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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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It's been less than a week since Kevin Rose completed the much-anticipated overhaul of Digg.com. Even though these changes have been the core focus of Digg's staff for the last few months, the official launch was filled with bugs, crashed servers and… Read more
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Publishers can take the following steps to get a publisher account on New.digg.com as bans will be lifted on all domains. Read more
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Here is the story on how I learned to communicate with target communities on social media platforms. This case study covers how I drove over 1.3 million pageviews to a client's microsite in 4 days. Read more
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This is the People Media Movement. The campaign aims to eradicate technological barriers posed by digital networks that stop brands from communicating with their target communities. We move to facilitate such communication through education on the uses… Read more
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Here are 5 common signs you're following too many people on Twitter (and what to do about that). Read more
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Let’s be honest: PR Fuel isn’t the only PR blog out there. And while I like to think we do a good job of providing useful information here, the truth is there are some other truly great PR blogs. So, if you want a well-rounded education... Read more
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If you really want to be a citizen of an online, global community, you'd better act communal, dammit. And it would behoove you to keep a few key social graces in mind: Read more
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While it is true that it can be extremely difficult to break into an established niche (especially if you are on a limited budget), this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any opportunities left. Thanks to the fact that we live in a fast paced world,… Read more
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Recently, @MichDe wrote a post entitled “New Media Concepts, The Digg Bury Brigade and How to Fight it.” I took a personal interest in this post because I have also recently found myself as the target of a Digg “Bury Brigade.” As Mich explains… Read more
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Instead of simply copying Digg, Mixx actually NoFollowed all of their links in response to a penalty from Google, and then implemented this new policy in response to feedback from the Mixx community. I found this to be interesting, because it shows… Read more
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So, you have picked out 15-20 people to start with. I am sure you probably think “I just need to add MrBabyman and all his mutual friends.” They must be active.” Well, this is the typical noobie way to go and if you post up on MrBabyman and all… Read more
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Nowadays, anyone can build a website. Free online services make it easy for even the non-technical user to create one. But, what do you do after building and launching a website? How do you get it noticed? How do you distinguish your site from another? Read more
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Google Webmaster tools is a very powerful tool that was created by Google a few years ago in response to popular demand of many webmasters wanting a better way to become more “Google Friendly”. Google webmaster tools can help you get a great deal of… Read more
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Howdy folks! Rebecca here, blogging regularly once again in SSDB fashion (that’s Same Snark, Different Blog for you initialism noobs). If you managed to pry yourself away from the month-long Michael Jackson tribute festivities, you may have heard via… Read more
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[11:00:15 AM] Gerald J Weber III: They’re the lifeblood of blogging. Without this ability to interact with the author and other readers, blogs wouldn’t be blogs at all. They’d just be standard, boring, static articles.

When the… Read more
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Stumble upon is one of the great social media sharing sites available today. While it’s true that proper use of stumble upon can bring you great traffic, it can also be a huge time sink and provide little results or even get you banned if you don’t… Read more
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Chances are you’re familiar with both StumbleUpon and Digg. Have you ever wished it would be as easy to Digg posts as it was to Stumble from site to site? Well, now it can be... Read more
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Acquisio targets their PPC management tools to the agency crowd. Among everything else they offer, their pricing structure is one of the most agreeable even for smaller agencies. In other posts I’ll look at PPC management services that really are only… Read more
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If you read Internet marketing and SEO blogs on a regular basis, you undoubtedly come across posts about free SEO tools quite often. While there are a lot of great free tools on the Internet for SEOs, I have recently noticed that almost all of these… Read more
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Sure the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or CPA (Complete Pain in the A**) is intended to solve a valid business problem, but at what cost? Should we really make customers/prospects work this hard to… Read more
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One of the most important SEO decisions you make is the selection of your content management system (CMS). Your CMS can make SEO easy, or, in some cases, make SEO virtually impossible. Here are 14 crucial elements you should verify in a CMS before you… Read more
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All 3 of the major search engines are making changes to post more of the content to which they would link on the SERPs available on their domain. It’s time to put your brand development campaign into gear, and rely less on major social media and… Read more
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From Jill Whalen: "A few months ago, I was quoted by Google’s Matt Cutts as saying that ’website developers keep SEOs in business.’ I honestly do believe that and have for a long time. While I don’t mean to say that ALL website… Read more
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Gerald has discovered some apparent monkey business going on over at reddit. Darned monkeys. Read more
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