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I was recently asked to define and explain social media to an audience of 40-60 year old professionals. Here’s a crash course in social networking to the over 40 crowd. read more »
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Derek Edmond answers some of the questions asked by LinkedIn folks on why they don't trust SEO. read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I made some changes to my sidebar and I noticed that I’ve started to build up a decent number of posts on my weird take on history, sociology, psychology, memetics, viral marketing and social media (I like to call it protoviral) read more »
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| Online Marketing Blog | Many readers of Online Marketing Blog are bloggers themselves and I’m curious about others’ experiences with business blogs that have either failed to meet expectations/goals or that were simply abandoned. Equally as intere read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I’d like to debunk a myth that has gone on, rampant and unchallenged in marketing circles, especially viral and social marketing, for some time now, but first I feel a few caveats are in order." read more »
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A look at the challenge of getting social media users to visit more than one page on your site. read more »
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This posts looks at the reasons for creating posts specifically to target social media audiences and it covers the approach that I currently use. read more »
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Relying too heavily on social media traffic is pretty easy for bloggers to do. If you have some time to work on your blog you can go after social media and maybe see a few thousand visitors within 24 hours, or you can work on developing some other t read more »
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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll be helping to raise money for a good cause. Please follow me, then come back to read on for more details….. read more »
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Adding a print stylesheet to your website will make your pages look good on and off the web. This article is a guide to the ins and outs of building a stylesheet for print. 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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Companies lust for the high margins that successful social media efforts can generate. They infatuate themselves with backlinks, page views and opportunities to score major ad revenue. Sadly, they fail to understand just how organic the space has be read more »
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This post analyzes some of the differences between the average Digg user and the typical user of a niche social media site, like Sphinn, as well as how this applies to marketers/bloggers. read more »
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"There is plenty of talk online about blogging being an excellent opportunity for the average person to make money online, and I know many Blogtrepreneur readers are bloggers themselves. In general, I agree that there is money to be made for the blo read more »
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Five months ago, I looked at how the 45n5.com Top 100 list changed due to a PageRank update. Since then Google has updated some PageRanks again, and I wanted to go back over the previous list and see where people stand today. read more »
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Writing an excellent article while being productive at the same time isn't easy - in fact, blogging is actually pretty hard work. These 8 tips will show you how to effectively write an outstanding post while working productively at the same time. read more »
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Bloggers have been pursuing for a high RSS feed count but the numbers are actually nothing. Various ways can be used to boost RSS feed count but those subscribers that make up the count might not be there for the reason you wanted. read more »
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A comparison of lifestreaming aggregators Friend Feed and Profilactic, from the Profilactic side of the aisle. read more »
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An account of one of our authors at Blog About Your Blog being banned from sphinn for "spamming". read more »
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Every blog has at least one period during its lifetime, when it stagnates from many points of view (traffic, subscribers etc). This could take a few weeks or even months, if you don't assure a good growth environment for your blog. read more »
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Bloggers get SOBCon2008 Scoop from Liz Strauss. It's on my site, but the info is from the queen of blogging from successful-blog.com. read more »
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Every day more and more entrepreneurs are building successful businesses using the internet. There is an abundance of opportunity online and depending on the venture, there is often less cost and risk involved when compared with traditional business read more »
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log security has developed into a very delicate issue over the years, as more and more security breaches have occurred, even at the big houses (Al Gore’s blog hacking is the first thing that comes to mind), proving how truly fragile they can be in t read more »
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It's true, Universal Search is pushing organic results down or off the page. We all must adapt. However, "As long as there are search engines, there will be some kind of optimization for improving search engine visibility." (Lee Odden) read more »
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5 great and easy ways to create quality and compelling content for social networks. read more »
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