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What the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Get about Panda

By Rae / May 22, 2014 /

It seems the mainstream media has finally caught up – not everyone who gets screwed by Google is a spammer getting his just deserts. MetaFilter has apparently been dying a slow and painful death as a result of the Google Panda updates. And, I’m sad to say a little part of me smiled. Am I…

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Google Propaganda, SEO and Why Marketers Need to Wake Up

By Rae / January 26, 2014 /

As the entire search world knows, Matt Cutts released a post last week – I’m paraphrasing – warning us that Google now considers “low-quality guest posting” to be spam under their guidelines and will begin to take action per those beliefs. I don’t plan to revolve this post entirely around that announcement. If you didn’t…

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Content Marketing is the “Escort” of Online Marketing

By Rae / May 13, 2013 /

Content Marketing. It’s the new buzz word flowing around the Internet marketing community for the last year or so. I’ve been doing this online marketing “thing” for over a decade. When I first heard the phrase “content marketing” I was a little confused. What is that? I read the posts explaining it, but it left…

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Women, Tech Conferences and the BullSh!t Surrounding It

By Rae / April 15, 2013 /

Damn it. I try so hard these days to resist doing things that don’t make me money. I do. But sometimes I make an exception and today is going to be one of those days. Today Debra Mastaler tweeted a link to an article in The Atlantic about the latest up in arms cause in…

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Hey ForbesWoman – WTF Exactly is a “Man’s Job”?

By Rae / January 9, 2013 /

You may have noticed the rants category has been a little ignored lately. Honestly? I’ve been too busy getting shit done. But, as I checked into Twitter today, I saw a tweet from ForbesWoman in my stream. [Blink] Did I actually just see that? Did I not only see that but see that coming from…

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