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Is Your Search Result Sexy?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1242 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEO
Peter Da Vanzo writes, "Do your tags scream "Click Me"? Following on from my post yesterday, How To Craft Kick-Ass Title Tags & Headlines, lets look at meta tags as an advertisement, and why you need to think carefully about your offer, and the offers… Read more
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What is the Real Value of a Social Media Visitor?
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1242 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: SEM
Great guest post by Skellie over at Problogger. What is the real value? Read more
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Live Results Becoming More Relevant Than Google?
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1242 Days ago
News Source: http://snydeysense.com
Category: SEO
Dave Snyder writes "So I was doing some research yesterday, and was noticing a drastic difference in the quality of the Live search results.

I decided to do comparative analysis, and was stunned to begin finding that Live’s results were… Read more
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Google Now Indexing Audio & Video Files
Avatar Story Found By: dancristo 1242 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dancristo.com
Category: Searching
Google can now index the audio contained in video files. The technology called, "GAudi" access a video, converts the audio into text, and determines rankings based on the content. Read more
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Dynamic Text Insertion - Introducing adCenter’s Superhero
Avatar Story Found By: MelC 1242 Days ago
News Source: http://adcentercommunity.com
Category: PPC
Just when you thought your PPC campaign’s weren’t getting the ROI they deserve...... Read more
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Listen To Twitter Theme Songs (With Lyrics)
Avatar Story Found By: funduBytes 1263 Days ago
News Source: http://fundubytes.blogspot.com
Category: Social Media
You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter
140 characters is all you need to say. Read more
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Social Bookmarking Statistics, Analysis & Trends: Top Sharing Activities
Avatar Story Found By: funduBytes 1258 Days ago
News Source: http://www.watconsult.com
Category: Social Media
Social Bookmarking is a method to store, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web pages online by the users who want to remember/share it for further use.

There are many bookmarking widgets available that publishers use to make the… Read more
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The Social Network Tree
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semportland.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Where I give Shel Silverstein’s "The Giving Tree" a modern spin. Read more
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Setting and Managing Expectations for Marketing Campaigns
Avatar Story Found By: BrentCsutoras 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://tonyadam.com
Category: SEM
At a large organization, setting and managing expectations can be crucial to your growth as a marketer. Along those same lines, having some basic understanding of managing projects can also make or break your campaigns and the overall success of it. Read more
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Handle Your Site Footer Wisely
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Usability
Ann Smarty writes, "As a sitewide element, footers used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages and add external sitewide links. It was then so much used and abused that it turned into a some kind of "red flag" for search engines… Read more
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Google Analytics Site Search Setup Guide
Avatar Story Found By: Jbeacontec 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.beacontechnologies.com
Category: Vertical Search
This step will require programming knowledge and custom programming in order to extract the correct variables and build an array for instances where there may be multiple products. The array will then dynamically add all the products and build the… Read more
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PPC Management: Keyword List Expansion + Negative Keywords
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semvironment.com
Category: PPC
Huge guide (30+ pages) to finding keyword list expansion opportunities and weeding out the negative keywords. The first half is mostly for beginners but the filters, settings and automation sections lean toward the intermediate ppc manager. Read more
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Are Blogs are waste of time in Google now
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1245 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk
Category: SEO
Dave Naylor: Are we starting to see Google turn the screw of “we don’t like you” on blogs? For many months rumours had been flying around that Google was going to purge a lot of blogs, at the beginning of last week I noticed that some of my pages… Read more
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What Really is Link bait, Social bait and Viral Content?
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1245 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dailyblogtips.com
Category: Social Media
If you have been involved with online marketing, web publishing or blogging for a while, I am sure that you have come across the terms linkbait, socialbait and viral content at least once. Despite the widespread in their usage, however, we still don’t… Read more
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Digg Traffic Worst Compared to 3 Other Social Sites
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1245 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: Social Media
So while at it and during the remaining of the last 30 days nothing much happened, besides, yes, besides that I got in a way “popular” on Digg (where I was buried before reaching the frontpage) and 3 other social sites where you’d rather not… 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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Google sitelinks - Shouldn’t webmaster’s decide it ?
Avatar Story Found By: Mani-Karthik 1371 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dailyseoblog.com
Category: SEO
It’s time webmasters decide what links to appear on sitelinks or just be satisfied with the existing wrong ones.Google shows more sitelinks, and there are more inaccuracies seen in them than anytime. Read more
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Matt Mullenweg leads 1st European WordCamp in Milan
Avatar Story Found By: 77agency 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://lab.77agency.com
Category: Social Media
Tomorrow May 10th, 2008, the first European WordCamp ever to be organized will take place in Milan, Italy. This one-of-a-kind initiative will be hosting one of the most important names behind the highly reliable blogging platform existent today, Matt… Read more
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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords
Avatar Story Found By: DaveDavis 1377 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semgeek.com
Category: PPC
If you have ever had a few glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon or a couple bottles of beer while working over the weekend at home, it could be pretty easy to get a little side tracked, especially if you have many diverse clients with similar keyword segments… Read more
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Google Search Vs. Microsoft Live Search: Guiding Principles Comparison
Avatar Story Found By: itravin 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://ecpm.typepad.com
Category: Searching
"Live Search just blogged their guiding principles. This is pretty important if you believe that the Microsoft vs. Google fight will only get bigger." - From the post

Comparing the guiding principles of the two search engine majors’… Read more
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Are you able to implement a successful online marketing strategy?
Avatar Story Found By: iohannis 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://carl-johan.hunefalk.com
Category: SEM
An article about marketing online, which tools and channels to use and what to consider. Read more
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Quantcast Launches Demographic Search
Avatar Story Found By: JJHill 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Category: SEM
Quantcast’s new service lets you search for web sites that are highly visited by particular types of people. Read more
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Social Media Influence: The YouTube Top 10 Brands
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1374 Days ago
News Source: http://www.socialmediainfluence.com
Category: Social Media
Every time we do social media strategic reviews for clients we can’t help but note the growing influence of YouTube on a company’s reputation. So, ahead of our Social Media Influence conference we decided to compile our own YouTube Corporate… Read more
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The 17 Most Important Things to Consider When Starting an Online Magazine or Membership Website
Avatar Story Found By: subhub 1397 Days ago
News Source: http://www.subhub.com
Category: Social Media
If you are planning on starting an online magazine or membership / subscription website, getting things right from the very beginning can save you a lot of time, money and heartache later.

This checklist of features is based on the… Read more
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Twitter advertising models emerging, quickly
Avatar Story Found By: azieger 1397 Days ago
News Source: http://whatmattersonline.wordpress.com
Category: Social Media
Well, it was inevitable–but I’ve got to say that I’m a bit surprised at how fast things are moving. While it’s still very early in the game, it looks like advertising and marketing activities are beginning to creep onto Twitter. Read more
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