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Google offers a new feature for easier selection of the local target, take a look at the pictures. Looks great, though I assume it will be available for the US only for some tim. read more »
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Listing well in Google local can get a better than #1 ranking in Google - smack dab in the middle of the golden triangle. Garret French reviews the most significant factors that drive local ranking and lays out a simple strategy to catapult your si read more »
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A social media marketer has two options: They can be a power account or they can pitch to power accounts. Pitching to power accounts can be fast and easy. So here is a list of 50 niche social news sites and their power accounts. You could contact a read more »
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If we just press “pause” on the use of the word expert, but go into the question of who understands social media in a way that you should consider learning from their experience or seeking their advice and recommendations, there are a few things to read more »
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An interesting look into something which has been done to death. Mark presents new ways of looking at monetization. read more »
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The quick and dirty on how to optimize PDF content. read more »
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This is designed with business blogs in mind, but can be adapted for any type of blog. A very useful outline of a business plan for a blog. read more »
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Now this is a great example of SEO 2.0: On-page SMO tips to increase both direct and Google traffic. read more »
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Compiled list with different keyword tools for your research. Each entry with a short description. read more »
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13 Tricks that are 100% Original, Whitehat Friendly, and Free! Most of these techniques are referenced nowhere else I could find on the web and can be used to build many, high PR links very quickly, and also can help to and some serious spunk to you read more »
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Written by Bruno Giussani: Business Week, The Economist, IHT, WSJE, Foreign Policy, L'Hebdo, NZZ, Ilsole24ore Nòva24, Infoweek and others) Free under Creative Commons license

[Marty Note: The blog case study itself is interesting. It is about a read more »
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It appears that Google took the opportunity to update their web master guidelines regarding paid links. The changes essentially reveal that buying or selling links that pass PageRank can penalize a site not only in its Google Toolbar PageRank status read more »
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Andy has a long article on how to capitalise on a "blog storm" no not you Patrick. Indepth and entertaining covering numerous strategies to carry the momentum forward. read more »
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The only problem with Facebook's opt-in advertising system is that the users who they are selling to marketers didn't really opt-in. What they did do was fill out a profile in which they said they "liked Guitar Hero," not that they "would like to ge read more »
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Back by popular demand - one year later! read more »
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 500 for the first time.

Sites like Digg show hundreds and sometimes thousands of votes because their members participate and exercise t read more »
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