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Search & Social's first blog post!

"What are some things you should focus on as you continue to grow your knowledge set?

First place your current current knowledge status, and for God’s sake be honest with yourself. If you are a new to the gam read more »
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"The Follow Me widget allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access button or window." read more »
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"I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted link from a search engine optimization stand point. I did however always feel there was a lot of functionality read more »
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In an ideal and alternate universe, fame, popularity, influence, the size of your "carbon footprint", are all a product of what you do, not who you do know. And with the big lean on reputation management, it's essential that the name a SEOlebrity ma read more »
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One of the main uses I see for FriendFeed is as a reputation monitoring and management tool.

Here are five ways to utilize the service for rep management and monitoring: read more »
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As SEO evolves, so do the the ways one can learn it. And so I thought it might be interesting to reach out to some of the pros in the search world and see what they felt were the best ways to learn SEO. read more »
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Widgetbait gone bad sparked intense controversy about the utilization of anchor text within widgets. I decided to ask some of the leading experts in the industry their thoughts on the following situation, in an attempt to unearth what is kosher and read more »
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Video and Post from Li Evans on 5 Easy SEO tips to optimize a website, great quick reference for beginners. read more »
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Ann is a genius and my seventh favorite woman in SEO:

"One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. " read more »
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In my very first Monday Interview Podcast I had the opportunity to talk a bit with my good friend Jordan Kasteler aka Utah SEO Pro. I think of Jordan as an authority in the search and social media communities. So listen to my interview podcast with read more »
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I don't usually Sphinn my own posts, but I think this could be a helpful tool some people, and its free so wanted to at least get people familiar with its existence. I will build other posts around this tool and how you can utilize it for reputation read more »
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Stoney deGeyter from SearchEngineGuide.com answers reader questions about website architecture. read more »
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While there is debate about who “owns” a brand, the company or it’s customers, partners and employees, it can be agreed that there is tremendous value and equity in a company’s brand. Something of value is worth protecting especially when it contrib read more »
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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Pro sports organizations could use a few hours with a reputation management expert ala Andy Beal.

In the last few months, we have seen the sports world being devastated by its own lack of transparency. It is something we as marketers are learning read more »
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As of late the ability for social news sites to deliver the same type of link bait benefit has been waining. Twitter had stepped onto this scene, and has given marketers a platform to deliver link bait in real time to publishers and searchers alike. read more »
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The launch post of Snydey Sense. A break down of the real threat to SEO, the SEO Malpractitioner, and why the division between white and black hats is more pomp than substance. read more »
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Um Hey Google can I ask why Google Grand Central isn’t part of the “Google Accounts” thing? I’m not saying turn it on by default, but at least make the systems talk to each other the way other google apps do. Heck even dodgeball (which could have be read more »
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LiveVideo.com, which launched February 20th, is the brainchild of Myspace Founder Brad Greenspan, and the first fully interactive, global, live streaming platform. The site allows connectivity 24 hours a day, allowing users to generate content indep read more »
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When was the last time you took an in-depth look at your top key phrases on YouTube? For example, if you’re in the fishing supply business, have you ever gone to YouTube.com and searched for phrases like “fishing supplies”? read more »
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I agree that exchanging links with similar sites is a great way to kick off the link building process for a new site, but I think if you do so in the traditional reciprocal fashion your labor will be fruitless. read more »
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What’s the best performing marketing tactic in online marketing? Whose budget got the biggest increase this year? We have the answers to those questions and more in our fifth annual ad:tech attendee survey read more »
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By simply logging into your website analytics, you can see how many visitors are coming to the site, how many pages they looked at, and if they left your site shortly after arriving to it. read more »
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Young Jonathan from THAT Agency takes you through the pitfalls your site might be getting trapped by in the need to get indexed. read more »
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What did the internal link ever do to you?

It is tossed aside in most link building plans, but can be a great benefit in your war for rankings. Respect the internal link, love the internal link. read more »
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