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From Aaron Wall: "What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age." read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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Though he writes that he dislikes writing about this topic, Barry was right to cover it. We have a collective problem of our own making... read more »
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5 steps to make your Wordpress blog accessible on mobile devices. read more »
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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In spite of the fact that I have always been an early adopter of new technology — or communications-based tools, social media turns me off. When I think about why, at least 10 reasons come to mind.

(I really enjoy the linkbait title, btw.) ;) read more »
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Miffed at someone? Kill them with words. With the Web as ammo, it’s easy to wreck someone’s job, life and reputation. read more »
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Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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I've been doing a hell of a lot of these lately and heres pretty much how I go about it. read more »
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Here’s a very good example of a dumb error read more »
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Just as there are countless credit repair companies that claim they can wipe your slate clean and remove negative items, there are many reputation management firms claiming they can "remove negative search engine listings." But can negative listings read more »
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It’s still a “Google Dance” if you watch the datacenters, and confirm the update process with additional evidence such as new sites not getting included for a few to several days prior, despite indexing, as if the queue was backing up so the update read more »
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This resource for social media is a compilation of other great resources, tools, and Websites from around the Web to assist you in your social media efforts, efficiency, and comprehension. Whether your interest is in social media marketing or genera read more »
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A very interesting reputation management story.... Twitter As An Early Stage Warning System For Brands And Companies


TechCrunch; And this brings me to the point of this post. Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Com read more »
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Patricia Skinner writes: Rumblings of discomfort are being felt by some web users who have found to their cost that someone, somewhere sees what you do online. The social media sites are great networking tools, and can be useful for business. But if read more »
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Jason Bartholme writes, "Twitter is a social network and micro-blogging service which serves me well for connecting with colleagues, friends and family. As great of a service as it is, however it does lack some minor functionality that would appease read more »
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Why big brands should leverage social media and what do they have to watch out for, if they decide to jump on the social bandwagon. What are the slip falls, what are the dangers, the do's and don'ts, the possible rewards. A very detailed and compreh read more »
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I say 'controlling my message,' you say 'gaming the system' read more »
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For years I've seen a free and flowing stream of information and advice about how to build links, and as the engines have improved detection of the junk, the better link builders continued to thrive while those who sold crappy services to crappy con read more »
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An outstanding essay on the evolution of public relations and social media into what it truly is: Community Relations, by Jeremy Pepper. This article contains outstanding perspective, advice and links to others who understand that it's not about soc read more »
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As I have noted in previous posts, the majority of my friends and family don’t really have what I like to call a “firm grasp” of what I actually do for a living...So, for my New Year’s resolution I decided I would just start lying.

“Yes, we do p read more »
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No one likes to think about it, but death is inevitable. After it happens, you won’t have to care about paying the electricity bill anymore, but what’ll happen to your blog, e-mail, online profiles? The fact that you’re, well, dead, is no excuse for read more »
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Reputation Management is a serious online service that needs timely attention, although not enough people do it justice and simply monitor feeds online for mentions of said brand / product / service. There’s many forms of ‘negative reputation’ onlin read more »
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RipOff Report is the virtual equivalent of someone saying it'll cost £50 not to have your legs broken. Do your bit and spread the word about their shady practices. read more »
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I hate beating a dead horse, but I think it's all in our best interest to try to understand where are the lines that have been drawn when it comes to purchasing links. I reference comments from Matt about paying for a Yahoo Directory listings to sho read more »
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