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Brendan interviews Tim Nash on social media communities like Digg and Stumbleupon. Also talks about Tim's new membership site: "I’ve been planning on setting up a membership site for a while now aiming it at the intermediate to advanced SEO/SMO user read more »
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You can't control who submits you to what network and provide a specific tracking URL for each. There's a way to use Analytics and onpage stuff to track your social media efforts! read more »
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Tim Nash gets interviewed. My favorite bit of the interview:

Q: ...if you could get your hands on Google’s algorithm for a day, what would be the top 5 things that you would like to be considered before it determines a pages seeding in the searc read more »
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With Facebook an advertisers wet dream, and with new avenues appearing to advertise your wares, is the walled garden of Facebook falling around us, and while we all cram into this new advertising arena will we still have a captured audience? read more »
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Research is showing that Stumblers often mis-click when clicking away to the next blog. How you might turn this missed click in to a second chance by designing for the opportunity. read more »
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Sharing links with Stumbleupon and digg.com is a great feature to recognize new stories on the Internet. But don't share too much and keep your friends! read more »
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Tad asked why his affiliate links have not returned a profit could it be as simple as over saturation in the sombrero market? read more »
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Eloi has captured data every hour for the past two weeks in order to compile a good, up to date, illustrated, informative analysis of Sphinn traffic and posting times. They should help understand how Sphinn is used, and when to post in order to give read more »
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After the Paid Link Detector discovered by Fantomaster was proving to not be quite a replacement for Google's current algorithm, we have another attempts to at least model a system that doesn't create so many false positives. read more »
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Tim has a very detailed post about scraping from an unusual question about scraping SU -

From the Site - I’m sure my emailer has a perfect reasonable reason for theorising about wanting to rip the entire Stumbleupon database but I have a feeling read more »
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Some uncommon uses of the nofollow attribute for links you may have overlooked. Why you should consider "nofollowing" these links and the SEO behind the decision to do so. read more »
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In today's online marketplace, simply adding meta-tags and upgrading your website's page titles isn't enough to boost your websites search engine rankings in competitive keyword markets. If you even hope to compete in a market where there are harden read more »
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Everyone likes lists people also like to make money, so I think Nick might be on a winner with the complete list of Dosh plugins! Well not sure its complete but a fair few plugins to maximise revenue with minimal fuss. read more »
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Tim does some in depth analysis on how the Stumbleupon algorithm works. This is actually the simplified version, I have heard that his data collection covered 20 different parameters.

The end result, what I believe is a realistic formula for how read more »
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a passionate rant or just plain speaking common sense on the relevancy of paid links and the consequences for Google and those evil spammy link buyers.
Includes never before seen mug shots of the first conviction for paid links! read more »
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Tips regarding ad placements. The article covers information both for contextual and non contextual advertisements. read more »
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For a long time I didn’t bother to try to “optimize” my blog for search engines. I didn’t really know anything about it, and it all seemed to complicated. I’m sure now there are more “tricks” that can be done, but we get pretty steady incoming googl read more »
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You gotta see these! read more »
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Step by step how to to defending your site with a CAPTCHA that not only has no additional load on your server but also helps digitise books as well. Specific Drupal step by step as well as general introduction. read more »
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Learn how to build an eCommerce website - domain name, webhosting selection, and shopping cart options. read more »
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Since a few days Adsense Referral 2.0 the new PPA product is available to most of the Adsense publishers. In this short review the reader will learn the most important good and bad points. read more »
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