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Facebook Marketing: 4 Crucial First Steps
Without a solid plan, clear goals and a dedicated resource your Facebook marketing efforts will remain forever futile. Don't waste time trying to shove square pegs into round holes - make sure you have these 4 crucial first steps covered. Read more
Must Have Wordpress plugins for efficient business blogsite. Read more
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Understanding how SEO and SMO work is crucial to establishing an appropriate internet marketing strategy for your business. Especially if you love Italian food. Read more
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Build your own WikiWheel: The best free Do/Nofollow Wiki sites are listed and reviewed. Read more
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From site speed to cross-linking to social media proliferation - these are 6 Wordpress plugins you'll want to add to your site's arsenal. Read more
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Simply put, there are no shortcuts. If you want to get Wiki links for yourself or your clients you have to put in work. Here are some great examples of how (and how not) to get yourself sniffed out. Read more
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If you haven’t put in the time to develop a reputable profile on Wikipedia, adding links to your site from one of their articles is about as useful as: a)Teats on a bull. b) A screen door on a submarine. c) A cheese sandwich to a drowning ferret. d) A… Read more
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Like any social tool, Facebook needs to be worked in order to achieve specific marketing, event or fundraising goals. Yes, you need to have a an effective Facebook Page where fans can easily interact And yes, you need to have compelling content.… Read more
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Celebrities have jumped all over Twitter in the last 12 months. Movie studios, sports teams and other employers of the rich and famous are understandably nervous - and adding all sorts of new clauses to their contracts. Read more
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If you couldn't make it to SMX East, here's everything you need to know about what went down and who said what straight from the Outspoken Media blog.  Liveblogged coverage of all 15 sessions. Read more
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Simon Abramovitch flexes both his SEO and Comedic muscles with this SEO groaners. Read more
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It’s been a big, bile-filled week for new social media application launches and the evil scientists behind them. Both Squidoo’s Brands in Public and Google’s Sidewiki have bloggers and traditional journalists clamouring to criticize these… Read more
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I admit it, I’m part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a social media audience has become so common place that sometimes it seems there is not a single sane blog post out there anymore. Read more
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I first read about this competition on Mashable and quickly became interested. If you aren’t familiar with Murphy-Goode, they’re a Bordeaux focused winery in Geyserville, California, established in 1985. Murphy-Goode recently decided to try their… Read more
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Here’s a great list of 122 social media sites for your leveraging pleasure. I can’t believe I’m actually Sphinning a list that has Arianna Huffington’s site on it... so you know it must be good. Read more
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Google’s goal is to serve users with the most relevant results possible. That means bringing in personalized and geotargeted results for every query that it works to do so. And service-type queries absolutely match that description. It’s great for… Read more
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Linkbait can be a very effective tool for search engine optimization. Social media is important for marketing your small or large business in 2009. The sky is blue. Women have secrets. Thanks for nothing, Dave. Read more
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There’s a grand total of 311 SEO Tools, Social Bookmarking Sites, Social News Sites, Social Networking Sites & Social Media Sites listed here. Read more
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| Squareoak Social Media Blog | It’s incredible the deluge of junk and spam out there originating from hack SEO and SEM service providers. If you’re a business owner or a marketing director who’s new to search engine optimization and marketing… Read more
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Some versions of Google’s page on links include a new sentence about directories. What does this mean for directory submissions? Read more
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You’ve created the most awesome and incredibly infectious piece of viral creative in the history of man, or at least you’d like to think so. Read more
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When most people think of viral content, one of the first things they think of is humor, silly Youtube videos, hilarious cartoons and toungue-in-cheek articles, but as I discovered with my viral content sharing report, the most savvy and prolific viral… Read more
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Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. Read more
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For many in SEO (especially those in the UK) a link from the BBC would be the Holy Grail of a link building campaign. Well, now it just got a bit more likely. Or did it? Read more
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Don’t be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It’s about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek. Read more
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