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Can you believe that it’s already 2010? I’ve been involved with Internet marketing and SEO for over 7 years now and each year has always been more exciting than the previous one. 2010 is looking to be no different. There are so many opportunities… Read more
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A quick set of guidelines to follow in order to make the quick transition into a social media superstar. Read more
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I've got a fairly long "decade of SEO in review" article for you today. I thought about splitting it into 2 parts, but decided it would lose a lot by doing so. I hope you'll make it all the way through because I tried to make it as interesting and… Read more
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Very useful info from @10e20 Patrick Winfield on getting the right thumbnails to show up on Social Media submission sites like Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc.

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Some great tips on for site structure migration and cleaning up your URL's from Sugarrae Read more
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Headlines are the weak spot of many an SEO. This is a great list of 102 headline formulas from Chris Garrett. All the formulas double up as a content idea. Read more
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Getting coverage for your business in mainstream media can be hugely beneficial in bringing a swathe of new visitors to your site, and building inbound links from the media and from all the other people who comment on it. Read more
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I have never reported a competitor, never will and believe heavily in karma and that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Quite a few folks in the audience clapped loudly, quite a few looked at me and rolled their eyes. It’s… Read more
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The complete manual to using Raven Internet Marketing Tools. Raven is the most complete online marketing toolset in the market. From link building to social media monitoring, this toolset will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your online… Read more
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Lisa Barone wraps up liveblogging another conference - this time Affiliate Summit East 09. If you weren't able to make it, you'll find full coverage of 12 of the most popular sessions here! Read more
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On the surface, the piece seemed to be a  “California” lifestyle piece, however, after doing a bit of research it turns out there’s a lot more intrigue, questionable journalistic ethics, and deception involved here. This post is a bit long, but I… Read more
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I am sure, the IM Spring Break conference in the sunshine state of Florida has brought great opportunities to interact, laugh, share SEO knowledge, and just have a good time among SEO experts. During the conference, the best socializing part was lunch.… Read more
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Social media has crept into nearly every aspect of SEO to where it’s now quite difficult to imagine them disentangled from each other. Keyword research traditional to SEO is being used to advise every tag, tier, and title in brand social media… Read more
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The world’s biggest companies are failing at more than their profit performance these days. A new report from SEO measurement company Conductor finds that organic search results from the Fortune 500 would hardly rate a good MBA project. In fact,… Read more
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According to Lisa Barone, you can get more than just links from social media. You can also get really great content. And one of the best places to find free content is on Flickr. Read more
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"... it appears that Delicious intentionally removed the nofollow attribute from the Everyone’s Bookmarks for page." Read more
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Hot on the heels of the announcement by Google and Live of a new tag attribute for links, Joost De Valk creates plugins to support this for Wordpress, Magento and Drupal. Read more
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David Harry writes... Good day to you my fellow search geeks, I am still interviewing peeps here on the trail, as they are just damn fun to do. This time I wanted to talk to someone we all know well, but at the same time know very little about; Lisa… Read more
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Another retro piece floating up again from the deep vaults of SEO history - seems that nothing has really changed since 2002... Read more
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It seems the "elite" mods and company have finally taken Sphinn away from the community. I saw it coming last fall when select articles were removed despite genuine community support, recently when unfavorable comments were deleted by mods with no… Read more
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Zak Stambor: When Southwest Airlines unveiled its Nuts About Southwest blog in April 2006, it wanted the site to offer customers a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s daily workings.

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For the last few months, ever since StumbleUpon released their new Beta redesign, I have been plagued by a really weird StumbleUpon toolbar issue. Read more
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Tony Adam writes... I was listening in on Office Hours on WebmasterRadio.fm today and the question came up of how to find the referrer URL from StumbleUpon to your site. Read more
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More and more twitter users are actually taking their Twitter interactions and meeting up in real life. In this post Steph Auteri from Freelancedom (@stephauteri) shares some tips on how to do it. Read more
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Social media comes in a variety of flavors, each with a very different end result. Networking campaigns occur on social sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn where users or companies interact with others in the community. Social media news campaigns… Read more
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