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Text Messaging: Where The Volume And The Dollars Are Today
Avatar Posted By: textcast 25 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Eventually the cell phone companies will integrate web enabled interfaces into their text interfaces read more »
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CNET to be sold for $1.8 Billion to CBS at Guru Of Sales
Avatar Posted By: guruofsales 30 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guruofsales.com) my network
Category: News Sites
check out the story! read more »
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The Definitive YouTube Resource List
Avatar Posted By: Avinio 31 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediatrader.com) my network
Category: Social Media
YouTube has become one of the most used websites on the internet with millions of unique visitors every day. We’ve gathered a list of some of the best articles, and online tools to help you make the most of YouTube. So, whether you are an aspiring f read more »
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Community: The Human Element of SEO Success
Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 36 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com) my network
Category: Networking
Every business needs happy customers and/or interested observers to help spread the business name to friends. This human element of marketing is part of the SEO Success Pyramid, and can come in several forms: buzz/viral marketing, word-of-mouth, com read more »
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How Search Engine Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites
Avatar Posted By: ciaran 38 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Searching
Interesting post on how the various engines handle people attempting to go to the .com from outside the US (sparked by Yahoo's late adoption of this policy.) read more »
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My Definition Of SEO and How The Death Will Play Out
Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 39 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com) my network
Category: SEO
the SEO death drama continues, with more from shoemoney.

A few days ago I wrote about how SEO has no future. There were a lot of people who agreed and then a lot of confused people. After writing the post I thought for a bit perhaps even I was co read more »
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Twitter Withdrawals
Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 45 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
How did you feel when Twitter was down Wednesday night? And what did you do? Does Twitter feel indispensable to you now? read more »
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The 4 Big Problems With Outsourcing SEO
Avatar Posted By: DaveJ 48 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoforbiz.blogspot.com) my network
Category: SEO
There certainly isn't any shortage of self styled "expert SEO companies" out there, which continue to promise search engine glory. The real problem here is that the average business owner or entrepreneur, either just doesn't understand what SEO is, read more »
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How to Bury Negative Online Mentions of You - Intermediate Level Tactics
Avatar Posted By: gyutae 54 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
While the tactics mentioned may be enough to push some negative online mentions of you or your business to the second page of the search results or lower, in other cases they will not. The question then becomes; what else can you do when the initial read more »
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Ask.com Grows Audience by 11% Overnight!
Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 56 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com) my network
Category: Ask.com
Andy Beal writes..Here’s a riddle for you. How many employees does it take to grow Ask.com’s audience by 11%?

Answer: Apparently just 20.

It’s no joke! Ask.com has just announced it will acquire Lexico, owners of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.c read more »
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French Translations by Translation Services USA - English to French Translations
Avatar Posted By: makelanguages 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.translation-services-usa.com) my network
Category: Ask.com
Translation Services USA offers professional translation services for English to French and French to English language pairs. We also translate French to and from any other world language. We can translate into over 100 different languages. In fact, read more »
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The greatest example of linkbait............ever?!
Avatar Posted By: tomcritchlow 1 hour 10 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com) my network
Category: Bookmarking
Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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11 Ways to Get Back at Your Ex-Wife
Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 1 hour 14 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wackyseo.com) my network
Category: Water Cooler
@Rishil and @BrentDPayne talk SEO, Jack Daniels, Ex-Wives and Secret Service. The Wacky Side of SEO, it's great for some LOLing read more »
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Strange And Weird Social Networking Sites
Avatar Posted By: andymerch 1 hour 18 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.liberatemedia.com) my network
Category: Networking
List of some of the weirder social networks read more »
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Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
Avatar Posted By: planetc1 1 hour 31 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com) my network
Category: Google
Matt Cutts writes... The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve gotten my hair cut. read more »
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How to Create Printer Friendly Pages Without Creating Duplicate Content
Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 1 hour 35 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com) my network
Category: SEO
When it comes to issues of duplicate content, one of the most frequent offenders is the "printer friendly" page. Just about any kind of site can benefit from creating printer friendly versions of their pages, but improper implementation of these pag read more »
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SEO Has No Future? Think Again!
Avatar Posted By: planetc1 1 hour 39 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com) my network
Category: Search Marketing
Dave Wallace writes... I am so weary of non-SEO types who have some measure of influence spouting off their opinion of what SEO is, what it isn't, whether it is growing or declining and the like. It is no different then when celebrities use their cl read more »
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Wikipedia Traffic Grows 8,000% in 5 Years Due to Search Referrals
Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 1 hour 44 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: SEO
"Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia's 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens when Google ranks all of your pages as #1? I had no idea." read more »
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Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: You're Fired!
Avatar Posted By: kevinheisler 1 hour 48 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
What's the connection between Carl Icahn's proxy battle and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? You'll only find the answer here. Plus you'll see the only "Marvel" comic book cover with Carl Icahn as a superhero or supervillain. read more »
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Is Email Marketing Dead?
Avatar Posted By: ShariV 1 hour 56 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dmiracle.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
What is email marketing, anyway? Is it highly valuable content delivered to readers who have requested it? Or is it thinly veiled product/service offers arriving in your recipients inbox? Is email marketing dying or evolving? read more »
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5 Reasons to Let Others Do the Dirty SEO Work
Avatar Posted By: onreact 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com) my network
Category: SEO
Now comes the time for those to clean up the mess who are responsible for it in the first place. Make sure to concentrate on the fun stuff in SEO. read more »
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Quiz: Are You An Online Jackass?
Avatar Posted By: justin 2 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://gawker.com) my network
Category: Water Cooler
Everyone has a little online jackass in them; some of us add people on Facebook too soon, some of us beg for votes on Digg, some make white whines on Twitter. But these behaviors can lead to more annoying habits, like constantly bugging people to bl read more »
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Google introduces landing page loading time as a Quality Score factor for AdWords
Avatar Posted By: 77agency 2 hours 2 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://lab.77agency.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
the Quality Score is influenced by several factors, like keyword’s click-through rate on Google, the relevance of the keyword to its ad group, the landing page quality, account’s historical performance, and other relevant factors. Among these releva read more »
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Does Your Blog Have an Effective Tag Line?
Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 2 hours 2 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jenniferslegg.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Jennifer Slegg writes, "A tag line is a critical part of any business venture, whether it is a Fortune 500 company or your personal blog. It can be used to segment you, or what your company does, better than your name or company name can do. But man read more »
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eBay using Craigslist trademarks in Yahoo Search Ads
Avatar Posted By: corey 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.craigslist.org) my network
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
Navigational searches on Yahoo for “www.craigslist.org” or “craigslist.org” have been bringing up eBay textads featuring hyperlinked craigslist URLs, designed to confuse and misdirect users seeking craigslist onto eBay sites. read more »
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