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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Tad collected 8 very simple steps of emergency reputation management. These measures should help in cases where a forum or blog post shows up in the Google top 10 for your product or brand. read more »
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Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Humorous but really insightful post on how to track offline conversions using various methods like store finders, phone numbers, coupons, etc. read more »
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Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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OK, I’ve had it with link building; I’m done. Tossing in the towel. Waiving the white flag, no fight left in this link ninja. Google, you win! read more »
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Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "pr read more »
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Silicon Alley Insider makes a great point that for all of Twitter's current problems, their platform has phenomenal potential, notably as a "mobile version of PayPal." read more »
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New interview with up and coming web analytics genius, Alex Cohen, from Commerce360. read more »
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Whether you’re an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century—and that often means convincing a company to adopt social media. Someone might even be asking you about some new web tool their son o read more »
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Sphinn this if you think its the most stupid post you have read about the whole Flash issue.

Being indexed and being ranked highly is a totally different thing, why are people spouting so much crap about this? read more »
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From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Some killer stuff on here. I like Gridjit and finally tried NoiseRiver. Good stuff.

TechCrunch says "There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter anno read more »
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An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
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It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Keyword research is the first thing you do when planning a website. You do it before thinking over the site architecture and creating the content. Keyword research is the what you do to estimate your competition and create a promotion strategy. read more »
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Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
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A source within Google has leaked this list of 22 Google laws. These confidential laws are not meant to be known by the public so make sure to spread the news before this site gets shut down. They cover 3 topics mainly: Ethics, privacy and website o read more »
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Viperchill Gives us an insight into how Ebooks are profitable and easy to set up. An excellent introductory post fro those considering this strategy of making money online. read more »
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