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The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
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I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
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Here is a detailed explanation of the Keyword Analysis process & Documentation. A must read. read more »
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The campaigns we build and the brands we manage must become platforms for users to express themselves with, each person that touches our messages should be recreating them, “applying a bit of themselves, of their own values and perspectives.” read more »
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Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed? read more »
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News blogs are fast-paced blogs which track, aggregate and disseminate current news on a set range of topics. Their main selling points are comprehensiveness and timeliness: a good news blog must cover the field throughly and speedily by pointing re read more »
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Everything you ever get noticed by will have a headline to go with it. Think about that, it means that even if you have a collection of photos, people will find it by searching for words in the title. It means that new visitors skimming your blog or read more »
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Google is offering a service that allows you to put your Adwords campaign on autopilot while they find the best way to spend your money. This sounds great to the small advertiser who may not have the time or expertise to manage their Adwords campai read more »
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A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. Never one to get complacent I’ve also developed an XML API version of my link attraction factors title checking tool and a Wordpress Pl read more »
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Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has neve read more »
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I just launched the new member’s system of Votrs.com which allows you to upload your own avatar and background, and edit your previously shortened links. It also allows you to have a shortened user page that shows all the links you’ve posted to Votr read more »
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As of this writing, just under 72-hours after it began the freebie niche has sent over 10k visits to my site. This is digg and stumbleupon amounts of social media traffic here, but what differentiates it is that over 100 different sites sent traffic read more »
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Sadly, this question still comes up in the web design community … Why use DIVS/CSS when I can use tables? That's like asking: why sleep on a bed when I have a couch? read more »
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I learned how to very quickly tell if the client’s service would work on Facebook, and whether or not the client would go for it. If either of those looked like a “no, I didn’t need to spend much time looking for a Facebook avenue. This saved me a l read more »
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So for four weeks, David DiMartino ran one of our AdWords campaigns using DKI. The test was simple, he just created copies of every ad in the 200 keyword campaign, and inserted {KeyWord: } tags into the title of each copy. read more »
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Optimizing images for search engine increases your chances of ranking in Google Image Search and generates an alternate source of traffic to your website. There are 3 major places you can optimize an image: the file name, the Title and Alt attribute read more »
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Microsoft just unveiled the beta of Ad Intelligence, their new keyword research tool. The tool is a plugin for Excel 2007, check out my first review. read more »
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A lazy SEO can write an ecommerce product description in minutes; a thorough SEO professional will need at least 15 minutes, maybe more, but the difference in quality and results is so tremendous that the small time difference hardly seems a waste—m read more »
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If we assume that the average user on a social media site is ‘fairly intelligent’ (though it’s true that not all users are equally savvy and in the end some users will rise above others to be stronger contributers) then it makes sense to give a ‘top read more »
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Great, robust post of 10 detail tips from Google Blogoscoped for Adsense webmasters. Must Read. read more »
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The 3 most popular blog posts from the 6 most influential Web Analytics bloggers around – All in all the 18 most popular Web Analytics post of 2007! read more »
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I saw a post on sphinn and digg and I wanted to respond to a few points. Its about applying a method of discussing the effects of media change on society by Marshal McLuhan called a Tetrad. read more »
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There is a distinct difference between editing a site for search engines and making edits for visitors. Traditionally in SEO, adding keywords to a web page falls under the category of editing for search engines. But many don't realize that adding ke read more »
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Great list of traffic sources other than the big Google. And it doesn't just say "Digg and Stumbleupon" 12 times. read more »
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We can say there are two drivers of viral growth then, desire and commitment. If a meme isn’t desireable at all, it won’t spread. If a meme requires a low level of commitment from the user, like a simple text-based blog post or a short video it requ read more »
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