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Branding is really important to all blogs and businesses. Here are some tips for developing your own personalised brand/character for your blog. read more »
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Link baiting is to have other websites want to link to your site or page. Good Linkbaiting provides information or a product that will make your visitor want to come to your site, stick around, and ultimately return. Here are some good linkbaiting p read more »
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Highlights, quickly, the importance of good branding and also gives an example of BAD branding. read more »
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Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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Why perfect search terms are pipe dreams. More on perfect search terms as well. read more »
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Jerry Yang writes to rally his troops. Somehow (as they all do), the internal letter goes public. Danny thus dishes... read more »
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I have often found it rather difficult to imagine owning an online business. I feel as if it is some sort of exclusive right certain people have.Anyhoo, I am going to open my online business in a manner of weeks, so I decided that now would be a goo read more »
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Wherein Darren Browse learns from Seth Godin that he doesn't use Twitter at all and informs 1400+ fans of the fake Seth they've been fooled.

His take-away: "It highlights to me the important of getting a hold of account names for your brand and n read more »
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Knowing the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org

Obtaining an API key for a self-hosted WordPress blog can be very confusing. When you host WordPress on your own domain there are some plugins that require an API key that must be obt read more »
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How I am getting back at an RSS scraper stealing my content! read more »
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You can do all kinds of link building, but I tend to group things into traditional link building and viral link building. I think you should try a combination of things, particularly since viral links tend to be cyclical (you get lots of traffic the read more »
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Sadly, this question still comes up in the web design community … Why use DIVS/CSS when I can use tables? That's like asking: why sleep on a bed when I have a couch? read more »
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Should traffic be your only metric when thinking about social media because if its traffic your after as a marketer mixx is a poor relation to other social media sites read more »
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Anonymously leave comments, Easter eggs, hints, tips, reviews, and comparisons on any site using the BlipNut tool. read more »
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I think these guys should spend more time drinking on Saturdays rather than conducting serious interviews divulging useful information about Stumbleupon.
This interview is important to reinforce why you shouldn't continually stumble the same sites. read more »
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Can Entrecard, the latest buzz in the blogosphere be acquired by any of the major players? We'll discuss this. read more »
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# Research a topic for each post, looking in detail and why people look at certain things, and why they would want to know about what you are writing
# Write quality content that people want to read, but don’t just be one sided, look at different p read more »
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From some of my posts people might think I am anti-Wordpress… not so… I love Wordpress. I really love Akismet.. read more »
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You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile. This is classic SEOBook stuff. read more »
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No frills bashing of John Chow. Settle down to read. Remember to read comments. read more »
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A post detailing what trackbacks are, and how to use them effectively. read more »
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Digg being exploited by it's own staff?

Sounds rather blatant to me. read more »
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Google Page Rank update jan 2008 has started. Many sites have lost some Page Rank including some Google properties. read more »
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Ever wondered why you are not getting any comments on your blog? Well, these reasons might be stopping your readers from commenting on your blog. Check them out and fill your comment sections with real comments now. read more »
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