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Elise Redlin Cook from Vertical Measures, interviews Lawrence Coburn of RateItAll. In this interview, Lawrence discusses content strategy, viral content curation and his new product DoubleDutch. He answers questions about audience engagement, viral… Read more
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Brett Borders gives marketers a few tips on how to bury negative publicity with new pages on the same sub domain. Read more
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Melanie Nathan shares insights on how to architect a link building campaign that models natural link building. Read more
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From the Page: [Dave Wallace] As time rolls on, it is becoming more evident everyday that we are living in a Google world. What began as a search engine in January 1996 has quickly evolved into many additional things. Read more
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There is more to growing your business that just SEO. Having the right people in place to handle inquiries can be a huge factor in the success or failure of your SEO campaign. Read more
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Great article that dives into the craptacular world of junk/spam advertising offers on Facebook. Amazing that Facebook allows this kind of junk in their advertising system. Read more
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If you're like most bloggers your probably rely on a Retweet button to help push your content to others but if you installed the default code, you might not be getting the credit you deserve. Read more
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To reach your goals, you need to set a benchmark first. From there, you can quantify your goals accordingly. Read more
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I know what you may be thinking, and no, this article isn’t all about reciprocal link building. It is however, about a simple technique to get backlinks to your site, by first reciprocating with a helping hand. Read more
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Aside from the usual real time search and link diversity, take a closer look into onpage stuff from microformats, page speed and first link priority. Read more
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What I really like about that post is that Alisa is talking from experience – this is priceless. Therefore I recommend all (especially new) bloggers to give this post some serious thought. Read more
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Are you ready for Google's real time search? If not, what will you do to get ready? Read more
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It has been a years since we released the list of top 100 Most influential internet marketers of 2008. This year we are looking to get the community a lot more involved. So, we instead of relying on email to collect nominations, we are opening… Read more
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Barry's call for action "Publishers: Google News To Require A New Sitemaps File" explains why in 6 months your stuff phases out of Google News if you don't adapt the new XML sitemap format. Read more
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I love reading what the devil's advocates write. This post is particularly good because I have noticed myself some overwhelming evidence that the nofollowed links on Wikipedia help at least one of my sites rank very well for certain keywords. And we'll… Read more
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AdWords enters a new area, with "comparison ads." This is where Google runs an ad itself for a particular topic and then sends people to see products being offered. First up: mortgages. Read more
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Terrific article from Debra Mastaler, including Q&A with Bob Keating, Editor In Chief of the Open Directory Project. From the article: "When talking about the DMOZ two camps typically emerge, those who support the directory and its mission… Read more
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With over 50 million users, LinkedIn is considered the essential professional network for business users. Here are 7 ways to take full advantage of it. Read more
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Still pondering the idea of launching a blog for your business? I hope the points listed below will give you the incentive to plan your business blog today; Blogging is a quick and easy way to build relevant site content Blogging correctly can provide… Read more
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Nice write-up on how to get across the value of your SEO team's work when you're doing SEO inhouse.  Also includes a step by step guide advising on five steps for successful inhouse SEO:(1) Communication(2) Engagement(3) Consultation(4) Delivery(5)… Read more
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Will Rupert Murdoch's News Corp block Google completely, as it has threatened. "I think we will," says Murdoch. Staci Kramer at PaidContent then goes on to highlight how it turns out, Rupert doesn't seem to understand that he gives out the entire story… Read more
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Learn how to detect fake pagerank because there are all sorts of cheaters out there. It takes just 2 steps to detect fake pagerank. Read more
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Looking for more followers? Here are 15 ways to help increase your followers on Twitter. Read more
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Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content strategy. Read more
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Blogs are often touted as good for search engine optimization. The reality is, blogs are simply software tools and what you get out of them from a SEO perspective is in proportion to how well you know how to use them.  Good categorization and content… Read more
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