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Very useful info from @10e20 Patrick Winfield on getting the right thumbnails to show up on Social Media submission sites like Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc.

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Some great tips on for site structure migration and cleaning up your URL's from Sugarrae Read more
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A great guestpost by Michael Gray on Online Marketer discussing the downsides of using wordpress platform. Read more
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Video Interview at Pubcon 2008 with Rae Hoffman aka Sugarrae on Affiliate Marketing Tips Read more
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An extremely informative post on customizing the Thesis Wordpress theme with hooks. "Users who don’t know CSS or PHP have more control with the new thesis them than with any other theme I’ve ever seen." Read more
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I grew up in a house with a lot of rules. From the time I was 8 it was just the girls in my house…. my mom, my sister and I. My mother taught us strong values and we were expected to follow them everyday. Don’t get me wrong…. there was a lot of… Read more
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You know there are days where you really just cant believe the things you see. Cruising on over to the Martha Stewart blog you’ll read how they are running a contest and REQUIRING a link back to Martha’s Blog to be entered … (screen shot for… Read more
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We asked Aaron Wall of SEO Book if he could answer some of our questions, and he graciously did so. Aaron runs SEO Book and is a world renowned SEO Expert and Blogger. In addition to running his own company and providing consulting services, he somehow… Read more
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I like Guy Kawasaki, I really do, I don’t always agree with him, but I do think he’s a smart man, and a thought leader in the space. That said I do think it pretty unfair that the A-List bloggers in the space get “free gifts” in exchange for… Read more
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Anyway as I said above I am good friends with the owners of BOTW so obviously I am biased. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the deal if in fact BOTW is the new owners of the DMOZ directory. Read more
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People far smarter than I have talked about the web becoming an operating system, and search being at the center of how we access the cloud. What better way for Google to position themselves as the C prompt than to turn the address bar into a search box? Read more
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As twitter folds under the mighty pressure of Matt Cutts Google by removing the ability to get link juice from your profile link,Did Twitter stop the bots ..NO Read more
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To win a customer or reader over, you need to manage their perspectives. You need to win their trust. You need to be the better choice, the lesser evil. To that end, you need an acute understanding and ongoing awareness of your competitors. What are… Read more
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Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and others.… Read more
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Last week at SES, I sat in on the Black Hat, White Hat session. The panelists gave their definitions of “white hat” and “black hat”, and then talked about particular techniques, such as paid links, and whether they thought they were OK or not.… Read more
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The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday.com,… Read more
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If you are active in social media marketing, you have probably come to understand that it is a whole lot more complicated than you thought it was going to be. Even as involved as I am in social media every day, I still learn new tricks and tactics daily. Read more
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ou’re interested in promoting your website and brand through social media but don’t know where to start. You don’t want to spend money hiring a marketing company and want to do-it-yourself. How do you get started? Read more
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"I am a regular participant in Sphinn, but lately I have been extremely disappointed in Sphinn’s quality (or lack thereof).
With the exception of Jeff Quipp, I am beginning to lose faith in their concern for administrative control there." Read more
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A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg’s millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one… Read more
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you would… Read more
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Mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Read more
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A great post on comparing SERPS across multiple SE’s by Ann Smarty. Read more
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Next week offers one of the most significant opportunities for those in the search marketing world to up their knowledge, industry networks and have a great time doing it. WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon conference in Las Vegas has acquired a certain… Read more
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As promised, here’s a bonus edition of Whiteboard Friday, Part II of Rand’s interview with the one, the only, Danny Sullivan. Part II covers what Danny would like to label "Search 3.0," that is to say Vertical Search, Universal Search,… Read more
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