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The Most Useful StumbleUpon Feature You May Not Have Known
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://bloggingbits.com
Category: SEM
Hidden in the obscure StumbleUpon toolbar settings is a feature that’ll change the way you stumble! Add a Search Box to the StumbleUpon toolbar. Read more
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Stop Abusing Social Media to Boost Your Own Ego, You Jerk!
Avatar Story Found By: 0thelisa 1598 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEM
Michael Gray writes:

"If you’re one of those people writing 3.1416 ways to optimize your blog titles with wordpress plugin THX-1137 and you’ll triple your subscribers with some meaningless traffic ponzi scheme, I’m talking to you. Are… Read more
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Introducing the Social Profiles WordPress Plugin
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 1229 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: Social Media
I wanted a way to give my community members more exposure than just a link to their website. I figured the best way was to give you the ability to showcase your profiles in addition to your website link at the social sites most common in my community.… Read more
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8 Social Media Sites for Local Networking
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1207 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: Social Media
Should you get involved in social media ... or focus on local search? The good news is that you don’t have to choose one or the other. This article covers eight sites at the intersection of social media and local search. Read more
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Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
Avatar Story Found By: BrentCsutoras 1087 Days ago
News Source: http://www.brentcsutoras.com
Category: SEM
It has long been debated and rumored that Digg has an auto-bury feature that would automatically bury specific user’s submissions.

They have for a long time denied any such mechanism exists, but a recent incident with Digg user… Read more
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Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: Lid 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: SEM
If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won’t make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. Read more
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Blog Comment Spam - People Pay for This?
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 1028 Days ago
News Source: http://christinagleason.com
Category: Social Media
Amazing that people could really be this stupid. Read more
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Beware: Annoying Commenters In Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: casieg 1048 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
A very funny and accurate take on the commenters we all just love receiving responses from :) Read more
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SEO Haters: Misconceptions and Misinformation
Avatar Story Found By: rishilakhani 1299 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEM
Melanie tackles the present issue that faces SEO. Shes not the first to adress it, and possibly on the last. However she looks into aspects that are worth noting.

Note - this is on wolf-howl (Michael Gray’s blog)and Mel is the first… Read more
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The Downside of Using Wordpress
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1123 Days ago
News Source: http://www.onlinemarketer.com
Category: Social Media
A great guestpost by Michael Gray on Online Marketer discussing the downsides of using wordpress platform. Read more
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Internet Marketing Top Blogs at Winning the Web
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1189 Days ago
News Source: http://www.winningtheweb.com
Category: Social Media
Searching for the top blogs in the Internet marketing niche? Look no further. Winning the Web’s IM Top Blogs is the ultimate ranked list of the best Internet marketing blogs in the industry. 10 quality factors are weighted according to their… Read more
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Twitter Wrote This Column For Me
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1384 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Social Media
The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and… Read more
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How NOT To Manipulate Social News: A Sphinn Experience
Avatar Story Found By: SlightlyShadySEO 1441 Days ago
News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Category: Social Media
Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn’t work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should… Read more
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How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1045 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEM
Michael Gray (@graywolf): Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone… Read more
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50+ Sites To Help You Bury Negative Posts About You or Your Company!
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1369 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEM
Jeff Quipp writes, "Have you ever had a client come to you in a state of desperation, begging for help to remove a blog post that ranks for their business name, and portrays them in less than a positive light?" Jeff goes on to list 50+ social sites you… Read more
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How Social Media can help Improve Search Engine Rankings
Avatar Story Found By: guillebravo6 1098 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bestrank.com
Category: SEM
Great article on the effect of using social media sites like Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Delicious to increase your search engine rankings. Case study with Google analytics metrics provided. Read more
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7 Social Media Websites and Their Impact on SEO
Avatar Story Found By: TheMadHat 1425 Days ago
News Source: http://raven-seo-tools.com
Category: SEM
Great summary of the pros and cons of 7 social media websites and how they work in conjunction with your SEO efforts. Read more
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Did Twitter Lay Down for Google?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1257 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: SEM
Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor… Read more
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Must Read WordPress SEO
Avatar Story Found By: Wingnut 1342 Days ago
News Source: http://yoast.com
Category: Social Media
Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. Read more
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20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To
Avatar Story Found By: MattSawyer 1545 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic… Read more
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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007
Avatar Story Found By: tamar 1509 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techipedia.com
Category: SEM
I spent a ridiculous amount of time collecting what I consider the best posts of the year for 2007 in just about every area: social media, SEO, viral marketing, link building, reputation management, domaining, affiliate sites, and more. There are over… Read more
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14 Things You Didn’t Know About Real SEOs
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1392 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" Read more
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Google Drops PageRank For Many Sites: Paid Links or New Algorithm?
Avatar Story Found By: Rhea 1572 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? Read more
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Happy 42nd Birthday Danny Sullivan!
Avatar Story Found By: planetc1 1603 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.kickrss.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
The first Sphinn Avatar Birthday Card. Happy birthday Danny, from all your Sphinn friends and stalkers!!! Read more
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Big Brand Shift On Google: Good, Bad Or In-Between?
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 1081 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall had a really interesting post about how it seems as if Google has started shifting its algorithm to favor big brands in search results. That started quite a Twitter storm today between @mattcutts and @stuntdubl, in particular. I found the… Read more
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