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Lisa Barone: If you enter into social media without a plan, you will fail. Period.

All the hours you spent will be wasted, you will receive no traffic bump, there will be no engagement, no one will care and you will learn nothing. Except… Read more
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Lisa Barone: How do you feel about affiliate links in blog and Twitter posts? Do you want full disclosure that the link-dropper is getting something out of it or is your trust in the person enough?

My thoughts? If you don’t trust me, then… Read more
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Lisa Barone: Stop thinking of social media as Twitter, as blogs, Facebook, MySpace or any of the other sites on the Web. Yes, those are social tools, but social media is about telling your story. It’s you talking directly to your customers and telling… Read more
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Matt Cutts: Google launched 3-4 new features at Searchology today. You can read about Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets, or Sky Map in my previous post. But I also pay attention to the small things that Google said. I noticed several tidbits… Read more
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Matt Cutts posted on his blog under title "Switching things around" that he is 302 redirecting his domain mattcutts.com to a new one dullest.com. Here are few important points of what Matt Cutts wrote:

- "I added an .htaccess file that will… Read more
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Matt Cutts has confirmed yesterday on Twitter that a new Twitter account @GoogleWebspam is an official Google account created by a member of his own team; Google Webspam Team. (http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1643891008)

A previous text… Read more
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Lisa Barone: I know. You don’t care how important the so-called “experts” tell you social media is. You’re a small business owner and that means you’re busy. You don’t have time to be everywhere or to try the “next big thing”. Luckily… Read more
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Lisa Barone: It doesn’t matter if you’re an individual, a corporation or if you were just sitting there minding your own business, if you’re publishing content on the Web, at some point you are going to be attacked. Your words will be twisted,… Read more
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Lisa Barone: I wonder a lot what other companies have in mind when they start a blog and elect someone to be its caretaker. I wonder if they want real conversation, to rally the troops, to put out their own fires, or just to regurgitate the news in a… Read more
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Shana Albert: For those of you who don’t already know…. Information Architecture is the way a website is organized to make it user-friendly as well as search-friendly. You want users to not only easily discover the site, but be able to follow the… Read more
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Lisa Barone: Yelp announced that they’ll soon let businesses respond to the critiques and the not-so-glowing reviews made against them on the site. I know, this should be good news, but, holy heaven does it make me nervous. Let’s face it, social… Read more
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I have followed today (11th April 2009) a very interesting informative discussion on Twitter between Graywolf and Matt Cutts. During the said discussion g1smd and Halfdeck “puped up” and Graywolf had enough energy to discuss the subject with them… Read more
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Edward Lewis (@pageoneresults): Below is a listing of all HTML 4 Elements that you as an SEO Consultant will be involved with at some point during your tenure. You should be familiar with the various HTML Elements and HTML Attributes that are available… Read more
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Michael Gray (@graywolf): Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone… Read more
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Chris Winfield: Last week I gave a presentation at SES NY and included a list of 35 niche social media sites that we participate in regularly. Lots of people have asked me for this list so I decided to put it here. Read more
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Lisa Barone: This is my life. And if you’ve ever been in the position of having to write content, it’s probably something you’ve experienced as well. It’s hard, that whole ‘getting it out’ thing. The ideas are there, your mind is racing, but… Read more
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Lisa Barone: The whole personal branding thing has created a bit of a mess in the SEO industry. It’s all people are concerned with. We don’t care about doing SEO and testing things. We care about attaching our names to concepts people like. We read… Read more
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Jeremy Schoemaker: I am always amazed at how scared people are to fail. I fail all the time.... or at least what other people would consider to be failures. I would rather call them experiences.
Learning from your failures and trying until you… Read more
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Jill Whalen: I recently appeared on Vanessa Fox’s new Webmaster Radio show, “Office Hours” where we discussed some of the simple things business owners can do to increase search traffic to their website, but which are often neglected. During the… Read more
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Social media comes in a variety of flavors, each with a very different end result. Networking campaigns occur on social sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn where users or companies interact with others in the community. Social media news campaigns… Read more
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Matt Cutts: Recently someone registered a Twitter account name “mattcuttsmapxl,” which is very similar to my Twitter account name. The account was following many of the same people I follow, which is pretty annoying because people had to check… Read more
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Michael Gray: Long time readers here will know that I’m not a big fan of Google’s personalized search. However late last week I watched a TED talk and had a zen moment of clarity, and finally got personalized search. More interestingly I got it… Read more
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Lisa Barone: Here’s a collection of the stuff that got my attention. Again, I’d love it if you’d share your own finds in the comments. Read more
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Michael Gray: One of the common themes I see recurring in blog/websites articles are “How to use your blog to drive traffic”, “how to use twitter to engage your community”, and “how to use stumbeupon to bring you new RSS subscribers”. In… Read more
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Matt Cutts: It’s the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to get some outside opinions: what would you like to see Google’s webspam team tackle in 2009? Read more
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