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Benefits Of Blogging - A Practitioner's Perspective
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 1 day 40 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net) my network
Category: Blogging
Many people start a blog for this reason, to create a presence for their company or themselves. Perhaps sell some things or just flog their brilliance or get leads / clients. All perfectly legitimate and it could work for you as well. I think the on read more »
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How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
Avatar Went Hot: May 17, 2008 - 9:16 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 1 day 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pearsonified.com) my network
Category: Blogging
We bloggers have it rough. We live in a world full of more WordPress themes than you can shake a stick at, yet most of us are still tied to one old, worn out template. It’s unfortunate, but let’s be honest here—changing themes is a huge ordeal. read more »
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20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 1 day 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sixrevisions.com) my network
Category: Usability
There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development spe read more »
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Ranking As The Original Source For Content You Syndicate
Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 3:51 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com) my network
Category: SEO
But from a search engine perspective, syndication can cause a bit of a condundrum. If what you wrote is a relevant result for a search, the search engine wants to show it to the searcher. But not show it twice (or three times, or maybe even a thousa read more »
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10 Steps for Digg Success When You're the Villain
Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 9:18 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: News Sites
If you're using Digg as a linkbaiting tool then you're perceived as a villain. Everyone from Digg itself, to the community, to other self-proclaimed social media experts thinks you're the bad guy. Even though good linkbait provides value to the comm read more »
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Does Your Blog Have a Twitter Landing Page?
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
On your Twitter profile page, there's a small area where you can create a bio and link to your blog. But Laura saw an opportunity to improve on the skimpy space that Twitter provides. Laura added a link on her Twitter page that sends you to a speci read more »
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The Risks of Outsourcing Online Reputation Management
Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 4:02 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Online reputation management services require a very personalized touch. A good provider must have intelligence, intuition, patience, stealth, and strong communications skills … plus successful, non-theoretical experience with public relations, SEO read more »
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How Many Keywords Should Your SEO Be Targetting?
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://massa.techndu.com) my network
Category: SEO
Yesterday I had a question from a client asking how many keywords we will target for each project. It reminded me that out of all the questions I get that illustrate a need for better understanding of how an SEO process works, this is one of the top read more »
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Twitter Beats (Wow, By A Minute) The USGS With China Earthquake News
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so -- by about a minute. Reading some of th read more »
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8 Best Kept Secrets To Fine-Tuning your E-mail Marketing Campaigns
Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
Email marketing offers a great opportunity to connect with current customer as well as potential prospects. Compare for example traditional website visitors to subscribers of an opt-in mailing list. Site visitors include those who land on the site b read more »
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What Every Good Marketer Knows
Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 8:47 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
Three years ago, Seth Godin published this list, which was very much a riff, not a carefully planned manifesto. It has held up pretty well. Obviously, knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it. read more »
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Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
We've noticed that many people don't use some tools that would make their lives online much more effective and efficient. Here's our list of some tools we'd suggest are essential. Several of these tools will deliver huge value to your workday and ta read more »
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 1:35 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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Social Media Influence: The YouTube Top 10 Brands
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialmediainfluence.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Every time we do social media strategic reviews for clients we can't help but note the growing influence of YouTube on a company's reputation. So, ahead of our Social Media Influence conference we decided to compile our own YouTube Corporate Top 10 read more »
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Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win)
Avatar Went Hot: May 11, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com) my network
Category: Link Building
Unless you have a well known brand and/or established social relationships with thought leaders it is hard to get lasting quality links for less than a few hundred dollars each. And there are only a few Google approved paid link sources that you can read more »
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5 Critical Steps for Every Marketing Campaign
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallfuel.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
Effective marketing is so much more than just “getting the word out” – it is a series of efforts that complement and support each other for the ultimate goal of creating a satisfied, lifelong customer for your business. By taking the time to underst read more »
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The Definitive LinkedIn Guide
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.centernetworks.com) my network
Category: Networking
A good friend of mine asked me for some tips on how to use LinkedIn. I sent him a long email and figure that I should share my thoughts on this with all of you. I'm not an investor in LinkedIn, but think it's a great service. Here's the scoop. read more »
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The Ultimate Guide to a Wildly Sticky, Successful and Outstanding Blog
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.successful-blog.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Before you go anywhere, you have to know where you’re going. What’s your destination? What’s your plan? Building a blog of quality and relevance is an accomplishment. It’s not something that just happens by letting your fingers type anything. It tak read more »
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Microsoft's Facebook Lust: It's Just Like High School
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wired.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
If you hang around the tech industry long enough, you realize: It's just like high school. These grown men and women may have millions or billions of dollars, but it's the same old set of dramas on a bigger canvas. Which seems exactly the way to vie read more »
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All Hail The Dot co.uk Link - Or Not?
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com) my network
Category: Link Building
It's always interesting to hear what fellow linkers are noticing and watching, especially those from other countries. I pinged Dixon Jones from Receptional to get his opinion on using dot com's versus country TLD's and because I thought his answer h read more »
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Top 10 Favourite Social Media Sites
Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk) my network
Category: Other Social Media
First things first, let me say that although I am an SEO guy I love social media to bits and have been involved with various sm sites for some time now. This post has been sitting on my to do list and at last I have found time to rank my top ten fav read more »
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Building Link Targeted Content That Works: Creating Content & Preparation
Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net) my network
Category: Link Building
The first part of this series was a selection of tips on how to use your surroundings to come up with interesting ideas that can lead to great amounts of traffic, attention and links. After you’ve carefully selected the idea of your choice, it’s tim read more »
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The Big List Of Major B2B Search Engines
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Other Search Marketing
Most search marketers focus on Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. But B2B search marketers also have a growing number of vertical search options. Clicks and leads from these vertical search sites may not yield the same traffic as general search engines, read more »
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Why Lawsuits to Remove Negative Content Often Backfire
Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Lawsuits used to be a relatively powerful, discreet and efficient way to handle professional grievances. But the internet changed things. In the highly-transparent, online world... reputation lawsuits can very easily backfire. Threatening or filing read more »
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Split Testing Adwords: You're Doing It Wrong
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
I'm sure the title of this post is going to make a few folks upset. Don't worry, the content is going to really make you mad. Not at me, but maybe at yourself, and especially at whoever taught you how to split test.

That's because, for most Adwor read more »
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