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Avatar Posted By: LtDraper 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: News Sites
Deleting shouts is a real pain. Digg asks you to confirm each shout as you delete it. Until this Greasemonkey script came around -- now you can just click the delete button once for each shout. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 9:18 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: News Sites
If you're using Digg as a linkbaiting tool then you're perceived as a villain. Everyone from Digg itself, to the community, to other self-proclaimed social media experts thinks you're the bad guy. Even though good linkbait provides value to the comm read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Social Media
Digg hung our blog and buried it in a pauper's field without a trial and with no review. That's not the "wisdom of the crowd" or "social peer pressure" - it is French Revolution style mob rule.

What makes it worse? The guy who got his friends to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: aimClear 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnn.com)
Category: Networking
CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 6:31 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Blogging
Li Evans writes, "Yesterday, as I was driving to Via Roma which is my usual Friday night hangout with friends, I was just thinking about the different aspects of blogging, and it really hit me that it's actually a lot like Karaoke. Of course in mos read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that resul read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 12:51 am
Posted By: theGypsy 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 26, 2008 - 4:16 am
Posted By: martinbowling 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitecreations.com)
Category: Social Media
Ok, it’s the middle of the night and I’m sitting in a rock hard airport chair, but my mind is on the takeaways that I have from the SMX Social Media conference. Much of this I knew, but it was heavily re-enforced.

The bigest benefit, as with most read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
With Google’s recent “shading in” of many whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more and more people are getting worried. Even for non blackhat sites.
So I've put together some tips for paranoid SEOs to resist the penalization power as long as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 26, 2008 - 6:09 am
Posted By: aimClear 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Lee Odden's Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Search Marketing
At least. Which is a pretty good piece of pocket money. I suspect even Warren Buffet would slow down to pick that up.

I attribute this to SEO because even thought it was a change in business process coupled with good SEO that made it happen it co read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 10, 2008 - 10:31 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.geeksaresexy.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Here’s a very good example of a dumb error read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 10:26 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Well its absolutely true! A group of friends with similar interests but complementary skills is beneficial for all involved, especially where each works to help the others in the group. If each member is an authority in their respective realms, and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 4:59 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: In House SEM
In large organizations, it takes the effort of several internal groups to accomplish top level business goals. When natural search optimization for Web sites, commonly called SEO, is moved in house, it generally is the task of a combination effort f read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 12:11 pm
Posted By: vangogh 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A persuasive blog post or sales letter argues one point and accentuates it thoroughly with analogies, metaphors, examples and references. Just one point, because too many and you’ll not only lose your own focus but the attention of your audience. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 11:10 am
Posted By: steaprok 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Other Social Media
For this round of the ‘How Would I Do This…’ I am looking at an article on CNN called ‘How do you know your love is real? Check Facebook’. I am also going to tie in my previous post on the overuse of stock photography. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 1:25 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Networking
Lisa Barone asks: "Is the new connected employee, the one that reaches out to industry contacts via Facebook and stays in the loop during the day via Twitter, a resource for the business they work for or a time-sucking liability?" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 2:54 am
Posted By: theGypsy 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Blogging
Bruceclay.com -

Refrain from personal attacks. At all costs. There are no exceptions.

Refrain from responding to personal attacks. At all costs. There are no exceptions.

It’s the best piece of blogging advice I’ve ever received. It’s als read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 11:47 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: News Sites
In an environment where other users are literally competing to bookmark up-and-coming news, speed often matters or someone beats you to the punch. Composing compelling titles and descriptions takes a lot of concentration and skill. I’m sharing examp read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 10:14 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
SEO Standards(to me) seem completely insane. There's too many variations on too many tactics. People aren't going to expose their tricks for a "risk assessment". And beyond that Google's tolerance for different tactics in different niches is complet read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 10:26 am
Posted By: gyutae 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
I had the privilege of attending Elite Retreat last week and somehow found myself seated between Andy Liu and Aaron Wall at the dinner table. Both are great classy guys and I definitely learned a lot from them. More to come on that later. For now, h read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Social Media
Recently I have been bending over backwards to be a good digg friend and to really nuture my network. Not only because I am a nice guy (when I don't have low blood sugar!) but because I have been thinking and reading a lot about the dynamics of fri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: 4cdawgs 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Social Media
Are people just voting for content and not really reading? Is blind support acceptable social media behaviour? What say you? read more »
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