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An article over at Wired today asks Is Social Advertising an Oxymoron? One interactive marketing executive points out the problem with advertising on social media sites: "Who said this is media? Consumers weren't trying to generate media. They were read more »
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"You may think that you only need a great product catalog and a good advertising campaign, but you’re missing out on opportunities if you’re not also offering informational articles to your users.

Why adding content works for your store:" read more »
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David Brown aka NeOBlog does a follow up post on his Twitter Rockstar case study. Talks about using twitter to promote your other social network profiles and how that can increase your relationships on other networks. read more »
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"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
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Smart marketers don’t always follow the rules. Sure there are best practices, but every once in a while there is an exception to every rule, and consequently a learning to be had. I’m referring to the wacky, crazy, and intense holiday season which d read more »
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Ann Smarty writes about using Blog Carnivals to build links and engage your community. Often forgotten as a link building tactic, especially for clients, carvnivals can build niche connections, links, and establish authority in one's industry. read more »
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Eric Lander's in depth look into the simple SEO failures that Taco Bell is making, that any basic SEO should be able to master. Eric's post is a semi audit of TacoBell.com, identifying holes that if fixed, would make it less of a TacoSmell. read more »
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How both John McCain and Barack Obama have implemented internet marketing strategies and where each is strongest and weakest. read more »
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Thomas M. Schmitz writes "It’s Monday, only a day before the election and time to predict the outcome of the 2008 Presidential race based on search engine rankings.

The results are interesting indeed.
Based on

1. What Google AdWords tells read more »
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WebProNews has just received the 44-page order and opinion from Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate regarding the seizure of 141 online gambling domain names.

Like China, Kentucky is now trampling on the freedoms of the citizens of read more »
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Ashley Lichty writes "So, I will easily admit I am a MySpace, Facebook, and “About” page stalker. I use the first 2 to keep up with friends and former acquaintances and acquaintances of acquaintances that I don’t actually talk to on a regular basis read more »
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So today I’m(David Brown) finally 100% recovered from our drink-a-thon A.K.A. SMX East. Where I got to meet some new friends and see a ton of old friends! I’ll do a SMX wrap up this week I promise! Todays post though is regarding a Sphinn article fr read more »
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I [David Brown] am pleased to be here writing my first ‘official’ ProspectMX blog post on a subject that I truly love - Twitter!

If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, maybe we should start with a brief explanation. Twitter is a ‘Micro- read more »
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As our office sat and watched the Google press release, and "Incognito Mode" was brought up there was a group sigh and in unison "You mean Pron mode?!" So since Google launched with a Comic we thought we'd have our designer fashion our response in c read more »
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Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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Kelvin Newman of Apple Pie & Custard: "sometimes when you are starting the link building process you’ll want to quickly and easily get a few good quality links pointing at a site to kick start the process, that’s where these easy do follow link buil read more »
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FINALLY... although secretly, I do love green bars as much as the next keyword researcher! read more »
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An unfortunately simple way of poisoning link networks may be on its way to Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Volk has the scoop on a website giving away a zip code database. Great data for pulling together quick PPC campaigns. Info on how to get the database included. read more »
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Great podcast about link building. Love the chart. read more »
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In the game of linking there are two types of people....the prudes and the promiscuous ones. Will you buy a drink for anyone at the bar for a link or are you more selective? read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Anyone looking for link in the education market should check this out. A good list of low hanging fruite. read more »
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