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Together, these people have been involved in social media as long as anyone else and discovered tactics to help you get the most out of the services. Not only that, but they’ve helped shape the way that marketers utilise these services and they teach… Read more
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I’m going to be controversial and I might even upset a few people. I’m not being controversial for the sake of controversy and I’ve been told I’m actually quite a nice guy. I’m simply telling the truth, and giving you the real state of the… Read more
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Back in April 2008, a man began his attempt to trademark SEO, his name was Jason Gambert. Today I learned, Gambert’s claim to register a trademark on the term “SEO” was formally blocked. It may come to a surprise to you that this trademark… Read more
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As I announced last week, I have sold my biggest blog: PluginID. The site was around 19 months old, had 6,600 subscribers and according to a tool that monitors different niches online, was the 10th biggest personal development blog in the world. Read more
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Discovery; where SEO starts… Long before you start to worry about actually ranking content, you need to get it into the index. And of course, to do that, your content needs to be found. In the world of information retrieval this is, appropriately… Read more
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Minimalism seems to be a hot topic these days and rightly so. People like clutter-free living and getting things done. After listening to a recent podcast between minimalist Leo Babauta and problogger, Darren Rowse, I started thinking about how I could… Read more
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Everyone in the SEO industry knows and understands that most websites cannot live by on-site optimizations alone. After you perform your keyword research, complete your analysis of competitors who rank well for the terms and phrases you want to rank… Read more
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For example Twitter, where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to p-nis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly… Read more
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Great list of posts once again this year by Tamar. Read more
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Pat shares how he went from losing his job to making over $200,000 in one year using the power of the internet. Not the usual content you'll find on Sphinn, but definitely inspiring. Read more
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Great article by Lisa Barone on how you can't be YOU to everyone, but you can acknowledge your strenghts and weaknesses and give things your best shot. Read more
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While bloggers strive to get traffic from search engines, other blogs and the top social media sites; it’s hard to deny that a lot of the best quality traffic out there still comes via search. And, if you want to increase your search engine… Read more
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Your first option is using a domain you own but have never used. If your domain is xyz.com, and you need to target ‘Miami refinancing, then make sure to place the keywords in the URL. The website URL should appear as xyz.com/miami-refinancing not… Read more
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Tips on increasing RSS subscribers are mentioned around 100 times per day in the blogosphere, everyone and their cat wants to share their knowledge. That isn’t to say these tips don’t work, but they are tips that most of us know about. Recently I… Read more
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There are no real ’secrets’ you need to learn in order to increase your blog traffic, so today I’m going to share what I know and how I effectively build traffic. This can be used on sites you are just starting up or on blogs that are already… Read more
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Working for one of the largest agencies in South Africa, I can confirm we haven’t been contacted by Google to discuss certification in any way. In my opinion this is another bankroll for Google, there is no way they can monitor every single agency… Read more
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Traffic is usually what the success of a website lies on, so you need to know how to build traffic as effectively as possible. Luckily, over the last 2 months I’ve helped launch over 10 sites and quickly drive them to large amounts of relevant traffic… Read more
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It’s a little close to home but I guess somebody had to submit it ;) Read more
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Once you’ve decided you’d like to create a viral marketing campaign, its easy to become too focused on the details, and miss the forest for the trees, but a good campaign is the integration of a lot of parts. Here’s a quick checklist to make sure… Read more
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Anyways, if you haven’t been keeping up with the social media scene lately, I would have to say you have been missing out on a lot of crazy stuff. In this post I will try and link to all the things that have been going on lately in terms of Digg and… Read more
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So while at it and during the remaining of the last 30 days nothing much happened, besides, yes, besides that I got in a way “popular” on Digg (where I was buried before reaching the frontpage) and 3 other social sites where you’d rather not… Read more
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One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and how to gain those links. But in order to target a large range of the long tail keywords, we do have… Read more
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Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. Read more
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You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new… Read more
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Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name (either out of vanity or for business purposes), you will enjoy playing with the following online identity… Read more
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