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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 10:08 am
Posted By: bwelford 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Networking
Twitter can give instant feedback from your followers. Use it for brainstorming, like a human network version of your subconscious. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.staygolinks.com)
Category: Blogging
As social media occupy more of our time, it is important to make our interventions as visible as possible. Tags keep classification in our hands and complement what search engine computer indexing may do with our blog contents. With WordPress Vers read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Blogging
An excellent detailed account of a gathering in Vancouver, BC, Canada that drew three times as many participants as planned. They were fully briefed on all the exciting things you can do with WordPress by some real experts. Well worth a read. You read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Problogger gives some great tips on how to be a more effective blogger - it's all about setting boundaries. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: bwelford 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Google SEO
Google may be changing the format of its keyword query search engine report pages (SERPs). Separate items may appear where relevant rather than just a group of two from each domain. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: bwelford 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.staygolinks.com)
Category: Blogging
WordPress by default applies a NoFollow tag on all blog post comments. A recent Cre8asite Forums discussion suggested using the Lucia's Linky Love plugin. Using both DoFollow and Akismet plugins, it takes more work but valuable comments can get li read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 3:40 pm
Posted By: bwelford 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Google Other
The competition is getting ugly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: bwelford 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Networking
A most thought-provoking and well presented article. This is your must-read piece of the week. Remember the answer is 150, give or take a bit. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 11:21 pm
Posted By: bwelford 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Blogging
John Andrews is always someone who is worth reading. Here he encourages those who care about writing in a search engine visible way to share their tips to create memorable posts. It's a good initiative to get involved with. Let's all see what we read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 5, 2008 - 5:07 am
Posted By: bwelford 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Recently LinkMoses seemed to have a problem listing Best Practices for Link Building that others found satisfying. His new Q&A blog may cure that. However Best Practices may be too much of a challenge.

A less demanding task is to define what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 9:35 am
Posted By: bwelford 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Google blog post snippets may start with the date in the searcher's language, however many characters that might require. 138 characters of the Description are then often added to complete the snippet. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Posted By: bwelford 94 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I think there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by making Desphunn Comments just another way of making a regular Comment. If they're in the normal flow and appear in Latest Comments, then they will encourage discussion, which presumably is t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 31, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: bwelford 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Google snippets appear below each item in keyword search engine report pages (SERP). Good snippets increase clickthroughs to the Web page. It now appears that for blogs the Description should be less than 138 characters to be used as the snippet. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 11:14 am
Posted By: bwelford 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.howtospoter.com)
Category: Blogging
An excellent resource with some great reminders on how to get your blog to display fast. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Twitter limits its human writers to 140 characters and is a success. Google SERP snippets are 155 characters and are written by computers. The winner is? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 8:21 am
Posted By: bwelford 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Google SEO
Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report to help searchers find what they want. If you apply SEO to the Web page Description, then you can increase the chances that the Description becomes the snippet that Googl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
Great news from Andy Beard re Kathy Sierra. She will be back to blogging soon. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
This is a superbly crafted blog post by Andy Beal, as guest author on Problogger. Very well worth a read. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: bwelford 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Blogging
So why were blogs in the headlines in February? There were three principal reasons:
1. Hackers
2. Google
3. Big business has noticed blogs beat traditional media read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Posted By: bwelford 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 141 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
If I may be permitted, I would like for one final time to discuss a somewhat tangential idea. It comes to mind after seeing the thread that Lyndon has started entitled, Saddle Up Boys and Girls, Sphinn Needs a Posse. If you work your way down the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Blogging
The message is clear. Blog posts are just regular web pages like those to be found in any website. Indeed given Google’s fixation on inlinks (or back links as they somewhat confusingly describe them), it is not surprising that blog posts tend to be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: bwelford 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Searching
This is great functionality. Most useful when you'd like to know how long something has been around. read more »
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