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Stumble upon is one of the great social media sharing sites available today. While it’s true that proper use of stumble upon can bring you great traffic, it can also be a huge time sink and provide little results or even get you banned if you don’t… Read more
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Glenn Gabe’s thoughts about people currently 55 and older and social networks: "Although I wish the numbers were better, I think 80% will never adopt social networking. I think 15% will be interested, but run into barriers and be confused with the… Read more
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[11:00:15 AM] Gerald J Weber III: They’re the lifeblood of blogging. Without this ability to interact with the author and other readers, blogs wouldn’t be blogs at all. They’d just be standard, boring, static articles.

When the… Read more
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Growing need for the real time search engines. Users wants real time searches. Real-time searches are more valuable because it lets you know what’s happening right now on any given topic. Companies use it to handle customer services. News junkies use… Read more
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The guys at Moonfruit show how it’s done over at Twitter. Clever people. Read more
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ICANN controls how we use the internet, and they are controlled by their members. Should domain registrars really have so much power over our brands, search results and simple understanding of the web? How will ICANN’s plan to open up countless new… Read more
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"TweetROI unites influencers with marketers and protects the authentic personality that makes Twitter great. Twitterers recommend, in their own words, stuff they like. Marketers and PR professionals get valuable, previously unavailable Social Media… Read more
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Top search engine rankings could potentially result in a large amount of exposure and traffic. But now it’s coming to a point where large amounts of exposure and traffic result in high search engine rankings. Do you see what I’m getting at here?… Read more
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For European companies, it is quite common to operate in multiple countries. The distances are relatively small, the language differences become less and less of a problem, and the European Union has made doing business between different countries a lot… Read more
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There has historically been a lack focus, knowledge and tools around conversion attribution, but from a personal perspective I always found analysing this information incredibly useful to assess how each channel is performing. This data can then be… Read more
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Thanks to this new Google algorithm bloggers who write popular posts are ranking for phrases that were before almost impossible to rank for. Find out about how deputy dog got a 1st page rank for the phrase porn. Read more
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Imagine playing the “Six Degrees of Separation” game, but with websites. The closer you are to having a link from Maclean’s magazine or Time, the better. Read more
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Checking for duplicate content is part of the process of analyzing a website. The most common types of duplicate content to look for is..... Read more
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Where I offer 20 classic quotes from Monty Python and give them context in today’s business world. Read more
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Google seems to be switching from 3-4 month gaps between Toolbar PageRank updates to a much shorter interval - we’ve just had another update, less than a month after the last one.

Are we seeing the start of a shift towards more… Read more
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Kate Morris is next in line with her guestpost on Searchcowboys. She tells us how to write PPC Ads that work!

“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you… Read more
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SEOMoz have tested a bunch of SEO factors, from H1 tags to Search Wiki, and the results are not exactly what you’d expect. It’s worth a read, or worth passing to someone who wants to know the current state of SEO thinking. Read more
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Miriam Ellis looks inside the Google Groups Forum for Maps and business owners and finds that Google is leaving the owners in the dark and problems and misinformation in Google Maps unanswered and unresolved.

The volume of frustrated… Read more
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Via Brian Chappell : Finding great content online from a social media and search marketer’s standpoint is a very vital aspect to building out social accounts, writing blog posts, researching target markets, link acquisition, and blogger outreach. Read more
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Matt shares his insights about negative feedback being a good thing, and I think he is spot on with #4 - take this information and LEARN what you are doing wrong as a business and FIX IT! Read more
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Useful tips for using social media to control your online reputation in Google. Read more
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Some groovy starting points for the noobs and maybe a few ideas for the seasoned search geeks -

SNIP - I’d like to emphasize is that I do not recommend using exactly one of the below variants, instead use them as samples: you are free… Read more
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Learn about the Twitter tactics you probably shouldn’t waste your time on. Read more
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I’m glad you found my IM name in my social profile, but my full name isn’t ‘Can you Digg this for me,’ Read more
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Wordtracker has just launched a free, Firefox plugin. The new tool allows you to edit and perform keyword research whilst you write. Read more
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