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I just discovered a new search engine called MediaWombat. It’s got a weird name and I would never have thought that it’s a search engine and a really cool one to boot. Now that you know that it is in fact a search engine, you might have already gues read more »
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The Sphinn Blog appears to be a new feature cooked up by a few of the sphinn staff members. In the first post on July 7th, evilgreenmonkey (Rob Kerry) goes on to say the purpose of the blog was to avoid cluttering up the Sphinn homepage with swanky read more »
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A short tutorial on how to add nofollow to the "5 comments" link for your wordpress template. read more »
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Some interesting logo designs from search engines to show their patriotic spirit. Which do you think was the best? read more »
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Plurk is rocking the social media scene of late and for good reason! Twitter is cool and I’m sure there will be many other twitter clones but to label Plurk a clone is simply outrageous. read more »
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Early on in my blogging career, I wrote a how to for css image replacement and today I am here to tell you that does not work for fixed width themes such as our new one. So, it took some poking around to find out what would. The objective here was read more »
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I think it would be a cool addition to add sphinn user avatars to the rss feed. It might re-enforce some branding and we all know imagery draws attention. Thoughts? read more »
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Officially Announced; As Loren hinted a few hours ago, Google and Yahoo have finally dropped the bomb (which we were all expecting to happen anyway) - a search partnership which in Google and Yahoo’s term is NON-EXLUSIVE. But what does “non-exclusiv read more »
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Some of the upper's and downer's to using Entrecard to supplement traffic especially for a new blog. read more »
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Google has just updated its “not-so-popular” keyword research tool - Google Trends. For those who may have forgotten about Google Trends, it’s basically a tool for finding out how popular search terms are across geographic regions, cities and langua read more »
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Today’s the first day of SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle, and the President of Microsoft’s Platform & Services Division, Kevin Johnson, announced the release of adCenter Desktop Beta only moments ago. Traditionally, the only means for managing adCenter read more »
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If this project gains any momentum and they provide a list of most frequently edited search results you can expect that to be a nice list of commercial keywords, much like Mahalo! Wikia Search also offers a nice keyword suggestion tool in their Blo read more »
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Every now and then I run into web designer portfolio sites and services that also claim to be SEOs. Most of these sites look great, but only half of these web designers understand and adhere to web standards, while the other half think that a websit read more »
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Damn Social Media and its burst of success. Wouldn’t you know as soon as I take a break to focus more on other projects, traffic goes to crap. This is an analyzation of what I did wrong and what I can do to create a more steady flow. read more »
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A short interview with Kina Grannis about her recent song piece "Gotta Digg". I think its a great example of viral marketing to increase exposure and relate many different social networks. read more »
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A quick how to for adding Facebook to the Wordpress Plugin Sociable 2.0. read more »
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I have written a review about my first day with Entrecard and some obvious possibilities advantages to using this netowrk. read more »
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The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results from the Google Webmaster Central blog announces, what Google calls, the "next major milestone" for Google's supplemental results. What is happening exactly? Google is implying that when you conduct a search read more »
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Interested on getting some cash? Well, you may be able to with the new MSN adCenter Affiliate Program. For every advertiser you refer to adCenter, you'll get a percentage of their signups. read more »
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While some people realized affiliate marketing has has slowly been changing for some time now many others missed the memo, or are on are sailing a ship of blissful ignorance up a famous river in Africa. For those few people I hope the announcement o read more »
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Do you write and publish your posts in one sitting? Many bloggers do. Unfortunately, this kind of posting habit presents a number of problems. Here are some great tips on becoming a consistent blogger. read more »
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This week, Microsoft Live's new Webmaster Tools honcho, Nathan Buggia, joins Rand to discuss what's up at Live, the perils of life in the engine race, how they deal with paid links, and what they're doing to win market share. read more »
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Yahoo! Search Marketing offers a developer API, but given how rough their transition away from their old keyword tool was, I would much rather use a reliable market leading tool like Wordtracker. Please give it a spin and let me know what you think read more »
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One of the objectives we lay out in our SEO training course is that to be successful in search engine optimization and earn your rankings, you have to make yourself equal to, and then ultimately better than, your competition. read more »
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The following presentation (in visual and text form) should be helpful for anyone trying to convince their bosses, team or cohorts that investing in SMM is a worthwhile pursuit. read more »
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