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Realicity

@Realicity

Joined Last Online Location Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Job Title: CEO / Managing Partner

Company: WebRanking

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Google Changes Keyword Tool, Adds Local Search Volume

4/22/2009 This post was written by James Svoboda of Realicity Search Marketing in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Google recently added a new “Local Search Volume” metric to their Keyword Tool that provides a...

SEO Since 1999

4/21/2009 Monday, April 20th, 2009: Today I celebrate the completion of my first decade in search. I have been waiting for this day with some trepidation for the past 6 months or so. I am not really sure why or even what this anniversary really means. Does it mean that I am some sort of expert? Well, anything is possible. Or does it mean that I have wasted the past decade with little to show in an industry that my friends and family can hardly even understand? Hmm, I hope not. In truth, it means I not only have a job that I like, but a career that I love.

James Svoboda is CEO and managing partner at WebRanking.com and has been a search engine marketing consultant since 1999. He is a current Marketing Land Contributor, and Co-Founder and President of MnSearch the Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association, Board Advisor for Which Test Won, and contributor to #PPCChat. A DMOZ editor from 1999-2009, and former Sphinn.com editor. Also a husband and father of 2 beautiful children living in the Twin Cities.