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Sam encourage a discussion about the future of URLs as natural language navigation begins to lead technology... Should Google Search stop using the URL of a site as an indicator of relevance? Or will their omnibar, or Mozilla’s ubiquity will be the read more »
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Anyways, if you haven’t been keeping up with the social media scene lately, I would have to say you have been missing out on a lot of crazy stuff. In this post I will try and link to all the things that have been going on lately in terms of Digg and read more »
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Here is the interview we promised with one of Digg top users read more »
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Dean Rieck presents a blowout list of fantastic ideas that persuade based on how traditional quoted testimonials work. A real eye-opener. read more »
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what criteria should use to select an ecommerce package? Marketing does not participate in selecting an ecommerce solution but are stuck marketing afterwards. It might be worth while to learn few things on what makes a good ecommerce solution. read more »
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So you've got a new website, great you're now a step ahead of those without one but a small hop, skip and a jump behind those who have been online for a while. What can you do to catch up with those who already have plenty of traffic, links to their read more »
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This is an often asked question, surprisingly. Webmaster forums keep discussing horror stories how their site traffic dropped after they created a sitemap and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. So here I am giving a list of frequently asked sit read more »
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“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.”

This sentence was probably the most overlooked part of the Yahoo & Google read more »
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Today I am going to add a few useful FireFox plugins that can also be very helpful for exploring backlinks. read more »
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An insightful article looking at 8 ways in which you can learn from your online competitors and which tools to use to stay informed about what your competition is doing. read more »
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Some useful ways you can use Twitter ... when it is working! read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth blogger complains that his site has been hacked. A few red flags that might read more »
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A list of blackhats who take no prisoner. read more »
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A look at the challenge of getting social media users to visit more than one page on your site. read more »
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"I’ve just been reading a great article by Clive Thompson on Twitter over at Wired.

He says that Twitter is giving members a sort of Sixth Sense about their community:

Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They read more »
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Whilst social media has been incredibly valuable for helping me to grow my blog over the past year, I think it is also critical to understand its boundaries. Here are 10 limitations of social media... read more »
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Email marketing offers a great opportunity to connect with current customer as well as potential prospects. Compare for example traditional website visitors to subscribers of an opt-in mailing list. Site visitors include those who land on the site b read more »
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Traditionally, StumbleUpon campaigns and traffic do not have great conversion rates for pages where you have to subscribe to download a paper or a report.

However, with one tweak, we were able to increase conversion rate 405% read more »
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There are thousands of tools out there that will simplify your life one way or another. This is a list of tools I find myself using on weekly basis. Some of these tools are technical in nature, others are very easy to use. read more »
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From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal! read more »
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Did you know there's only 261 shopping days left before Christmas? That might seem like a crazy thing to worry about in April but you know what they say, the early bird gets the link. Using the holidays to attract links is fun, good for trend watchi read more »
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Are companies paying affiliates to change links? read more »
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A client recently asked me to share a few blogging tips and recommend some good articles to read. I went a little overboard ... and put together this huge list of 61 recommended articles and posts about blogging. Now you can just bookmark this one a read more »
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I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network d read more »
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A scintillating interview podcast with "Mr. Twittering in the Bath" himself. You heard it here first :) read more »
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