Ramkarthik

In every social site, having many friends and fans is one of the main factors that have direct effect on how popular you are going to be on that site. There are many ways through which you can get friends in stumbleupon. But getting fans is tougher. read more »
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Recently I figured out that of all sites out there, YOUTUBE is cloaking. Yes, the same YouTube owned by Google. They are cloaking their "mature" videos so that the spiders are caching the real version, but a real visitor is forced to sign up.
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Being a blogger or a freelance writer or even a social media consultant, you have to know few basic things about social media. There are rules for almost everything in this world. There is a limit for everything in life and social media is not excep read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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Don't let Calacanis and Shoemoney have all the fun, do some SEO Bullshit Bingo yourself! read more »
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Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed? read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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Wonder what Google has to say about this to Yahoo. read more »
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One aspect of doing International SEO is having your content available in other languages. read more »
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Commenting on the web is one of the most important factors that lead to the Internet social revolution, from the last few years. Since then, a lot of things have changed on the web and in the blogoshere particularly. Commenting has also more or less read more »
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A great description of Online Reputation Management by Glen Allsopp. Glen also gets into high level details about process. This is a really good post to introduce people to the concept of Online Reputation Management. read more »
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We've noticed that many people don't use some tools that would make their lives online much more effective and efficient. Here's our list of some tools we'd suggest are essential. Several of these tools will deliver huge value to your workday and ta read more »
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If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won't make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. read more »
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I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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David Alston writes, "Social media has simplified the art of the soapbox shout. Information is shared with the masses now using easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools and is recorded and cached for infinity. These two points make the non-stop monitoring of socia read more »
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I wonder if these questions will be answered especially the third one. I always had that question in my mind. read more »
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An excellent detailed account of a gathering in Vancouver, BC, Canada that drew three times as many participants as planned. They were fully briefed on all the exciting things you can do with WordPress by some real experts. Well worth a read. You read more »
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Relying too heavily on social media traffic is pretty easy for bloggers to do. If you have some time to work on your blog you can go after social media and maybe see a few thousand visitors within 24 hours, or you can work on developing some other t read more »
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The definition of prioritization is the action of arranging and dealing with things in order of importance. Vital information should be consumed first, while less important content should be processed later. read more »
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From the Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog, here are some social media profile avatars that many of you will remember... hell, most are probably owned by people on Sphinn. read more »
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I have never experienced a downtime when surfing twitter. Maybe because I twitter for only half hour a day. read more »
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O.K. I am going to pick on The Times because it is funny. Today they published an article entitled Searching to get to the top of Google.

Most of the article is O.K. and it is nice to see SEO getting mentioned in a major newspaper, however some o read more »
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Everyone has heard the phrase "content is king." This post argues that the saying should be changed to "controversy is king." read more »
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A lesson on how we can use viral marketing techniques in everything we do as marketers and small business people. Learn why viral marketing can be more than just videos and cool microsites. read more »
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Rand takes a look at some of the blackhat spam websites performing well in Google. read more »
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