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From auto-tweeting blog posts to Twitter analytics, this post covers a basic toolkit to manage a Twitter profile for business, measure results and manage your repuTwation. Read more
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Creative genius. Next step: API. Read more
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This is a collection of 2008 year-in-review lists, articles, and blog posts that are related to online marketing, doing business online, running a small business, and the like. Read more
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Discusses why online retailers would want to segment branded search vs. non-branded search to gauge success of landing page optimization efforts and other persuasion techniques. Read more
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Some direct evidence countering the suggestions Google Webmaster Central blog made yesterday. Read more
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Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. Read more
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Top SEO blogs: ranked based on 9 different factors Read more
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Linda Bustos gets down and dirty on keyword research sharing her favourite source of competitive intelligence and keyword data: Amazon.com . She goes into a variety of areas and places that can be mined and offers an overall great tutorial! Read more
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Online Marketing Blogger offering a chance to Win FULL conference passes to 1 of 3 special Online Marketing events + Bonus prize. Details here. Read more
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A lot of successful "linkbait" is launched on the heels of breaking news or changes. We can’t anticipate the future but we can plan around upcoming events, holidays, elections etc and write for them NOW. That way when the time comes you’re… Read more
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Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who’s attended a conference can relate, especially if you’re somewhat shy. Read more
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Wow - Patrick knocks another one out of the park. A simple but elegant idea for getting lots of traffic from your competitors. Look how the URL is bolded in the title - really nice idea. Read more
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Here is Joost’s guide ’how to provide usable WP-SERPs’, titled
"Make WordPress’ search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. Read more
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Discusses your options for handling low CTR% keywords, and a diagnostic list of reasons why you may have low CTR - with recommended actions for each. Also, when is low CTR% a GOOD thing, and what do you do with poor converting and negative ROI keywords. Read more
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Part 2 in a series on keyword research, this post explains how you can find negative keywords with the Google Keyword Tool, Google Suggest and Google Product Search (with screenshots). Read more
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Like Avinash Kaushik says about web analytics, "The goal is not to collect more data – it’s about extracting insight from this data.”

The Get Elastic Blog provides 7 tips to remember when using the keyword tool, how you can apply… Read more
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what criteria should use to select an ecommerce package? Marketing does not participate in selecting an ecommerce solution but are stuck marketing afterwards. It might be worth while to learn few things on what makes a good ecommerce solution. Read more
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Ann Smarty writes, "An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but still carry a lot of weight (in the form of inlinks, rankings and traffic).… Read more
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Web analytics an hour a day is an amazing book, but it didnt have a kick start guide for media websites... so i took a go myself! Read more
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you… Read more
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. Read more
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[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide… Read more
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"One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google’s index search is built on the same mechanics as its web… Read more
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Humorous but really insightful post on how to track offline conversions using various methods like store finders, phone numbers, coupons, etc. Read more
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You are likely getting hosed by one of the 25 PPC survival tips in this exhaustive ’gotcha’ list. Read more
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