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Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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want to know how to sink a social media campaign? make yourself look like a total tool in your favorite social media spot? read this article and do what is recommended not to do!

special thanks to Rob Kerry for making this sphinn possible. =) read more »
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Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
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An excellent article showing how while we might know who's who in our industry, the internet at large doesn't and how that familiarity can harm one's Digg submission. This is a must read for anyone that hasn't played much on Digg. Bookmark it and read more »
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A marketing blunder by a Papa John's affiliate quickly spread across the blogosphere, leading to a potential PR nightmare for the entire brand. This story's got a bit of everything (but hold the anchovies): the power of bloggers to shape a story, a read more »
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SEO Hack nails it again with another funny post about all of us ... and Twitter. :-) read more »
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Sure it is fun to discover techniques that could or could not get you in trouble with Google, but do we all need to race to the WP backend to out them? read more »
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Out of all of the Twitter posts that are being pumped out by the minute - this is the only one I have found that makes sense. read more »
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How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
Say it with m read more »
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Loving the ride on the Twitter bandwagon? Here's a few light-hearted excuses to get off. read more »
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Wow, this is terrific post introducing the idea of geotagging your blog, i.e. - assigning a placename to your blog. That could be incredibly helpful for anyone with blog content of interest to a local population. read more »
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IMO the only way to be secure for right now is to run the last build before 2.5 & update it with all security patches - then if you are worried about sites not accepting your blog because its under 2.5 - simply go into your header.php in your templa read more »
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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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Stoney deGeyter looks at how many web developers abuse the H1, H2, H3, etc. tags - not that they are necessarily spamming but rather sloppy in their design tactics. read more »
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Another great post from SEOHack offering definitive SEO Standards. I think they should be adopted and we can put this issue to bed. read more »
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Over at Sphinn you can witness a real live cat fight - yep, the old-fashioned kind. Jill Whalen and Lisa Barone, two of the hottest Search Engine Optimization chicks in cyberland are brawling over whether or not there should be Search Engine Optimiz read more »
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Blog-centric social network MyBlogLog, which just a few weeks ago added lifestreaming to their app, is today launching a new feature that aggregates lifestreams across the network by topic read more »
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Ian Lurie's unfortunate experience with Alaska Airlines leads to an insightful post on 10 ways a business can best apologize if they screw up. read more »
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Yeah, I am an SEO and much of the Internet hates me. Of course most of the people who rail against SEO’s have a very misguided idea about what an SEO actually is but part of the beauty of the Internet is that you don’t have to know what the hell you read more »
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Everyone needs SEO even if they don't know it. read more »
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I still like Sphinn, but criticism is the cornerstone of improvement. Serena offers some apt criticism of Sphinn, which I personally think should be heeded.
Maybe if there was a more concerted effort to clean it up, Sphinn wouldn't be "sphinning" read more »
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EVERY DAY there's a NEW.edu domain that some CMS hacked-loaded up with keywords & cloaked! Your typical blackhat shady type thing… Each day I pickup morning, Sausage Egg & Cheese + a large coffee and BITCH TO GOOGLE! read more »
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Guestwhore Michael Streko gives a few tips to those of us too unlucky to not be at SMX West on how to make it feel like we're there. read more »
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A frank and honest examination at the battle between SEO & SU.
From the article: "If you’re going to exploit StumbleUpon for traffic, fine, do it. It’s not like everything Stumbled by a search marketer is total..." read more »
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In part two of my social media marketing series on Yahoo Answers, I show the opportunities to get direct referral traffic from YA, as well as indirect search engine traffic because YA pages are showing up in the SERPs. YA was the #4 referral to Smal read more »
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