KateReuvers

I've been collecting stats on the number of active Facebook users for over a year now - have a read and find out how the social network has done in 2008. read more »
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"Last week I (Lisa) eavesdropped on a tweet that Lee Odden sent to Marty Weintraub. The tweet was about the recent ruling in the Myspace suicide case where a judge basically made it a felony to lie about your identity on the Internet." read more »
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Ciaran Norris writes "I was recently asked whether, if I had to make the choice, would I choose to work in just SEO or social media. Without any hesitation I answered SEO. In the current climate it’s obviously more accountable and seems a more obvio read more »
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Dan Zarella writes "Here’s the slides from my pubcon presentation. I’m not sure how easy they’ll be to read without the accompanying talking, and you may need to use full screen to see the detail in the graphics. I apologize in advance." read more »
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Laura Callow delivers awesome insights backed up by research and data, on why User Generated Content and SEO are a great match for each other. If you haven't thought implementing UGC onpage and through citation sources yet, this is a read makes a gr read more »
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Brian Carter writes "The field is exploding with new tools. A friend is alpha testing a pretty advanced ORM tool right now. She found out I was being twitter-stalked and blogged about by, as she puts it, "a Japanese Sex Blogger" - which is weird, bu read more »
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Kim Krause Berg writes, "For me to stick with online communities for a dozen years and tolerate the incredible voyage that is Cre8asiteforums, I’ve come to learn some lessons that I thought might be helpful to share. Whether you Blog, Twitter, own a read more »
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Brian Carter writes "I'm not a guy who does this stuff intentionally- some people do it very intentionally, and it's kind of manipulative. I'm an idea guy... some of my ideas just turn out to be more viral than others. I was actually surprised how m read more »
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Unknowingly to most social media marketers, Stumbleupon is rolling out a fair number of changes that could affect user profiles, and their ’stumble power’. The beta has already rolled, and its only time before the finished release becomes available read more »
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Ideas to natural link building especially for commercial websites with few slightly shady techniques. read more »
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Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! read more »
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Google hacks for keyword gold-digging and discovering the next Watergate scandal. - "Advanced search operators are one of the greatest tools for the SEO practitioner; and hackers alike." read more »
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The whole white hat vs black hat distinction is huge in SEO.

* Which techniques are unethical? (Black Hat)
* Which are controversial? (Gray Hat)
* Which tactics are too risky? read more »
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Social media is controlling the web right now. It’s coming out of it’s naive stage and emerging as a much more solidified element of the web. The more it comes into it’s own, the more it’s significant to have a solid understanding of the different e read more »
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An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. read more »
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Eric Ward writes, "As link builders, one challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could read more »
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Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 read more »
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Cesar Serna has been trying to pimp his newest project, Soxialize (which rocks), and he took the time to detail some tests he did with StumbleUpon. Great insight and figures that show where the real value in SU comes from. Not a surprise to most of read more »
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The 2008 State of the Blogosphere is being released in parts and makes for some darn fine reading. The five parts are being published one a day through the end of the week. Today is Tuesday so that means we've seen two: Who are the Bloggers and The read more »
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After consulting reliable sources, who have verified our own monitoring of StumbleUpon it is evident that their RECENT UPDATE has included a silent change to their algorithms as well.

Several sources agree with our analysis that the following eff 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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We keep saying mobile is around the corner, but are our sites really ready for it? Learn how to get ready with these 8 great mobile friendly tips. read more »
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It’s not long now until I approach my 1 year membership anniversary on my favourite social network - Sphinn. But rather than reflect on all the great things I’ve learned during that time, I thought it’d be much more fun to share what I’ve learned ab read more »
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In what appears to be a reversion back to the way Google originally handled 302 redirects a few years ago, it looks as if now it has again become possible to hijack websites in the serps. read more »
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