DoshDosh

Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 11:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
It’s not long now until I approach my 1 year membership anniversary on my favourite social network - Sphinn. But rather than reflect on all the great things I’ve learned during that time, I thought it’d be much more fun to share what I’ve learned ab read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: News Sites
So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it wou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:55 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Today I am adding a few tips on promoting your online profiles and organizing your reputation management campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: News Sites
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 10:02 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
A profile in FireFox is the collection of extensions, bookmarks, settings, passwords, and user preferences that are saved for you in a separate set of files. Creating several such sets of preferences opens the whole wealth of opportunities for SEOs read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cracked.com)
Category: News Sites
Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word poem read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 6:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
It’s intriguing that most of discussions are outward focused. They’re about Google and “do no evil”. About whether any company should enter the China market. About how far “they” should be allowed to go, what “they” should owe us, how “they” should read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 7:48 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Definitions make us lazy. They confine us to a specific way of thinking. More often than not they stop us thinking. Such is how I feel about the term “linkbait”. I love the concept of linkbait, I just feel the label which signifies it is a bit of a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 9:57 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 2:38 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
An often overlooked content optimization opportunity concerns customer service related information. So much effort is put into optimizing content to “make the sale” or “capture the lead”, but not on making content that is useful to existing customer read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
Not staying on top of what’s working and what’s not can result in unexpected outcomes. Bad and outdated information can be very costly. While I don’t think all company web site owners need to retain a full time in-house SEO consultant or agency in a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Ironically, it isn’t the adoption of Twitter that has me reconsidering my stance. I have spread my anti-Twitter message to just enough people that adoption would result in endless ridicule and torment. It is the emergence of Plurk, Twitter’s latest read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 7:55 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
There's a right and wrong way to include SEO in your internet marketing mix. Throwing it in as an afterthought after your shiny new site launches is the wrong way. Here's the perfect SEO workflow. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 1:31 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: SEO
Just a quick reminder that websites should check for XSS holes on their site, especially freeform text input such as search boxes. Even big sites can have these issues with XSS and escaping user input. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 12:06 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
The recent fake-news-story-as-successful-link-bait event and the surrounding firestorm has bugged me and had me thinking, which is dangerous when I'm supposed to be on vacation. Yet here I am with my laptop. The concept I can't get off my mind is th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 11:18 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
I’ve been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn’t work or focused on rather outdated an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 9:56 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective helps. Here are 4 ways to look at social media from a different perspective … and none require the submission to go ‘hot’ to receive benefit. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 1:52 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
I have no qualms about “tricking” Google.

Rewind time to when search engines were a fresh idea, and many people thought they themselves were unethical. Search engines are not invited to sites. They copy/cache content, and do whatever they can to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 7:19 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
You should consider many factors when getting involved in Social Media Marketing, such as the quality of your content, your domain name, and who is submitting your content. But there is almost always one thing I find myself looking at before any of read more »
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