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A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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Larger companies with a strong web presence have an easier time pushing down negative publicity than the small business owner.
Why? The key is the existing strong web presence. If as a small business owner, a search on your name only brings up the read more »
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Brian Kaminski writes, "The guy was in a panic. His ROI had been in a nose dive for the last few months, and he couldn't figure out why. With no major changes to keywords, copy, landing pages, bids or budget, he was dumbfounded about the decline. Bu read more »
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Community is one of those Buzz words we have all come to love and hate at the same time. I suppose we could loosely define FriendFeed and Profilactic as communities, but I think they are really just TV sets into some activities of friends. SecondBra read more »
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We bloggers have it rough. We live in a world full of more WordPress themes than you can shake a stick at, yet most of us are still tied to one old, worn out template. It’s unfortunate, but let’s be honest here—changing themes is a huge ordeal. read more »
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Lately there’s been a hell of a lot of talk and drama about blogging smack-downs, reputation management in the event that someone wants to make you look a bit less favorable than you’d like, who’s right who’s wrong shoulda / coulda’s, and how we can read more »
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Every business needs happy customers and/or interested observers to help spread the business name to friends. This human element of marketing is part of the SEO Success Pyramid, and can come in several forms: buzz/viral marketing, word-of-mouth, com read more »
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How did you feel when Twitter was down Wednesday night? And what did you do? Does Twitter feel indispensable to you now? read more »
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Dave Wallace writes... I am so weary of non-SEO types who have some measure of influence spouting off their opinion of what SEO is, what it isn't, whether it is growing or declining and the like. It is no different then when celebrities use their cl read more »
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What is email marketing, anyway? Is it highly valuable content delivered to readers who have requested it? Or is it thinly veiled product/service offers arriving in your recipients inbox? Is email marketing dying or evolving? read more »
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You’ll be happy, ecstatic, overjoyed to find that any story, photo or video that you Mixx publicly can now be simultaneously Tweeted. ;-) read more »
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An interesting post that would get a Sphinn from me for the inclusion of an arse gag if nothing else (although that's not the headline they used). But it is worth reading for more than just that as it has some great info on why shorter URLs tend to read more »
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"Here are eight common mistakes companies make in selecting keywords for their campaigns." read more »
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Last weeks edition of Beyond Keyword Research looked at utilizing analytics to find more keywords than our original research may have bestowed upon us. We utilized site based analytics programs, as well as other data found around the web to unearth read more »
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Yahoo! announced not long ago the release of the new Yahoo!Search open platform. What happens next? What are the impacts on SEO and which other search engines can compete with Yahoo!Search in the future? read more »
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of “SEOs” out there taking advantage of the unknowing site owner, leaving a bad taste in their mouth about what SEO is and how it can help. read more »
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Getting the traffic is half the battle, making it stick is where the real marketing starts. So, before you start thinking about how many keywords you want to rank for, make sure the pages are appealing enough to serve the purpose of optimization. Be read more »
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I never knew this! Black holes of data on the internet preventing you accessing the website you want... read more »
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A look at common strategy errors for small business marketing. read more »
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Twitter and LinkedIn: for small business owners, they're two tastes of social media that taste great together. The question: Who gets Twitter in your LinkedIn network? And who got LinkedIn via Twitter? read more »
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Your clients are enjoying more exposure and tangible results than they ever did before. If you don’t know how to properly sell this value to your clients, you could be losing money and not even know it. read more »
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A new WordPress theme from Fathom SEO lets anybody create an "About Us" page for the social media era. read more »
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First it was being a Schitzo and not problems with obsession... poor monsiuer Duthie

| Online Marketing Banter - Blogging takes hard work… and a lot of it. Dedicating 1-2 hours a day is typically the starting point for newbies. Daunting huh…? And read more »
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Marketers know that social media is impacting their business, but no one knows exactly how much. In what ways is social media changing business, how is this new medium different, and can we measure it? Should we even try? In short, what is the worth read more »
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Ok bloggers...Do you blog for business or pleasure? What results are you seeing from your blogging efforts? How long did it take to see those results? Do you feel it’s worth the time commitment? read more »
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