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Many blogs are filled with fluff just in the name of sticking to a posting schedule. This post outlines several kinds of blog posts that provide value both to your readers and to you as a blogger. I explain the benefits of each one and suggest when read more »
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I recently started a Search Marketing company and am really feeling the stress of working constantly. An important lesson - be sure you make some time to relax so you don't lose the will to go on. read more »
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When you are strapped for ideas you either hope an idea will come to you eventually in a random moment of inspiration, or you delve into your RSS feeds to try to find something that sparks your imagination. The Word That Ensures 100% productivity i read more »
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Some industries appear to lend themselves better to blogging than others. In our field I’ll always have far more blog post ideas than I do time to write. But what about more challenging industries? read more »
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Recently, the Catholic church decided to update the 7 deadly sins with a new set to reflect it’s new socially conscious agenda. Sweeping away the obvious historical issues we could raise here, I thought it would be fun to look at what these might b read more »
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My Internet Marketing List of last week got one heck of a response - 22,000 unique visitors in 3 days. Even though most of you losers didn't subscribe to my RSS feed, it gave my limp, damp ego a nice boost. In the interest of beating a good idea to read more »
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Just imagine what life would be like if you could take your robots.txt file out to the bar with you. You could filter people out and only allow certain people to contact you. Or, of course you could leave things wide open! Of course you are going to read more »
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Surely the topic of using negative keywords for organic search engine result pages has come up before but I've not seen any discussions myself. We posed the question on our blog and now I want to know what everyone thinks about it, and why the big read more »
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Tad ponders the phrase - 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' and wonders about the implications for social media and traffic generation. read more »
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YouTube is launching its own analytics tool called insight. read more »
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They built the SEO Images (part of Foliopress WYSIWYG) plugin.With SEO Images, all happens automatically: alt tag,thumbnail (whatever size you prefer),link to larger version image,and more... read more »
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Rand Fishkin identifies 7 reasons why business struggle to generate organic rankings. read more »
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Great article on optimizing your image for search engines !! read more »
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Link building sucks. There I said it. Of course it's been said before and most people who have even the slightest bit of experience with it can tell you the same. It's tedious. It's monotonous. It's mundane. True link building is marketing. But that 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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Good reminder as to why it's so important to employ multiple marketing strategies... read more »
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Interview with one of my favourite Social Media ladies, Shana Albert read more »
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Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report to help searchers find what they want. If you apply SEO to the Web page Description, then you can increase the chances that the Description becomes the snippet that Googl read more »
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You put something out there, and the crowd will reveal the direction you should go in. It’s not necessarily always the wisdom of the crowd, but rather the desires and objections of the crowd that guide you. read more »
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Some bloggers spend more time with a whiteboard or notepad than they do actually writing content, and dedicate more words to outline a growth strategy than they do to actually writing content! Some of the world’s most popular blogs are the result of read more »
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When putting together a social media campaign, you should consider many different things before you actually submit your content. You need to think about creating good social media accounts, quality content, and which social media site to submit to. read more »
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Ann Smarty explains in detail how to analyze the internal power of your website. read more »
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I've built this list up over quite a while, with some real gems in there read more »
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Andrew Shotland shares a creative way to get SEO value out of a Facebook business page. :-) read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008