CurtMonash

Anyone who has ever meddled with SEO has asked themselves a ubiquitous question, “How quickly can I rank for [insert keyword phrase here]? More and more, I’m finding the word “quickly” and “SEO” don’t belong in the same sentence.

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JLove, an online dating service, has come up with a new(?) form of SEM. It generates pages for a broad variety of Firstname-Lastname combinations, with text asserting that Firstname-Lastname is a member of their service. The potential to attract c read more »
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Quite a few stories I feel like desphinning because of disagreeing with the post, just like agreeing with a post makes me sphinn it. But then I wonder if desphinning is being seen as a vicious attack here. read more »
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Gab Goldenberg shares two creative and effective link building tips: consider geography and keyword misspellings when researching link prospects. read more »
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A happy client is a pleasure to have, but an ecstatic one is even better. When you go above-and-beyond to wow your clients, they can become a wellspring of repeat business. They’ll refer new customers to you, and publicly reinforce your reputation read more »
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Ok, it’s the middle of the night and I’m sitting in a rock hard airport chair, but my mind is on the takeaways that I have from the SMX Social Media conference. Much of this I knew, but it was heavily re-enforced.

The bigest benefit, as with most read more »
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Jenn gives us her 10 fav rules of blogging and throws in a few monkeys...just for fun.

SEP - Think about needs your readers looking to satisfy? It is possible to come up with really good content ideas for even the most challenging of industries. read more »
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Here's the deal: I build links. I build a lot of them - tens of thousands every month. How do I do this? I create fun online quizzes and then provide HTML code with quiz scores that bloggers and website owners can embed on their own sites. read more »
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It’s easy to get caught up discussing high-level Digg strategies and complicated metaphors, but it’s important not to lose sight of the things that make the advanced stuff worthwhile. Without the ability to gather links, subscribers and comments, yo read more »
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Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. read more »
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Nowsourcing debuts a new weekly column, "Overheard on Twitter" .... check it out. read more »
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> Have you been searching for Jesus? On Google,
> Wikipedia ranks first for that search. How much
> is that first place ranking worth? According to
> Wikipedia's public traffic stats, about 14k page
> views on a typical day, and 19.3k on Christm read more »
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Brett Border's gives us the details on his new business and some juicy tips on online reputation management. read more »
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Another terrific interview by Eric Enge, this time with some guy named Danny Sullivan. Danny doesn't work for Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Ask, but he seems to know a little something about search and search engines. ;-) They cover blended search, persona read more »
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Microsoft could borrow the money to buy Yahoo in an all-cash deal, and pay it off in three years.

The deal is VERY likely to happen. read more »
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As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/09/scalable-twitter/, Twitter is currently a nice club for a few tens of thousands of tech-savvy folks. At current levels of usage, reliability can surely be fixed. But if Twitter is to go mainstream, read more »
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Lisa McNeill answers the second question of the marketer’s foray into social media series. Which is "How long does a typical social media campaign last?” As always Lisa is giving great insight into a social media campaign. read more »
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At least 90% of everything is crud, including social media experiences. Even so, people will always use a variety of social media that are engaging, easily accessible, and good enough at filtering out what they don't want. Particular kinds of soci read more »
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A look behind an ongoing social media marketing plan and the results one month into the campaign read more »
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Good interview covers topics like hidden links, domain value in SEO, 100 links per page, canonicalization, internal linking problems, using Flash, and more. read more »
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A merged Microsoft/Yahoo could innovate all kinds of search-related UIs, such as structured search and the integration of search and business intelligence. FAST -- being acquired by Microsoft -- foreswore web search when it sold alltheweb.com, but read more »
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Apparently, a tiny fraction of political advertising is online -- $20 million estimate, according to Borell Associates. This is mainly search and contextual, notwithstanding those Obama banners we see on Slashdot and so on. But here's the thing -- read more »
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Don't understand the importance of local search? This should be a classic illustration. Seize control of your local listing, make some simple SEO 1.0 style meta data change and bam -- top of Google. And all it cost this company was a trade in pizza read more »
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The best of the best. read more »
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Here Darren Rowse published the most popular post at ProBlogger - January 2008. read more »
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