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7 Critical Questions When Outsourcing SEO

August 11th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Many agencies without full service digital marketing departments choose to outsource any SEO work to a specialist. While I believe that the present focus on good content makes SEO easier, not harder for traditional agencies (especially PR) to handle in-house, many will continue outsourcing this critical service (or at least until I launch a “How [...]

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Google to Show Search Volume – Another Blow to Agencies

July 15th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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In a LOOOOONG overdue move that provides some much-needed transparency to the PPC business, Google has added search volume data to their keyword research tool. This means that when you use Google to research potential search terms for your clients’ pay-per-click campaign, Google will actually give you an idea of how many people actually search [...]

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Google’s Popularity is Costing You Money

June 30th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Paid search management vendor Covario said today that PPC spending was up 52% in Q1 2008 versus 2007. 52% is a big leap for an already red-hot digital marketing tactic. But perhaps more interesting was the finding that Google took in 85% of the paid search spend in the first quarter. (No wonder Yahoo! rushed [...]

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