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Great podcast about link building. Love the chart. read more »
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Seriously, if you're gonna redesign a site, it might as well be a cool one like WAN. You'll get a lifelong link, and Brent saying nice things about you. Plus, I'm gonna send you guitar hero so we can b*tch about Tom Morello being a guitar alien fr read more »
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Since I just bought my new Macbook Pro, I had to reinstall all of my Firefox extensions, plugins and tools. So, I figured, hey, why not write a detailed post with examples about my “Top 7 Firefox extensions, plugins, and tools” that are near and dea read more »
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Sphinn, all nicely collected in one place. read more »
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Tony Adam writes "I have been inundated with communities over the last couple years and recently it has been almost the only thing I am working on lately. I have learned so much about managing volunteer groups, creating an offline community of web g read more »
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Digg launched it's third attempt at a comments system in the last year. Did they finally fix the problems and provide a good comments system or ... read more »
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You have a search engine in front of you, your EMPOWERED. You have the power in your fingertips to draw information on a GLOBAL level, or on a localized, specific level. When I intentionally gave that power up, I actually felt that loss. Some day read more »
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Keyword research is the base for any good SEO campaign and a large amount of your success will be truly dependent on how well you did your keyword research. Of course, this will be built into your overall SEO Strategy, but it should be the very *FIR read more »
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Rumors have been swirling that Search Engine Strategies has banned certain members of the search community and will be retooling their programming for upcoming shows.

Check out Daron Babin's interview with Kevin Ryan that explains everything. read more »
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Must. Read. Post.

Why? first to see some leading (and fresh) thoughts on where this industry is going, second, to see a great list of who's getting it and who's not, and third to start thinking about the bright new people who will be taking our read more »
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"I asked it for directions from my home to the Merchandise Mart," she said. "Google tells me to get on the correct bus, the CTA 52A South Kedzie, then take it to the Orange Line. That's also correct, but the Orange Line is referred to as a subway. G read more »
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In social media, we are always talking about finding a way to take your service or product, and make it into something that is viral and will appeal to the majority of online users.

SEO Rapper, aka Chuck the “Poetic Prophet”, has done just that b read more »
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If you happen to visit Google today, Saturday March 29, 2008, you will notice they have turned the lights out on their homepage, in an effort to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. read more »
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Jason Bartholme writes, "Twitter is a social network and micro-blogging service which serves me well for connecting with colleagues, friends and family. As great of a service as it is, however it does lack some minor functionality that would appease read more »
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People can already learn a lot of useful information from the snippets and they will find even more information as search engines become smarter and learn how to anticipate users' needs. Surprisingly, the mission of a search engine is not to send it read more »
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Part of any link building campaign should always include the internal Link Architecture that you have within your domain and off the domain for link building activities. I tend to use the term Link Architecture because it is similar to the Informati read more »
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You constantly hear about how many “subscribers” X company has compared to X company. These numbers usually are comparing their leading 200 million to some 50 million. Tencent Holdings Limited shows 715 million subscribers, making US companies all s read more »
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On occasion, I do a few vanity searches on keywords I want to rank for. I was searching “Social Media Consulting” on Google today, and noticed something odd with my result. Google gave me an indented result… from a different site. read more »
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Digg has been shopping for a buyer for about 6 months now. It was reported today that two huge players are planning to put in a bid to buy the biggest news social community: Microsoft and Google. read more »
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Search Engine Land - There was a time in social media, just as in search engine optimization (SEO), when everything was only about getting to the front page. Little attention was paid to what happened after you got there and for a while it seemed as read more »
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Some very neat points about SEO concious web design. read more »
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At its current growth rate, China will become the world's top Internet market sometime in the next few months.

The implication for web marketers and entrepreneurs is clear. If you want to tap into the world's largest consumer base, you better st read more »
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Cshel covers your rights when you post something online. read more »
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6....Being featured on the YouTube front page can provide ROCKET fuel for perpetual viral status, even generating MILLIONS of views.5,4,3,2,1 LIFT OFF. (Check out this YouTube "how-to post" from David Dalka) read more »
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Ever wonder how Google or another search engine might locate music files? Every wonder the different models they may use to identify such music? Also, how to detect duplicate content when it comes to music with "Factor Uniqueness Analysis".

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