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Matt McGee who runs a popular SEM blog, has launched HyperLocalBlogger.com, a new blog covering the emerging field of local blogging. If you own or run a city blog, this is a must add in your bookmarks. read more »
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The secret to making money with Adsense in a blog, is placement. But don't fool around with code, get an Adsense Ready Theme instead. I profile 12 such themes on my blog. (click on through) read more »
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Matt Cutts has confirmed that a Google PageRank update is underway. Some PageRank penalties will be expiring, so if you were hit with the PR downgrades in the past, you should check where you are now. read more »
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Matt McGee weighs the pros and cons of his popular comment-followed blog. Some interesting discussion and advice from readers in the comments. read more »
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As personalized search and universal search continue shaking up an industry that used to be dominated by "top ten results," more and more small businesses are learning the valuing of focusing on the keyword long tail. While there's no doubting the v read more »
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Excellent and insightful outline of the behavioural habits that are important for making a success of blogging. read more »
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Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
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Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and posted a list rank read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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Darren reveals he was once (among other things) a minister and Goth. Interesting interview. read more »
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A source familiar with the negotiations tells me that Twitter signed a term sheet for "either $15 million or $20 million" last week. We're still trying to find out who is in, but the word is that it's largely an inside round of funding with one outs read more »
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A look at some stunning data from SMX Social Media last week, specifically about the explosive growth of Yahoo Answers. Also a link to some SMX photos, including Neil Patel's first kiss! :-) read more »
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Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that resul read more »
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StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven. read more »
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Another great post by Patrick that looks at factors involved in the decision to either sell blog posts, of keep them at home.

Good read! read more »
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Since the small list of general SEO ones I previously published was received well, I figured I would create a download of some of the ones I find to be great tools in my link development efforts. I can't give them all away, but anyone who spends a l read more »
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In a recent strategy session, some colleagues and I were discussing a promotion where one position was to focus on a direct marketing approach and another position involved social media, networks and communities. Compared to direct marketing efforts read more »
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Do you know this man?

We all know social media is powerful - But how powerful? We want to find out so we have set up a test. This test involves making a video offering $100 to a random stranger pulled from a random social media profile. The catch read more »
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David Mihm shares "the ten most essential strategies that I have found to be effective for maximizing my clients’ online presence since 2004." He covers the whole range of online marketing options in short, digestable chunks. Great stuff! read more »
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If you’re a new or not yet established brand, how should you use social media to build a reputation for yourself? read more »
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What’s going to be the viral element that gets us to cut down on our collective carbon emissions? Who’s going to deliver us the iPod of cleantech? If we knew for sure, we’d be off building it, but these 10 web sites think they have the key ingredien read more »
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The Twitter love-fest continues.... Jenn Laycock, Tamar Weinberg, Barry Welford, Wendy Piersall and others (myself included) talk about the best social media sites for a small business. read more »
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It seems like everyone is on Twitter these days, but are you following everyone you should? With so many users, it can be hard to find the right people to follow - you might even miss finding some of your very own friends on the service, especially read more »
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Should you join DP? Read the article to find out. read more »
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For those new to social media or those trying to introduce someone else to social media. This post was a result of being asked so many times, what should I look at/subscribe to/join first? read more »
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