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Twitter Wrote This Column For Me
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1384 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Social Media
The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and… Read more
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How to Create Viral Marketing Pieces ... The Dry Cleaner Eg.
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1388 Days ago
News Source: http://www.97thfloor.com
Category: Social Media
Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that… Read more
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Student ’Twitters’ His Way Out Of Egyptian Jail
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1387 Days ago
News Source: http://www.cnn.com
Category: Social Media
CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. Read more
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US Court Learns SEO, Decides META Keywords Don’t Matter
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1388 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. Read more
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The 30 Second Sound Bite is Dead. How Twitter Changed My Speaking
Avatar Story Found By: thejenn 1389 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com
Category: Social Media
Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. Read more
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Holy Mother of Linkbait
Avatar Story Found By: janecopland 1389 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Searching
Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. Read more
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Google Shaking Up URLs in Search Ads?
Avatar Story Found By: Drupal 1389 Days ago
News Source: http://www.getelastic.com
Category: PPC
Google appears to be testing new displays of paid search ads with URLs above ad copy rather than below in certain regions. See screenshots. Read more
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Gab interviews 3 SEO stars: Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae
Avatar Story Found By: tomcritchlow 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://seoroi.com
Category: SEM
Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae all get together and share some insider secrets with Gab. It’s not too long but there’s some nice takeaways both for affiliate and blackhat projects as well as whitehat linkbait projects. A good read! Read more
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Widgetbait Gone Wild
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Link Building
Here’s the deal: I build links. I build a lot of them - tens of thousands every month. How do I do this? I create fun online quizzes and then provide HTML code with quiz scores that bloggers and website owners can embed on their own sites. Read more
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What Price Social Networking?
Avatar Story Found By: swags2804 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blahblahtech.com
Category: Social Media
Are social networks becoming barren wastelands, ruled by the spammer and those looking to turn a quick shilling? Could the ’social interaction’ in social media become redundant? Read more
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The New Social Media Democracy
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://nowsourcing.com
Category: SEM
NowSourcing (guest post from Mark Seall - Until recently, I have to admit to being very skeptical of the long term value of social media. My own experience has been relatively poor in that social media has provided me with few long term readers, which… Read more
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Google Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls Results
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1402 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. Read more
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One Day You’re Optimized, The Next Day You’re A Spammer
Avatar Story Found By: yeepage 1410 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings... no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are… Read more
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Advanced Web Usability: 5 Important Lessons Learned From Digg
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 1409 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: Social Media
Having trouble making everything fit nicely on your page, while still maintaining usability? Here are 5 essential lessons garnered from observing industry giant Digg.com. Read more
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38 Must Reads on Online Reputation Management
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: SEM
I’ve built this list up over quite a while, with some real gems in there Read more
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25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://www.skelliewag.org
Category: Social Media
Some bloggers spend more time with a whiteboard or notepad than they do actually writing content, and dedicate more words to outline a growth strategy than they do to actually writing content! Some of the world’s most popular blogs are the result of… Read more
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How to Do Basic Website SEO
Avatar Story Found By: Wingnut 1420 Days ago
News Source: http://www.elance.com
Category: SEO
Found this overview for Basic SEO - Great for anyone just starting out... and might not be a terrible thing to show clients Read more
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Why You’ve Got to Dig Digg to Get Dugg
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1422 Days ago
News Source: http://www.skelliewag.org
Category: Social Media
In this post, I want to talk about the most often overlooked aspect of what is required to write content with strong potential on Digg (and the same principle applies to StumbleUpon, Reddit, or any other social media service you can imagine). Read more
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The SEO Industry Survey Results
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1420 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEM
In February of 2008, 3000+ search marketers answered 52 questions about themselves, their work and the search industry via a survey on SEOmoz. The following data and analysis comes from SEOmoz staff members Nick Gerner, Rebecca Kelley, Jeff Pollard and… Read more
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How to Analyze the Internal Power of Your Website
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty explains in detail how to analyze the internal power of your website. Read more
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Social Media Optimization: Submit it, But Don’t Forget It
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Social Media
When putting together a social media campaign, you should consider many different things before you actually submit your content. You need to think about creating good social media accounts, quality content, and which social media site to submit to. Read more
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The Syndication of SEO Celebrity
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1425 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semportland.com
Category: SEM
Where I argue that the premium content offerings from Rand & Aaron are win-win for them as well as for their subscribers. I also state that their tremendous visibility in our industry (aka "Celebrity") is a necessary pre-requisite for them to successful… Read more
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12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1426 Days ago
News Source: http://www.doshdosh.com
Category: SEM
Maki writes, "You really don’t need many tools when it comes to Digg, trust me. There are only a few which are truly essential. If you want to use Digg efficiently like a power user, try the ones in this list." Read more
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How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Copy
Avatar Story Found By: 4cdawgs 1429 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: Social Media
The best way to write content that will go viral is to spend time Analyzing the Success of Others. Take some time out to analyze the types of posts that are going viral in your niche. Read more
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