MarkFulton

As an avid Twitter user I searched for some interesting people to follow and listen to concerning these subjects, what I found that many people have keywords in their @username but never tweet a single thing about SEO or Social Media so I thought I read more »
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Johns Wu, 22, is one happy blogger today. He has sold his 2 year old banking blog, Bankaholic.com for $12.4 million to Bankrate. They have agreed to pay Johns an additional $2.5 million if the site performs well over the next 12 months. read more »
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Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
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Free domaining tools, web apps & scripts, literally hundreds of domaining links in "Mark's Bookmark Vault", How-To articles, exclusive discounts and coupons, available domain lists and more. read more »
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If you have decided my blog isn't suitable for whatever reason for a Digg audience, please just ban me totally - honestly it is misleading your users if they think they can vote for a story because they honestly think it is newsworthy, and for some read more »
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...to get noticed with this list of currently 67 blog pinging services. read more »
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During a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors a resolution was passed which will end domain tasting as we know it. The discussion was sparked in response to the scandalous practice of Network Solutions hijacking domain searches in recent read more »
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The who's who in domaining gives their 0.02 about the industry's future, many of which proclaim the long and fruitful pursuit of the .com over all. read more »
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Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
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"If Search Wikia ultimately does gain traction and can live up to its guiding principles, we may yet see the emergence of a truly useful alternative search service. Just don't hold your breath for that to happen any time soon." read more »
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If you have a blog, scroll down through your last few weeks or months worth of posts/headlines. Are they predominantly appealing to only one temperament? Are you just grabbing the interest and attention of Competitives? They only represent 10% of th read more »
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If you don't think a topic deserves the Sphinns it's getting, I'm not aware of any easy way of expressing that. It's not that you want to vote the item down, but just indicate that it doesn't deserve all those perhaps knee-jerk Sphinns that some sur read more »
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As I say, I find a lot of value in Twitter, both for information (breaking stories) and networking. It wasn't always this way, in fact to begin with I dismissed it. Only after taking a second look and working out the wrinkles did I find its true wor read more »
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Let’s face it, we do flatter daily in real life either sincerely or on purpose. There is no secret that flattering is also a widely used social media marketing tool. With it you can get more social friends, their support and help, and establish your read more »
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Newly popular Mixx fansite, the Mixxingbowl, discusses the secret sauce of how some users get votes while others don't.

Favorite quote from the story:
"Its called Social News or Social Media not Hermit News. You have to make friends, end of disc read more »
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All in all, the Purple Cow is a good read and if you do get it, enjoy the ideas and remember to put them into practice. A book like this waxes poetic on marketing ideologies but it’s useless if you don’t take that big step to create a Purple Cow. read more »
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The 3 most popular blog posts from the 6 most influential Web Analytics bloggers around – All in all the 18 most popular Web Analytics post of 2007! read more »
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Votrs.com is a URL shortening service that makes it easier for your friends to vote for stories on your favorite social sites. Put in the URL of a page you think will do well in social media, select the ones you think it will do best on, and Votrs w read more »
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Vote for those special blogs that made your 2007 a little brighter in SEJ's 3rd annual awards... read more »
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What has more than 59 million users? Has 250,000 new members per day since January 2007? Has more than 14 million photos uploaded daily? Has More than 65 billion page views per month?
No…. Not Orkut.
The Answer is Facebook! read more »
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The owners of Knol.com say they've had tens of thousands of visitors from 130 countries since Google announced Knol. read more »
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A powerful catalyst for viral marketing, social news websites are an excellent way to disseminate ideas and attract attention, traffic and links. These social media channels which will give you a platform to showcase your content and website to a la read more »
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a good selection of the google blog about Knol translated into what they were really saying... read more »
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The popular internet security company McAfee has published a detailed study on domain name typos entitled “The State of Typo-Squatting 2007.” To be clear this study is not exactly on domain parking in general, but more specifically those domains whi read more »
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There are four functional types of gossip (women's oral tradition), house-talk, scandal, bitching and chatting. Here's how they apply to social media. read more »
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