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For anyone that's launched linkbait you'll know that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Of course, by 'works' I'm talking about a digg homepage, a reddit homepage or huge amounts of traffic from stumble. But actually even for the pieces wh read more »
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It’s heyday for bargain hunters as well as retailers. Black Friday has dawned upon us and Cyber Monday is inching closer.

As I write this post, I can only imagine shoppers pounding the pavement to clinch the best deals being offered by brick-and- read more »
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Several retail Web sites experienced technical problems Friday, the latest reminder of one of the Internet’s oldest rules: If you encourage people to visit your Web site, make sure the site can handle the extra traffic. read more »
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An extremely informative post on customizing the Thesis Wordpress theme with hooks. "Users who don’t know CSS or PHP have more control with the new thesis them than with any other theme I’ve ever seen." read more »
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A list of awesome social media marketing books. read more »
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Lisa's take on Jim's post http://www.copyblogger.com/blogging-high-school/

Very thought provoking...reminds me of my college days! read more »
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Here’s an idea for discussion. Is linking to your Google Local Business listing asking for feedback OK? Are other sites already doing this? SEOgadget's Richard Baxter would like to hear your thoughts… read more »
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New Edge Media is proud to announce that Kate Morris will be joining their ranks as the Director of Client Strategies. She will be responsible for client interaction, account management, and paid and natural account optimization. She will also serve read more »
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Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Some great ways to increase your sales without actually having to decrease your sales price. read more »
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Tad makes some great improvements to Google's rankings for SEO, with a bit of help from SearchWiki! read more »
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"Google calculates PageRank on the total network of sites Google has in its index. From that point of view a non-indexed page can’t accumulate PageRank, because Google can’t determine the relative value the page. Or can it?" read more »
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Lisa talks about her relationship with marketing professionals. read more »
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The economic Grinch is threatening to steal Christmas this year, but there are some things local businesses can do to avoid getting coal in their stockings this holiday season. Here are three tips for punching up your online local marketing presence read more »
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Ciaran Norris writes "I was recently asked whether, if I had to make the choice, would I choose to work in just SEO or social media. Without any hesitation I answered SEO. In the current climate it’s obviously more accountable and seems a more obvio read more »
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Interview of Jeff Quipp by SEO Mentor Garrett Pierson read more »
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9 ways you can use blogging to make money. read more »
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Unless you have a good understanding of some basic technical concepts, it sometimes may be hard for you to figure out if your internal links are capable of passing pagerank. read more »
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For many webmasters Google is the eight ton elephant in the room and you only have two options: upset the elephant and get trampled or quickly find out what it likes to consume and try to feed it. read more »
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One question though—where do we draw the line? Does a $50 a year directory that throws nice traffic your way—and also happens to openly link to you still fall in the “paid link” category? Is it a directory with benefits? read more »
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Sometimes, you are just stuck. You seem to have done everything you could. That’s when I find inspiration using various SEO tools. read more »
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Is your manager, CEO, or marketing VP one of those old-school marketers who doesn't "get" online, or believes that the channel doesn't make sense for your category?

Many of our clients struggle internally to get sign off on search projects becaus read more »
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"Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, argued that Google is in fact guilty of all of the seven deadly sins " read more »
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Would you like your site content to rank well? Would you like your content to draw links like nails to a magnet? There is one strategy you can use to make sure the content you create is almost guaranteed to be a hit - and in the process it gathers b read more »
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In part four of a series on why companies are slow to embrace social media, corporate red tape and multiple layers of bureaucracy is often the culprit that literally ties the hands of marketers. I have seen this occur time and time again with regard read more »
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