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"Economy through obscurity is as bad as security through obscurity. Unfortunately it’s precisely what a search engine, or rather our way of using it, has to offer to the majority of businesses listed ." read more »
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Shana Albert writes a fantastic post about why online businesses need to use empathy to convert customers. I appreciated the suggestions and real-life examples. read more »
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If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won't make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. read more »
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You see your site falling - a bit too late. Think now to save headaches down the track. read more »
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The ultimate list of 55 Stats and Analytics Plugins for Wordpress. As a blogger, tracking where your traffic is coming from, who is visiting your site, and which pages they are visiting is essential to being a successful blogger. read more »
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George Murphy, an SEO from Baltimore has a great article here about how large corporations are successfully embracing Twitter as a means for customer feedback management read more »
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This is a great collection of excellent blog posts nominated by folks in the industry.

The author says "If you just read through this post and follow the links, you will be arming yourself with knowledge from true experts in their field. If you u read more »
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I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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Every time we do social media strategic reviews for clients we can't help but note the growing influence of YouTube on a company's reputation. So, ahead of our Social Media Influence conference we decided to compile our own YouTube Corporate Top 10 read more »
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Investigating Sphinn proved to be a telling exercise for me. At least, I think so. This article shares some of the data I pulled and the concerns that emerged from having done that research. Hopefully worth a view for anyone caring about the long read more »
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Unless you have a well known brand and/or established social relationships with thought leaders it is hard to get lasting quality links for less than a few hundred dollars each. And there are only a few Google approved paid link sources that you can read more »
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Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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Today, ShoeMoney and Marketing Pilgrim provided great insights into why they think search engine optimization has no future.

I don't agree. Times infinity. Nyah nyah phbltbltbltblt. So there. read more »
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Ian vehemently disagrees with Jeremy Shoemaker and Marketing Pilgrim that SEO is singing its swan song. What do you think? Is SEO a burly bully boy or is sand getting kicked in its face? Sound-off on the Conversation Marketing blog.



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Effective marketing is so much more than just “getting the word out” – it is a series of efforts that complement and support each other for the ultimate goal of creating a satisfied, lifelong customer for your business. By taking the time to underst read more »
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A good friend of mine asked me for some tips on how to use LinkedIn. I sent him a long email and figure that I should share my thoughts on this with all of you. I'm not an investor in LinkedIn, but think it's a great service. Here's the scoop. read more »
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This first graph shows the differences between the types of content non-Twitter users share individually and what Twitter-addicts share. read more »
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Before you go anywhere, you have to know where you’re going. What’s your destination? What’s your plan? Building a blog of quality and relevance is an accomplishment. It’s not something that just happens by letting your fingers type anything. It tak read more »
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If you hang around the tech industry long enough, you realize: It's just like high school. These grown men and women may have millions or billions of dollars, but it's the same old set of dramas on a bigger canvas. Which seems exactly the way to vie read more »
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David scores Matt's first post-Marchex interview where he questions Matt about search, photography, life, and his future plans.

See Matt McGee in Portland at the next SEMpdx Hot Seat event 5/20: http://www.sempdx.org/Events/?launch_pg=EventPag read more »
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Post-launch Adwords process from strategies, split testing, ad optimization to content targeted campaign optimization. read more »
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Guest post from Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) delving deeper into the qualitative aspects of Social Media Marketing - great post and the threat of violence too!!

Snip - Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach read more »
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SEO isn’t a dying industry, it’s an evolving industry. Yes, the Search Engines’ algorithms are changing, but they always have – and always will. One thing you change today, may not work a week from now. Isn’t this how it has always been? read more »
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Very cool breakdown and tool from DaveN - very handy.

Snippet - I can see that I have too many internal links, I still like the 100 links on a page rule, so that means I need to do some culling, most probably in my NAV .. any way externals links read more »
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David Wallace provides an impressive and informative look at what is appropriate when submitting articles to social media sites. He explains proper title, description and category selection etiquette, giving clear examples and elucidating on why th read more »
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