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Can Publishers Harvest Social Media Intent in a Meaningful Way?
Many publishers are now doing a good job of developing social media strategies for brand awareness, content promotion and user engagement. And they’ve made good strides in utilizing social media monitoring and measurement to better understand user… Read more
eHow and Mahalo: How Many Keyword Variations is Too Many?
Danny had an interesting quote in SEL from Jason Calacanis at Signal LA. Jason commented on how eHow has 17 different articles about how to cook a turkey, each targeting a different keyword variation.Mapping out the keyword universe around a particular… Read more
Most editorial sites are employing basic SEO best practices in the newsroom but how many are taking full advantage of every opportunity? To be successful an editorial staff needs to do more do more than just optimize headlines and title tags. A… Read more
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Why Everyone is Now Talking About Klout
Valeria Maltoni takes an interesting look at influence, the tools that attempt to measure it and why Klout is getting so much attention lately. Read more
Good article on the evolution of how The New York Times is approaching social media in the newsroom. An expanded Interactive News division will take a "journo-hacker" approach to better incorporating tools and technology into the process. Read more
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Dan Zarrella's Top 6 Social Media Science Presentations (600+ Slides)
Great stats and charts from Dan Zarrella. His work is excellent. Read more
"Relevance has long been a central tenet of effective advertising, but the rise of Facebook and Twitter are forcing a redefinition of the term. As it turns out, many people in social networks don't want to talk about your product, they just want to… Read more
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Should Browsers Display Only Canonical URLs to Users?
Showing only canonical URLs to users in the browser would simplify the user experience, reduce the number of links to duplicate URLs and help search engines to sort out duplicate content issues. But could browsers do this, and would they? Read more
"What if I was given the login and password to someone's web analytics data and asked to "find something interesting?" How would I start the process of web data analysis right?"  Avinash Kaushik outlines 10 steps for getting started with Web data… Read more
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Publishers are still making mistakes and missing opportunities with their Twitter profiles. 10 tips for getting better results from Twitter. Read more
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Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content
Monitoring search trends and hot topics for keyword targeting and content ideas is a common practice among publishers these days. While this pollutes the search results when taken to the extreme, done right it is an effective editorial SEO tactic. For… Read more
Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?
Which news sites are getting the most engagement in social media? 30+ news sites are measured and ranked based on total engagement across multiple social platforms, using PostRank’s Domain Activity API. Read more
Debate whether Google should penalize over paid links all you want. The bottom line remains that Google DOES penalize, when it finds them, and when it wants. And in this case, an online flower shop's SEO firm bought links for them. Penality ensued, and… Read more
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Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to… Read more
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Here @Alysson talks about necessary steps you need to take to protect your  WordPress blog being hacked.  She shares very insightful 'how tos' on ways to implement your sites security. Read more
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A breakdown by David Harry on Google Blog search and how it actually indexes and serves up posts. Some heavy in-depth analyse based on patents submitted, assessment of quality and what it all means to you, the end user.

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Want to learn what is being said in your niche or industry in real time? Check out these 25 blogging, forum, and social media search tools and engines. Read more
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In local SEO, if citations are the equivalent of links, how about doing the same thing? How about looking for your competitor's citations and trying to get the same ones? That's exactly what the Local Citation Finder does, a new tool that instantly… Read more
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Andrew Shotland creates an excellent rhetorical list of necessary local search tools. Read more
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Ann Smarty not only has a new pic up, but she's written a great in-depth look at Search Auto Suggestions - something I've seen a couple companies mistakenly rely on solely on for their keyword intelligence. Read more
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A very smart update to a classic social media post. Read more
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A clear and concise look at how to add the Facebook 'Like' button to a webpage Read more
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Here are some ideas on the main topics you need to cover in creating an impressive, yet realistic social media plan that garners executive buy-in and a clearer path to success. Read more
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Some proof that Yahoo & Bing do not pass link juice via 301 redirects. Also validates that Google passes some link juice via the same redirects. Read more
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Site speed or page speed -- either way, it's now officially part of Google's ranking system. And has been in place for a couple weeks on English-language searches on Google.com. Read more
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