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Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and other read more »
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Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
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I [Garrett Pierson] had the wonderful honor of spending some time with Lee Odden of Top Rank. He gave great insight on the changing SEO Industry and the up and coming Social Media industry. Also Within the interview that you can listen to above or r read more »
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James Duthie tries to answer the question... Is social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? read more »
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We have all been there, in fact, much like a night out, you are most likely going to run into at least one!

Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's Search Engine Strategies San Jose search marketing co read more »
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Shana or The Nanny to some has been nominated for the 'Hot Blogger Calendar', show your appreciation by giving your vote to 'The Hot Shana Albert' !!! read more »
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Today Yahoo introduced a new look & feel for Site Explorer.

Way back in September of 2005 Yahoo introduced Site Explorer to us happy little webmasters. This drastic change in look & structure could indicate 'things to come' - perhaps a 'Google W read more »
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Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
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Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking when they d read more »
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Approaching the 10000 stumbles mark means that one has made some mistakes and learned along the way. Here are the 7 most annoying. read more »
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As part of the new design, Yahoo added a site summary page that shows additional stats about registered/authenticated sites including:

+ Site URL
+ Number of pages known
+ Number of pages crawled
+ Number of host on this domain
+ Number of in read more »
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Looks like there are going to be some nice new improvements to AdWords quality score read more »
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There are so many definitions for Social Media. What is Social Media really? read more »
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"Yahoo Buzz is now open to all publishers and web sites. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now "buzz up" any content from any publisher on the Web." read more »
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Great list from Tad about some very useful new web tools made available in 2008. read more »
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Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers read more »
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Six quality deep links in six days. All thanks to having a piece of unique content, and promoting that content. This is a mini case study that shows how pushing content can allow it to spread a lot further than expected. read more »
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This interview includes a few questions for Gleb Suvorov of SeoDigger and SeoQuake fame. He answers how data is obtained for the tools and a personal point of interest or two. read more »
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When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural versions read more »
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Yahoo!Site Explorer & advanced link search operators provide the most robust link data available. Despite this & excellent blog posts/resources, not every pro SEO is familiar with how to use Yahoo!'s data to the fullest extent. read more »
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Ian McAnerin discusses why ranking reports are not dead, and why site analytics isn't the be-all and end-all of understanding your visitors. read more »
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Want to be successful on Digg? Why not do exactly what the most successful Diggers are doing. Manish details 10 of the habits of successful Diggers.

Good read! read more »
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So after the huge GMail crash yesterday, I can totally see how many people could start to ask, "Man... do I depend on Gmail too much?" I didn't have any trouble with Gmail yesterday; however, I do know that thousands of others were. So what do you t read more »
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