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This Is Why You're Stupid, or How to Deal with Criticism on the Internet
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 121 Days ago
News Source: http://www.forbes.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
Blogger Susannah Breslin writes, "I’ve been writing online professionally for over a decade and blogging since 2002. Once you start writing on the Web, you discover that a necessary skill for survival is developing a thick skin." Read more
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Demand Media to writers: we don't need you (as much) anymore
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 123 Days ago
News Source: http://michellerafter.com
Category: SEO
The day had to come when content farms realized there are only so many articles they could churn out about how long to let paint dry or how to get a bump out of a sweater before they – and everybody else – had had enough. For Demand Media, that day… Read more
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Legality of Automated Outreach for SEO
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 124 Days ago
News Source: http://justinbriggs.org
Category: Other Internet Marketing
Looking at the wording on the FTC compliance guide, it may be that harvesting is not illegal, but if you use the output of that harvest to engage in email practices that violate the CAN-SPAM act, that you’re increasing your violation. This could… Read more
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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Content Marketer
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 128 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mpdailyfix.com
Category: SEO
You shouldn’t even think about producing content as a cornerstone of your marketing if … Read more
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Facebook Courts Brand Marketers With New Ad, Audience Insights
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 132 Days ago
News Source: http://www.forbes.com
Category: Display Ads
Drawing a stark contrast to Google’s massive search advertising business, which is chiefly used to spur direct sales, Facebook’s ad executives will talk up the No. 1 social network’s potential as a branding medium akin to television, starting… Read more
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Facebook's Timeline Will Impact Your Career
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 136 Days ago
News Source: http://blogs.hbr.org
Category: Social Media
Timeline is going to change the way Facebook interacts with our professional lives. Here are the changes to watch for — and the ways you can make them work for you instead of against you Read more
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New Discovery In AdWords: Subscribe Form Ad Format
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 149 Days ago
News Source: http://grouptwentyseven.com
Category: PPC
An interesting screenshot from Pauline Jakober who spotted what seems to be a new Adwords test allowing people to subscribe right from the ad itself. Read more
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Google Provides New Options for Paginated Content
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 150 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Vanessa Fox outlines some new pagination options attributes rel=”next” and rel=”prev” to cluster all of the component pages into a single series. Read more
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Google Places: Now Permanently Closed with 2 clicks – Its Getting Worse NOT Better
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 151 Days ago
News Source: http://blumenthals.com
Category: Searching
Mike Blumenthal calls out Google Places yet again for still not having fixed the problem of businesses as being reported as permanently closed, even though they claimed it would be fixed within days. Read more
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What does Twitter’s t.co mean for brands?
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 156 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: Social Media
RavenTools explains how Twitter's t.co URL shortener is different from the others and how it effects what URL others may see in your tweets. Read more
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The real reason Google Analytics launched multi-channel funnels
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 159 Days ago
News Source: http://www.michaelwhitaker.com
Category: Analytics
Forget all the fancy new report capabilities…the real reason why Google Analytics launched multi-channel funnels is because they got tired of having to explain why Google Analytics showed fewer conversions than Google Adwords reporting. Read more
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An SEO Client's Bill of Rights
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 165 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyter updates his basic guidelines to help SEOs and their clients realize what they have a right to in their SEO campaign. Read more
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The Prostitution Approach to Social Media Marketing
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 165 Days ago
News Source: http://socialmediatoday.com
Category: Social Media
Anthony Kirlew: "Just like a prostitute could develop a relationship with a random customer, social media community members that are 'bought' could take an interest in your brand. In reality, neither are very likely." Read more
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Are You Afraid of Getting Personal in Business?
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 167 Days ago
News Source: http://www.successful-blog.com
Category: Social Media
Annabel Candy: It took me 1o years to work out how to get my clients to trust me or, more accurately, to accidentally discover how to build their trust faster, but now I’ve cracked it I’m never going back. Read more
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Google Plus alters the landscape of Google Image search
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 171 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: Vertical Search
Read this *BEFORE* you comment on that funny (but somewhat risque) photo on G+ :) Read more
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PPC and SEO Work Better Together
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 180 Days ago
News Source: http://razorfishsearch.com
Category: SEM
Razorfish looked at the analytics from a year's worth of client data and determined that when someone asks if it's important to buy keywords if you already show up in Organic Search, even Position 1...that the answer, for the most part, is YES! Read more
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Change to Definition of a Visit in Google Analytics
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 181 Days ago
News Source: http://www.l3analytics.com
Category: Analytics
Google announced on Thursday that they were changing the definition of a visit/session in Google Analytics.  The key difference is that a new visit will be recorded whenever a visitor re-enters a website with different traffic source information. Read more
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Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 182 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Marcin is Senior User Experience Designer at Google, but his numerous roles and broad influence at the company are not conveniently definable. His fingerprints are on the code of Google products ranging from Search to Chrome. He gained publicity for his… Read more
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Converting Your Website Visitors One Small Step at a Time
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 186 Days ago
News Source: http://www.highrankings.com
Category: Usability
Adding value to your website through free articles, blog posts, videos, and any other type of content that may be helpful to those at the not-ready-to-buy-yet stage, is a great way to gain extra traffic. The problem (if you want to call it that) with… Read more
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Europe Takes Its Own Path on Internet Privacy
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 186 Days ago
News Source: http://www.nytimes.com
Category: Searching
Spain’s government has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90 citizens who filed formal complaints with its Data Protection Agency. The case is now in court and being watched closely across Europe for how it might affect the control… Read more
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How To Design Headlines and Subheadings
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 192 Days ago
News Source: http://www.vanseodesign.com
Category: Usability
Nice tutorial from Steven Bradley on why you need headlines and how they should be created. Read more
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Science fair gold medalist, 17, invents better way to search Internet
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 192 Days ago
News Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com
Category: Searching
Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Schiefer has found a better way to search small documents, such as tweets and Facebook statuses – all for his Grade 11 science fair project. Read more
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How Google Might Rank Pages Based upon Usage Information
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 203 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobythesea.com
Category: Searching
Interestingly, the patent application was filed on February 24th of this year, the same date that the first Google Panda update went into effect. Read more
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How Google+ Could Cost Online Retailers Millions
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 206 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.tagman.com
Category: Usability
One second is how long Google’s +1 plug-in drags down page-load time, and that’s not “just” a second when research shows that ten percent of site traffic is lost for every extra second a site takes to load. Read more
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Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome?
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 229 Days ago
News Source: http://www.kaushik.net
Category: Analytics
Are you reporting crappy web metrics? Avinash explains which ones are lame and provides you with the information you need to report on metrics that truly matter. Read more
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