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Larger companies with a strong web presence have an easier time pushing down negative publicity than the small business owner.
Why? The key is the existing strong web presence. If as a small business owner, a search on your name only brings up the read more »
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If you own a web site, or work on one, it might be time to start thinking about how your site looks on a phone, how people use your site, and how mobile search might influence whether your site will be found in searches made by people using phones. read more »
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Social Media is truly becoming a valuable tool when it comes to mobilizing the consumer to support disaster relief and SocialVibe is setting the stage to be a leader when it comes to helping our fellow man. What are you doing to utilize social media read more »
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While there are more resources available now than ever before to help you get your head around search engine optimization, there are also many new factors that have come into play, one of the most relevant being social media. If your company isn’t read more »
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7 completely insane black hat SEO 2.0 methods here are totally crazy, unlawful and will make George Bush annihiliate your block as an “Al Qaeda stronghold” so use them at your own risk. read more »
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet, is receiving a $350,000 grant from the James S and James L. Knight Foundation to help refine news searches by employing more sophisticated tagging, way upstream. read more »
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Doing something that is linkworthy for a charity is always going to end up being more morally uplifting than doing something which is self-serving. read more »
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Does online marketing need a code of conduct to protect the integrity of online information? read more »
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Lately there’s been a hell of a lot of talk and drama about blogging smack-downs, reputation management in the event that someone wants to make you look a bit less favorable than you’d like, who’s right who’s wrong shoulda / coulda’s, and how we can read more »
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How did you feel when Twitter was down Wednesday night? And what did you do? Does Twitter feel indispensable to you now? read more »
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You’ll be happy, ecstatic, overjoyed to find that any story, photo or video that you Mixx publicly can now be simultaneously Tweeted. ;-) read more »
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Getting the traffic is half the battle, making it stick is where the real marketing starts. So, before you start thinking about how many keywords you want to rank for, make sure the pages are appealing enough to serve the purpose of optimization. Be read more »
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It is important to know your enemy. It is not always the competition! read more »
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Paid links are certainly a competitor for a share of any online marketing budget. Some feel that Google can set its own rules in its own publications. However when a company becomes so dominant in any market place, perhaps the normal free competitio read more »
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Link opportunities are abundant if you know where to look. Sometimes there is value in linking outside the box as your site is only as strong as its weakest link. read more »
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What will the search interfaces of tomorrow look like? How might we be presented with information that we are interested in differently than we are today, and how might that information be delivered to us in manners that we find helpful? read more »
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Instead of painstakingly grabbing the absolute best matches for your query to then rank those with infinite precision, one time saving strategy has search engines go for "close enough". read more »
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Ok bloggers...Do you blog for business or pleasure? What results are you seeing from your blogging efforts? How long did it take to see those results? Do you feel it’s worth the time commitment? read more »
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"Hi, my name is Dave, I am an algo-holic - not so sure that I am much more than a social media flirting father; more so than a Social Media Dad. While I have been noted for Sphinning, called a Social Media Ninja; I am but a humble search geek at hea read more »
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If you have ever told a friend, bookmarked a URL, linked an image, sent someone a link, posted a link, used a shoutbox, have any social network or bookmarking acct whatsoever, you have an SMO Hat.

What color is it? read more »
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A patent application published last week from Microsoft provides another look at the ranking of images in image search, and some of the things that might be considered when ranking images.

It’s not quite as revolutionary an approach as the one su read more »
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two people desphunn tads twitter post.
http://sphinn.com/story/43513
reasons for desphinning:

#1 desphinner streko: "stop the insanity! desphunn because this is getting out of hand."

he is suggesting that twitter is discussed too much. then read more »
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If you exhibit any of these behaviors, please… seek professional help:

Symptom 1 - Blogging while drunk
Symptom 2 - Sleep deprivation
Symptom 3 - Memory lapses
Symptom 4 - You start to resemble Rain man
Symptom 5 - You start to ditch your rea read more »
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The sombrero wearing madman SEO 2.0 has now entered the Twittersphere and wants to know:

1.How do you use Twitter?
2.Do you use a client?
3.If yes, which one?
4.What are you using Twitter for?
5.What do you tweet about actually?
6.What are y read more »
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Says Dave, "With all this talk of social search of late (thanks Jason C.. keep it up) I can’t help but wonder why so many in the SEO community fail to fully grasp how search engines are seeking out passive behavioral data for users and groups of use read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008