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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: samirb 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Donna does a great job explaining the 5 goals of SEO. It's easy to read and understand for even those not in our field. If you're trying to get people to understand why SEO is important, this article is a good place to start. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Another rant from David where he talks about how "SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales".

In his usual style David goes through gripes about SEO in a step by step, methodical way.

"Well peeps, it seems it’s that time again an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: samirb 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.makezine.com)
Category: Social Media
Somebody had a lot of time while not twittering to make a 3D version of the image Twitter shows when it's down. Here's what the creator said:

"[Here's] A little kinetic sculpture of the lovely Twitter Failwhale, based on the image by Yiying Lu th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Networking
Plurk has a Karma system and it has definitely created some Karma whores. Everyone is trying to increase Karma but no one knows exactly what works and what doesn't work. Here's a look at different things that might change that value, for positive an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Is the new contender in the Micro-Blogging sphere the Twitter killer? It might well be, it has definitely taken 140 characters to a new level. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Starting Online Marketing can be a daunting task, This checklist breaks it down step by step what should be done when you start, then daily and weekly. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Blogging
It's always better to work smarter and not harder; and thanks to Google we've been given a bunch of tools to make that easier. One of the tool, Google Custom Search Engines, is a great way to find links that are useful for your blog posts, building read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Social Media
Leveraging Social Media is known to build traffic to a site but there's a bunch of other reasons you should do it also. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Link Building
Wonder how Calacanis can pull off a huge debate without taking a huge hit in his reputation? Ever think "Why didn't I do that?" A look into how reputation helps linkbait and how linkbait can hurt reputation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Social Media
There's so much talk going on about Web 3.0 and the future that people are missing the current transition phase - Web 2.5. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
A step by step look at Affiliate Arbitrage using a live example, and ending with the final question "If it's so easy why aren't more people doing it?" ...Because it's really not as easy as it seems. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Blogging
With TechCrunch's latest announcement of using Video Comments on some of their blogs, we have to explore the viability of this feature? Will people really use it? Does it add to the discourse? I don't think so, and this is why... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Searching SEO in Flickr brings up an interesting result. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Many blog owners that are using Twitter forget to change the setting for replies from just those that you follow to all. Without doing this you miss out on a lot of your readers trying to communicate with you, unless you're following them. This post read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leftthebox.com)
Category: SEM Industry
There are some SEOs out there that do things that annoy the rest of us. Here's a list of a few things that all emerging SEOs should know so they can join the community and become part of the industry. read more »
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