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Let ’s start from the basic question. Can Google claim that it has survived its darkest time in China? According to the statistics from Analysys International and China IntelliConsulting, both Internet market research firms, Google now enjoys a mark read more »
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Over the past week there has been a bunch of buzz about what essentially are Facebook marketing hacks; quick “guerilla” tactics that help boost exposure to your profile or brand. Whether you are a small business or a big business, there are some qui read more »
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One of the easiest ways to avoid site decay is to plan your site out in advance. When you know where something belongs and have given it proper foresight its half-life is much greater than a site built nearly at random. read more »
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My definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose. However, I still think that the Drudge Report is an aesthetic masterpiece even though I also consider it ugly. Can good d read more »
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“Experiment or die, there is no try.” That was my call to action, Yoda inspired, last week to a group of international C-level executives. And I meant every word of it. There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. I fundamen read more »
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HP Social Computing lab published a highly detailed report on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Digg.com and Google's YouTube, they concocted not one but three ways t read more »
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Ideally you should only have one web analytics tool on your website. the reality is that many people run more than one tool on their website. That means the bane of every Analyst’s existence: Data reconciliation! So in this post I want to share my p read more »
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Social media includes community-based video, photo, audio, and news websites as well as blogs. Although each of these types of websites has unique content and dynamics, they are also alike in many ways. This article explores various ways to get the read more »
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There's more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use. That decision is "final and irreversible", read more »
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It’s not long now until I approach my 1 year membership anniversary on my favourite social network - Sphinn. But rather than reflect on all the great things I’ve learned during that time, I thought it’d be much more fun to share what I’ve learned ab read more »
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As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog. read more »
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As both subject and writer it feels like I've learned a lot about how the PR and the press works--especially in the technology business. My philosophy of PR is summed up in six words: be amazing, be everywhere, be real. You don't need a PR firm, you read more »
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We’ve just launched our first Firefox 3 extension and wanted to provide a quick video showing how it works. read more »
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So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it wou read more »
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Today I am adding a few tips on promoting your online profiles and organizing your reputation management campaign. read more »
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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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A profile in FireFox is the collection of extensions, bookmarks, settings, passwords, and user preferences that are saved for you in a separate set of files. Creating several such sets of preferences opens the whole wealth of opportunities for SEOs read more »
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Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word poem read more »
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Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be postin read more »
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It’s intriguing that most of discussions are outward focused. They’re about Google and “do no evil”. About whether any company should enter the China market. About how far “they” should be allowed to go, what “they” should owe us, how “they” should read more »
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Definitions make us lazy. They confine us to a specific way of thinking. More often than not they stop us thinking. Such is how I feel about the term “linkbait”. I love the concept of linkbait, I just feel the label which signifies it is a bit of a read more »
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In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’ read more »
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An often overlooked content optimization opportunity concerns customer service related information. So much effort is put into optimizing content to “make the sale” or “capture the lead”, but not on making content that is useful to existing customer read more »
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SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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