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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: Social Media
Great article from Brian Solis about observing conversation within Social Media.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

"The ability to listen to public impressions, questions, and discussions that would have otherwise gone unnoticed or unanswer read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Nice article from Stephanie Rosenbloom at the New York Times. Discusses the recent increase many retailers have been experiencing in online sales, due to the high gas prices which have obviously been the biggest contributing factor to the recent lo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.compete.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Top 40 terms visitors to YouTube searched for on the video sharing website in June read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattKeegan 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.matthewkeegan.com)
Category: Blogging
Jump for joy, WordPress 2.6 is out and it is loaded with helpful new features. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 10:32 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Blogging
Jonathan Morrow of Copyblogger writes, "Have you ever felt like your blog is invisible? Well, I have some good news. Not only can I tell you how to stop being invisible, but I can give you some proven tips and tactics that will have the blogosphere read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Social Media
Jane Copland takes a look at things which could, and definitely could not, be linkbait. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: matthewdiehl 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Web Analytics
5 issues centered around ownership and the prioritization of web analytics that continue to be seen in organizations tracking a variety of online marketing efforts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Tech Crunch article from Erick Schonfeld.

Here is an excerpt from the article addressing how the CEO of Vivaty plans to make money from the virtual world:

"The way he plans to make money is to become the virtual “cash register” for all the vir read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rjonesx 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft set the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo’s board of directors on Monday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company – but only if a new board was appointed first. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: samirb 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:16 am
Posted By: rjonesx 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google
An unfortunately simple way of poisoning link networks may be on its way to Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Online Marketing
By: Caroline McCarthy

Marketers ought to be aware that some consumers are suspicious about the phenomenon known as "behavioral targeting," a new report from eMarketer says.

Called "Behavioral Targeting Attitudes: The Privacy Issue," the report read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://endorsementmarketing.wordpress.com)
Category: Social Media
By: Brad Porteus

"Put yourself in the mindset of one of your customers who might be in a position to spread the good word for you. Most of your best prospects for this are people who thrive on recognition, fame, notoriety, and the pride in being read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://justinbentley.wordpress.com)
Category: Social Media
Today I was contacted by the CEO at StatCounter, who addressed some concerns I had with his product...... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: Maing 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seo2020 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidbullock.com)
Category: Social Media
If you have been following the presidential race at all, you have seen how social media has played a major role. This could be called the first Social Media Driven Presidential Campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: beussery 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.spreadfirefox.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Did Firefox set a new World Record for the most software downloaded in 24hrs? Find out here........ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: pmg2007 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: SEO
Not only do you have to write extremely compelling and informative content that makes visitors want to read every word and ultimately buy a service or product (which is hard enough alone), but you have to structure your writing in such a way that to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JustinBentley 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.talentzoo.com)
Category: Social Media
Fake celebrity bloggers and Twitterers. They’re the cubic zirconiums of social media. They aren’t real, but in some ways, they shine brighter than the genuine object, and they can’t help but catch our eye. read more »
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