Posted by Eric Enge

Intro from Rebecca: Eric Enge is a guest blogger for SEOmoz. His posts primarily focus on link building, but he has tackled other topics as well. He has previously written about the role of outbound links, various ways to pursue links, the role of directories in link building, Google's Ajax APIs, and how he doesn't buy links. Today he'll be shifting gears a bit and will be talking about duplicate content. Enjoy!

Conventional wisdom among experienced SEOs is that there is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. In general principle, this notion is true, but there are exceptions to this rule. In other words, duplicate content penalties do exist for certain scenarios, and that is what we are going to discuss in this post.

Once again, the conventional wisdom is almost always right. Here it is:

1. Duplicate content can occur within a site, or across different sites.
2. A page can be considered duplicate without being identical.
3. The search engine wants to publish one version of a particular piece of content in their index. This is fundamentally because if a user gets a set of search results, goes to an article, and decides that is not what they want and returns to the search engine to check out other results, giving them another copy of the same article does not help them.

So fundamentally, what search engines implement is a filter. So far so good. Now let's talk about the consequences:

1. Search engine bots come to a site with a crawl budget, which is counted in the number of pages they plan to crawl in each particular session. Each time it crawls a page that is a dupe (which is simply going to be filtered out of search results), you have let the bot waste some of its crawl budget. That means fewer of your "good" pages will get crawled.
2. Links to duplicate content pages represent a waste of link juice. Duplicated pages can gain PageRank, or link juice, and since it does not help them rank, that link juice is misspent.
3. Lastly, no search engine has offered a clear algorithm for how a search engine picks which version of a page is does show. In other words, if it discovers 3 copies of the same content, which 2 does it filter out? Which one does it still show? Does it vary based on the search query? The bottom line is that the search engine might not do what you want it to do.

While some SEOs may debate some of the specifics above, I think that the general structure will meet with agreement across most SEOs. So, now let's talk about a couple of problems around the edge of this model.

Problem Numero Uno

It's that last bullet in the list of consequences. For example, on your site you may have a bunch of product pages, and also offer print versions of those pages. The search engine might just pick the print page as the one to show in its results. This does happen at times, and it can happen even if the print page has lower link juice and will rank less well then the main product page.

I saw this with a recent client. The fix was to nofollow links to the print pages and no noindex those pages as well. Once this was implemented, everything improved significantly for them.

Strictly speaking, no penalty was in fact assessed. However, picking a lower ranking version of the page to show sure felt like a penalty.

A second version of this can occur when you syndicate content to 3rd parties. The problem is that the search engine may boot your copy of the article out of the results in favor of the version in use by the person re-publishing your article. This also does happen. The best fix I know for this, other than noindexing the copy of the article that your partner is using, is to have them implement a link back to the original source page on your site. Search engines nearly always interpret this correctly, and emphasize your version of the content when you do that.

Once again, perhaps no penalty was assessed, but it still sure feels like one.

The above examples are not actual penalties, but for all practical purposes have the same impact as a penalty - lower rankings for your pages. But there are scenarios where an actual penalty can occur.

I worked on one site that was aggregating content from many sources (from thousands of sites). More than 60% of the pages on the site contained content that could be found on those other sites. The value add of the site was in the unique categorization and organization of the content, and in the value-added information about each of the sources.

The site did very, very well for many years. But then the bottom fell out of the whole thing. Traffic dove to less than 20% of its highest levels. The great majority of pages were in the supplementals (back when these were still visible) and even ranked below pages on sites that had duplicated the content from them. The business was fundamentally in ruins.

We were able to rehabilitate the site and get it to about half its original traffic levels. The only thing we did was significantly reduce the amount of duplicate content. By getting it to these lower levels, we apparently got it below a threshold that made Google like the site again.

We do have scenarios where the way that the search engines select which version of a particular article to show is, for all intents and purposes, a penalty. While the search engine people I have spoken to would not call that a penalty, to a publisher it is. Regardless of what you call it, these are scenarios you need to avoid because they hurt your site.

In addition, real duplicate content penalties do exist. The scenario may need to be extreme, but it can, and does, happen.

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• Facebook - Do NOT just untag photos. I did this a year ago while job hunting and now I don’t know where all the worst images of me are posted. Furthermore, do not assume that your friends' privacy setting will protect you. They won't.
• Linkedin - If you don't have one, get one. If you do have one, update it.
• Myspace - ummm delete it? Kidding, but try to clean it up as much as possible.
• Flickr - It's going to be rough, but you need to look pessimistically at each photo and each comment and decide how they reflect on you.
• All other websites you participate in - Are you applying to IBM but have dugg a bunch of anti-Microsoft posts?  Remember, companies have many loyalties. (I have a friend who was applying for an internship at IBM and the interviewer jokingly mentioned how much Microsoft sucks. It was a trick to see my friend's reaction because many IBM departments currently work closely with Microsoft.) Don't be so easily fooled.
  

• Create a personal website with your name as the domain - When someone searches for you, the search engines will give a matching domain name more weight than an average page that simply mentions you.

My Google SERP includes DannyDover.com (#3) and the social profiles I listed on its contact page (#4 & #6)

• Include links to all of your online profiles with your name as the anchor text - Include your typical usage of the site so the page has original content and is not just a list of links. This shows people you are plugged in and pushes your social profiles up on your SERP.

• Highlight your best work - Create a collection of your work, with the best ones highlighted (block via robots.txt to avoid duplicate content if the work was originally posted elsewhere).

• Contact companies that you know and respect - I recommend sending a short and/or really convincing e-mail to the appropriate people with a noteworthy and short subject line. Remember, these people receive hundreds of e-mails a day. Make your e-mail stand out without asking for a ransom.
  
  Below is the e-mail that got me this job. Feel free to personalize it for your own use. Looking back on this, I recommend you make it shorter. I got lucky.
  

• Talk to people you know - Most people get their first jobs by utilizing their connections. Track down and talk to your friends about possible job openings. They are your greatest resource.

• Search Craigslist - Many companies (especially startups) ignore the traditional recruitment websites and post job openings online for free on Craigslist.

• Search Monster and Jobster - Other more traditional companies use these standard professional websites. Don't ignore them.

• Search the SEO marketplace - There are currently over 500 companies offering more than 200 jobs looking for people like you. It should come as no surprise that many people have already gotten jobs from using this marketplace.

• First and foremost, figure out the culture of the company - Is this a company that you will really want to work at? Does it sound to good to be true? Is your potential boss an idiot? Try to figure these things out before you apply.
• Read and comment on the company's blog - This helps to understand the culture of the company. Don't comment if you don't have anything valuable to say (advertisements for yourself are not valuable in blog comments).
• Search their site for anything related to hiring - If you are lucky, you might find a gold mine of information. 
• Stalk important employees online - I am only half kidding here because it is likely potential employers will do this (at least to a small extent) to you. If the company is small, you should know at least the basic facts about the key employees (titles, roles, and big achievements). This will further help you understand the culture and operations of the company. All of this will be very useful at the interview. (Truth be told, I actually recognized everyone at SEOmoz before I actually shook their hands for the first time. I also think that knowing Rand attended the University of Washington without graduating helped me write an e-mail that was able to get his and Gillian's attention.)
  

• Write a specialized resume - I always write a resume tailored specifically for the job in which I am applying. Of course, I do have a general resume. I use it as a template and rearrange it based on my research into a particular company.
• Write a creative cover letter - Make something that stands out without confusing people. For example, see the cover letter that got me this job and Rand's favorite applicant of all time. Note: both of these worked because the creators researched the company culture before making them.
• Use a legitimate resume layout - Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS). List your most important traits first and keep everything organized. Never, I repeat NEVER, use the default Microsoft Word resume template. On the same note, never make your resume two pages (see below to download the template I use).
• Content - This is paramount. Choose your words carefully and always present yourself in the best light. Don’t lie, but do feel free to show off your skills.
• Spelling and Grammar - Have as many people as you can read over your resume. If you are a student, show it to appropriate teachers/professors. If you are not, show it to your smart friends. Failure to have perfect spelling and excellent grammar on a resume is a great way to get eliminated.
  

• Do a case study - This should be specific to your skills and demonstrate quantitative results. Include the status of the case before, what you did to improve it, and what the results were afterwards. Although the case study write up that I did is in a different format, it is still a good example.
• Help people - Not sure what to do for your case study? Contact a local charity and ask if you can help them in someway. If you want to be a web developer, offer to work on their website. If you want to be a SEO, see if you can make them rank for some tough keywords. Be sure to bring up this experience at interviews. (Thanks TigerAdvertising)
• Always speak their language - Nobody likes talking to someone they can’t understand. However, people do like to be impressed by people who are more knowledgeable. Use the knowledge you gained from researching the company to determine how to express yourself.
• Numbers - Make a one page summary of your results of your case study. Include graphs and tables where necessary.   
  

• Bring your resume - Bring several hard copies and keep them in a manila envelope to keep them safe. Additionally, bring your resume in PDF format on a thumb drive in case someone wants more copies. Lastly, keep a copy of your updated resume on your website. You never know what the interviewer might expect.
• Dress up - I am an adamant believer that it always helps to dress up at a professional interview. Men, wear khakis, a dress shirt, a tie, dress shoes, and black socks. Women, your clothing is beyond my expertise. However, as a rule of thumb, always dress conservatively and avoid looking fake. If you dress seriously, people will take you seriously.
• Believe in yourself - You should know as much as you can by this point. Don’t stress, and if you don’t know the answer to an interviewer's question, be honest. Interviewers spend all day listening to BS. It is refreshing to talk to an actual human being.
• Follow Up - Send a short and simple thank you after your interview. It is easy to do and makes a great impression.
  

• Make them an offer they can’t refuse - When I applied here, I offered my (limited) services at no charge and promised to provide all of my own resources (computer, software, etc). As an intern I realized that money was not the immediate goal. I had found a company that promised to provide me with valuable experience and I was ready to take a short term loss (in money and energy) in return for big rewards later. Employers will generally keep an intern as long as the intern is bringing more value to the company than they are taking away from it. As an intern, expect to take on a lot of tedious tasks (I read and categorized every blog post ever written on this website), but be sure you are at a place you love.

• Be yourself! - They will either like you or not, and there is nothing permanently you can do to change that.
• Luck - Sometimes there is nothing you can do. At some point while job hunting you will fail. I have failed several times and I fully expect to fail many more times in the future. I have been able to learn from my mistakes and have constantly improved myself. Through this constant process of improvement I have guaranteed that I will be successful at something. The catch is it most likely won’t be what I expect.
  

• Start Now - I have read a million blog posts containing excellent advice. The reality is these didn't help me at all until I started putting what I had learned into practice. Right now, you should print this out and start doing everything on it. Go get yourself a job!

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Posted by randfish

The nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain trumpeted the $1 billion milestone Wednesday, noting that its U.S. online sales have been growing at an average clip of more than 50 percent per year. In 2001, the chain's online sales totaled $20.4 million. Last year, its online sales approached $400 million.

Papa John's said more than 20 percent of its sales come from online or through text messaging, an option it introduced last year. The company said text sales are meeting expectations, but it didn't provide specifics.

Freitas said online business is driving higher overall sales at his more than 50 Washington-area stores. Online orders account for about half of overall sales at a couple of his restaurants, he said.

"I knew it would be a big part of our business, but this has blown my expectations away, and I think it's even going to go higher," Freitas said.

While the demographics of pizza-delivery-addicts may skew slightly to the younger, online-obsessed population, this is a fairly good signal that even the most mainstream parts of the American consumer market are finding value in using the web. Why? In this particular instance, my answer would be "usability."

Let's walk through the standard, offline, phone-based process of ordering pizza:

1. Make decisions about:
   • Which restaurants can deliver to your location
   • Pricing
   • Quality
   • Reliability and Timing
2. Find a menu for the pizza place you want to order from OR call the pizza place and ask for a list of menu options and prices
3. Put pizza restaurant on hold while you evaluate the choices and confer with the group placing the order
4. Place the pizza order
5. Provide credit card information for payment or choose cash at the door
6. Hang up and wait for pizza

We've all done this for years, and to be honest, it's not a hard process. In fact, it's actually possible that the expression "as easy as ordering pizza" could exist.

But, just to be fair, let's take a tour of that same process on the web (using visual examples from Papa John's site):

The homepage is there to sell me on stuff, but it's nice that they have a link to a whole page with all their specials - that's always a struggle to understand properly over the phone and you sometimes wonder if you're getting the best deal available.

Admittedly, it's a nuisance to put in your address before you see the menu, but on the plus side, you can find out what menu is available (and whether delivery is available) in your area. I'm guessing they change the pricing a bit depending on region, but you're not really losing anything over the old pick-up-the-phone method, so it's forgivable.

Having the menu online is actually remarkably more convenient. Not only can Papa John's upsell you on some of their specialty pizzas, you can actually peruse the entire menu at your leisure, along with prices and descriptions (and even photos) - something that would be nearly impossible offline.

This is where the online system really shines - the create-your-own-pizza form. This is the part that never gets done right over the phone, but with the web system, you can craft it exactly right and be sure that the pizza maker is seeing the order the way you want it. There's still the possibility for human error, but it's gone way, way down. Plus, it's great to have your web order available so if you do get the wrong pizza, you can reject it, pay less, or get it for free.

Confirmation and checkout are pretty much exactly what you'd expect - the nice part is that you can review your choices, make changes, and get things right where you want them before sending in the order. This part of the phone conversation happens fast in the normal ordering process, and crafting selection to your exact budget and party size can be challenging.

Now I can hear you say - yeah, Rand, we get it. Ordering pizza online has a lot of benefits over calling up and ordering over the phone. And yes, lots of people are using this service. But what the heck does it have to do with SEO?

The short answer is that this is one of the clearest illustrations I've seen of a completely normal, easy offline process becoming even easier and better with help from the web. It's also a phenomenal success story for the company that pioneered it. The big takeaway here is that no matter the offline process - from restaurant menus to contract approvals to renting office space or hiring a plumber - the web's ability to create better usability makes for opportunity for businesses.

So, do you really need to build web access to your business processes? No. Only if you want to get more customers and make your existing ones happier. And hey, if pizza delivery chains can do it, you can too.

p.s. An adroit reader asked me, anonymously, last week for some ammunition in helping convince the brass that using the web for typically offline processes could have ROI - happy to oblige!

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Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire

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Posted by randfish

• Company names (where folks might want to get positive and negative press, as well as official company domains)
• Product searches (where e-commerce style results might ordinarily fill up the SERPs, but Google tries to provide some reviews and non-commercial, relevant content)
• News & political searches (where it might be prudent to display "all sides" of an issue, rather than just the left/right-wing blogs that did the best job baiting links)

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Posted by rebecca

What? "Crikey"? What the hell is this? The box never loaded my friends list--the circle just perpetually turned. I tried typing in some friends' names to filter the list down, but nothing happened. I was effectively shout-blocked.

I pinged some colleagues on IM and asked them if they've ever had this happen to them before. One of my friends said, "How many friends do you have on Digg?" I looked:

I was a bit surprised to see that I had racked up over 550 friends, but still, not a huge deal, right? My friend responded with, "I don't have nearly that many friends." I asked around. Sure enough, I have a ton of friends on Digg. Most of the folks I talked to have less than 200.

Okay, so I have a lot of friends on Digg. That's not so bad, right? I mean, all I do is befriend people who become fans of me. The whole point on having friends on Digg is so that you can share stories with each other, and the Shout feature allows you to share stories with a large number of friends vs. having to contact them all one-by-one. Why then would Digg penalize me for having too many friends? Did I hit some mysterious "max number," like once you get to 500, it's too many? If that's the case, why don't they make it clear that you can only have a certain number of friends?

I don't see how they could think I'm a spammer. Here are my stats:

I've averaged less than one submit a month since I've joined (March 28, 2006), and none have made it to the home page. Of those submits, I've shouted probably about 5 of them. When I do shout, I send my shouts out exactly once. None of my friends receives the same shout from me more than one time. So, what the hell is going on here?

I filled out a bug report and emailed feedback@digg.com with the subject "You guys shout-blocked me! I thought we were bros..." I haven't received a response from Digg yet save for a stupid automatic response regarding my bug report:

Hi -

Sorry for the inconvenience. Try clearing your cache/cookies and restart your browser. If you're still having problems, please email us back and we'll do our best to help you.

Thanks.

- Digg Support Team

Yeah, of course, clearing my cookies will magically fix the ridiculous "Crikey!" message and let me send shouts again. (FYI, I humored them and tried it to no avail.) I currently still can't send shouts to people via the "Share" feature. Someone suggested that I start deleting friends because I look like a spammer with so many, but I really think that's unfair. If Digg wants you to have only a certain number of friends, they should put a cap on the number of friends you can have. Plus, as I said earlier, the whole frickin' point of befriending people on Digg is so you can check out stuff that they like, have dugg or commented on, and so you can send and receive stories. It's like the cable company turning off your cable access once you've bought HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax. That's one channel too many, so you can't see any of them now. Harumph.

So, there you have it. I can't send shouts to people because I happen to have a large number of friends. Even though my stats prove that I'm not a spammer, Digg seems content to penalize me, anyway. I'll let you know if I ever receive an actual useful response from anyone at Digg (though one of my friends online pinged some of his buddies who work at Digg about the issue, and their response was a "We'll look into it" in an eye-rolling, whatever tone). Until then, however, I'll be surfing Digg with a cone around my neck like a neutered dog:

Bastards.

Postscript: Thanks a bunch to Lorna (check out the comments below) for helping me figure out how to pull up my buddies list letter by letter (it's a bit tedious, but it works). Looks like I'm not quite shout-blocked, I'm just slowed down a bit, but for crying out loud, you'd think that Digg could, you know, explain how to pull up lists of friends once you hit a certain number and need to start filtering the list in order to have it displayed at all. Instead of "Start typing to filter your friends list," the message could say "Type a letter to pull up the appropriate friends," or something to that effect. Digg, you suck. Lorna, you rock.

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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Sorry folks, no more link yahtzee since someone at WikiAnswers was smart enough to change the answer to the question I linked to in my zero star section. Hooray for progress!

One star link:

• Apparently Microsoft may build a "copyright cop" into every Zune. See, Zune, this is why nobody wants to buy you.

Two star links:

• Shoemoney says that SEO has no future, which is a bit of a hater thing to say, but his exact words are "...in my opinion there just is no future in current SEO for Google..." I could agree with that claim (emphasis on current SEO) since SEO is constantly evolving, so SEO practices that work today may not be effective five years from now.
• Prepare to be horrified: manbabies.com. WTF, WTF, W.T.F.

Three star links:

• According to this blog post, "Google may be adding geographic information about brick and mortar stores and service companies to the algorithm along with reverse IP lookup to help boost site rank for regular results."
• Need a gift for your son or daughter? How about road kill toys? They're adorably squishy!
• Apparently Thursday at noon is the best time to post blog entries. Maybe I should have delayed publishing this by 3 minutes...damnit.
• Search Engine Land reports Microsoft Live Search's new design going live. Ooh, how very minimalistic!
• Joe Morin's new company, Storybids, now has a website that's live. According to the site, "Storybids is a simple yet extremely powerful website tool for media sellers and content buyers. We connect those with creative ideas for product placement with advertisers who want to place their products in user generated videos, mini-dramas and webisodes, music videos and online commercials."
• Lee Odden shares 5 new Twitter tools with us. Rand gives Summize.com his bearded seal of approval.
• My favorite SEO slash hardcore U2 fan, Matt McGee, is jobless. He provides some great tips on how to improve your SEO experience and knowledge and hopefully nail that SEO interview. Meanwhile, I'm starting a site called feedmcgee.com that will take donations (U2 schwag is acceptable) to ensure that our little small business SEM doesn't go hungry.
• Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the yottabyte, which is 1,024 zettabytes, which is roughly a crapload of exabytes, a buttload of petabytes, an assload of terabytes, and a shitload of gigabytes...scientifically speaking, of course.
• Although MySpace received 74% of U.S. social networking visits in April 2008, it's a -5% change compared to the same time last year. Facebook, meanwhile. experienced a 32% increase in market share from last year and had 14.8% of visits, and some site called myYearbook had a 475% year over year change from 2007, enjoying 1.33% of visits this year.
• Brian Cuban (Mark Cuban's brother who I pretend I know well because we're friends on Digg) wrote a post asking whether a competitor is devaluing your keywords. He opines that keyword suits like the Orion Bankcorp v. Orion Residential Financial case in Florida will become much more common over the next decade. For more information about the court case, check out Sarah's great post about how the court order on negative keywords won't break the Internet.
  
• Hey, check it out, the Google Analytics Blog defines search engine optimization. The eCommerce and Entrepreneurship Blog weighs in on their definition.
  
• Galen Ward provides an interesting argument as to why you shouldn't link to your trusted partners. We generally advise against linking to your competitors or to those within your niche using the same anchor text/keywords you yourself are trying to rank well for.
  
• I'm betting that most SEOs will love this t-shirt; Rand has probably ordered at least 50.
  
• Stephen Colbert has been awarded the Webby Person of the Year. Mission accomplished, Google bombers!
• This comic accurately portrays the evolution of virtually every college student's life ambition. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to resume fervently watching the clock until it's beer thirty pm.

Four star links:

• Last week's In the Trenches post at Search Engine Land highlights the benefits of a Google Campaign Report, recommends Nielson's Blog Pulse Trend Search as a great free tool, and drills through the main engines' paid search news.
  
• It's an oldie but a goodie: 12 Examples of Viral Content, and What We Can Learn From Them provides, well, 12 examples of viral content and highlights some takeaways and lessons learned.
  
• Speaking of viral content, this post shares 6 strategies for building viral content. They're some pretty sound tips. I recommend studying both the examples and the strategies before you venture off to create viral content of your own.
• Malcolm Gladwell (Mr. Tipping Point) writes an article for the New Yorker about the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery. Rand proclaims that the article is "so awesome, I think I just got pregnant." If you too would like to become pregnant, read the article so that you may also conceive a Gladwell baby.
• Barry Schwartz believes in the Google -60 penalty, and he provides examples to support his claim.
  
• Adam Audette has a great SEO guide to information architecture, and he also provides some nice advice on nofollow sculpting.
• Slightly Shady SEO tells us why whitehats need to know blackhat SEO, and he provides some really solid, sound reasons as to why we shouldn't be turning our nose to blackhat SEO practices, but rather can actually learn from them.
  
• The redesigned NES. Hell. Yes.

Five star links:

• Aaron Wall discusses in great detail what a #1 Google ranking is worth. It is an extremely thorough article and is well worth reading.

YOUmoz entries:

• Something Weird is Happening at Google. xxclixx noticed some strange display URLs in Google's search results.
  
• Trip-Wire Marketing: Stealth and Position Create Explosive Results. Webwordslinger.com talks about "trip-wire" links and how they provide crawling spiders "more avenues to explore, keeping them on-site longer, leading to more complete and indexing faster."
• Your Chance to Win a FREE Conference Pass to Pay Per Click Summit. Kelly Larsen offers SEOmoz members the opportunity to win a free pass to the next PPC Summit and also provides a 10% discount code.
• Telegraph is Breaking News Before It's Happened. London Phil noticed that the Telegraph broke election news before every other news outlet, yet the link from Google's SERPs pointed at a 404. He wonders if the Telegraph got their headline into Google before everyone else by putting it up before it actually happened.
• Marketing Channels: Integration = Local Synergies. Webwordslinger.com discusses leveraging various marketing channels and integrating them into your marketing campaign, especially if you're a local business.
• Managing Customer Care: Keeping a Client vs. Finding a New One. Geez, webwordslinger.com has been busy with the blogging lately. This post talks about various ways to provide a positive customer experience and keep your consumer satisfied.
  
• YOUmoz Newb Pwns SEO Expert Quiz! Darren Slatten tears our SEO Quiz a new one by going through its flaws and by challenging some of the questions and responses.

Best of YOUmoz:

• Brent D. Payne gets all sappy and talks about his Five Favorite Things About Twitter. And, naturally, all of you Twits just ate it up. ;)
• You Got Us Traffic, But Where Are the Sales? from Sakis highlights how it's easy to forget that a lot of conversions actually happen offline, though your website still probably drove a lot of those sales. Lots of people come to your site and then make their purchase decision later.

New events added to the Events Calendar:

• Search Engine Marketing Roundtable in Singapore on May 13, 2008 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Center in Suntec City, Singapore
  
• Jane and Robot Meetup on May 13 at the Solo Bar in Queen Anne in Seattle, WA. Jane and Robot is a site created by Vanessa Fox and Nathan Buggia that focuses on search-friendly design for web developers.

Upcoming events:

• Search Engine Marketing Roundtable in Singapore on May 13, 2008 in Suntec City, Singapore
  
• Jane and Robot Meetup on May 13 in Seattle, WA
• Infopresse Day on SEM/SEO May 13 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Page Zero Marketing Seminar May 15 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• PPC Summit May 19-20 in San Francisco, CA
• International Search Summit May 22 in London, UK
• SEO Training Class May 23 online at highrankings.com/seo-classes

New additions to the SEOmoz Marketplace:

Featured job postings:

• SEO specialist in what appears to be Seattle, Texas, though I'm pretty sure that one or the other is incorrect (unless there actually is a Seattle, TX, in which case my bad)
• Director of eCommerce for a venture-backed startup in Cambridge, MA
• SEM strategist in Needham, MA
• VP of acquisition and retention for a telecommunications solutions company in Needham, MA
• Partner/affiliate marketing manager in Needham, MA
• Lead web developer/architect in Needham, MA
• Lead web developer/architect in Austin, TX
• Contracted Wikipedia link builder for LocalSEOGuide
• Senior web designer in Needham, MA
• Senior UI designer in Needham, MA
• Front-end developer in Needham, MA
• C# / ASP.net web applications developer in Needham, MA
• Full-time SEO/SEM and social media expert for a national alternative newspaper chain. We have worked with this company and highly recommend them--a great group of people work there and it is a fun work environment.

Featured companies:

United States/North America:

• Bluebonic SEO in Washington, DC
• SEO Services Group in Chicago, IL, and India
• Realicity Real Estate Marketing in Eden Prairie, MN
• Shimon Sandler, Inc. in New York, NY
• Clickexplosions.com in Largo, FL
• 3plains in Minneapolis, MN
• SEMLeader in the US, UK, Poland, and Vietnam
• Vortex Solution in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Asia:

• Predicate Logic Web Design in Dubai, India,  United Arab Emirates, and Australia
• Valuebound in Bangalore, India

Featured resumes:

Happily employed:

• Zafar Ahmed is an SEO evangelist who specializes in Internet marketing strategy reports.
  

Looking for employment:

• Mike Young is an international link building and SEO specialist with proven leadership and interpersonal skills.

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