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R U OK? I'm not!
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 489 Days ago
News Source: http://www.atomiksoapbox.com
Category: Social Media
The recent RUOK campaign was designed to raise awareness of issues surrounding mental illness, depression and hopefully prevent anyone from taking that final step. However, the social media part of the campaign ended up provoking more anger and… Read more
Official Google Blog: No more censoring in China
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 761 Days ago
News Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com
Category: Searching
Google opts out. Google.cn will no longer censor search results. Great move! Read more
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Google Social Search; a Search Geek's Review
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 839 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: SEO
Hi gang... I've been writing about social search and Google in particular a lot the last few months. As such I was quite interested in yesterday's launch of Google Social Search. Here are my early impressions and what it all might mean to SEO Geeks!… Read more
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Google Social Search; the potential for personalization
Avatar Story Found By: AngieH 840 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: Searching
Snip: "Well, some 40% of the people we asked in our recent poll said personalization would have the greatest effect. But how? One such avenue would be taking it a step further than its current state… to add more layers to the search onion. In… Read more
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When stupid people think they know SEO...
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 843 Days ago
News Source: http://i.imgur.com
Category: SEO
Image of a "Google Removal Request" that just beggars belief... Read more
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Google Sidewiki: You can’t ignore your customers anymore!
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 845 Days ago
News Source: http://www.netregistry.com.au
Category: Social Media
Using a couple of large brands as examples (Apple and The Sydney Morning Herald), this post looks at how Google's Sidewiki is changing the game for businesses and how they interact with customers. Sidewiki ain't evil, but it does force changes upon… Read more
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How to stuff up your own viral campaign
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 847 Days ago
News Source: http://www.atomiksoapbox.com
Category: Social Media
Having one of your videos go viral is the Holy Grail of social media, but some guys are their own worst enemies.This is a fantastic video of Google Wave being used to illustrate a scene from Pulp fiction - you may have seen it. But the way the creators… Read more
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Case Study: Ignoring Customer Feedback Can Be Dangerous
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 854 Days ago
News Source: http://www.atomiksoapbox.com
Category: Social Media
Cotton On is an Australian clothing chain that recently got into extreme hot water because they failed to understand how social media worked. A case study that illustrates why brands need to pay closer attention to what people say online and never… Read more
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The 6 Types Of Annoying Social Media Promoters
Avatar Story Found By: shimsand 964 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
I’m glad you found my IM name in my social profile, but my full name isn’t ‘Can you Digg this for me,’ Read more
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Managing the personal brand - interview with Lisa Barone
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1047 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jonathancrossfield.com
Category: SEM
The goal posts have moved dramatically for business owners now that employees can have such potent online presences. Some employers have embraced employees with a strong personal brand whereas others treat them with scepticism and suspicion.
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Useless SEO Terms
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1049 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Back in the early days of search engines and search engine optimization it was an anything goes environment. Initially, SEOs stuffed reams of keywords into their page to get their pages to rank. Then when links became the driving force in rankings SEOs… Read more
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SEO is a journey, not a destination
Avatar Story Found By: SiteMost 1055 Days ago
News Source: http://econsultancy.com
Category: SEO
One of the most common misconceptions many clients have is that SEO is a destination; that you can do a few things and you’ll reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow... Inevitably, I have to break the bad news to the client: SEO isn’t… Read more
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The Link Hookup (Fiction)
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1076 Days ago
News Source: http://toddmintz.com
Category: Vertical Search
A while back while reading one of the numerous paid link debates, I had a random thought (not shared on Twitter) as to whether a certain type of "link barter" would violate Google’s TOS. I felt compelled to blow that idea out into a full-length… Read more
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Social Judgement: The Auchterlonie Effect
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1076 Days ago
News Source: http://www.servantofchaos.com
Category: Social Media
Truly excellent post on how social networks spread information, how people gain and use social capital and what this teaches us about spreading a message beyond our close network. Read more
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Silence in Court - Five Social Media Legal Myths Dispelled
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1084 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jonathancrossfield.com
Category: SEM
Think you’re safe from prosecution or civil court action if your server is in another jurisdiction? Think social media should be exempted from media defamation laws? Think the internet is too difficult to ever enforce rules and laws so we… Read more
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Unsocial Media on Sphinn - or Why I Need to Stop Being Mr. Nice Guy!
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1090 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jonathancrossfield.com
Category: SEM
In light of the recent Sphinn argument on ’sphinn.com no longer belongs to the people’, it occurs that the best way to attract attention is to pick a fight! Does social media work best when you’re unsocial? Read more
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Blogging and the Art of Etiquette | SEOptimise
Avatar Story Found By: JonMyers 1091 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: Social Media
Good post from the guys down at SEOptimise, looking at key areas around good quality blogging and positioning a sustained blogging campaign. From building authority to building links, regularly publishing decent industry news, guidance and opinion can… Read more
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The Psychology of a Linkbait : Real Links from Real Humans
Avatar Story Found By: lorenbaker 1091 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
You can increase your chances of linking success by remembering one simple rule : the best links come from real human beings. Here are ways to appeal to those real human emotions in linkbaiting. Read more
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Video: Matt Cutts Explains "Canonical Tag"
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1094 Days ago
News Source: http://videos.webpronews.com
Category: SEO
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content. The three major search engines came together to allow users to point out their preferred version of a url. As Matt Cutts explains in this video, this format offers… Read more
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Sphinn.com no longer belongs to the people
Avatar Story Found By: johnandrews 1094 Days ago
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Category: Sphinn Zone
It seems the "elite" mods and company have finally taken Sphinn away from the community. I saw it coming last fall when select articles were removed despite genuine community support, recently when unfavorable comments were deleted by mods with no… Read more
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Getting Things Done with Twitter - the Best Twitter resources
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1096 Days ago
News Source: http://www.emilychang.com
Category: SEM
Did you know you could get information on traffic problems or late trains on your morning commute tweeted to you automatically? Did you know you could manage your spending or eating habits through Twitter? Neither did I.

This is a fantastic… Read more
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How to Become a Smug Online Marketing Genius - Honest!
Avatar Story Found By: Kimota 1096 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jonathancrossfield.com
Category: SEM
A simple, step-by-step guide to turning the advantages of social media and the lack of accountability into a business as an online marketing consultant / guru / expert / strategist (delete as applicable).

For those of you who fail to… Read more
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Stop with the High Level Social Media Speak
Avatar Story Found By: BrianChappell 1101 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchandsocial.com
Category: SEM
The “social media guru” has become a self propelled parasite of our online industry.

I (Dave) am not talking about the true experts in the social media space, I am talking more directly about ever Twitter account holding blogger who… Read more
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Dilbert on Reputation Management
Avatar Story Found By: LtDraper 1106 Days ago
News Source: http://dilbert.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Just in case you missed Dilbert today, it’s right on target for our industry. Read more
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Google Mispelling Match: A Tale Of Two Searches
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1111 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ninebyblue.com
Category: SEM
As a collective people, we aren’t always the greatest spellers. Even those of us (ahem) with English degrees have our weaknesses (as you’ll see in a minute). Knowing that, site owners have long wondered about how best to make sure their sites show… Read more
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