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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 2 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny updates the earlier story about YouTube data/Viacom/etc. with news that the data in question may not be as detailed as previously thought. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbiztrends.com)
Category: Social Media
Let's step outside the echo chamber and hear what business owners think about using social media. Good experiences: blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more. Concerns: Time commitment, ROI, etc. Anita Campbell collects the stories from a conference this w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kelseygroup.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Those innovative Ask.com/AskCity maps are gone. History. Must be part of the promise to focus on core search. ;-) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Networking
The San Diego Union-Tribune is the latest major newspaper to launch a local/social network, and sites like this can offer a great opportunity for business owners to network locally with potential customers. This post includes a fairly detailed look read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.robwebb2k.com)
Category: SEM
No official announcement has been made, but you can now target ads on LinkedIn. "Advertisers will be able to dynamically target ads by age, gender, geography, educational institution, industry, and seniority." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://consumerist.com)
Category: Domaining
This Thursday, ICANN will vote on next fiscal year's budget, and included in that is a provision to charge 20 cents per registration for domain names that are deleted during the grace period. Network Solutions is urging ICANN to approve it, and has read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Chris Garrett shares 5 influential books that bloggers will find useful. "...knowing about the books and the concepts they put forward can help you understand better when someone tells you that 'your blog needs to be a Purple Cow and leverage the Lo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkplugging.com)
Category: Blogging
Wendy Piersall wonders: "What can you say about making money blogging that Darren hasn’t already said? Or on WordPress that Lorelle hasn’t already said? Or on social media that Chris Brogan hasn’t already said? Or on community that Liz Strauss hasn’ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.youtube.com)
Category: Social Media
Lee Lefever and CommonCraft does it again -- a short video (less than 4 minutes) that explains the force of social media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chrisbrogan.com)
Category: Networking
Chris Brogan shares a great list of requests to make LinkedIn an even better networking site, and invites readers to add to his list. On the list: Notes, Contact Groups, Comments, and more. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A post in which I talk about a brand new site with low quantity and quality of inbound links, no click-thru data, and no other evidence to suggest it should rank well for a fairly competitive term. Yet it does. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Networking
Jennifer Laycock fires back at a recent article that claims social networking is "superficial" and "populated with people who have nothing better to do with their time." Go Jenn! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SEO Hack nails it again with another funny post about all of us ... and Twitter. :-) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Networking
Every business needs happy customers and/or interested observers to help spread the business name to friends. This human element of marketing is part of the SEO Success Pyramid, and can come in several forms: buzz/viral marketing, word-of-mouth, com read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ecommerceoptimization.com)
Category: Google Searching
See the post for screenshots of a new, sparse, and somewhat strange implementation of product results into Google.com SERPs. Like it? Don't like it? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbiztrends.com)
Category: Social Media
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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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Kalena Jordan live blogs from SMX Sydney as Danny tackles Search 3.0, Search 4.0, and Beyond. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com)
Category: Blogging
Jeff Quipp, Mack Collier, and others give advice to help get your company blog off on the right foot. Lots of meat and details in this post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidefacebook.com)
Category: Networking
By enabling new conversations between friends that previously had to take place on different sites, FriendFeed has created a vibrant new feed that’s laden not only with “news” on what your friends are sharing (a la Facebook’s News Feed) but also the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Lee Odden recaps what looks like a good session at the Media Relations Summit. HP, Kodak, and Fast Company (Scoble) had speakers talking about how they approach business blogging. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.optimizeandprophesize.com)
Category: SEM
Jon Mendez takes Toyota to task: "Ads set expectations. Landing pages need to meet or exceed them - no matter what. So it’s not the silly ads that hurt this campaign, it is the landing page." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Google Webmaster Central blog offers some good advice on how to handle a hack job on your site, blog, etc. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.grokdotcom.com)
Category: Blogging
“What style of writing works best in a blog situation?” As social media evolves, businesses of all sizes are struggling to maintain a balance in tone between website, blog, and anywhere else their content and brand are represented. Good advice from read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jeff-flowers.com)
Category: News Sites
If you want to add a link to your StumbleUpon or Del.icio.us account, Digg will put the logo of that Social Media/Bookmarking site next to it. But, there are a few sites, such as Mixx, Propeller & Buzz that Digg does not put the logo next too. read more »
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