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doshdosh writes: "You don’t have a lot of time...want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about...sends prospects &traffic while branding your website...a social news site with a long term returns on investment. Here’s a list." read more »
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Google and Facebook announce they have joined the DataPortability Workgroup to create ways to share user-generated content and personal information created on social networks. Great move for both, I guess... read more »
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Now you can save time by using these enormous lists of categorized social sites to get plenty of targeted traffic. read more »
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If you thought that just putting your website on the internet and your rank and traffic will increase think again. The internet is forever changing, you must keep track of not only your results but those of your rivals as well. Here i have listed so read more »
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Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org
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Firstly, let me say that I'm as pleased as anyone that 'Marty got 100 Gone Hot Sphinns' or 'Maki broke the magical 200 barrier'.

To be honest though, I can happily live without these kind of stories. OK - they're nice occasional asides, but these read more »
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Yay! Sphinn won the best search engine community/forum of 2007 at Search Engine Journal! read more »
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Congrats Marty for breaking the equivalent of our very own '4 Minute Mile', and having 100 Sphinns 'go hot'. Marty is only the 3rd person on Sphinn to do so, preceded only by Maki and Andy Beard.

Way to go Marty! read more »
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You need an internet marketing strategy, even if it's just "sell lots of stuff". Step one? Tear up your old marketing plan! read more »
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Tad reveals how to generate new content and links to your blog whilst you are on holiday. read more »
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Ever wonder what the blackhat business model looks like in concrete terms? Slightly Shady SEO gives you the formulas, hard #s, tips and everything you ever wanted to know!
Edit: You'll enjoy http://sphinn.com/story/21560 too, if you liked this. read more »
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Gene lists 10 things your small business DON’T need in any particular order:

1. RSS Feeds
2. Spam Filters
3. Antivirus Software
4. Blogs
5. Search Engine Optimization
6. Mobile Applications
7. Customer Relationship Management Software
8. A read more »
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Let’s face it, we do flatter daily in real life either sincerely or on purpose. There is no secret that flattering is also a widely used social media marketing tool. With it you can get more social friends, their support and help, and establish your read more »
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Rand explains what separates the linkbait wheat from the chaff and he also provides some tactics to implement when launching viral content with the intention of link acquisition. read more »
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Darren Rowse subscribed to Shana's feed after noticing her on StumbleUpon. Here's 5 things she did to make her profile on SU stand out and how you can too. read more »
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Backlinks are the predominant factor for ranking in today's SEO environment. But not all backlinks were created equal. Many can hurt more than help. Many can gain/lose impact based on YOUR actions.
So this guide is a list of tips to make the most o read more »
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Post Toaster allows you to submit your content to up to 60+ bookmarking sites. It also provides an option to select only sites that are missing the nofollow attribute. Lastly, you can enter up to 4 different titles and 4 different descriptions and P read more »
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John Andrews has a point, you better get to know Matt Cutts now before its too late! read more »
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The Google Docs blog has announced new features for the Google Docs suite of tools. You can now create subfolders to more easily organize your documents and can rename documents and folders from the toolbar (previously, you could only do this from t read more »
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A recent googlebomb effort that appears to have worked. (Some slightly rude language) read more »
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Came across this interesting piece that gives 9 tips for launching a new blog, and it also includes a checklist of things to do. Very good read!

Link broken ... here it is http://nerdbusiness.com/blog/9-tips-new-blog-launch read more »
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Rundown by Heather Paulson on the SEO ranking factors, but very technical, based on the actual mathematical models behind things that I would explain in plain English like "you need more and better links to that page with the keyword phrase as the a read more »
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kbeeveer46 one of the lead Pligg developers has started a personal project titled “Pligg Dot Net” that could prove very interesting if you are a ASP.NET devotee. “Pligg Dot Net” is a conversion of the Pligg System that runs on ASP.NET and VB.NET. read more »
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SEO and Social Networking can be your happy place. It doesn't have to be your job. read more »
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Last week I touched on the creative process and how I create linkbait graphics for articles and content. Today I am going to take a look at a particular site and see what the approach to creating graphics or using photography is for them. read more »
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