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A new generation of mobile Applications are helping mobile users search smarter. In 2009, more than 90,000 new iPhone apps arrived in the iTunes App store. In this article, I will share some of the best web, travel, shopping and restaurants search apps… Read more
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My new years resolution: take conversion rate optimization more seriously. Here’s five good reasons why you should too. Read more
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New tool I came across lets you see who is digging your submissions and who is not. It uses the Digg API and allows power users (and those who want to be) to quickly analyze their friends list to find out where to put their time and energy. Sweet… Read more
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Michael Gray writes, "Having been involved in internet marketing for more than a few years, it’s interesting to see ideas fall out of favor only to come back in fashion, specifically email newsletters and true community building.
I’ll admit… Read more
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SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine… Read more
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Colleen ia Search ENgine People - We write content for our websites or blogs because we want people to read it, but appealing to readers in the information age is easier said than done. Writing should be tight, direct and interesting to your readers.… Read more
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Running a website can be complicated—so we’ve provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having… Read more
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Marty Weintraub writes, "This avatar profile is much more common than one might think. It’s also a fuzzy role, in terms of intent and ethics. Anonymous DoFollow link building avatars line the underbelly of social media link-juice mining, spooging… Read more
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Eric Ward writes, "As link builders, one challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could… Read more
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The WordPress community have been hard at work developing the latest release of WordPress. The new version 2.7 will use a fluid design rather than the fixed width of 2.5 and will feature a new dashboard structure with the primary navigation menu on the… Read more
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Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google’s share price appeared to fall apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396. At least that’s what the Nasdaq ticker showed. Read more
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After the news of a GoDaddy user forced to pay the hosting company a $6,759 fine because of a bug in a third-party Drupal backup module that caused bandwidth usage well beyond the account limits, a more relieving news has hit the press in the last… Read more
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Sadly, some of the worst web sites in the travel industry come from campgrounds. Read more
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If you are willing to spend up to several hundred dollars you can (theoretically) get a fully featured product to help you take your content and place it on a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.

The tools that are under… Read more
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Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I thought the text of the Tarzan-esque email is worth sharing not only for its absolute funniness, but also as an example of what not… Read more
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Although the projections and numbers differ depending on the source there is no denying that the future of local search is upon us now! According to a Piper Jaffray 2007 research paper 30% of all queries contain a city, state or zip code. Furthermore,… Read more
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Go pimp your worthless Directory **** elsewhere. I have permanently closed this site as the majority of directory owners/operators are crooks looking to make a fast buck. I have chosen not to sell this site nor participate in any directory related bull… Read more
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John Andrews has a point, you better get to know Matt Cutts now before its too late! Read more
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Did you ever wish that the organic, natural or editorial search results (why can’t we ever stick to one name in the search space?) would behave a bit more like the paid search results? Wouldn’t it be great if you could control the copy that appeared… Read more
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Rumors of a resetting of Google PageRank, dropping the rel="nofollow" attribute, and dropping of the backlink counts and more.

They’re all rumors but it’s fun to speculate sometimes isn’t it? :) Read more
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Article discusses five of the most important areas for PPC success: Keywords, Ad Copy, Destination URL’s, Organization, and Analysis. Read more
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Too lazy to do 301s? Have Yahoo do them for you... Read more
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