?p=1250</guid>
		<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><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>Google Webmaster Tools Gadget</title>
		<link>http://www.sempdx.org/blog/google/google-webmaster-tools-gadget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hendison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Even though many experienced search marketers shun the use of tools, I guess I'm still a rookie because I really enjoy them. No matter how efficient I think I can be, there's always a better way to do something when you introduce a certain level of automation. Inside Google Webmaster tools there was apparently a recent addition back in February but I just noticed, and it's really pretty slick. I saw a new menu item called gadgets at the bottom left. It took a total of maybe 90 seconds Read more [...]</p><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/google/google-webmaster-tools-gadget/">Google Webmaster Tools Gadget</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Even though many experienced search marketers shun the use of tools, I guess I'm still a rookie because I really enjoy them.  No matter how efficient I think I can be, there's always a better way to do something when you introduce a certain level of automation.



Inside Google Webmaster tools there was apparently a recent addition  back in February but I just noticed,  and it's really pretty slick.

I saw a new menu item called gadgets at the bottom left. It took a total of maybe 90 seconds <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/google/google-webmaster-tools-gadget/" class="more-link">Read more [...]</a><p>The original post is titled <a href="http://www.sempdx.org/blog/google/google-webmaster-tools-gadget/">Google Webmaster Tools Gadget</a> , and it came from <a href="http://www.sempdx.org">SEMpdx</a> . </p>]]></content:encoded>
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