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John delves into the issue of why his blog is a failure because it contains insightful quality blog posts vs. the success of the dumbed down link baiting blogs that pander to the lowest common denominator. read more »
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Bill Slawski discusses the prevalence of malicious software and the percentage of pages that deliver these foul attacks.

Are there reliable applications to identify embedded malicious code on web pages? read more »
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From the page; "SEOMoz found that the top 100 Digg users control 56% of the homepage. More recent statistics show that the top 100 Digg users are responsible for 48% of the content that appears on the home page."

So, the post does a really good j read more »
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How have I learned to use Twitter in my online communication? Let me count the ways...I put some thought into how Twitter has substantially changed the ways in which I communicate online. In this post, I want to lay out in a longer form (< 140 chara read more »
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Great post From NowSourcing (Brian's original headline :) A BAD avatar ruins EVERYTHING. "content is king...Your diamonds are trying to stay afloat in the cesspool of spam, viagra, forex, and trash. KILLER titles are critical, a crappy avatar wrecks read more »
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There are times where it can be difficult for small business to compete in the paid search environment. As the cost of targeting keywords on venues such as Google AdWords continues to increase, many small businesses are finding it difficult to keep read more »
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There are basically three kinds of social media marketers. Guess which type is winning in the long term. read more »
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So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results. But questioning the the wisdom of this algorithmic choice is off the table. So they say, "Whoa. Look at that site at the top of all our results. We made them that big with ou read more »
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In the past 12 months, Google doubled its staff, tinkered with its search engine to speed up results, and now answers more queries than Microsoft and Yahoo combined. But there's one query we had to answer ourselves: How does Google work? (This is a read more »
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While Digg had everyone Cheering for the release of the long anticipated “Images” section, they took a small stab at Shout spammers as well. read more »
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Effective ad placement is critical if you plan to make any significant amounts of money through Google Adsense or other contextual ad systems.

Using a blog template with distinct ad blocks and optimized ad placements will very likely help you inc read more »
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Attending conferences, reading blogs, listening to podcasts, and talking at meetups will reveal social media rules that many think cannot be broken in order for an activity to qualify as legitimate and successful. I’m here to tell you that most of t read more »
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Important point from Shimon at the end too: "As a rule-of-thumb, I wouldn’t speak about your intended enhancements or marketing of the website with the present ownership. Because, they might not like what you have planned, and squash the entire deal read more »
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Seems like this social bookmarking is a tough nut to crack, but read to the bottom for a one-off Sphinn related offer.

Getting onto the front page of Digg has always been notoriously difficult, so I realized a while ago that chasing the Digg vote read more »
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Popular social news site “Digg” has a reputation for being a democratic news website worthy of competing with mainstream sources such as CNN. Both news sources focus on completely different “news worthy” stories, but a few months ago we were lucky e read more »
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Logging on this morning, I noticed that Facebook have finally bowed to pressure and removed the mandatory "is" from status updates... read more »
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Inflammatory titles aside, I think reddit is a fantastic site. I read it constantly. As the reddit audience has grown, the type of content submitted to the site has changed. It turns out that the “wisdom of the crowd” idea on which social bookmarkin read more »
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It’s a great feature that goes well for what I’d like out of my search engines personally, but then again, when I can still use the best search engine out there (Google), even though it’s still awful, with such programs as Stealther and AdBlockPlus, read more »
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Google Operating System Blog reports Google has launched the navigational links interface that was launched in the US in mid-May, worldwide. read more »
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Google AdSense Blog announced several improvements to the AdSense console. read more »
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The Facebook ad platform offers an exciting glimpse into future of customer-level profiling. The Facebook algorithm ranks PEOPLE for CONCEPTS as categorized by KEYWORDS in nasty little focused grids which includes friends and social-actions. read more »
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More and more, I've been running into businesses that are using Internet data to drive their content marketing efforts. What this means is that instead of an organization creating content for their websites in the form of text, audio or video, they read more »
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Writing effective website copy is a hugely misunderstood occupation. When looking to reduce costs on a project, one of the first expenses to be cut - if it was even considered in the first place - is often the copywriter. After all, if you run a bus read more »
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I was having a glance through Sphinn's top users rankings as well as their top content, and I realized that while I know a fair amount of those folks (know who they are, I mean), there's a number that I don't. I had a look at 20 of the top unknown ( read more »
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Seth Godin is recommending human-friendly URLs today. That's the non-WWW version of the URL. However if you want Google traffic, you may prefer to go with the WWW version. read more »
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