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Your country is your home, but opportunity exists everywhere. Despite language barriers, authority sites (since search engines can translate) are everywhere. Such websites when combined in tandem can provide immense inbound link weight for your webs read more »
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Nintendo's channel on Youtube has just turned online advertising up a notch with this brilliant example of viral advertising, people will be speaking about this for weeks to come.

Watch how the video interacts with the rest of the page to brin read more »
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Great post about a website that has popped up and is claiming to be a crusade against Spore, yet looks suspiciously like a clever marketing ploy.

Unless you have been living under a rock (or simply have zero interest in video games what so ever) read more »
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Another great one from Shimon Sandler.

Start off by downloading a Keyword Report for a previous Time Period out of Adwords report center. Sort by your specific success metric (eg: Cost-Per-Coversion, Orders, etc.). read more »
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Another great post by Karl:

Ready for a shocker? No, not that kind of shocker you pervert (Greg). The shocker that I'm referring to is the one that leads a person to disbelief and is usually attributed to hearing or discovering something that is read more »
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“Never assume.” - These 2 words represent the greatest advice ever given to me on the topic of website optimization. Here’s a list of 10 assumptions site owners make (myself included) that could cost you a ton of business. read more »
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Marketers who treat their audience as they would a partner are far more likely to succeed. Just because you’re hiding behind a computer screen, doesn’t mean you can abandon the principles of human relations and interaction. If you’re struggling to g read more »
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Have you ever wondered how videos show up in web search engine results? How do videos get hundreds of thousands to millions of views on YouTube? Who’s watching my videos? Well, with a little hard work on optimizing and networking your video content read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but still carry a lot of weight (in the form of inlinks, rankings and traff read more »
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A few days ago, I wrote about the power of the word “New” to get our attention - if there’s a more potent attractor out there, it’s almost certainly “FREE!” For years, advertising gurus have listed “free” on every compilation of powerful headline wo read more »
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One of the often overlooked benefits of PPC marketing is the conversion data from the different sources the networks use to expand into different marketing channels. read more »
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Great article by Li:

As much as social media is about starting conversations, its equally as much about building relationships. Once you start getting involved with social media, it becomes very apparent that it takes time and resources to build read more »
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A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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An interesting interview discussion with Aaron Wall. Some good questions in there too! read more »
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So you know your site needs to be optimized and now just need to find someone to do it. The following questions are ones you need to ask to ensure that you maximize your investment... read more »
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Should you jump into social networking to promote your business? And if so, with so many options available, how do you choose which social networks to participate in? read more »
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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to test the waters. read more »
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Brian continues on in his "comical" way of explaining what is important in an SEM campaign. read more »
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The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. read more »
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Li Evans writes, "What do you use social media for? Do you use it to gain links? How about power? Maybe to trick people into thinking you are someone else? Perhaps as leverage to con someone into doing something on another social media site for you? read more »
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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
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Fantastic (as usual) roundup of all the best SEO and SEM blog posts for the month of May by Steven Bradley of VanSEO fame.

Makes for a great Sunday morning read. read more »
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If you are active in social media marketing, you have probably come to understand that it is a whole lot more complicated than you thought it was going to be. Even as involved as I am in social media every day, I still learn new tricks and tactics d read more »
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This week I watched "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and couldn’t help but realize how far I’ve come. No, not necessarily career-wise but …well… in pure years. read more »
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