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Before you even start thinking about link baiting, you should have some goals prepared. If the goals seem to be within reach, you’ll have to decide what kind of link building strategy would probably be the most effective in your situation. And if it… Read more
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Let ’s start from the basic question. Can Google claim that it has survived its darkest time in China? According to the statistics from Analysys International and China IntelliConsulting, both Internet market research firms, Google now enjoys a market… Read more
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Here are some Sphinn topics that many folks can agree they don’t care to see go hot, even if they won’t admit it on their own:

1. How To Write Interesting Titles

2. The Comprehensive Guide To X - Because this never… Read more
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Over the past week there has been a bunch of buzz about what essentially are Facebook marketing hacks; quick “guerilla” tactics that help boost exposure to your profile or brand. Whether you are a small business or a big business, there are some… Read more
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"Unless you know somebody who knows somebody it’s really hard to get a break somewhere, somehow.

We want to turn SEO Scoop into that break; we want SEO Scoop to be that somebody, that somewhere, that somehow."

Question is:… Read more
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One of the easiest ways to avoid site decay is to plan your site out in advance. When you know where something belongs and have given it proper foresight its half-life is much greater than a site built nearly at random. Read more
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My definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose. However, I still think that the Drudge Report is an aesthetic masterpiece even though I also consider it ugly. Can good… Read more
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Sugarrae gives insights on how to promote a brand new blog. Read more
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An excellent analysis of what makes something go viral and how you can incentivize sharing. Read more
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Jake Matthews writes, "One of the easiest ways to raise the visibility of your site with video on YouTube is to use video “annotations”. Annotations are short textual notes that you can post in the video player and publish to your videos. And while… Read more
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Brett Borders writes... social media has given us some amazing new channels for self expression. Common people are getting empowered and gaining an international audience by creating and sharing good stuff. Read more
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Dave Snyder has a great post on SEP blog about using UGC (user Generated Content) to increase business.

Great post! Read more
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One of the best ways to find new followers for your Twitter account is to leverage any other online profile that you might already have. If you have a website, blog or other social media account linking to your Twitter account is a great way to do this.… Read more
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“Experiment or die, there is no try.” That was my call to action, Yoda inspired, last week to a group of international C-level executives. And I meant every word of it. There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. I… Read more
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HP Social Computing lab published a highly detailed report on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Digg.com and Google’s YouTube, they concocted not one but three ways… Read more
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Searching for the top blogs in the Internet marketing niche? Look no further. Winning the Web’s IM Top Blogs is the ultimate ranked list of the best Internet marketing blogs in the industry. 10 quality factors are weighted according to their… Read more
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Ideally you should only have one web analytics tool on your website. the reality is that many people run more than one tool on their website. That means the bane of every Analyst’s existence: Data reconciliation! So in this post I want to share my… Read more
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Social media includes community-based video, photo, audio, and news websites as well as blogs. Although each of these types of websites has unique content and dynamics, they are also alike in many ways. This article explores various ways to get the most… Read more
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There’s more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use. That decision is "final and… Read more
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One way to get more search engine traffic is to build many of what I call ‘mini-funnel’ websites for specific keyword phrase/search queries. All of these slave websites could be designed as pointers to funnel traffic to your master site.… Read more
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According to the letter Mr. Savage submitted to the Justice Department, Google at first gave him nothing but encouragement, even naming Sourcetool its AdSense site of the week at one point. By May 2006 — with the company barely six months old — it… Read more
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Having direct and immediate access to the Final Answer reduces the amount of information we’re exposed to. Instead of plowing through numerous books, flipping magazine pages, reading bits about this and that, we jump right away to The End. Read more
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Blogging is as varied in its applications as using the telephone or taking a picture. The tool doesn’t predict the output. You might be using your blog to post recipes, or to inform the local community about information you find elsewhere on the web.… Read more
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Want to find out what Dave Snyder learned on he week off from Twitter? There were pros and cons, they might not be what you think they are ;) Read more
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If you have been involved with online marketing, web publishing or blogging for a while, I am sure that you have come across the terms linkbait, socialbait and viral content at least once. Despite the widespread in their usage, however, we still don’t… Read more
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