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Google AdWords ripped off this firm for $3200! When they restarted paused campaigns by clicking ’resume all,’ Google also resumed deleted campaigns, with all adgroups and ads deleted too!

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Entertaining, comprehensive coverage of Guy Kawasaki’s "Twitter as a Tool" (or "Guy Kawasaki is a Tool") keynote at Search Engine Strategies New York from Lisa Barone. Read more
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1. Why social media ROI has this reputation for being difficult to measure
2. Defining and setting appropriate success metrics
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For a company that boasts so many employees with MBAs and PhDs, this is an embarrassment. That’s why I’m crowning Google: DUMBASS OF THE WEEK. Read more
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"Here’s a quick run-down of the nonsense and bad advice you’ll get from your friendly neighborhood SEO debunkers (and there is more than one guilty party so let’s not worry about who got nailed this time)." Read more
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Donna writes about how Google gets itself in trouble with paid links. People won’t forget this one for a while! Read more
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Say it aint SO! Malevolent industrial espionage creeps will be up LATE tonight building thumbs down bots...JEEEZ. Will it be part of QScore? Will it flag a hand review? Is it about eliminating Garbitrage sites? Read more
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Jeremy Schoemaker: I am always amazed at how scared people are to fail. I fail all the time.... or at least what other people would consider to be failures. I would rather call them experiences.
Learning from your failures and trying until you… Read more
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A personal accounting of my trouble finding what I wanted in Google, some rants about bad SEO and usability, and finally how SearchWiki came to the rescue. Read more
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Whilst looking for the latest results for the Australian Open, I came across this page http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6102132.stm

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Interesting insight into how some industries use rankings as a form to measure success. Read more
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Britney Spears is doing it, should you? Is having someone "ghost write" your social media profiles wise advice for everyone? This pieces takes a look at the drawbacks of using a ghost writer on social media profiles. Read more
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"How do you determine the effectiveness of those landing pages? How do you know what design or page features will trigger a better response in your audience and lead to more conversions? The answer is that you don’t, unless you test."

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