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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketer.com)
Category: SEO
"Online search has become so efficient that most Internet users are now impatient with anything less than great results."

With more searchers clicking first page results and less searchers reporting to be willing to go past page three results, or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Other
From the post: "The simple explanation of how the program works is that Google attempts to identify lists on the web as it crawls pages" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.anywired.com)
Category: Blogging
"The truth is that, while it isn’t easy, it is possible to have both loyalty, engagement and a big audience.

This delicate balance hinges on perception." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smh.com.au)
Category: Social Media
After receiving questions from the press, Jeff Merkey, formerly at Novell, has made a statement that Jimmy Wales offered to clean up Jeff's entry and place him under his 'special protection'. Protected entries can only be edited by Wikipedia adminis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sfgate.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Two-fold problem: misusing money from the foundation and editing an entry in a possible conflict of interest scenario.

As Wikimedia Foundation chair woman Florence Devouard chastises Wales in a personal email; "I find (it) tiring to see how you a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
"If your text is temporarily "hidden" as part of your site's UI but is still intended for the user to see at some point, you probably don't need to worry about Google mistakenly viewing it as deceptive." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Google
"There are million of various theories out there about how to find out if your site is penalized by Google.

I thought I’d recap what Google officially says, and by officially I mean on their domain and bearing their brand." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
''If you login to Google Webmaster Tools and go to your "links" and then "external links" section, you may notice Google removed the "Download This Table" link from the bottom. What remains is the "Download all external links."'' read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Search Marketing
How the process of getting a book summary applies to getting client information to work with.

"From just these few questions, I’ve gotten a feel for the specialty, area of service and the unique value proposition of this client’s business. From s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wakeuplater.com)
Category: Networking
"The mindset of my generation (18-34) is a cynical one -- a mindset that desires authenticity and is skeptical of randomly nice people (after all, how many times has a "nice person" turned out to be selling insurance, CUTCO knives, or a spot in thei read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ablereach.com)
Category: Blogging
Great step-by-step overview of adding a 2nd widget ready sidebar to WordPress read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maryschmidt.com)
Category: Social Media
Everything can be found. *Everything*.

The good thing? "...if you’re wiling and able to be yourself in front of everybody and own what you say and do - then you’re going to stand out from your competition." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Seth: "Here's what you do:
Put a picture on your website. Something novel but still recognizable.
Or something really useful.
Then, put lots of links to various websites within the image." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ratingburner.com)
Category: Blogging
350+ blogs so far. Includes an ad-price info delivery idea (see: ads). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com.au)
Category: Social Media
Cool social media hotspots become deadbeat boring adult meetups. Where's a teen to hide?

From the article: "And his 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he is at university."
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Blogging
As more and more women turn to beauty blogs, the cosmetics industry is taking beauty bloggers serious.

This is what we call the Inverse Target Strategy:

"“It would be foolish to ignore them,” said Ms. Brod, who recently hired an employee whose read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ojr.org)
Category: News Sites
It's focused around newspapers and newspaper websites -- but there's pretty solid stuff here.

"Readers owe you nothing. They have no responsibility as citizens to read your reporting, and no responsibility as consumers to look at your ads."

". read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: Online Marketing
"...what people really want is the ability to connect to each other, not to companies. So the permission is used to build a tribe, to build people who want to hear from the company because it helps them connect, it helps them find each other, it giv read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Oh joy. I can barely contain my excitement. :D read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Things that make you go "hmmm"

"...you are seeing 1 or 2 percent of a community shaping where the whole community is going. A small dedicated group of people can manipulate these sites very easily...." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Social Media
Subway sues regarding "false claims" in user-generated content.

Can it?

"...the video contest raises a novel legal question: Quiznos did not make the insulting submissions, so should it be held liable for user-generated content created at its read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
"1. What was the main point of this post? have I made it clearly?

2. What do I want readers of this post to do? have I led them to this action?"

... and 11 more things you should ask yourself read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.confidentwriting.com)
Category: Blogging
"I've included more coaching questions than I normally do in a post - they're designed to encourage reflection, to help you work out your own writing solutions rather than just taking a spoonful of advice from me. " read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web-strategist.com)
Category: Social Media
"Facebook as a ready-made marketing program. ... Sony was happy, it exceeded expectations, and users of the application weren’t over branded." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
What to do if you want to add a special map without using KML files and what not?

Google says; use Microsoft's free MapCruncher for Virtual Earth.

They include an example. read more »
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