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AboutUs.Org was one of the great free Wiki resources for webmasters looking to create a page about their websites, and get a little bit of link love flowing to start things off. It appears, as of this week, that AboutUs.org is now automatically addi read more »
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Does Google add undeserving "negative" results to some queries to make them more diverse? A very important question for online reputation management and advanced SEO understanding. Rand gives some evidence and a good explanation of why such a filter read more »
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Sometimes a negative result will stick to the front page of Google's index, and it will won't move easily – no matter how much content or links you create. In these situations, removing the links that point to a negative page can make it appear less read more »
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This post by SEOmoz attorney Sarah Bird looks at many of the legal issues that affiliates and e-commerce sellers can run into, and it offers excellent advice on defending yourself against fraud and attacks. read more »
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Hey.. I know this is not of general interest or SEM value so I posted it under "Water Cooler." But if anyone is looking to roomshare at SMX Social Media in Long Beach, please contact me... ! No need to vote on this story, just wanted to throw it int read more »
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This is a great article for social media users who want to improve their content finding skills and get more efficient. read more »
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The SEO playbook changes fast. Really fast. Techniques come and go on a monthly basis, and methods considered to be "the way and the light" can become obsolete – literally overnight. What helped a site rank yesterday can suddenly cause it to get pen read more »
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I knew that the Digg user experience was sure to deteriorate when they agreed to let Microsoft serve their graphical ads, but I didn't know they'd allow bidders to foist deceptive blinking schlock on a relatively tech-savvy community. read more »
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Friendships in any network should fade over time, but be renewed by interaction.

Current social networks differ from reality on where action is required: In the real world, friendships fade because of inaction: He slowly stops calling and emailin read more »
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Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg created one of the most trafficked sites on the Web and became a paper billionaire as a result. But ongoing lawsuits suggest that Facebook's origins are murkier than Zuckerberg would like to admit. Is the man many are read more »
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Once of the drawbacks of being a social media power user is that everything moves way too fast. You've got so many amazing stories streaming your way that you barely have time to read and enjoy them. The "Read It Later" extension for FireFox lets yo read more »
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An excellent illustrated post by Si Fishkin on PageRank theories and formulas. read more »
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The potential upside of a linkbait driven marketing campaign is growing smaller by the day. Dave Naylor hinted that he believed that Google is looking at how natural a site's link growth profile looks like, and discounting many of the rapid growth read more »
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"I wonder how valuable the other %99.98 of the world's information is worth?" read more »
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A quick tip on how to get the keyword-rich anchor text you want from those expensive directory submissions. read more »
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Some people find social media to be a lot more exciting than old-fashioned SEO, and they would love to make a career out of it. But social media marketing can be very volatile.
This article explores some of the challenges and ethics of social medi read more »
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Paul's supporters are possibly the most organized and galvanized web community in the modern political spectrum. They've rigged Digg and Reddit with political stories that are nearly impossible for the community to bury.

If Paul's supporters re read more »
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Since Digg updated its user interface in September, a lot of active Diggers feel that the site is much more time consuming to use. Digging your friends' stories takes more effort, and you can only see 3 screens of their past submissions. This articl read more »
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At first glance these sites look legitimate however you quickly realise how these sites are just badly disguised blog scraping websites that were uploaded to make money via adsense. On their first day they launched no less than 30 websites. Yes that read more »
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This article takes a look at some of the dangers of trying to manage your online reputation with lawsuits, Wikipedia listings, fake reviews and threats.... and offers some tips and links. read more »
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This article explores the reasons why stories get voted down on Digg and Reddit, and it offers strategies on how to protect your content from being banished. read more »
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An illustrated guide for beginners that explains how to build up a solid network of friends on Digg. Building up a network of legitimate, reciprocal friendships with people whose content you enjoy is by far the best way to help your stories hit the read more »
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A quick look at the different kinds of spam that can be found on popular story voting sites like Digg and Reddit. By creating a keyword targeted page or profile on a strong, legitimate social media domain and pointing several hundred backlinks at i read more »
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