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Rebecca Kelley at 10e20 outlines different exceptions where she feels deleting comments, reviews or feedback is justified, then asks "What do you guys think? When do you think it’s okay to remove user-generated content, and when should you leave it… Read more
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An issue with the StumbleUpon toolbar causing periods of extreme lag and locking up FireFox has been solved and explained. Read more
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Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe. Read more
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Love me or hate me I had to put this up. A short story about facebook advertising rankings. Read more
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My SEO needs are surprisingly modest. Although I have a lot of keywords I track, I have a need for a tool that would be particularly useful to beginner or mid-range SEOs. I mocked up this tool idea in an hour or so. If I coded it, would you use it?… Read more
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Pamela Lund explains how to make the most of IM Spring Break Conference which is a mind-blowing weekend of networking and education.... It can be done and she shows us how we can network and learn all in a few days. Read more
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When you are working at an organization that doesn’t have the right analytics, its painful. It’s important to understand that not providing metrics and/or reporting or being able to measure certain aspects of your job and/or client work is going… Read more
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Sean Percival talks through ways online publishing will change in 2009, including his strategy for blog networks. Read more
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Great article by Gab:

I wanted to write about bigger picture strategies - plans featuring big ideas - rather than tactics. What follows is a mix of such plans and big picture ideas that, while not quite tactics, don’t fit as strategy… Read more
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Tony Adam recounts his experience with an all too common problem.. not thinking about SEO, BEFORE you launch the website. Read more
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There has long been a sort of rivalry between the Reddit and Digg audiences. Each feeling that their community is more mature and all around better than the other, even though a large number of members actually use both sites. The most recent attack… Read more
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Just how much of a part does ego play in becoming an SEO star? Have those at the top started to believe their own hype? Your thoughts? Read more
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We have already seen in my previous blog that online sales are very robust even in the teeth of a recession. Companies have used a myriad of marketing techniques to entice users to buy usually with excessive discounts. It’s now the task of keeping… Read more
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The ROI of social media is ephemeral or fuzzy. Everybody has to define it for themselves. You have to set goals and then try to accomplish them. The simplest goal could be “spread the word”. Read more
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Do those that teach in the SEO industry also do? If so, why are they willing to teach? Read more
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Streko’s 2008 Top 20 People Who Didn’t Suck (or at least not a lot) - "Cause lets be honest, we all kinda suck every once in a while." Read more
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Digg went down today for about an hour. When it came back up, I noticed a few minor changes in the site design.

First, the ‘beta’ button on the upcoming tab was changed from the red square to a gray text, in an effort to slowly fade it… Read more
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Continuing with the employment theme, SEMpdx Advisory Board member Scott Orth was just laid off and he (really smartly I believe) is going to share his job search experiences via social media. Here is his initial post. Read more
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Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. Read more
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Deanna de Bara does a guest post over at Remarkablogger: "The best way I can think to describe Twitter is that it is basically a public chat room, only instead of reading what everyone has to say, you can pick and choose who you listen to as well as who… Read more
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A great guide on how to turn your Wordpress blog into a jobs board. Read more
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I really enjoyed researching the article and seeing how companies are starting to use social media communities as a way of filtering their content and coming up with the most popular and interesting material... Read more
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An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. Read more
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There’s been lots of buzz about the worth of search engine rankings recently. Problem is, rankings checkers (or at least the process of collecting rankings data on a regular basis) are not useless. Read more
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At a large organization, setting and managing expectations can be crucial to your growth as a marketer. Along those same lines, having some basic understanding of managing projects can also make or break your campaigns and the overall success of it. Read more
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