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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 2:08 pm
Posted By: vangogh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Social Media
Many bloggers would see a post like linking to them and feel happy about it - but leave it at that. But what I decided to do was to promote it heavily via my own social media networks. I immediately dugg it (it had already had a few diggs), voted fo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 12:20 pm
Posted By: vangogh 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Conventional wisdom among experienced SEOs is that there is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. In general principle, this notion is true, but there are exceptions to this rule. In other words, duplicate content penalties do exist for cert read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:25 am
Posted By: vangogh 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Social Media
Most social media websites give you an individual profile page alongside the option of befriending other site users. The adding of someone as a ‘friend’ on a social media website is not just an empty gesture. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:34 am
Posted By: vangogh 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Social Media
Are there really opportunities for small business to succeed using social media?

Absolutely, if one factors the strengths and weaknesses of the media with the strengths, weaknesses, and goals of the company. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 2:32 pm
Posted By: vangogh 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: Social Media
Traditionally, StumbleUpon campaigns and traffic do not have great conversion rates for pages where you have to subscribe to download a paper or a report.

However, with one tweak, we were able to increase conversion rate 405% read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: vangogh 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
A comment left on a popular blog may be viewed by a few hundred people in one day. Multiply that by the lifespan of the blog and you’ll see that a simple comment may say a lot about you. Every blog comment is usually permanent. It’s not just a hyper read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 10:47 pm
Posted By: vangogh 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scoreboard-media.com)
Category: Social Media
There are plenty of business models that should engage the service and it definitely plugs into the broader Internet audience strategies of most businesses. But it’s like Instant Messaging and nobody “got into the IM game” to make money directly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 4:27 pm
Posted By: vangogh 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Local & Maps
A fully optimized Local Business Profile contains a well-crafted business description, containing a unique selling proposition based on market and keyword research, domain name and email cross branding (including generic domains), authentic testimon read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 4:42 am
Posted By: vangogh 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Though unwritten, there are implied rights and rules of engagement, set and enforced by the mob’s wisdom, which we should make official. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 12:11 pm
Posted By: vangogh 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A persuasive blog post or sales letter argues one point and accentuates it thoroughly with analogies, metaphors, examples and references. Just one point, because too many and you’ll not only lose your own focus but the attention of your audience. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 4:40 pm
Posted By: vangogh 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: SEO
A list of things that Good SEOs will do. Some examples from the post:

1. Don’t always tell you what you want to hear, right from the start.
2. Use a teaching oriented approach.
3. Start strategic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:02 am
Posted By: vangogh 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
In order for a search engine in high demand to serve its users efficiently it should keep things in memory instead of looking it up on a disk. Unfortunately computer information gets inefficiently stored in boxes with fixed dimension:

The solutio read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 12:34 pm
Posted By: vangogh 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: Blogging
Great list of Dos and Don'ts from Khalid.

Tips for before and after starting, tips for topics and promotions, tips for comments and linking, and tips for format and design. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 4:30 am
Posted By: vangogh 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Darren Rowse is regularly asked how he’d promote his blog if he was starting out again today and didn’t have the profile that he currently has.

First in a series of posts - all of which are focused upon the topic of finding NEW readers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 2:27 pm
Posted By: vangogh 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
How does a search engine sort its index and why is a temporary or supplemental index a necessary part of the equation?

Rudd's How Search Really Works Series. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 3:49 pm
Posted By: vangogh 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Networking
How much time do you spend working on your Web 2.0-cross voting network? Don’t get me wrong, a network is vital, the right network can propel you into social media marketing heaven. But, there comes a point where watching your story rise on digg and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 11:34 pm
Posted By: vangogh 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
Why are you giving away content for free? What are trying to achieve by doing so?

It is important to keep in mind the reasons why you are publishing blog post after blog post, all full of ideas and information and giving them away read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 2:43 pm
Posted By: vangogh 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metatoast.com)
Category: SEO
Is your WordPress blog search friendly? Can your content be easily crawled and indexed, or are you sending the spiders away empty handed and confused by duplicate content and convoluted navigation?

With a little work you can make your website SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 1:51 pm
Posted By: vangogh 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.botw.org)
Category: Google
Take Gmail to the next level with these power user tips and Greasemonkey extensions for Firefox. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: vangogh 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://lifehacker.com)
Category: SEO
Are you happy with the results people get back when they Google your name? If not, there are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 26, 2008 - 4:46 pm
Posted By: vangogh 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Web Analytics
Wordpress plugin that allows you to track crawl activity for MSN, Yahoo & Google from your dashboard.

* Access crawl data for 3 main search engines
* See the exact times a spider accessed any page on your site
* Monitor your crawl rate over tim read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 24, 2008 - 7:02 pm
Posted By: vangogh 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
If a search engine would search "live" through the documents it knows about for the occurrence of the word we’re looking for it could take its time and then simply report where it found our word. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: vangogh 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
Just like everything else Education has changed. The World Wide Web changed education in the 90’s. And, Web 2.0 and Social Media has Changed Education. We now have what I’d like to call Education 2.0. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 8:14 pm
Posted By: vangogh 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.themadhat.com)
Category: SEO
What makes a famous SEO anyway. That to me is an idiotic term. Let’s take other industries. Are there “O-Ring Sales Celebrities” and are there secret O-Ring meetings? People shouldn’t want to be famous, they should just want to make some connections read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 4:28 pm
Posted By: vangogh 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
In order to accurately predict how much time, energy and effort will be necessary to build a successful SEO campaign you need to first know the strengths and weaknesses of the website which will then help you determine what will need to be done to a read more »
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