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Reviews and ratings have profound impact on business growth. These stats prove it. Read more
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From the page:If your business is pursuing any form of online marketing, then it is likely that you have tried to work out your return on investment; the amount of sales that you can directly attribute to certain activities versus their costs. Read more
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Social media engagement can be defined as as getting people involved in a thoughtful interaction within a social medium, as well as an encouragement and support of such interaction.As a blogger myself, and a frequent commentator on blog posts of others,… Read more
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Stoney deGeyter pokes a bit of fun at his penchant for multi-part articles while making some very valid points about bad neighborhoods, the risks of social media relationships and whether or not Google declares us all guilty by association. Read more
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This infographic shows how the game of link building should be played... Read more
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A look at what the Google Mayday update failed to accomplish. Read more
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I’ve had several tweets on this. Every search returns a malware warning on every result. Even a search for "twitter" shows twitter.com as a malware site. Read more
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As someone who has spent thousands of dollars at PRWeb, Sugarrae is well positioned to give an in-depth summary of their service. If you’re considering using press releases as a tactic then this is a must read post. Hopefully someone can do the… Read more
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A great article by Julie Joyce on how you can use Twitter to attract links and build brand. Read it and tweet! Read more
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The Invesp Blog found the 100 most influential Markers of 2008. Great post and Top 100 list. I really enjoyed reading it. Read more
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What are your top 10 signs that your online marketing has stagnated? Share yours in the comments of this Sphinn. ;) Read more
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What do hot dogs, tanning and sex on the beach have to do with ecommerce? gotta read the list Read more
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Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the plugin… Read more
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Ann Smarty writes, "Keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn’t be an SEO process success metric. That’s the point I’d like to further discuss here. I’ve outlined the pros and cons of most popular SEO… Read more
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A lot of successful "linkbait" is launched on the heels of breaking news or changes. We can’t anticipate the future but we can plan around upcoming events, holidays, elections etc and write for them NOW. That way when the time comes you’re… Read more
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If you want to make money with affiliate programs, you need to learn the basics to promote them and start building your empire... Read more
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Jonathan Fields: "Blogging is, indeed, the big show. It’s where the meaty, public and sometimes deep conversations and comment debates happen. IM is a nice place to build on those conversations in a more private virtual setting. And, micro-blogging is… Read more
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Dave Synder writes "Maybe this will become all that Snydey Sense is. One list after another of people I like.If that happens someone put a pillow over my face while I’m sleeping.The reality of the situation is that I wrote the last piece with six… Read more
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but you… Read more
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"On Tuesday instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, sidenote for the uninitiated) for some fun" Now was it more than that?
[Take note, this is a revised version of my submission.] Read more
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Did you know with the Feed Footer WordPress Plugin you can advertise up to ten different products in your RSS feeds? Read more
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Find out whats hot and whats not with these killer market trend tools. Read more
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I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. Read more
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From the page: "The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web."

I suspect this number will increase substantially each year… Read more
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Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. Read more
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