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Maki writes... Darren Rowse recently wrote a series of posts about increasing your Twitter presence, in which he mainly talks about how to use Twitter by adding value in order to increase your Twitter following. While Darren made several good points read more »
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If you're using Digg as a linkbaiting tool then you're perceived as a villain. Everyone from Digg itself, to the community, to other self-proclaimed social media experts thinks you're the bad guy. Even though good linkbait provides value to the comm read more »
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Twitter and LinkedIn: for small business owners, they're two tastes of social media that taste great together. The question: Who gets Twitter in your LinkedIn network? And who got LinkedIn via Twitter? read more »
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Online reputation management services require a very personalized touch. A good provider must have intelligence, intuition, patience, stealth, and strong communications skills … plus successful, non-theoretical experience with public relations, SEO read more »
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Keyword research block got you down? Here's 5 tools to help you brainstorm for new unique keywords in your and neighboring niches. read more »
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Another must-read list of WP plugins from Graywolf read more »
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Glen Allsop wrote "Just been looking at my statistics tonight and I am pleased to report that according to Google Analytics Sphinn has sent 286 unique visitors to my last article Linking To The BBC Will Boost Your Google Ranking." read more »
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Tim Nash delivers another thought-provoking post on how block segmentation could be used to help analyze a web page.
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I can't say that I know Danny personally. I have met him once at SMX London, but that's about it. Oh, and he replied once when I asked him why no coffee in the morning:

Which kind of brings me to the topic at hand. Danny twittered about a New read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have. Here’s how to start." read more »
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We got logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, Cre8asite, the Search Engine Roundtable and others. All for our special moms! Happy Mothers Day! read more »
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Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed? read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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Why SEO needs to be bought and sold on quality of service - not price points.

Link beetle, anyone? read more »
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A great description of Online Reputation Management by Glen Allsopp. Glen also gets into high level details about process. This is a really good post to introduce people to the concept of Online Reputation Management. read more »
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At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. read more »
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What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference). read more »
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Mike Blumenthal published a fascinating interview/case study into how one personal injury lawyer in LA got himself banned while the competition continues to spam. As usual, Google is unresponsive on the whole (Maps guide Jen is the tiny exception). read more »
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Email marketing offers a great opportunity to connect with current customer as well as potential prospects. Compare for example traditional website visitors to subscribers of an opt-in mailing list. Site visitors include those who land on the site b read more »
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Three years ago, Seth Godin published this list, which was very much a riff, not a carefully planned manifesto. It has held up pretty well. Obviously, knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it. read more »
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I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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If you’re not interested in your website's visitors, here are 7 things you can do to make this clear to them. read more »
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Ok bloggers...Do you blog for business or pleasure? What results are you seeing from your blogging efforts? How long did it take to see those results? Do you feel it’s worth the time commitment? read more »
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There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves. We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and have provided them for you below read more »
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The Experian widget is the culmination of one stage of Loux’s plans for versions of this “3 Deep” tool, but it was not exactly an easy sell. It is difficult to express how a simple widget can convey user data, Experian credibility and an extremely v read more »
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