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We added pagerank, inbound link count, page load time, etc to our huge list of social networking and social bookmarking sites - so we call it a "heartbeat" because it will tell you the health and increasing/decreasing power of a site over time.

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Google's search-within-a-site feature launched about 3 weeks ago. Discussed in-depth at SES New York. Today: NY Times. So why post old news? Ann Smarty (SEOSmarty) is quoted in NYT article! Very cool.

So are Pinny (Ice, Ice, baby) and ARKG's Ala read more »
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So you're rocking along, doing some pretty good dollar consulting, and you build a small product, internal use only, to help you get your fixed price projects done more quickly. And now you're really pulling in some bucks. Then a junior consultant read more »
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I was watching one of my favorite shows, Torchwood, and at a very important point in this weeks space opera episode they have to try to find out the nature of an inter-dimensional creature given just a few words it mutters in their presence.

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(Ahem. Don't blame me. I didn't write the headline!) So, as Todd Malicoat tells us ... "here is what you should do if you really want to be a total outcast douchebag at an SEO Conference." read more »
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Just what the title says. read more »
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Digg CEO Jay Adelson calls the rumors about a bidding war involving Google & Microsoft "completely inaccurate". Until next time.... read more »
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Well, there were, at one point, that many. But many are dead, zombies, or link farms. Here is our two-months-to-compile list of what's what out there in the land below Digg..... read more »
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Let’s face it. Making Digg friends isn’t always easy. But to conduct a successful social bookmarking strategy, you need to find ways to make friends and leverage their linking power.

Why is it important to make friends? Well, without friends, cha read more »
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Keyword research sounds very intellectual and theoretical, but it is very actionable information. If you have the phrase "driving technique" as a key phrase and the suggestion comes back that "snow driving" has 1K searches a day, well, you can do so read more »
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The best way to increase your footprint on Digg is to have a large network of friends that are interested in the same things you are and are likely to vote up your stories when you shout.

This tool helps you find them. And it’s free! read more »
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If you want your content to do well (link juice, readers, fame and fortune- whatever) you either have exactly three options:

* World Class Link Bait
* Pounding Out A Thousand Singles
* Don’t Be A Friend To Mankind

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I was on the plane coming home and the cat next to me in first got to talking. It seems his son (11th grade) had put up a website extolling the virtues of his plumbing business and they'd actually gotten a customer from a google search the day befor read more »
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What does it mean when people put "free" SEO tools out and they break? Promise rankings. Sell spammy link pages. Engage customers without contracts or SLA's?

I'm not saying that SEO is different from, say, CRM or ERP implementations. Anyone who h read more »
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One of the first things that might warn you that Novasoft's SutumbleBot is a social network spamming tool is their blatant ripoff of StumbleUpon's logo. read more »
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In order to build an efficient SEO automation framework you must carefully seperate value added manual tasks from reptitious automatable steps. For example, writing content on Social Networking is value added, but posting it to 23 different pligg si read more »
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I reviewed several manualized social network automators (OnlyWire, Social Poster, Social Marker , EkStreme, Post Toaster, etc) and then summarized the 114 sites they supported. And one of my criticisms was that they either had (a) no monetization or read more »
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Internet security is a big problem, and it isn’t just for the IT staff anymore. It affects us as SEOs. Don’t believe me? Consider the incident reported at the end of last year by security research firm Sunbelt Software. read more »
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Your website's privacy information & security can be significant hurdles for gaining your visitor's strust. Establishing trust is PARAMOUNT to enticing visitors convert, by making a purchase, tendering their personal info, or simply making initial c read more »
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I thought it might be useful to compare the sites that the minor productivity enhancers we've discussed and reviewed actually claim to support.

I thought there was more overlap - this is a very interesting results table. But you *can* get to all read more »
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The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.

We said earlier that a web application manipulation to read more »
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It's a hallowed tradition in technology when you need something: build it. And once built, use it to support your core business. Nowadays big companies call it "Eating Your Own Dogfood." So we know that the Microsofties were tortured with Office/200 read more »
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Macro is an amazing piece of technology and it can help you automate any of your web browser-centric tasks. They have some great examples, a good documentation wiki, and an active support/user community.

Big Savings in Time and Money

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To be honest, when I started reviewing Semi-Automated Social Networking Automation Software, I expected to find more software like Tag To Rank . Software with an ill defined purpose, with a confusing website full of grammatical errors, and with a di read more »
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Do you read through the source code of any templates you install for Wordpress, Joomla, or any other Content Management System? Do you completely understand what the code is doing?

If not, you better read this article. There's a chance some ver read more »
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