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12 Tips on Creating Content for Social Media
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1316 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: SEM
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, you… Read more
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Killer Headline Writing Tips Lifted From Viagra Spam Emails
Avatar Story Found By: tomcritchlow 1318 Days ago
News Source: http://wiep.net
Category: Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. Read more
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How To Pick A Kickass Domain Name
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 1306 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: SEM
Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. Read more
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10 Of The Best Alternative Social Media Sites
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1319 Days ago
News Source: http://www.setfiremedia.com
Category: Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. Read more
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New SEO Plugin for Wordpress: Internal Link Building
Avatar Story Found By: davidmihm 1322 Days ago
News Source: http://seoroi.com
Category: SEO
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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Wordpress - Clean Up Your Backend!
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1293 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Social Media
"There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen… Read more
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7 FireFox Extensions to Explore Page Source Code
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
SEOs look at the source code of almost every page - I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s quite natural, I’ve been looking for tools that can represent the information in a better way or allow for more valuable options… Read more
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Optimize a Site Without Touching the Code
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shimonsandler.com
Category: Link Building
Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. Read more
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Looking at Fake Social Media Profiles
Avatar Story Found By: rhcerff 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Social Media
Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. Read more
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12 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEM
or those of you who blog for the purpose of generating additional sales of your products or services (as opposed to making affiliate revenues from the traffic), and have not yet seen the benefits, there is hope. Below follow 12 of the most common… Read more
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Needy Karma Turning Off Casual Plurkers?
Avatar Story Found By: mpilatow 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://plurkable.com
Category: SEM
The karma system at Plurk is much too needy in its current state. It’s no surprise that some sources claim plurks numbers are down. This same piece also mentions that those that are into it are really into it. Read more
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SEO hosting 101 - don’t leak your staging urls into Google!
Avatar Story Found By: Hannah 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Category: SEO
Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite… Read more
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The Google-Digg Prophesy - 5 Ways a Deal will Change the Internet
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://www.winningtheweb.com
Category: Vertical Search
Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.

In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg… Read more
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Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation
Avatar Story Found By: justin 1299 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. Read more
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Stop Google Analytics From Stealing AdWords Keyword Data
Avatar Story Found By: Drupal 1299 Days ago
News Source: http://www.getelastic.com
Category: PPC
Do you broad or phrase match keywords in Adwords? By default, you can’t see which terms Adwords uses to trigger your ads - it could be totally bogus keywords!

You need this hack to expose exact keyword referrals, or you’ll spend… Read more
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Is Reddit Sending More Traffic than Digg?
Avatar Story Found By: socialpyramid 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://www.brentcsutoras.com
Category: Social Media
As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. Read more
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The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources
Avatar Story Found By: BrianChappell 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://oedb.org
Category: SEM
This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you’re working with RSS. Read more
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Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank
Avatar Story Found By: soulfood 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://news.cnet.com
Category: SEO
A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn’t use any user behavior data as the article implies. Read more
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Optimizing for Multiple Word Order Search Phrases
Avatar Story Found By: vangogh 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
How to optimize for multiple word order search phrases. From the post:

Determine Relative Traffic Levels
Make the Higher Traffic Phrase Priority One
Optimize on the Page (& Site) for the Different Phrase Ordering
Link… Read more
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New Toolbar PageRanks coming
Avatar Story Found By: Skitzzo 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Category: SEO
I don’t care what you think about Toolbar PR, you know you’re gonna check it... Read more
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15 Opinions on a Google-Digg Deal: From Sphinn’s Finest SEO’s & SMO’s
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://www.winningtheweb.com
Category: Social Media
So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it… Read more
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Google Knol - Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: Vertical Search
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer… Read more
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Google Knol = Wikipedia Killer? | MindFrenzy
Avatar Story Found By: jotoole4 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://mindfrenzy.com
Category: Vertical Search
Take a look at what Google Knol is and its defining features. Read more
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Have You Lost All/Most Of Your Twitter Followers?
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1299 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Social Media
Some Twitters have reported today they have noticed that Twitter has unfollowed all or most of their followers!

For example Andy Beal has lost 1800 followers :-)

http://twitter.com/andybeal/statuses/866569011

And… Read more
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The Sphinn Exposé - My Story About Social Media Networking
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1301 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoconsultants.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
A very detailed and in-depth look at Sphinn from Edward Lewis of seoconsultants.com Read more
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