Dear SEJ Contributors & Readers, Thank you for everything you have contributed to SEJ and your participation in our community, comments & social media. We’ve noticed a major trend in our writer bios. About 90% of our bios include exact match links, extra links and other links to multiple companies. In an effort to clean [...]

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Loren Baker

Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and also spends time w/ CopyBlogger.

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Mass reporting of any violation of a rule while disrespecting the intent of the rule, just for the sake of getting something removed.

1. Someone posts a video of a political speech. There is no swearing; it could be on CNN.

2. The opponents of the person giving the speech mass report that video for containing "disturbing content," even though "disturbing content" is supposed to be something like, say, gore.

3. In reaction to the mass reports, moderators flag the video as 18+ or remove it entirely, just because of the rulebombing effect.

  Google AdWords can be an incredibly powerful advertising platform. However, trying to manage your account whether big or small can be like going down the rabbit hole. Before long you don’t remember where you came from, you want to optimize for this keyword, but it’s in the wrong campaign, or is it? To help [...]

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Chris Kent

Chris Kent (@KentKineticSEO) is a consultant specializing in medium sized E-commerce Audits and Adwords Optimization. You can catch him blogging about search on kentkinetic.com.

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It just takes one post or tweet to tarnish your business reputation.  One mistake by an otherwise savvy employee and a company can be labeled a social media fail, a dishonor so damaging that it’s not only fodder for the front page and late-night talk shows, but a brand buster, too.  Learn from these recent [...]

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Bernadette Coleman

Bernadette Coleman is CEO & Executive Director of Advice Interactive Group, an award winning digital agency focused on improving visibility for clients across the digital universe. Highly experienced and considered an industry leader in search engine marketing, social media, design, and development, she leads one of the fastest growing interactive agencies in the U.S. by Inc. 500 You can read more about her on Google Profile.

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