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Avatar Posted By: AlanJohnson 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theratingblog.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Being sick and tired of seeing webmasters develop the wrong attitude towards link baiting, this is definitely an issue I wanted to cover for quite a while. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AlanJohnson 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theratingblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Time to learn from what Aaron Wall, Andy Beal, Danny Sullivan, Darren Rowse, Jason Calacanis, Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow, Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Seth Godin and Yaro Starak did right.

Do you notice certain similarities between these people read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 12:51 am
Posted By: theGypsy 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Brought to you by the same manic-depressiveness that generated 11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore. Here are 17 internet marketing things I will not write about: read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Blogging
Okay, think back to your days in high school for a moment. Try to remember some of the class clowns. You know, the people that never seemed to get any work done, preferring to either tick someone off or make everyone laugh.

Can you remember what read more »
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Avatar Posted By: anglemona 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.catchtheposts.com)
Category: Blogging
Have you ever run out of idea when trying to make your blog post? Have you ever experiment a writer’s block? Don’t worry about that! I guess every blogger experiment that scary feeling someday. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AlanJohnson 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theratingblog.com)
Category: Blogging
The first article of my "The A-Z List of Money Making Ideas" series, which covers affiliate marketing, blogging and content writing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 3:35 pm
Posted By: gyutae 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ok, so you say you know what PageRank is and how it applies to search optimization, but do you really? One thing is for certain…. A great many SEO’s, site owners and webmasters don’t seem to truly grasp the concept…so lets take a look shall we?

H read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Networking
TechCrunch - Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - all of her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream (and were subsequently published to her Fri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: thinkingserious 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://howtosplitanatom.com)
Category: SEO
Here are a few signs that the SEO you’ve picked out might not be your best bet. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
An amazing checklist of all the small business seo tasks that are necessary to generate great results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: 4cdawgs 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
When your blog is growing and the demands on your time become greater, how does one stay accessible to one's readers? Darren Rowse give 12 tips on how to stay interactive with your audience. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: CarrieHill 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Networking
This is a great post from Reputation Management Guru, Andy Beal. Not just for hospitality businesses, the same can be applied to any online business.

Great stuff. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: EricB 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.directoryone.com)
Category: SEO
If the 2008 Presidential election was based on SEO, who would win? Search engine placement analysis helps us understand how accessible the candidates are to their audience. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AlanJohnson 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theratingblog.com)
Category: Online Marketing
If you are still not able to find something with potential as far as you're concerned after going through this series of articles, let's just say that a 9-5 job is most likely your best choice. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 3:43 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Screen shots and feature descriptions have been leaked for the new changes coming to Reddit.com. The changes are only the first round and appear to be the biggest update to the Reddit site to date. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vizioninteractive.com)
Category: Online Marketing
I thought I would point out some of the best Earth Day blog posts as well as the sites that have done something on their site to help promote Earth Day 2008. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 4:08 pm
Posted By: bhartzer 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://battellemedia.com)
Category: Google Searching
- John Battelle's Searchblog - I am curious if this trend (of increased YouTube presence in the SERPS) is because of natural causes, or an intentional effort by Google to counteract an otherwise disturbing reality: that social networks were better a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 5:24 am
Posted By: gyutae 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
What does it take to rank #1 in Google for a set of competitive keywords? In this article, I’ll lay out the exact methodology you can use to dominate many niches in the search engine rankings. SEO is a billion dollar industry and many online busines read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Musa 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seotops.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
In an Internet savvy world, acronyms have taken the place of the written word in many cases. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://paulstamatiou.com)
Category: Networking
Paul Stamatiou, a student at Georgia Tech University, and some of his classmates have written an academic paper on Twitter as an online community. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HafizD 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jenniferslegg.com)
Category: Networking
Do you think social media is either Facebook and/or MySpace, and that’s it? When I was recently chatting with a friend in the industry I mentioned I do social media consulting, he replied, “Oh, so you do Facebook?” Well, fortunately for all of us, s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
I’ve seen several SEO job interview related posts pass by, but I haven’t seen a link building related one yet. If you’re looking for a somewhat experienced link builder (I’m not talking about hiring a newbie that you’ll be training intensively here) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Problogger gives some great tips on how to be a more effective blogger - it's all about setting boundaries. read more »
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