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I understand why they're doing it -- every page served to a rank checker has a 0% chance of monetization. But since their search API is less than useless this really limits the transparency of their results. If Google cared about ethical SEO they'd read more »
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Startup Tweetrush is getting hard data on Twitter that shows usage figures far below what the rumors were.

Perhaps the number of active users is a lot lower too? The difference between active users and total users on Twitter is pretty big. read more »
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For as much as we all love Twitter, the possibilities for a business model just can't produce enough revenue to justify the amount of venture capital invested. It's going to be sold in a fire sale. read more »
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I can certainly understand the sentiment. Will Yahoo Buzz have an impact on Digg? How will Digg compete against a competitor that doesn't have to rely on venture capital? And what will they do if Google decides that they now have to get into this read more »
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Here's a cool Greasemonkey script to help you add and manage your followers on Twitter without all that tiresome mouse clicking.

There are two basic strategies for getting people to follow you on Twitter. The first is to be famous. If you are Mat read more »
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Big problem -- IE7 users get an error when trying to load any site with sitemeter loaded. It started about 7:00PM EST Friday night. Turning off the sitemeter badge restores access. read more »
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A YouTube video of how to use the new and improved Digg Shouts Greasemonkey script. This is a huge time savings if you are a serious Digger. read more »
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What kinds of groups do you run into in social media, and how should you approach them to build your network? read more »
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There's a brouhaha going on over at Mixx about outing people that are gaming the system. There's a Digg thread on it as well at http://digg.com/tech_news/Spammers_Blind_Voters_and_Top_Users_Hint_it_s_Not_Digg . read more »
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This is a good discussion on the relative ROIs of SEM activities. read more »
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"The future is bleak for black hatters. Search engines will come down heavily and consistently against attempts to manipulate the results unethically because offering useless websites damages their brand. They cannot afford to do otherwise." read more »
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If you're serious about using Digg, this will be a useful tool. It's a Greasemonkey script that interfaces with our service to provide an "ignore list" of troublesome Digg friends. It auto-deletes shouts from these friends when you load your incom read more »
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We've been very busy adding features to the free and premium versions of our PMS Social Suite Tool. Want to drastically improve your productivity in interacting with Digg? Come take a look. read more »
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My Digg ‘friends’ don’t seem to understand that if I vote for every single submission, it’s going to mean nothing. Shout me the ones you really like or want to go and I’d be happy to vote for it (as long as it’s not a piece of crap). But shouting me read more »
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Deleting shouts is a real pain. Digg asks you to confirm each shout as you delete it. Until this Greasemonkey script came around -- now you can just click the delete button once for each shout. read more »
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Cute trick - make sure that your site comes up first when someone searches with "whois yoursitename" read more »
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Cute bookmarklet trick to see inbound blog links from any page. read more »
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Digg is down again today. They've been down for maintenance for the last three hours and are still down as of 2:55PM Eastern. This article points out that they seem to be having lots of trouble lately.

I've seen all the same things happen that read more »
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It seems like half the SEO community is trying to prove that “PageRank sculpting” is a viable optimization method. All the testing is a good sign that people are not willing to just take one pundit’s opinion over another’s. We want people to reserve read more »
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From the article: Some other organizations are banning Google's innovative tools outright to avoid the prospect of U.S. spooks combing through their data. Security experts say many firms are only just starting to realize the risks they assume by emb read more »
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At first I thought this was just a self serving press release, but it made to to the front page of Slashdot. It's an interesting idea -- an open source framework for building social applications. It looks like it goes a step further than Pligg, Jo read more »
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Great article on how to weather the storm during a Google update. read more »
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Nice discussion of whether to put up a simple list or use a custom search engine. My take is that you should do both. read more »
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A response to the leaked story that Google is going to punish "Webmasters who rely heavily on bookmarking their own sites to gain traffic." Frankly, putting all your social media efforts into Digg makes about as much sense at keeping your retiremen read more »
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Have you been fooled by a robot? Do you become friends on a social site with someone because of their picture? Evidently, a lot of people do. Oliver outs a nice looking robot on Digg. read more »
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