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Lee Odden writes, "Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community o read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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Eric Enge writes, "Outbound links play a critical role in your overall linking strategy. This runs counter to the philosophy that used be popular in the industry, that of hoarding PageRank. You do read less about the notion of hoarding PageRank thes read more »
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Muhammad Saleem writes... To ensure the success of any social media marketing campaign, it is important to have a strong network of friends who support you. When you build up connections and friendships online, you establish credibility as a user. read more »
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Michael Gray posted his recap about SMX Social... read more »
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While Mixx is currently only sending a small fraction of the traffic that a popular post on Digg can send, there is a good reason to join Mixx with a great potential. read more »
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Ask.com: Rest in peace... read more »
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Sandberg will join Facebook on March 24, 2008 and is responsible for helping the company scale its operations and expand its presence globally. read more »
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Reem Abeidoh's follow-up to her “I Am Not Your Digg Whore” post. A Do’s and Don’ts for proper IM usage with contributions from people who use it a lot. read more »
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When you hand an analytics report to your manager do you get that deer-in-the-headlights stare? Here are a few ways to fix that. read more »
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The FeedBurner numbers we and others get have gone wonky. To blame? FeedBlitz seems to be putting out BAD STATS read more »
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Why do some stories abruptly disappear from Digg? Kevin Rose has admitted that the Digg employs moderators: "We have site moderators that ban spammers, remove illegal content, and keep an eye on things. Always have, always will." But what, exactly, read more »
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Yep okay, so Twitter can be okay for driving a bit of traffic to your website but hasn't it got a higher purpose. I have written quite a lot on twitter, totday they annouced an integration with Google earth and the International disasters age read more »
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Tim Nash takes a look at taking over the SERP control of a comment spammer. read more »
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A pretty good list from Lee..... I do love my analytics toys :0)

Snip - Regardless of the purpose, I’ve assembled a list below of the various tools we use, or have tested to report onsite blog metrics. Pick the service or tool you like the most f read more »
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Once you have caught Social Media it is a Chronic Disorder. There is no way to rid it from your system.....

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How can you increase your chances of appealing to an average Digger, Stumbler or other social media user, and actually get them to vote for your content? read more »
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4 local resources you should be taking advantage of to grow your business. read more »
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PayPerClickJournal walks us through this BASIC PPC tactic which has proven, time and again, to pump ROI through testing & analytics. Start to finish learn how to measure split testing/ad effectiveness. read more »
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My question is "how large of a font do you have to use to been seen by Google Maps?" read more »
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How annoying is it when you make a post and 5 other posts rank above yours in the search engines all that have your content wrapped around huge Adsense units. So what can you do? I came up with this idea a while back to put a link back to my site in read more »
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It’s not very Web 2.0 of us but today SocialBlogroll is out of beta. Thanks to everyone who has helped us test the system.

We’re now polling over 100 blogrolls belonging to everyone from Matt Cutts, SugarRae to Mikkel deMib Svendsen to find out w read more »
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Search Engine Land named best industry blog. Congrats Danny! read more »
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Muhammad Saleem looks at the manner in which social media is proported to operate (ie. best content surfacing to top), and then the way it actually operates (we vote for friends, not content).

From the page: "we don’t actually vote for what we li read more »
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What to do when 'The Lisa' takes a swat at you ? read more »
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