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The social networking war is heating up between Google and Facebook. Read more
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Straight from a conversation at a recent seminar, we bring you a new model for looking at the fundamentals of an SEO campaign: The SEO Pyramid!

This is a great way to visualize what you need to consider when analyzing the strengths and… Read more
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Andy Beal’s list of 8 Free Social Media Monitoring tools. Its a great list with some good tools on it. Read more
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Synopsis: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the craft of elevating websites or individual website pages to higher rankings on search engines through programming, marketing, or content acumen. This article covers the origins of SEO, strategies and… Read more
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If you don’t have a great deal of money to dedicate toward marketing your blog but you do have plenty of time, social networking is a great way to boost your traffic while also building a community with your blog. Read more
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Peter Kim outlines a list of 22 things to consider when developing a social media marketing plan. Read more
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Some great examples you can probably take some ideas from. Read more
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Using search queries for SEO by Ann Smarty. Read more
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"Get comfortable because this post is dedicated to celebrating how awesome you are!" as Lisa writes why she loves the Bruce Clay blog readers, from being awesome, to sending (not enough) cupcakes, to being smart, and more. Read more
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Ron Hudson has created a great list of the top 50 Women in Social Media. The determining factor was ranking, how much traffic their Website or blog generates. Read more
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If you’re still waiting to see if social media marketing is worth your time, I have one question for you—what are you waiting for? Forget about all of the talk predicting social media marketing is going to play a big role in the future; it already is. Read more
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Last part in this week’s series on links from the fine folks at Gooooooogle ;0) Read more
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n that post, I gave examples of how naysayers reacted to social media tools in the past - and how they were left in the dust of those who experimented with these web 2.0 tools. So, where do these naysayers come from? Why is there a resistance to web 2.0? Read more
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All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool Read more
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Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be posting to… Read more
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It’s not long now until I approach my 1 year membership anniversary on my favourite social network - Sphinn. But rather than reflect on all the great things I’ve learned during that time, I thought it’d be much more fun to share what I’ve… Read more
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If you are having trouble coming up with fresh content try checking out Yahoo Answers.... here you will find out exactly what people want to know.

"I’m one of those guys that has a hard time coming up with fresh content for his blog (at… Read more
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Good roundup post from Ann Smarty with Firefix extensions to help you get more out of Yahoo Site Explorer. Read more
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Incrediblehelp explains why top sphinns are getting on his nerves, and the need for unique content that isn’t just recycled SEM talk. Read more
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| Social News Watch | A Digg Analysis post on popFAIL
reveals an alarming “widening of the gap” between the top users and the middle users. In the report, an analysis was done of the last 500 stories to reach the front page of Digg, ... 31.4%… Read more
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A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words ’Hell’ and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol Read more
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Paid directories have historically been one of the best link building strategies for Search Engine Optimization. Back in the golden days of SEO, where it was much easier to manipulate Google for SERP’s, paid directories were thought of as being the… Read more
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According to eMarketer’s reporting on a recent Synovate study, only 58% of the multinational respondents knew what social networking is. While some of you might be thinking, "How can that be? I spend my life on Facebook/MySpace/Hi5/Bebo/Orkut." Read more
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Jeff Quipp writes this awesome guest post on the Hobo Blog. He gives us 7 reasonably simple changes that a business owner should be able to make on a limited budget. Read more
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Matthew Keegan has a great post offering 7 good tips for becoming a better blogger ... really good points! Read more
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