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SEO involves getting lots of moving pieces coming together in the right way to form a perfect storm of sorts, which equates to better search results for a Web site. Beyond SEO best practices, I polled our SEO team to come up with the top five "non-S read more »
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Branding is really important to all blogs and businesses. Here are some tips for developing your own personalised brand/character for your blog. read more »
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Social News and Bookmark Monthly Statistics.

This month, “lifestyle” overtook “offbeat” topics on StumbleUpon. According to Compete, over 1 million more people visited StumbleUpon in March than in February. read more »
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With all the talk about blogging and social media lately, you'd think there was nothing left to do in the world of search engine optimization. I'm guilty of tunnel vision myself. After all, social media is far more fun to talk about than title tags, read more »
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You know why there's "nofollow" and "dofollow." Now you need to know why "unfollow" happens. A lucky 13 microbloggers share why you may suffer the ultimate Twitter FAIL. Great post by Brian Carter (follow-up to his 14 reasons he'll unfollow you) read more »
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"Have you ever visited a website and for some reason it just “felt right”, aside from not being able to distinguish why, the site simply put you at ease long enough to relinquish your intellects natural defenses and delve deeper into the content.
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NY Times: "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." read more »
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StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven. read more »
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Well, we knew it was coming and finally on Wednesday the number of UK users on Facebook surpassed the 10 million mark (see my graphs below). As well as showing that previous reports of Facebook's supposed decline in the UK are utter nonsense, it als read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. 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.

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Mark throws a tiny tantrum - 8 annoying things about Stumbleupon. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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Lee Odden's Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." read more »
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Since the small list of general SEO ones I previously published was received well, I figured I would create a download of some of the ones I find to be great tools in my link development efforts. I can't give them all away, but anyone who spends a l read more »
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Li Evans writes, "Wendy Piersall started her blog as a hobby, the blog was an extension of her business, a tool to compliment it. Within three months, Wendy’s eMom's at Home blog became its own full time job. She had to rethink her strategy about read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes... If its in fact true that “actions speak louder than words”, and “problems are merely opportunities in disguise”, we should be able to read a lot into the personality and philosophy or various social communities by looking at how read more »
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| SEO Scoop | Terrible Landing Page Rant - Let’s get one thing very, very clear. A good search ranking is wonderful … but for all that is sacred in the geekdom, please don’t ruin a perfectly good ranking with a terrible landing page!

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Everyone loves a good tip, right? Here are 55 quick tips for search engine optimization that even your mother could use to get cooking. read more »
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"The era of being number one is Google has left. The age of Conversion rates, qualified traffic, and site wide analytics has descended upon you." read more »
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Darren Rowse writes a guest post on SocialMediaMom....4 Tips for Social Media Toddlers.

So many of us as Social Media Toddlers seem to get bogged down by the way things should be done or by being concerned of how others will receive us - but pe read more »
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The Mozzers come up with some interesting things that Google should look at adding to their OneBox results... read more »
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Social media aggregators are web sites which amass what you do on social networks or websites and centralize it all in one location. Friendfeed is one of those sites and provides an additional way for you to connect with other people online through read more »
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"Some bloggers use social media to boost traffic and draw links, but they write off the opportunity to gain subscribers through social media as being unrealistic. While it’s true that social media users are typically less likely to subscribe than th read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008