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Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being one of the most important element of the story success, proper tagging is very often… Read more
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Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a… Read more
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Jordan Kasteler covers the possibilities with Google’s Social Media PageRank and the variables in InfluenceRank. Read more
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Kim Krause Berg writes, "...I was asked, What new technologies adversely affect usability today? I replied, ’Any technique or technology that interferes with a user task is not recommended.’ Simple, right? Not so fast..." A swift kick in the… Read more
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Twitter and Social Media is A tool, not the answer to your customer service problems. Fix those first please. Read more
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Search & Social is reaching its one year mark, and Jordan Kasteler, Loren Baker, and myself are pretty in awe of what we have been able to accomplish to date. This post will not be a long pat on my own back, instead it will be a summary of what I have… Read more
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If you’re planning to move your site to a new domain, use the Change of Address tool to tell Google about your new URL. If this is old news, I sure didn’t see it anywhere.

Note that when I went through the process I got a message… Read more
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During IM Spring Break last April, Christopher Hart spoke during the Internet Marketing Business session with Pamela Lund and Tony Adam. Pam talked about managing client expectations. Tony focused in on SEO evangelism. And Chris framed the conversation… Read more
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Brian Carter shows comparative ROI results on some of the advertising opportunities he’s tested, plus "Six Budget Allocation Recommendations for Online Advertisers" Read more
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Infographics, or information graphics, are visual devices that communicate information or data in an easily digestible manner. They have been used for ages by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of communicating… Read more
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Melanie Nathan gives a great post on starting life as a link builder, in her aptly title Learing to Crawl Before You Walk she examines the fundamental skills a linkbuilder is going to need.

Great post! Read more
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Sean Percival talks through ways online publishing will change in 2009, including his strategy for blog networks. Read more
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Tony Adam writes "When I started on the path of using Twitter, it was fairly easy getting used to keep in touch with people, albeit, a bit like a stalkers dream! (not that i am a stalker! I swear!). I was led into it by a former collegue at PayPal, Mark… Read more
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It’s merging of the search minds as everyone’s favorite Pat Sexton joins Jim Boykin and the team at We Build Pages in the role of Search Marketing Manager.

Jim says:

"Pat’s skillset brings a lot to We Build Pages… Read more
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Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are… Read more
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Great podcast about link building. Love the chart. Read more
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Seriously, if you’re gonna redesign a site, it might as well be a cool one like WAN. You’ll get a lifelong link, and Brent saying nice things about you. Plus, I’m gonna send you guitar hero so we can b*tch about Tom Morello being a guitar… Read more
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Since I just bought my new Macbook Pro, I had to reinstall all of my Firefox extensions, plugins and tools. So, I figured, hey, why not write a detailed post with examples about my “Top 7 Firefox extensions, plugins, and tools” that are near and… Read more
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Sphinn, all nicely collected in one place. Read more
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Tony Adam writes "I have been inundated with communities over the last couple years and recently it has been almost the only thing I am working on lately. I have learned so much about managing volunteer groups, creating an offline community of web geeks… Read more
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Digg launched it’s third attempt at a comments system in the last year. Did they finally fix the problems and provide a good comments system or ... Read more
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You have a search engine in front of you, your EMPOWERED. You have the power in your fingertips to draw information on a GLOBAL level, or on a localized, specific level. When I intentionally gave that power up, I actually felt that loss. Some days I… Read more
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Keyword research is the base for any good SEO campaign and a large amount of your success will be truly dependent on how well you did your keyword research. Of course, this will be built into your overall SEO Strategy, but it should be the very *FIRST*… Read more
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Rumors have been swirling that Search Engine Strategies has banned certain members of the search community and will be retooling their programming for upcoming shows.

Check out Daron Babin’s interview with Kevin Ryan that explains… Read more
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Must. Read. Post.

Why? first to see some leading (and fresh) thoughts on where this industry is going, second, to see a great list of who’s getting it and who’s not, and third to start thinking about the bright new people who will… Read more
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