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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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A scintillating interview podcast with "Mr. Twittering in the Bath" himself. You heard it here first :) read more »
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The bloom may be off the del.icio.us rose as it's growth appears to be slowing/falling especially compared to social news sites. I know Yahoo was under considerable pressure to not change del.icio.us but the numbers clearly point to the fact that le read more »
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A review of a site being ranked below content scrapers on Google. Some suggestions why, and an interesting look at mistakes being made by Google, the biggest search engine. read more »
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On a cold winterss evenin at a Pubcon in Vegas,
I met up with the Linker; we were both too tired to sleep.
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You got to know when to link em, know when to bait em,
Know when Matt's talking FUD, And when he's holding a gun.
You never coun read more »
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In this mornings post Graywolf chastised Google for giving straight links to partners,... now he's found a whole bunch more! read more »
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Congrats to Rand on winning the most giving search blogger. Sharing the way you do is unprecedented in our industry. Thank you for all of us. read more »
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Not soon after we see Marty hit 100 front page Sphinns, Maki delivers his 200th front pager! Congrats Maki! read more »
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Most linkbait is gimmicky and designed to get the short-term traffic boost that social media provides. But the best linkbait targets long term link growth. read more »
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Glen explains how checking what keywords people are using in search engines to find his site, can actually lead some ideas for a good blog post. read more »
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All in all, the Purple Cow is a good read and if you do get it, enjoy the ideas and remember to put them into practice. A book like this waxes poetic on marketing ideologies but it’s useless if you don’t take that big step to create a Purple Cow. read more »
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There’s a potentially huge untapped advertising market on the Web involving personal ads read more »
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... The initial desire to blog came from a want to do something because I enjoyed it. The need comes from the feeling of having to do it because I enjoy it so much. Or am I just kidding myself with that last line? ... read more »
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"It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It's only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge amounts of data about us, as Open Data advocates push for that data to be freed up read more »
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Vote for your favorite blogs!

The Reader's Choice portion of 2007 Performancing Awards 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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Forbes.com attempts to outsmart bloggers by going for several make money keyphrases. They succeed with this article partly. They rank #11 for "how to make money online" without the quotation marks. read more »
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* The idea is to start with your over all blog’s topic/niche.
* Then to brainstorm categories
* Then to begin to brainstorm post and series topics 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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Pay per post blogging, in it's current form, cannot survive. Customer confidence is low and penalizations are high.
This is some recommendations for the dedicated pay-per-poster on how to survive. read more »
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It's late at night and I'm finishing a presentation for tomorrow, and my email tells me I just got 7 new emails. Four of them are leads from our website (cool!), one is from Brian, one from Dharmesh (we work late at HubSpot [grin]) and one from som read more »
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A little while back someone said to me that blogging is a “man’s game”, and with people like John Chow, Darren Rowse and many other guys sitting in the upper echelons of blogging celebrity, at first I had to agree with her. I told her that the sex o read more »
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Exciting news ... Wiep is now the very proud father of a happy and healthy baby boy named Liam. Congratulations Wiep! Exciting times! read more »
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From the article: "Is everyone who uses social media websites for SEO bad? Are they all spammers? Absolutely not. Some of the most respected members of the SM sites are SEOs by profession. Without “outing” any, it’s clear that they are active co read more »
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In a popular SEO article that received over 50 votes on Sphinn last week, Vinny Goldsmith outlines 6 things that he knows (thinks he knows) about SEO. However, I felt the need to refute every single one of his points. Who do you think is right? read more »
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