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There’s an interesting new site on the web. It is the creation of Guy Kawasaki, Will Mayall, and Kathryn Henkens. Its called Alltop and it is a different kind of news aggregator. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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Here's a video review of SPL by a member of the site. Shows the innards of the membership and all the content available. read more »
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Like most second editions the changes made to the Authority Black Book 2008 aren’t huge, but they’re very necessary. read more »
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After reading the leaked "Quality Rater Guidelines" I was absolutely amazed at how basic a lot of the things are they have people looking for. Things that EASILY should be detected by the crawlers, not humans. Webmasters have long lived in fear of G read more »
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When launching a new website its best to think SEO from the beginning, but in some situations, you're going to want to cast SEO and search engines aside for core website marketing. read more »
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Maki(doshdosh) offers some great tips on how to leverage existing reference content you find on the web to provide real value to a sub-section of your market or audience and attract traffic and links to your blog/site. read more »
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Interview with one of my favourite Social Media ladies, Shana Albert read more »
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Comparing Microsoft's Web Analytics service "Gatineau" against Google Analytics. Who will come out on top??? read more »
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Is SEO ever a waste of time and/or money? American Express certainly seems to think so, even going so far as to suggest that search engine specialists will naturally try to trick the filtering techniques of engines and are likely to get your site ba read more »
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Adam Audette's link-building post which originated as his Searchfest 08 presentation. Yeah, this is a way over-done topic, but Adam uses a very fresh approach here and I recommend checking it out. read more »
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One of the best ways to get publicity and generate buzz is to get bloggers to write about what you're doing. Boing Boing co-author Cory Doctorow provides some tips on making it easy for bloggers to point to you. read more »
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ProBlogger writes this great post on How to Promote your Blog through Networking. It's his 2nd part to "five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again" series. read more »
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If you are commenting in blogs as a part of your link building strategy, look to the spam filtering system of the SpamKarma WP Plugin for red flags which the search engines are probably also using to identify comment spam. read more »
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We’re always talking about keeping links fresh and how important it is to keep up with your link building efforts. It’s great to talk about, but... read more »
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You heard it right ... Google has its sights set on display now too. While already dominating the roughly $8.5 billion search industry, they now want a big piece of the $6.7 billion display ad industry.

What concerns me is this statement; Google' read more »
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Great article about the value of social marketing, although the trend to mistakenly see it as having no measurable, trackable effects continues among SEO professionals. read more »
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Search Engine Land - When dealing with social news networks, the comments can mean the difference between a home run and a strike-out. The more that you understand the culture and what works - the better off you will be. Get involved and provide val read more »
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Right off the top, the title of this article doesn't mean I'm changing my position on social media as link driver. Yes, it's possible, but for the overwhelming majority of web sites, a widespread and costly social linking strategy is a waste of time read more »
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I added the MyBlogLog widget to my blog a while ago. Today I will discuss ways how you can get traffic to your blog from MyBlogLog. You should start with being logged in all the time, this way your thumbnail picture will show up on someone else’s wi read more »
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"The Internet community is wondering what its place in the world of politics is." Howard Dean, 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate, Wired Magazine, January 2004

If the Internet community didn't know what its place in the world of politics was read more »
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How much traffic do these social media sites really send? I have come up with a rough guide to how many unique visitors on average you can expect to get from a popular story on some of the top social tagging and news sites. I have worked out my esti read more »
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Brett has a great post which compares the current social media climate with life in the 1990s. read more »
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Jack Humphrey Author of The Authority Black Book, owner of the Friday Traffic Report and one of a handful of Social Marketing geniuses has started a new Social network. read more »
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Most people are missing the point of social marketing. They are tracking the wrong things as "success benchmarks" and in doing so are finding social marketing a bit of a disappointment. Here I discuss what people should be tracking and working tow read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
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