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Marketing on Twitter Gets Easier With Tweet Pro
Avatar Story Found By: BrentCsutoras 1286 Days ago
News Source: http://www.brentcsutoras.com
Category: SEM
“Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information. Using this software you can be following people all over the world who share your… Read more
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6 Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Started Online Freelancing
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1285 Days ago
News Source: http://webworkerdaily.com
Category: Vertical Search
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there… Read more
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30 Quick and Clean One Minute SEO Tweaks for Higher Profits
Avatar Story Found By: onreact 1284 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEO
These 30 "intermediate SEO" tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They’re "quick and clean" on top of that, they’re no "SEO tricks". Read more
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Seth Godin Gets in Wrong, GASP!
Avatar Story Found By: Lyndon 1280 Days ago
News Source: http://seoblackhat.com
Category: SEM
"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don’t agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. Read more
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Optimize a Site Without Touching the Code
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shimonsandler.com
Category: Link Building
Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. Read more
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New Search Engine Cuil Launches But Something is Amiss
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchrank.com
Category: SEO
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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12 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEM
or those of you who blog for the purpose of generating additional sales of your products or services (as opposed to making affiliate revenues from the traffic), and have not yet seen the benefits, there is hope. Below follow 12 of the most common… Read more
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Improving Your Skillset: Your Path to Becoming a Better Internet Marketer
Avatar Story Found By: neyne 1305 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: SEM
Another excellent post by ViperChill providing a list of important resources for improving other-then-SEO skills and thus making a complete web marketer. Besides SEO, includes resources on PPC, affiliate marketing, web design, copywriting, domains,… Read more
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Get Google Rankings for Your Persona on 27 Social Media Websites
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1302 Days ago
News Source: http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com
Category: SEM
brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable… Read more
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The New Face of Keyword Research
Avatar Story Found By: MariosAlexandrou 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.allthingssem.com
Category: SEO
The implications of the additional search data that Google is providing are far reaching, but I think people are too busy looking up keyword data to have realized. Fortunately for me I commute to and from work on a train which means I’ve got plenty… Read more
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Why The Google Keyword Tool Is Useless For SEO, Even With Exact Numbers
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 1307 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: SEO
An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. Read more
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Forget about SEO - Focus on the Content
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1309 Days ago
News Source: http://www.cornwallseo.com
Category: SEO
Concentrate on publishing information which will solve peoples problems, which will naturally create the search phrases that no one else will be competing with. Read more
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Don’t Be Popular. Be Useful.
Avatar Story Found By: vbin 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: Social Media
Copyblogger says to be visible, don’t worry about teaching people, just write what they want to hear. I’m not sure that’s great advice. I think being like everyone else and telling people what they want to hear is exactly how you become… Read more
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Advanced Keyword Research for SEO
Avatar Story Found By: eKstreme 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jordankasteler.com
Category: SEM
Jordan hits it spot on: "When conducting keyword research think again before immediately being drawn to phrases with the highest search volume. Consider KEI, the commercial intent, and which part of the buying cycle that keyphrase belongs to." Read more
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The New Media Lifecycle and Social Discovery
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.socialtimes.com
Category: SEM
The Social Times » What is social discovery exactly? Well social discovery is the usage of social tools to find relevant content. A social tool is a system which enables the sharing of content with other users. That content can be as simple as the… Read more
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7 Search Marketing Strategies for B2B Manufacturers & Distributors
Avatar Story Found By: dedmond29 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: SEM
SEO and SEM are challenging tasks for B2B companies, particularly in industries such as Manufacturing and Industrial Technology. Here are 7 examples of how these types of companies can increase leads and revenue through creative search engine marketing… Read more
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Learn to Work Smarter, Not Harder: Before it Kills You
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: SEM
When it comes to the internet, I know that our passions can get in the way and drive us all to working excessively. Sometimes you just have to take some time out and I hope you can all learn a little from my experience.

Overworking might… Read more
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8 Innovative Design & UI Elements That Make Sites Better
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Usability
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged about design & usability topics, but I think we’re overdue for a revisit. Luckily, in my recent web browsing, I stumbled across some remarkably innovative, uncommon design elements that made me… Read more
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Comcast Wins by Engaging the Right People on Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: YoungMaster 1313 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.vkistudios.com
Category: Social Media
A look at Comcast’s quick response to a customer on Twitter and some of the more robust tools that a company that large may be using to monitor it’s online reputation. Read more
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Hire A Crappy SEO Firm in Only 10 Steps
Avatar Story Found By: soulfood 1312 Days ago
News Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com
Category: SEO
I’ve had an epiphany: Most people want to hire really crappy SEO ’professionals’.

It’s the only possible reason for some of the asinine hiring decisions made by otherwise intelligent people. So, in the tradition of… Read more
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The Ultimate Guide to the Google Search Parameters
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1311 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
Google’s search string parameters. Read more
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Online Negative Reputation Case Studies - That’s Never Been Easier
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1311 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seosmarty.com
Category: SEM
Ann Smarty discusses sites that offer anyone anonymously to post a rant on other people or companies - be it a former boyfriend or a place of work. For some reason these services keep popping up quickly and that’s a complex question if that’s for… Read more
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How to Stop Being Invisible as a Blogger
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1311 Days ago
News Source: http://www.copyblogger.com
Category: Social Media
Jonathan Morrow of Copyblogger writes, "Have you ever felt like your blog is invisible? Well, I have some good news. Not only can I tell you how to stop being invisible, but I can give you some proven tips and tactics that will have the blogosphere… Read more
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20+ Must-Have FireFox Search Plugins for SEOs
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Very useful list of FireFox SEO plugins from Ann Smarty on SEJ. Read more
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5 Common Crawlability Mistakes That Kill Your SEO Success
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1322 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. Read more
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