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- Why Aren’t More People Talking About Google+ Direct Connect? - February 3, 2012
- 6 Crucial Internet Account Management Tips - February 1, 2012
- Portent Webinar 1: Resources - January 31, 2012
- 3 Easy Local SEO Tactics That Will Raise Your Rankings Today - January 31, 2012
- A Take Action Framework - January 30, 2012
- Search Ranking Factors 2012 Discussion - January 23, 2012
- A View From New York City’s SOPA/PIPA Protest - January 18, 2012
- Before Jumping Into Social Media 2.x, Do SEO 1.0 - January 16, 2012
- How to Add Multiple Administrators to Google+ Pages - January 13, 2012
- Utilizing Facebook Insights to Identify Potential - January 11, 2012
- Why Portent and why me? - January 10, 2012
- Exciting news for Portent: Steve Gahler joins the team - January 4, 2012
- Google’s (not provided): A potential solution - January 4, 2012
- What Happens When the Social Media Guy Gets Banned From Facebook - December 10, 2011
- Midnight Madness PPC - November 23, 2011
- Visualizing the StumbleUpon Audience - November 14, 2011
- Want An Internet Marketing Internship? Take My Advice - November 12, 2011
- AdWords Ads with Email Form - November 3, 2011
- 21st Century Keyword Density - October 27, 2011
- When Using Social Media for SEO, Remember the SEO - October 26, 2011
- 11 Tips for Making Facebook Your Business’ BFF - October 12, 2011
- Opportunity Analysis using Multi-Channel Funnels - September 29, 2011
- New Portent people, punished with painful puns - September 6, 2011
- Speaking at SMX East -NYC - September 2, 2011
- Campaigning for Links - August 30, 2011
- How to Fake it: Automating PPC When You Can’t Afford the Machine - August 22, 2011
- Baby, Oh… What Justin Bieber Taught Me about Social Media - August 16, 2011
- Facebook Fandom – One Portentite’s Evolving Experience - August 15, 2011
- Facebook Reveal Tab Tutorial - August 11, 2011
- PPC Hero’s Ultimate Guide is Even Better Than the Real Thing - August 9, 2011
- MSN adExcellence Exam Guide - August 5, 2011
- The Yin and Yang of PPC – Search Network Campaigns vs. Display Network Campaigns - August 2, 2011
- Shopping Carts and Product Feeds In a Post Panda World - July 22, 2011
- After Launch SEO Checklist - July 18, 2011
- Ad Comparison Tool - July 13, 2011
- Portent Interactive: Origins - July 8, 2011
- Creative Art Direction at Portent - July 7, 2011
- 4 Under the Radar SEO Tools - June 30, 2011
- the Advanced Google Analytics Cheat Sheet - June 24, 2011
- QR Codes – A Social Experiment at SMX - June 23, 2011
- New Copywriting E-Book Free for Download - June 22, 2011
- Twitter SEO Strategies for Online Newspapers & Magazines - June 16, 2011
- A big month at Portent - June 8, 2011
- UK & European Cookie Law Solution (Free Script) - June 1, 2011
- AdWords Comparison Ads for Finance - May 24, 2011
- Complete SEO Keyword Research Strategy - May 18, 2011
- The Worst of Google Logos - May 9, 2011
- Complete Guide to Taking the Microsoft adExcellence Exam - May 2, 2011
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 7 - April 28, 2011
- Dealing With AdWords and Analytics Data Discrepancies - April 26, 2011
- Visualizing Data with Infographics - April 25, 2011
- Movies Every Internet Marketer Should See - April 13, 2011
- 5 Ways to Use Headings for SEO - April 12, 2011
- Bid by Position Preference – Post AdWords Feature Removal - April 8, 2011
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 6 - April 4, 2011
- New Google Ranking Factor: Site Owner Attractiveness - April 1, 2011
- Easy CSS Columns: to Float or not to Float? - March 31, 2011
- PPC eBooks for Small Business - March 28, 2011
- High Quality Content on the Web == Golf? - March 25, 2011
- Herding Cats and Other Animalian Project Management Analogies - March 24, 2011
- Writers: Portent needs YOU - March 21, 2011
- Google Product Feed Updates & Rich Snippets - March 17, 2011
- Update: Facebook Iframe Bug Fixed! - March 10, 2011
- Three Keys to PPC Ad Copy You Should Be Aware of - February 28, 2011
- Smart Internal Linking for SEO - February 24, 2011
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 5 - February 17, 2011
- Facebook Page Changes You Must Make Before You Upgrade - February 14, 2011
- Studying for the Google Analytics IQ Exam - February 11, 2011
- Include SEO Early & Often in Your Web Projects - February 10, 2011
- Google Places: Treat Tags & Boost Like Your PPC - February 7, 2011
- 4 Sales Tactics That Will Make You a Better Writer - January 31, 2011
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 4 - January 24, 2011
- Hey Copywriters – Designers Hate You for a Reason - January 19, 2011
- A Facebook Events Rant – RSVPs and the Event Wall - January 13, 2011
- HootSuite U – The Clown College for Social Media - January 10, 2011
- What Social Media Means for SEO - January 6, 2011
- RSS – The Black Leather Jacket of the Internet - January 5, 2011
- Is 2011 the Year of Local Mobile Social? - January 4, 2011
- What an English Degree Teaches You about Internet Copywriting - January 3, 2011
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 3 - December 21, 2010
- The Island of Misfit Ideas - December 16, 2010
- Why can’t I Like/Comment on a Post in Facebook? - December 9, 2010
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 2 - December 8, 2010
- 10 Copywriting Nightmares & How to Deal With Them - December 7, 2010
- New Facebook Profile Changes - December 6, 2010
- AdCenter Syndicated Search Partners - December 2, 2010
- How to Find a Fitting Outreach Style - December 1, 2010
- Happy Cyber Monday - November 29, 2010
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 4 - November 24, 2010
- Taking the Microsoft AdExcellence Exam Part 1 - November 23, 2010
- Promoting Your Company on LinkedIn Just Got Easy (Kind of) - November 19, 2010
- Advanced Segment Tutorial #1 – Keyword Groups - November 17, 2010
- AdCenter Syndicated Search Partners- The Content Network of 2006 - November 9, 2010
- Pimping Out Product Extension Ads - October 28, 2010
- How To Become a Super Affiliate and Get Rich - October 25, 2010
- News Feed Optimization: Get the Most from Your Facebook Content - October 19, 2010
- Using Negative Keywords to Direct Traffic - October 11, 2010
- Optimize for Google Instant Search SEO - September 10, 2010
- Google Instant Search and PPC – What Does it Mean? - September 9, 2010
- Fixing broken links using Levenshtein Distance: A PHP tool - August 31, 2010
- Applying to Portent - August 20, 2010
- Changing a Blog’s Location - August 17, 2010
- Transferring Google Base and Google Webmaster Tools - August 12, 2010
- MSN AdCenter Secrets- While They Last! - August 5, 2010
- A Flavorful Blend, Yahoo! Organic Search, Now With 25% Bing - July 21, 2010
- PPC Negative Keyword Tales - July 19, 2010
- To Sub-Domain or Not to Sub-Domain? That is the question. - July 13, 2010
- Portent Floods Finally…From the Inside - July 7, 2010
- Fun Facts & Tips About AdCenter and Yahoo Paid Search Alliance - July 6, 2010
- Huzzah! Workshop Series in Seattle - July 1, 2010
- SEO Is Not User Experience Optimization - June 11, 2010
- SMX Advanced Live Blogging Post 3 - June 8, 2010
- SMX Advanced Live Blogging Post 2 - June 8, 2010
- SMX Advanced Live Blogging Post 1 - June 8, 2010
- BP’s Buying the Oil Spill - June 8, 2010
- Speaking at SMX Advanced 2010 - June 4, 2010
- Happy Birthday Evan! - June 3, 2010
- SEO Link Placement On an HTML Page - June 1, 2010
- Google AdWords Search Partner Network - June 1, 2010
- 22 Free Keyword Tools for PPC and SEO - May 6, 2010
- The Myth of Perfect Content - April 29, 2010
- 5 Strategies to Pass the Google Exam - April 23, 2010
- New Google Ranking Factors - April 1, 2010
- 11 Copywriting Catastrophes You Have to See to Believe - March 25, 2010
- Google AdWords ReMarketing – Everything You Need to Know - March 25, 2010
- MSN AdCenter Match Types Can Determine Your Ad Position - March 24, 2010
- Why Paid Search Rocks and Email Lists Do Not - March 19, 2010
- Should I Run a Contest for Linkbait or Social Media? - March 17, 2010
- Oscar Movies are Like Optimized Websites - March 8, 2010
- Internet Marketing Jokes - March 4, 2010
- Where I’m speaking in the next 2 months - February 23, 2010
- Enterprise SEO Automation - February 11, 2010
- Personalized Search Strategies & Video Games - February 11, 2010
- Have You Been A/B Tested Recently? - January 28, 2010
- Portent Interactive Visits Zoka Coffee - January 25, 2010
- Interview on Search Engine Journal - January 15, 2010
- Google Caffeine – Don’t Let It Keep You Awake at Night - January 11, 2010
- 15 Years - January 6, 2010
- How to: Set up and Track Product Extension Ads in Google AdWords - December 21, 2009
- Spin Your Social Media Marketing Flywheel - December 2, 2009
- I Went To Pubcon 2009 And All I Got Was This Lousy Matt Cutts - November 25, 2009
- Evan Fishkin’s PubCon 2009 Head Shaving by Matt Cutts - November 12, 2009
- Don’t Market to Me like I’m a Prostitute - November 12, 2009
- Dear Yahoo, Please Stop Showing My Ads for EVERYthing - October 30, 2009
- The 10Things Site Review, by Portent - October 7, 2009
- Shout-Out: Hanapin Marketing’s $16,000 SEM Sweepstakes - September 28, 2009
- Dear Google, Please Give Me Back My Money - September 23, 2009
- Did Google Earn the Fail Badge or did the Advertiser? - September 2, 2009
- Write Short Simple Obvious Story Titles - September 1, 2009
- 230 Link Bait Ideas - August 14, 2009
- Interactive Marketing – Ever Changing & Often Unclear - August 7, 2009
- Write Compelling Messages – Think Greeting Cards - August 4, 2009
- Speaking at SES San Jose - August 2, 2009
- Is This How Vince’s Change Works? - July 31, 2009
- Simplify PPC Reports - July 27, 2009
- Google Suggest Links – A New Upgrade - July 24, 2009
- Where is Your Social Media Marketing Headquarters? - July 23, 2009
- Fisher Plaza: Service Restored, Portent Response - July 4, 2009
- AdWords Bid Simulator Update - June 18, 2009
- Nofollow frenzy: Google Makes Major Policy Reversal on PageRank Sculpting - June 11, 2009
- Writing Killer Ad Copy…and not getting arrested - June 5, 2009
- The 5 S’s: How Portent Works - June 4, 2009
- We’ve got High Tweets – We got High Tweets - June 2, 2009
- Writing Killer Ad Copy: SMX Advanced Seattle Speaker - May 28, 2009
- The Future of Search – Bing It On - May 28, 2009
- MSN AdCenter Content Network Reports - May 21, 2009
- Into the deep blue Internet - May 14, 2009
- New Predictive PPC Tool: Paid Search Return Estimations - May 8, 2009
- The elves were busy last night - April 30, 2009
- 5 Tips To Better Product Descriptions - April 28, 2009
- Stairway to Heaven - April 28, 2009
- 36 Reasons You Need This Dummies Book - April 9, 2009
- Yahoo Finally Gets a Clue and Adds Ad Scheduling & Demographic Bidding for You - March 17, 2009
- Seattle SEO Dysfunction at the PI - March 16, 2009
- Portent Team Co-Publishes a New Dummies Book - March 13, 2009
- Notes from Danny Sullivan Keynote at SEMpdx SearchFest 2009 - March 11, 2009
- Keyword Resource Tools that Aren’t Keyword Tools - March 6, 2009
- The Three Kinds of Optimization - March 4, 2009
- The Golden Rule of Graphic Design - February 26, 2009
- What Does an Internet Marketing Company Do? - February 23, 2009
- Tough Love For Clients - February 20, 2009
- Calling All Publications: Rel=canonical Is Worth A Look - February 12, 2009
- Are Long Tail Keywords Dead? - February 2, 2009
- We’re hiring: Copywriter/Social Media addict wanted - January 27, 2009
- The Microsite Mistake Macro Fight - January 23, 2009
- It’s 2009! Are You Ready to Fail? - January 23, 2009
- Is the AdWords Keyword Performance Module of any use? - January 19, 2009
- Portent Top 10 SEO, PPC Firm Of 2008 - January 19, 2009
- Microsoft AdCenter Finally Brings Us Custom Date Ranges - January 12, 2009
- Ten Internet Un-Resolutions to Make this Year - December 31, 2008
- Google Oops – Tukwila Hotel Meets Seattle Coffee - December 29, 2008
- AdBrite: Trash or Treasure? - December 29, 2008
- Whopper Virgins: Not Appalling. Not Brilliant, Either. - December 23, 2008
- Paying your Yahoo Search Marketing bill with Pay Pal - December 10, 2008
- 3 New Google Analytics Custom Reports a PPC Marketer Should Be Using - November 18, 2008
- Killer Facebook Marketing Strategy - November 5, 2008
- Obama McCain SEO – My 2008 Election Prediction - November 3, 2008
- John McCain Keyword Chart & SEO Rankings - October 31, 2008
- Quick Photoshop Tip: Make your product images shine. - October 31, 2008
- Google Outbids Barack Obama for Obama’s Own Name - October 31, 2008
- Barack Obama Keyword Chart & Google Ranking Report - October 30, 2008
- Portent’s Seeking SEO Interns - October 29, 2008
- Winning In the Wedding Industry with PPC - October 27, 2008
- How to Use Dating Bible’s “The Rules” to Succeed in Internet Marketing - October 24, 2008
- The AdWords Quality Score Hammer Has Fallen, Now What? - October 16, 2008
- More Revenue for Google with First Page Bids - October 13, 2008
- Identify Top Bloggers - October 8, 2008
- ABC Search | A Positive ROI - September 30, 2008
- A Loaded Gun – Quentin Tarantino’s Secret Weapon for Creative Professions - September 12, 2008
- A Day In The Life of an Internet Marketing Company - September 10, 2008
- PPC Hero Guest Post – PPC Quality & Relevancy - September 8, 2008
- A Case for Customized Print Ad Landing Pages - August 27, 2008
- Quality Score Updates Make Me Nervous Too - August 22, 2008
- Does Web 2.0 still look good? Did it ever? - August 18, 2008
- The Four Qualities You Need to Be A Good Copywriter (hint, good writing isn’t one of them) - August 14, 2008
- Top 11 Tips for Picking a 2nd or 3rd Tier PPC Engine - August 13, 2008
- How to Build Reputation & Branding with Articles - August 12, 2008
- A Firefox Quirk You May Not Be Aware Of - August 3, 2008
- Top SEOs Names Portent Interactive a Top 10 Firm - August 1, 2008
- No Deep Secrets In PPC Marketing - August 1, 2008
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Inbound External Links - July 31, 2008
- Copywriting is better than other writing careers - July 30, 2008
- Yahoo Outsources Your PPC Ads to India - July 28, 2008
- Google Updates Visible Toolbar PageRank - July 27, 2008
- Part 1: What is copywriting - July 25, 2008
- Why You Need Creative Services - July 18, 2008
- How to Design Your Site Like It’s 1999 - July 18, 2008
- Do Not Waste PPC Display URLs - July 15, 2008
- Paid Search & Organic Search Require Different Content Strategies - July 14, 2008
- The Holy Grail of Internet Marketing: The Truest Best - July 2, 2008
- In Search Engine Optimization, There Are No Guarantees - July 1, 2008
- Get Started with the Google Content Network - July 1, 2008
- PPC FAQ – Bidding on Trademarked Terms - June 24, 2008
- Successful Search Engine Optimization - June 24, 2008
- PPC FAQ – When to Stop Using PPC Keywords - June 19, 2008
- PPC FAQ – Finding the Right Number of Keywords - June 12, 2008
- PPC FAQ – Action Packed PPC Keyword Research - June 11, 2008
- Search Engine Optimization Before Development & Design - June 9, 2008
- Controversial Company Practice Proves Shoe-in for Online Success - June 6, 2008
- The Only Career Advice College Grads Should Read - June 5, 2008
- Create a Microsoft Windows Live Product Feed - May 29, 2008
- Basic SEO Copywriting in a Nut Shell - May 27, 2008
- Create a Google Product Search Feed - May 21, 2008
- Competitive Rubber Chicken Research for Search Engine Optimization - May 20, 2008
- Search Engine Optimization Pre-flight – Analytics - May 16, 2008
- From Seattle – Search Engine Optimization Explained - May 15, 2008
- A Marketing Secret: I Know Something you Don’t - May 12, 2008
- Ask PPC Advertising Pushing Me Away - May 12, 2008
- Google Leaks AdWords Quality Score - May 5, 2008
- Creativity Versus Mediocrity: A Country Western Parable - April 30, 2008
- Twitter Secrets Revealed - April 29, 2008
- Make the Most of High Traffic Keywords - April 28, 2008
- Create Rusty Metal Text in Photoshop: Tutorial - April 25, 2008
- Three Audiences Every Website Should Cultivate - April 24, 2008
- Hedging Your PPC Bets: Geo-Targeting for Revenue - April 21, 2008
- Give MSN adCenter Support Four Stars - April 21, 2008
- When it comes to marketing, it’s always peanut butter and jelly time - April 17, 2008
- 14 Ways Internet Marketing Is Like Four Square - April 11, 2008
- How to Make MSN AdCenter Work with Google Analytics - April 11, 2008
- Search Engine Marketing Does Not Affect Your Business Model - April 11, 2008
- It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s Another Excruciating Marketing Metaphor. - April 10, 2008
- The SEO Matrix is Calling You - April 7, 2008
- Solving the (not set) in Google Analytics - April 7, 2008
- Actionscript 3 Particles Tutorial - April 7, 2008
- Marketing 101 – From the Beginning - April 3, 2008
- When it comes to Gen Y Advertisements, Pigeonholing is a Major Party Foul - April 2, 2008
- Portent Finds Google’s Missing 100,000,000 Adwords Clicks - April 1, 2008
- Stayin’ Alive: What Internet Marketers can learn from Indie Bookstores - March 28, 2008
- Ian Lurie Search Marketing Media Roundup - March 28, 2008
- B2B Marketing | Expanding Your Web site Content - March 26, 2008
- Advanced Actionscript 3 Preloader - March 25, 2008
- Sandwich Your PPC Ads with URLs - March 24, 2008
- Bad Monkeys (Part 1): Getting the Most Out of Your Agency - March 21, 2008
- Bait and Switch is Bad! But Bait and Sweetly Suggest Works! - March 20, 2008
- B2B Marketing: Is It Time to Expand Your B2B Internet Marketing Strategy? - March 18, 2008
- The Mysterious Black Holes of the Content Network - March 17, 2008
- Happy pi Day! But What About e? - March 14, 2008
- What kind of client are you? Introducing the Portent Client Matrix - March 13, 2008
- Embedding Flash the Smart Way with SWFObject - March 11, 2008
- Pauli Exclusion for the Techie and Creative in Internet Marketing - March 11, 2008
- Speaking at SEMPDX Searchfest 2008 - March 11, 2008
- Technorati Post Claim - March 6, 2008
- Google Analytics Benchmarking: Share Your Data - March 6, 2008
- Search Engine Optimization: There IS A Right Way - March 2, 2008
- The Struggle for Validation - February 28, 2008
- Loves Poppies, Still Owns Piggy Bank: Write Personas like Match.com Ads - February 27, 2008
- Personas and Search Marketing: Talk at SMX Today - February 26, 2008
- Stale Linkbait Works Best: How to Totally Ignore your Blog and Still Increase Traffic - February 22, 2008
- Class up your link icons with CSS background images - February 21, 2008
- QA is Like being a Priest in World of Warcraft - February 20, 2008
- Bragging About My Kids, er, Team - February 19, 2008
- Welcome to the new Portent Interactive blog. - February 8, 2008
