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Five new years resolutions every writer should commit to. Read more
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Move over Sam’s Choice Cola and Sam’s Choice Drinking Water... there’s a brand new product offering hitting the shelves - introducing Sam’s Choice Pay Per Click services. I know you can find almost everything you need at Wal-Mart… Read more
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My rebuttal to ’A Career In SEO? Bad Move,’ over at http://sphinn.com/story/19137. A lot of good points, but I love this industry, and am very happy because of it. I wouldn’t want anyone to not take part. Read more
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It finally happened! vBulletin released a beta of version 3.7 which includes social networking components, customizable profiles, etc... This enables thousands of forums with the features that made SN so popular.

So I wonder how this will… Read more
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Seems like this social bookmarking is a tough nut to crack, but read to the bottom for a one-off Sphinn related offer.

Getting onto the front page of Digg has always been notoriously difficult, so I realized a while ago that chasing the… Read more
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Bill Hartzer shows us Fineman PR’s list of Top 10 Public Relations Blunders of 2007. It took me a few minutes to recover and get back to work after reading. Read more
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I am sphinning this because I think that this is a great post to maybe help people (like myself) take a leap into something they might seem a little insecure about.

The part about how SEObook’s blog started was especially great seeing… Read more
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If you own or work with a search engine optimization company, or even if you’re just hoping to better your search engine placement, then you are probably aware of the recent acquisition frenzy that took hold among the major search engines. Read more
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With the right touch, keyword research can provide insight into our values, our culture, what we like, what we dislike and the ‘human condition’ as a whole. Read more
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At the end of the day, Google and other market participants are not our biggest competitors, we are. Read more
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An interesting look into the various information available to Google employees on a day-to-day basis Read more
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"Infomaniacs are often in denial and will justify their actions by maintaining there is no other way. Everyone accepts that technology is here to stay but few will admit that they cannot function as a human being without it. In other words, Infomaniacs… Read more
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Getting back to business basics. Besides the executional/tactical work, some clients like to see Strategy. Read more
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Google Global version 2 has been tested and is now ready for general release. V2 is a complete rewrite of version 1 as a result of all the wonderful feedback and feature requests. V2 is a lot more robust, works with more versions of Firefox and has over… Read more
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"Those of us who are not social media idiots know that participating in sites like Facebook or Digg or StumbleUpon or even Twitter help build our personal brands, not destroy it. It allows us to break down the cold exterior we sometimes give off and… Read more
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Facebook and Google have been competing with each over more than just social networking. Facebook is growing from 300ish employees today to 700 next year. And the best place to get good engineers and others is Google, where many have already vested on… Read more
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A smart robots.txt logs crawler requests, maintains the crawler IP list, serves gibberish to nosy users, helps identifying new crawlers, is lean and easy to validate because it comes with crawler directives for the requesting search engine only.
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from the page "Is linkbait being devalued? Is it going the way of the reciprocal link?" Read more
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Tanya Ferrell has done a lot of reading on social media marketing and found that there are 5 basic types of social media marketers. She describes them in full in this article. What type are you? Read more
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Official statement finally from Izea (PayPerPost) on their blog regarding Google PageRank Updates.

"We now know from some of our friends inside of Google (thanks "bob") that they are now looking for phrases such as PPP, PayPerPost,ReviewMe,… Read more
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