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Larger companies with a strong web presence have an easier time pushing down negative publicity than the small business owner.
Why? The key is the existing strong web presence. If as a small business owner, a search on your name only brings up the read more »
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Social Media is truly becoming a valuable tool when it comes to mobilizing the consumer to support disaster relief and SocialVibe is setting the stage to be a leader when it comes to helping our fellow man. What are you doing to utilize social media read more »
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7 completely insane black hat SEO 2.0 methods here are totally crazy, unlawful and will make George Bush annihiliate your block as an “Al Qaeda stronghold” so use them at your own risk. read more »
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet, is receiving a $350,000 grant from the James S and James L. Knight Foundation to help refine news searches by employing more sophisticated tagging, way upstream. read more »
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Doing something that is linkworthy for a charity is always going to end up being more morally uplifting than doing something which is self-serving. read more »
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How did you feel when Twitter was down Wednesday night? And what did you do? Does Twitter feel indispensable to you now? read more »
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You’ll be happy, ecstatic, overjoyed to find that any story, photo or video that you Mixx publicly can now be simultaneously Tweeted. ;-) read more »
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Getting the traffic is half the battle, making it stick is where the real marketing starts. So, before you start thinking about how many keywords you want to rank for, make sure the pages are appealing enough to serve the purpose of optimization. Be read more »
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It is important to know your enemy. It is not always the competition! read more »
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Paid links are certainly a competitor for a share of any online marketing budget. Some feel that Google can set its own rules in its own publications. However when a company becomes so dominant in any market place, perhaps the normal free competitio read more »
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Instead of painstakingly grabbing the absolute best matches for your query to then rank those with infinite precision, one time saving strategy has search engines go for "close enough". read more »
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"Hi, my name is Dave, I am an algo-holic - not so sure that I am much more than a social media flirting father; more so than a Social Media Dad. While I have been noted for Sphinning, called a Social Media Ninja; I am but a humble search geek at hea read more »
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If you have ever told a friend, bookmarked a URL, linked an image, sent someone a link, posted a link, used a shoutbox, have any social network or bookmarking acct whatsoever, you have an SMO Hat.

What color is it? read more »
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A patent application published last week from Microsoft provides another look at the ranking of images in image search, and some of the things that might be considered when ranking images.

It’s not quite as revolutionary an approach as the one su read more »
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two people desphunn tads twitter post.
http://sphinn.com/story/43513
reasons for desphinning:

#1 desphinner streko: "stop the insanity! desphunn because this is getting out of hand."

he is suggesting that twitter is discussed too much. then read more »
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Says Dave, "With all this talk of social search of late (thanks Jason C.. keep it up) I can’t help but wonder why so many in the SEO community fail to fully grasp how search engines are seeking out passive behavioral data for users and groups of use read more »
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Google announced that you can now embed YouTube videos in business profile pages in Google Maps. Videos are displayed in the “Photos & Videos” tab in the extended listing tab that appears when you click on a listing. read more »
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20 of us have been tagged by Mark Dykeman (Broadcasting Brain). But it's possibilities are endless.. read more »
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People have increased responses by 300% by adding one single letter and 800% by adding one single word, 1700% by testing 3 similar headlines and so on and so on. read more »
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As Tad so beautifully puts it, "In SEO 2.0 you do neither sell nor trade. You practice true altruism. Many people know already: Altruism is the better egoism. The more you give away the more you get back."

Uh..Tad rocks. read more »
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The new rankings should better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader population of Web users. read more »
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haha, Do you fit any of these? Why I never... read more »
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The major search engines haven’t yet overtaken this market. Search results generated by Google and Yahoo come from an assortment of properties, rather than just the search engines’ own sites. read more »
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be read more »
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"Google has indexed MSN RSS feeds which in turn are indexed results from a Yahoo group and what has this to do with my original slightly odd query.." read more »
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