BrettFromTibet

Digg has a similar system [to Google] for promoting breaking news stories to the homepage. Most of the time a story takes 24 hours and perhaps 200 Diggs to make it’s way through the system to the homepage but whenever a really hot story breaks (such read more »
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Back in 2007 the folks from 97th Floor released a promising Firefox add-on to help facilitate cross-submissions between social bookmarking sites. Unfortunately, development on this add-on stopped in October 2007 and it wasn't long before the add-on read more »
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Everett Sizemore the Tony Soprano of link building describes the concept of laundering your link juice read more »
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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
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Great post on what to do when inheriting a poorly managed Adwords account.

"If you've inherited a "dog" account, it could be a long, long time (like maybe forever) before minimum bids on a poor account get down to sustainable levels. It's as if G read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "Despite what you may have read elsewhere, last week’s SMX Advanced conference in Seattle was not a black-hat spamfest. It was one of the most educational conferences I’ve been to, and a big improvement over the original SMX Advan read more »
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Let me guess: all you submit is stories written by you and published on your own website to digg.com; you get 3, 4 diggs on average; 11 if it’s a good story with a hot title. Don’t bother going through all the work of building a reputable account. T read more »
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After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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The impact of an old media paper article far exceeds that of an Internet article. There is something about old media that we retain for a long time which is not true of new media, and this may explain why people like Tom Friedman are still not blogg read more »
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Brett Borders writes "When negative or unflattering information about you or your company appears in the search engines, it's easy to panic. But before you rush to make a slew of new pages and profiles, you should be aware there is a more effective read more »
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When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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While I’ve long held that Google duplicate content filters are easily defeated, I’ve never truly examined the implications of them on a large scale link building effort. First, it may help to examine the large issues google has with link building at read more »
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Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." read more »
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Glen from ViperChill has grilled dozens of SEOs and Online Marketers to get their most valued online reputation management tips. read more »
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While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
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Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) reflects, in an absolutely gorgeous post from the heart, on his life as an industry muse. "Travel brings with it perspective. I like to think each time I leave, I come back a little wiser, a little older, a little closer to bui read more »
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When this blog was about 6 months old, I considered turning it into an industry news blog or even setting up another one that only covered the latest information. The reason I’m telling you that is because one of the reasons I wanted to start a news read more »
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AboutUs.Org was one of the great free Wiki resources for webmasters looking to create a page about their websites, and get a little bit of link love flowing to start things off. It appears, as of this week, that AboutUs.org is now automatically addi read more »
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Gab Goldenberg writes "At the Domain Roundtable, Matt Cutts said that Google will cut down any sites that get sold back to zero ranking value. So after a site has built up SEO strength for a few years, the asset could be worthless on the search mark read more »
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Oh I am feeling so old.....

» techipedia | tamar weinberg - I just shared my own story about how I got here. When and how did you make it into the lovely World Wide Web? Feel free to add your story to the comments or in your own blog post. read more »
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Montreal's Gab Goldenberg has really begun carving out a name for himself. He has a strong blog @ SEOROI.com and reads and experiments relentlessly. At 21 - he's one to keep your eyes on. Quite impressive, no nonsense article. Full of gems.
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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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On your Twitter profile page, there's a small area where you can create a bio and link to your blog. But Laura saw an opportunity to improve on the skimpy space that Twitter provides. Laura added a link on her Twitter page that sends you to a speci read more »
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Does Google add undeserving "negative" results to some queries to make them more diverse? A very important question for online reputation management and advanced SEO understanding. Rand gives some evidence and a good explanation of why such a filter read more »
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