JacobKerr

When it comes to building social sites listening to users is a bad idea. The ones that want something the most are usually fringe users who want something very specific. For instance on my site there are 900,000 dailly users of which 2,000 us read more »
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OK so another company is trying to “game” Google. Big whoop! That is not a concern of mine at all. The bigger issue is Google big brother attitude and Matt Cutt’s comments. read more »
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Changing a domain can be an exercise fraught with hurdles, do it wrong and it can mess up years of hard work. This post takes a look at things you need to consider when doing so. read more »
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In memory of our friend and one of the founders of IMBroadcast.com Leif Nissen, who has left us, but at the same time will always be with us. read more »
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In a move that will increase the amount of Page Rank and traffic Google gives to Facebook Pages, Facebook launched a new feature over the weekend that essentially added hundreds of millions of new internal links to Facebook’s brand Pages in users’ p read more »
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One of my [Andy Beal] favorite sessions at PubCon is the Competitive Intelligence panel. I thought you might like to see the slide deck I used–complete with a list of 14 tools I recommend for spying on your competition. read more »
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Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! read more »
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A new report from Universal McCann, one of the world’s largest media service firms, looks at how Internet based commentary is an increasingly powerful force.

Blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Fecebook, and other forms of social media are not only shapi read more »
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Stop the nonsense!

Seriously.

As an industry we need to collectively get a grip.

We our a community of people that make our money through search engines and social media platforms, and because of this we utlize these places as our playgroun read more »
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It's just a great list. I can't go, but it is a really great read as to why you should attend this event. read more »
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True story. I was sitting at one of my computers, a bit flustered because I was trying to solve yet another CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) browser incompatibility, and I received the following email:

I would be pleased to buy some text links on your read more »
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Face It - Worrying about some seo techniques some talk about is not worth your time, no matter how much of a science some try to make of it.

If you are going to obsess about Google Search Engine Optimization.... make sure you spend your energy ob read more »
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Turned down on a link request? Loren Baker: "...even though they may have said no, there are still ways to bring value from these connections which will help with your website marketing." read more »
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At a large organization, setting and managing expectations can be crucial to your growth as a marketer. Along those same lines, having some basic understanding of managing projects can also make or break your campaigns and the overall success of it. read more »
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A further look at the initial discovery of Michael Gray's about the Google News indexing issues. read more »
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IBM has been encouraging social networking among its employees with in-house versions of Web 2.0 hits such as Facebook and Twitter. read more »
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Huge site? No problem! Avenue A | Razorfish VP William Flaiz explains how to tackle SEO for the big boys. read more »
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Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. 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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Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
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Glen Allsop wrote "Just been looking at my statistics tonight and I am pleased to report that according to Google Analytics Sphinn has sent 286 unique visitors to my last article Linking To The BBC Will Boost Your Google Ranking." read more »
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I can't say that I know Danny personally. I have met him once at SMX London, but that's about it. Oh, and he replied once when I asked him why no coffee in the morning:

Which kind of brings me to the topic at hand. Danny twittered about a New read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have. Here’s how to start." read more »
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Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed? 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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