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Barack Obama is the first "Social Media President" in history. He's the first one to understand and harness the power of sharing and communicating through social media platforms to not only get out his message, but to energize a group of Americans read more »
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Sorry I ain’t been around much lately, baby. It’s been crazy busy you know. Just got a lot of shit going on and am spreading the Hack pretty thin. And I think we both know this time might be coming sooner or later, right? I mean, we had a good thing read more »
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Dan Zarrella, a guest poster on Stuntdubl, writes about hooking readers in with a sense of urgency and gives us some very interesting results about viral marketing in his Viral Content Sharing Report ... read more »
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Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
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The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
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Very affordable! Speaker list:

* Debbie Weil - Author of the Corporate Blogging Book
* Kevin M. Ryan - Vice President, Global Content Director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch
* Geoff Livingston - Author of N 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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When you hear the word "conversion" do you automatically think "shopping cart", "secure server", or "SSL"? It's O.K. if you do, most people think along those lines when they hear talk about converting visitors to buyers. When people first started read more »
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Aaron Wall continues his series of guest interviews, this time applying his marketing knowledge to the music industry. read more »
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We all use it for reputation, but how about link building? read more »
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"Mike's taking on the position of Global KDM Officer, a newly-created senior executive position with worldwide management responsibilities. Mike's also been appointed to Acronym’s five-member Executive Board and given broad responsibilities to driv read more »
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A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. Never one to get complacent I’ve also developed an XML API version of my link attraction factors title checking tool and a Wordpress Pl read more »
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Guestwhore Michael Streko gives a few tips to those of us too unlucky to not be at SMX West on how to make it feel like we're there. read more »
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There are many articles and tutorials about how to become a top user and get on the front page of Digg but if your ultimate goal is attracting links, how do you maximize your submission’s potential to gain links? read more »
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Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has neve read more »
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SEO by the Sea brings us this interesting interview with Eric Hebert. read more »
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Sadly, this question still comes up in the web design community … Why use DIVS/CSS when I can use tables? That's like asking: why sleep on a bed when I have a couch? read more »
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Chris Sherman's informative take on how to approach big sites in regards to paid search. Shannon at 10e20 does an excellent job outlining all of the highlights of his presentation. read more »
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I learned how to very quickly tell if the client’s service would work on Facebook, and whether or not the client would go for it. If either of those looked like a “no, I didn’t need to spend much time looking for a Facebook avenue. This saved me a l read more »
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Have you seen the Whopper Freakout yet? If you haven't, you certainly should, it'll have you laughing as people truly do freak out about not getting a Whopper. Burger King's latest advertising efforts offline so sweetly coincide online. It's really read more »
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So for four weeks, David DiMartino ran one of our AdWords campaigns using DKI. The test was simple, he just created copies of every ad in the 200 keyword campaign, and inserted {KeyWord: } tags into the title of each copy. read more »
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Optimizing images for search engine increases your chances of ranking in Google Image Search and generates an alternate source of traffic to your website. There are 3 major places you can optimize an image: the file name, the Title and Alt attribute read more »
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Microsoft just unveiled the beta of Ad Intelligence, their new keyword research tool. The tool is a plugin for Excel 2007, check out my first review. read more »
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Online social media, like socialized forms of media before it, has at its core the concept of communal recreation. Lessig called it The Remix Culture. What ever you label it, its a focus on derivative works. read more »
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If we assume that the average user on a social media site is ‘fairly intelligent’ (though it’s true that not all users are equally savvy and in the end some users will rise above others to be stronger contributers) then it makes sense to give a ‘top read more »
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