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Increased advertising will sustain, but not drive, Digg. The company can increase its user base through acquisitions and cross its fingers with ads, but without a bigger vision, Digg won’t stick around, assuming the plan is to stay independent. read more »
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David Perelty gets interviewed. read more »
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One of my favorite interviews. read more »
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Have you ever had issues upgrading multiple WordPress blogs? Well, Subversion can make that process simple. Geeks are Sexy has a long how-to article on using Subversion. read more »
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A great breakdown of the two main types of link bait creators on the net: hustlers and spin doctors. I find myself leaning towards the latter, what about you? read more »
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Even if you have a great product, you have to find ways to cut through the noise to get their attention, and even then, most bloggers are very apprehensive due to the constant battle they need to participate in against spam. read more »
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Welcome to the SEO post on my blog. I would like to start off and say, you are smart. You have chosen to read up on SEO techniques rather then just sitting back and hoping google cuts you a break. First off this topic is for bloggers mainly but we d read more »
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Sometimes one of the hardest things to do for any website is build links to deep content.These are the links that generally will help the site perform best overall in the search engines. This is because while it may take hundreds or thousands of lin read more »
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This posts looks at the reasons for creating posts specifically to target social media audiences and it covers the approach that I currently use. read more »
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An overview of Adify, a great advertising network for bloggers as a replacement to Google AdSense. read more »
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Why does John Chow get negative comments on nearly every post? Jealousy! We take a look at comments and how negative comments aren't really all that bad. read more »
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Google is giving back PageRank to people they previously penalized for Paid Links. Heck, even John Chow got a +1 to his PageRank. Is Google getting soft or just trying to provide better search results? read more »
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Darren Rowse, Problogger.net, promoted the AdSense book by Joel Comm without doing any due diligence in checking out any possible issues with the product. He included his affiliate URL in the post and as such, in my mind promoted underhanded marketi read more »
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The perfect storm is brewing in the Make Money Online blogging world. These blogs tend to elicit strong reactions for various reasons. It seems that most people tend to either love or hate them with very few being indifferent to them.

Whether you read more »
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As I get older and “allegedly” wiser I often find myself looking backwards in order to find my way forward. I like to reflect on the things that I have done that have been both successful and not so successful. There are valuable lessons to be learn read more »
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From the article: In my experience it seems to be a fairly common trait that bloggers often start a blog without any real sense of purpose or end result that they are trying to achieve. They want to do well, they just don’t know how well or how the read more »
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Five months ago, I looked at how the 45n5.com Top 100 list changed due to a PageRank update. Since then Google has updated some PageRanks again, and I wanted to go back over the previous list and see where people stand today. read more »
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Why is there such a huge drop in Alexa and Technorati rankings despite increasing traffic? Could it be the lack of social media promotion? read more »
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A quick look at what still draws community participation on a blog. read more »
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A large blog network, Splashpress Media is adding Scratchback. The future of text link sales thanks to JavaScript? read more »
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Amazing the quality of themes available for WordPress, even more surprising is how many amazing designs come from one designer. Several amazing free themes for bloggers to use, all from Design Disease. read more »
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Technorati is currently, without doubt providing fresher results than Google - refreshing a Google blog search page tracking results sorted by date was providing 10 results in the last 2 hours. In contrast, Technorati is providing 10 results… in the read more »
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Reasons why diversity of traffic is important, and some simple steps to help achieve it. read more »
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Tips on how to use Niche social media as a key part in the marketing of your site. What exactly are Niche social media and how to they relate to sites such as Digg and Stumbleupon. read more »
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Watch all the way to the very end...or skip ahead to the last 30 or so seconds. read more »
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