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It's the biggest medium for up to date news, it's the ultimate source of information, but which search engine offers the best news features? Which of the four biggest search engines provide the best service with the most useful (not necessarily the read more »
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Media are a gamed community that exists to serve self-interested parties, and truth has never gotten in the way of a good story.

When search marketers complain about others manipulating the web and or media, at best it can be described as hypocri read more »
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Interesting - do you think the same? read more »
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Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. read more »
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Lower latency + Less Power = More Efficient Google Data Centers. INTERNET GIANT GOOGLE could be toying with the idea of moving over to Solid State Disk (SSD) technology, according to Digitimes which says the company has just bought a load of them f read more »
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Yesterday I had a question from a client asking how many keywords we will target for each project. It reminded me that out of all the questions I get that illustrate a need for better understanding of how an SEO process works, this is one of the top read more »
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Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so -- by about a minute. Reading some of th 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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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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Securing SEO, PPC, social media and analytics advice can be risky, like buying diamonds from a jeweler you don’t know. The premise of the purchase is sometimes a customer’s (enthusiastic) lack of understanding of criteria by which to judge the actua read more »
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Tomorrow May 10th, 2008, the first European WordCamp ever to be organized will take place in Milan, Italy. This one-of-a-kind initiative will be hosting one of the most important names behind the highly reliable blogging platform existent today, Mat read more »
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Paid links are certainly a competitor for a share of any online marketing budget. Some feel that Google can set its own rules in its own publications. However when a company becomes so dominant in any market place, perhaps the normal free competitio read more »
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One of the benefits to spending time on Twitter is that it's a great way to network. But if you are new to Twitter, it can seem difficult to find people that are in your industry or that share your interests. Here's some tips to help get you start read more »
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"Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community," Farmer wrote in a blog post Tuesday. "Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply." read more »
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There are no guarantees to success through networking but through the old adage “it’s not what you know it’s who you know” where networking can really work. read more »
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Google desperately wants access to future wireless broadband networks of all stripes and sizes,but it wants to avoid having to build and operate its own. Deals like this show that it is willing to pay to play. read more »
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Comment Sniper keeps track of your favorite bloggers’ posts, and notify you when they launch new posts. All you need is to subscribe to a blogger’s RSS feed using this little cool freeware software. read more »
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TechCrunch - You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial read more »
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Even a slight mistake or bad preparation can turn a great content marketing campaign into an almost great content marketing campaign. And almost great just isn’t good enough. read more »
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The first part of this series was a selection of tips on how to use your surroundings to come up with interesting ideas that can lead to great amounts of traffic, attention and links. After you’ve carefully selected the idea of your choice, it’s tim read more »
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Oh my Christ, Facebook almost killed Jane! read more »
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Brian Turner - The problem is that link building isn’t simply about building links - it’s about managing a site’s entire link profile, and especially managing the risk built into developing links.

The bottom line is that when someone specialises read more »
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