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Scalability is about expanding without increasing the workload on any individual, or as Wikipedia puts it “handling growth gracefully”. Blogging is harder to scale than many businesses because it requires fresh content to be churned out, without tha read more »
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When you are strapped for ideas you either hope an idea will come to you eventually in a random moment of inspiration, or you delve into your RSS feeds to try to find something that sparks your imagination. The Word That Ensures 100% productivity i read more »
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Online video marketing may be the way of the future, but that does not mean that every marketer should be making viral videos now. Viral videos are 1 more weapon added to the Internet marketers arsenal, but surely they are nothing more than "another read more »
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Easter may be over but the in-eggscusable puns are not. Solid tips on getting the attention and respect of bloggers with the goal of pitching Linkbait to them further down the line. read more »
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Here is a rarely used method for helping you gain better search engine rankings for relevant keywords. It is a simple method of looking at the “Top Search Queries” section and picking some posts on your blog, that with just a little push can have se read more »
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This is designed with business blogs in mind, but can be adapted for any type of blog. A very useful outline of a business plan for a blog. read more »
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The Godfather showed us a world of beauty and corruption. Alliances were made and broken. Those who were good to the family were rewarded, while anyone who stepped in the way was hit.

Social media works in much the same way read more »
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People who run e-commerce sites - sites that are focused on making sales of a product - have a history of great difficulty when it comes to search engine optimization. We are told to build links to improve search engine rankings, yet why would a per read more »
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What do Thom Yorke, Tim Ferriss and successful new media publishers have in common?

Another killer article from Brian Clark the copyblogger read more »
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1. Drink water before you shoot and during if you can edit it out later.
2. Record several takes.
3. Smile!
4. ... read more »
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Google is correcting domain spelling errors. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. read more »
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One of the knocks on Yahoo! has long been that although it has a fairly large second place stake in the search market, it has never been able to monetize search effectively. However, A new study from SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets indicates th read more »
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Darren shares some useful tips taken from his experience of launching the b5media blog network. A must-read if you are a wannabe blog network creator. read more »
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“Tolstokozhev was a famous spammer who sent millions of e-mail promoting viagra, cialis, penis enlargement pills and other medications. He was found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow and had been shot several times with one bullet stuck in hi read more »
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The New York Times web site was displaying reader comments prominently under the top story on their front page today. I do question the wisdom of giving reader commentary such prominence on the site's index page. read more »
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Traffic on AOL’s Netscape portal has plummeted since the site dumped its social news voting model and reverted to a new portal, at least according to Alexa. read more »
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An array of features on Ask.com makes Google look like an old man read more »
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There’s a lot of talk about remunerating video creators these days. Revver’s been doing it a while, along with Metacafe. Blinkx is now monetizing video for publishers too, but unlike YouTube’s recent offering, revenue is only split between Blinkx an read more »
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An all-encompassing article from Perfomancing covers all the important aspects of blogging. A must-read. read more »
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According to comScore, social network Hi5 gets around 35 million uniques per month, putting it at a roughly similar size to Facebook. Alexa ranks Facebook 8th in the world -- Hi5 is 10th. However, Facebook gets all the ink. So what gives? read more »
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So, you’ve got a blog and you have money to spend on it. You are either one of the well-off bloggers who is entering the blogosphere with a budget, or you managed to make a handsome profit last month and are looking to re-invest. These are the opti read more »
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Creative people - whether they are developers, musicians, actors, scientists, writers or (insert creative type that I have annoyed by omitting) - are the next Masters of the Universe. read more »
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Here are just a few examples I found looking down the 100s of longtail keywords that send traffic to Blogging Fingers. I can see why I may have briefly ranked for most of them.

1. “hats with vote written on it"
2. “longest fingers in the world” read more »
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When we talk about 'creating' better blogs, there's an underlying assumption that it's only the blog that needs improving.

The reality is, us bloggers could use a huge kick up the ass once in a while as well read more »
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The article "Dealing With Stupid People Online" made it to the front page of Digg but within 10 minutes it got buried. What was surprising was that traffic continued to flow from digg.com and digg.com/all read more »
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