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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 2 hours 1 minute ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 9 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Is Plurk really a player in the big game with the likes of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? Who are these Plurkers and should you bother with yet another social profile? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Search Marketing
In the future, ads themselves are engineered to obtain information on its audience, with the mined data immediately fueling message customization. Consumer data is a valuable commodity that will influence businesses and their initiatives even more t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sucomments.com)
Category: Social Media
By using this method, if someone has a reply plurk set up, I won’t have to wait until I know that they’re on to make a post I want them to see, and then hope it goes by when they’re actually looking at the screen. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Humans need choice, and if we can filter and order our results, more choice is generally better. But, as we start to consider our choices, there are finite numbers that we can cognitively consider at a time. One is too few, and dozens are too many. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
You've likely heard about the new features at Google Trends, but what do these new features mean for privacy?

Those who wondered why using Google Analytics is a bad idea just got a taste of why it is a bad idea! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
One problem that I regularly saw in the days that I took on regular blog consulting work was bloggers who spent hours and hours slaving over the writing of quality posts only to take 5 seconds to slap a very ordinary title on them. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Ever wonder how Darren Rowse gets so much done in a week. I know I do.

The technique that Darren's been using more and more is what's called ‘batching’ or ‘batch processing‘. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
You can't control where the conversation happens. This why I say that social media conversations are leaky. They want to move to where the people are. You should do everything you can to encourage this flow, not attempt to control it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Social Media
An interesting look at how interactive the web is and what it means for marketers. From the post:

"It is my contention that web interactivity is continuing to grow for most every function except marketing. It is my further contention that marketi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
More Q&A from Stoney deGeyter from the recent webinar on the topic of Website Architecture.

Example question: How can we ensure that our SEO rankings remain high as we move through a full-site redesign from a static HTML site to a CMS framework? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Google
Sometimes, Google just gets my goat and annoys the heck out of me. Here’s the latest things Google has done that has gotten me bent out of shape. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
Lately I've been seeing a lot of sites where the designers were a bit lazy on the coding of the visual elements. Instead of naming a new style, the developers just style an Hx tag and then plaster it throughout the site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnbc.com)
Category: Yahoo
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is considering launching a proxy fight at Yahoo, according to people who have spoken with Icahn.

Looks like the battle over who controls Yahoo's board may be starting. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: SEO
Keywords that appear as related searches have already toggled a filter and been promoted to that position as a result of search volume. Just because those keywords may not show up on traditional keyword research tools, does not mean they are not wor read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: Online Marketing
There are thousands of tools out there that will simplify your life one way or another. This is a list of tools I find myself using on weekly basis. Some of these tools are technical in nature, others are very easy to use. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
A new patent application from Yahoo explores how they might handle dynamic URLs to avoid the problem of duplicate content.

What is nice about the patent application is that it identifies a number of the problems that might arise because of duplic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo
One of the problems facing a pure social powered search engine is that over time many users will be less inclined to actively be involved and so a few power users would be creating indexes/SERPs for the many.

Has Yahoo found a way to address this read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggingbits.com)
Category: Social Media
The art of “retweeting” is best described as taking a twitter message someone else has posted, and rebroadcasting that same message to your followers. While retweeting sounds great for the original tweeter, retweeting can actually benefit you just a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ok. it's still Alexa, but they're now getting data from more than just the toolbar. Will Alexa stats now be more meaningful?

Alexa will now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entir read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.geekpreneur.com)
Category: Social Media
It was the concept that should never have taken off. Before 2006, the notion that it would be possible to write a message that would be both meaningful and thought-provoking in just 140 characters would have sounded far-fetched.

And yet, Twitter read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Usability
As more and more users gain access to the web it becomes increasingly important to ensure that your website is accessible to all, not just a few. Just as businesses must comply with the American Disabilities Act to ensure proper access to customers read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter has become adopted enough among social media influencers that you should be monitoring the service daily for reputation attacks.

Consider Twitter a very early warning system. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vangogh 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Starting a network with a wide focus is a challenging thing and to kick something off around a more focused niche has some distinct advantages. read more »
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