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Twitter is a great marketing tool that can help you understand your audience and keep track of hot trends in your industry. read more »
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Second part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 2 focuses on the importance of content. read more »
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Dan Zarella writes "Here’s the slides from my pubcon presentation. I’m not sure how easy they’ll be to read without the accompanying talking, and you may need to use full screen to see the detail in the graphics. I apologize in advance." read more »
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"In the first part on Google Analytics for SEO we looked at advanced segmentation and custom reporting for search traffic analysis. This time around we’re going to look at different metrics and key indicators for keywords and phrases that are being read more »
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Here are five actionable tips to ramp up your Holiday promotional efforts ranging from e-commerce optimization, link building, local search, and pay per click marketing. read more »
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This post is sourced from my presentation at Pubcon on the Linkfluence: How to Buy Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk panel. Since it received such positive feedback and a lot of requests for sharing, I thought I'd do so in a more referenceab read more »
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Social Media is hottest trend these days. In the past times bloggers work for building blogger relationship for better and happy blogging. But in this time when the social media is rocking the blogger relationship is changing into the social media r read more »
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Barack Obama’s election was historic not just politically – his use of the the Internet to promote awareness and create a loyal following will be the template which all future presidential campaigns will draw inspiration from. read more »
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Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
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Leo Babauta shares his secret to branding.

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First part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 1 focuses on the importance of domains. read more »
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Jeremy Schoemaker AKA ShoeMoney goes "Beyond Adsense" and discusses the different options available to you when monetizing your website and/or blog. read more »
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Google sucks when it comes to telling people what search queries your PPC traffic arrives from. read more »
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Every time I talk to the guys at Reddit, they are mentioning yet another change, feature, or addition to their site. I really don’t know how they find the time to do it all, with having only 5 people (6 now actually since they hired Erik the “Manage read more »
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The session code named: "Give It Up: White Hat Edition - This session has SEOs sharing favorite, little-known and powerful techniques that wont get you banned in search engines from trying."

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These new networking possibilities are what is fueling the interest in what is called word-of-mouth marketing, or viral marketing, or buzz marketing, or exponential marketing. If you are a marketer, then this has huge potential. For simplicity in th read more »
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Deanna Writes...
"Seeing as how we are currently in a serious economic recession, more and more major companies are relying on what is known as “word of mouth” advertising to generate buzz for their products. These techniques are a cheap and effec read more »
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Out of this research has grown my latest project, the ProtoViral WordPress theme. Built to be flexible design-wise, it allows you to customize it to match the look and feel you need, while including a wide range of flexible and powerful viral market read more »
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Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. read more »
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Word of mouth marketing is so effective because it uses the personal and business relationships that already exist between people. In some cases, such as celebrities or media personalities, the people involved may never have met, but a trust relatio read more »
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Barry has a problem and rightly so..going through too many links will become hard! Thoughts? read more »
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On November 17th, 2008, Hugg will no longer accept new submissions or registrations. Hugg will remain publicly viewable until the end of the year, at which time Hugg.com will be closed. read more »
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The Fortune 500 are “woefully unrepresented in natural search,” according to a new report out this week. Conductor, a New York-based search/analytics agency, studied the natural search visibility of Fortune magazine’s 2008 Fortune 500 — a list of Am read more »
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As an SEO, I’ve always been a little perturbed to know that the American oriented Google index has, as its home, the aggrandized Google.com domain. read more »
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One of the biggest shortcomings of Google Webmaster Tools is that you cannot see changes over time. Glync is a free Firefox extension that allows you to track your domain's links over time right in Google Webmaster Tools. The Pro Version lets you tr read more »
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