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Tag an image of a banner ad as an influential friend and watch it spread as people mindlessly click on "so and so was tagged in a photo." Facebook spam is inherently more creative than some of the other mediums for spam, but this is just crazy. read more »
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This blog post puts forth a hypothetical situation in which a company buys links then later regrets it. What recourse would such a company have? Would it be possible to contact Google and ask forgiveness? read more »
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Social media is a chance to add a face to your company's customer relations. Use social media to reinforce the human aspect of what you are doing, show your customers that they are interacting with a live person. Something as simple as a picture or read more »
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Masters of search marketing can't get their own searches right. So sad, so true.

A wiser man than myself once said, "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" read more »
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The following is an open letter for Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson and the rest of the Digg management.

We, the undersigned, are ready to find out if there is more to social bookmarking than Digg.... read more »
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Digg's Kevin Rose has officially announced what we've all seen over the past week or so: it's now a lot harder to push your content onto the front page of Digg. In fact, Digg's adjusting its algorithm so that you'll need well north of 100 Diggs to h read more »
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Are you an organic optimizer looking for clients?
Check Google! read more »
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It seems that Mattel and Hasbro have issued a take down order on the popular Facebook application Scrabulous due to trademark infringment. As of this post there are 600,563 active users of the application. read more »
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We've mentioned in various threads over the past few weeks a new feature we'll be bringing on board in the next couple of weeks that will enable users to give a negative/thumbs down/disagree vote on topics submitted. We're calling this "desphinn." read more »
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Again and again and again and AGAIN we’ve learned that in the Social Media era, the CUSTOMERS ARE IN CONTROL of the brand. read more »
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8 feature requests for Adwords that might benefit you. read more »
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Look, we all make mistakes (though I am rarely in place to make such a super spectacular one!) but what is really rare is to have someone 'man up' and apologize.

Not a wimpy political "I am sorry it could have been interpreted as blah blah" but a read more »
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People have been pretty fired up since it was discovered that Network Solutions was pre-registering domains anytime someone used their domain search feature. Now a Network Solutions blogger explains the company's position on the issue, but if the co read more »
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Microsoft just unveiled the beta of Ad Intelligence, their new keyword research tool. The tool is a plugin for Excel 2007, check out my first review. read more »
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Andrew Nagy and his wife are having difficulty settling on a name for their son due in February, so they thought they'd leverage social media to their advantage. Andrew has a poll on his site and they're taking votes! read more »
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Why Facebook's new social.im's privacy options leave a lot to be desired and will keep Lisa Barone from having perfect Tom Brady-esque babies with the guy who lives down the hall from her... read more »
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Matt Cutts wrote a somewhat controversial post about a CEO black-hat who is now in prison. He suggests that companies who are willing to employ black-hat SEO techniques will be more likely to engage in cutting corners elsewhere, possibly legal corne read more »
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Apart from many "unknowns", every month 2-4 top-Googlers are leaving. Almost without fail they do so in order to recapture the thrill of innovation, to start a startup.

This is Google the Corporation: bored at the core. read more »
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Well, at least they own the domain network-solutions-is-going-to-scam-sphinn.com.

Check out the whois to be sure:
http://whois.domaintools.com/network-solutions-is-going-to-scam-sphinn.com

Read the article to find out why. read more »
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After working for 2 month without any success we decided to contact Google directly and here what happened: read more »
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What if the future of search took on two distinct shapes? Google Knol for information, and plain old Google Search/Sponsored search for merchants? read more »
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It's 2008 and it's time to really clean up the net. I'm ready to do my part, how about you? read more »
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Real picture taking robots, coming to stores and museums near you? Plus, how well can Google really understand text within images? Possible very well. read more »
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A lazy SEO can write an ecommerce product description in minutes; a thorough SEO professional will need at least 15 minutes, maybe more, but the difference in quality and results is so tremendous that the small time difference hardly seems a waste—m read more »
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Most bloggers don’t have a clue what their website color scheme might be associated with, and color is a crucial element of a brand identity. read more »
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