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Digg went down today for about an hour. When it came back up, I noticed a few minor changes in the site design.

First, the ‘beta’ button on the upcoming tab was changed from the red square to a gray text, in an effort to slowly fade it… Read more
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Streko’s 2008 Top 20 People Who Didn’t Suck (or at least not a lot) - "Cause lets be honest, we all kinda suck every once in a while." Read more
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Unfortunately there are all kinds of devious server hacks making the rounds these days. They usually depend on two factors: sites that use a common CMS (such as Wordpress) and site owners who do not update their software to keep security solid. Read more
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Panelists on the Video Search Engine Optimization session for Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference and Expo – Gregory Markel, Greg Jarboe, and Steve Espinosa – shared their expert insights on YouTube’s algorithms, popularity, conversion,… Read more
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Most of the people voted into the 100 most influential marketers of 2008 awards use Twitter. This blogger listed all the Twitter IDs of most if not all of them, so you can follow your favorite marketer from that list. Read more
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Jack Leblond explains why "expert" SEO advice should be taken with a grain of salt. In the "aticle" by Ragan Communications, it’s a matter of doing what they say, not what they do. Read more
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"We can’t track eyeballs, but there is something we can record: mouse clicks. Enter Crazyegg, an on-line service that records all mouse clicks on your website and produces pretty click-heatmaps. Of course the question is: It is useful to know where… Read more
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When you can’t find your website at all in the Google index or if you don’t have top rankings for your domain name, you most likely have a penalty. Google penalties are the result of violations against the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Violations… 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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Digg has sold out. Their idealistic mission statement has taken a backseat to other priorities - be it money, power, ego, or whatever. We ’ve seen this happen over and over again. Somebody has a great new idea or invention or creative style. It starts… Read more
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Enquiro’s Gord Hotchkiss argues that Google’s search market share is likely not to go down due to:

1. The fact that its (at the time) superior ranking algorithm was introduced just as an "explosion" of web pages became available… Read more
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Twitter is an excellent, addictive tool for getting connected socially and building your personal brand. There’s a lot you can do to improve upon it. Make use of these tips, tools, and other resources to make your Twitter experience better than ever. Read more
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Six quality deep links in six days. All thanks to having a piece of unique content, and promoting that content. This is a mini case study that shows how pushing content can allow it to spread a lot further than expected. Read more
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I’m not sure how making money online has to do with Carmen Electra or Paris Hilton, but MMO bloggers seem to be including "hot chicks" and half naked celebs in every post Read more
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Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers Read more
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Most PR folks don’t read blogs and certainly don’t understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of… Read more
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Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website’s performance. Read more
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When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] Read more
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It just couldn’t get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a… Read more
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a link builder had the ’nerve’ (for lack of a better word), to post a public link exchange offer in not just a Google Group but in the the official "Google Webmaster Help" group, for all Googler’s to see. Read more
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The lads at The Register lay into Google in their own particular style... and kindly toss Dan Theis a link in the process. Read more
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File encoding can cause problems with Google. So make sure you are using UTF-8 (as confirmed by JohnMu). Read more
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Without any regard to flow or customer experience, website owners around the world began shoving keyphrases into their copy like wild men. The results have been disastrous! Otherwise wonderful content has been utterly destroyed. This slaughter of… Read more
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Just read an article on MediaPost: Audience Fragmentation Challenges Media-Buying Process. While that’s mostly a pre-click challenge, I found one of the observations particularly relevant to post-click. According to the article, advertisers are… Read more
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Menlo Park based Cuil has officially launched with quite a sizable index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably a comprehensive search engine on the web. Cuil not only claims that they have found a way to massively reduce the costs involved in… Read more
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