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Despite the clamour as of late from from those who insist that Search engine optimization is dying, on the contrary, SEO in fact is evolving. The umbrella of search engine optimization services have become a synthesis of analytics, usability, web de read more »
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David Meerman Scott's new Ebook - get it! read more »
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Are you delivering on your promises? You had better be. read more »
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Blog post suggests that you must actively dream up ways to get permission of your customers and prospects to market to them. Is this extreme video marketing? read more »
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How can the difference between perception and reality hurt you? As this whack on the head will show you, it can cost you business. read more »
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You know why there's "nofollow" and "dofollow." Now you need to know why "unfollow" happens. A lucky 13 microbloggers share why you may suffer the ultimate Twitter FAIL. Great post by Brian Carter (follow-up to his 14 reasons he'll unfollow you) read more »
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Is marketing research cool? How can it be cool, when it's done by researchers, who are about as cool as the high school herpetology club? Read on and see? read more »
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Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. read more »
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Performing a complete website review is rarely easy. I've found that you can start a site analysis intending to spend just a few minutes looking over it only to find that it quickly spirals into a multi-hour marathon of research. Complete website re read more »
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Suggestions regarding what people can do, a little bit at a time, to preserve our planet. read more »
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Mike Tighe has a great list of Twitterers who are also active Sphinners. Add your name to the list! read more »
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"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" read more »
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How is marketing like sex? Sex like marketing? There are so many ways we can learn about one from the other. read more »
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I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

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Are you listening to your customers? Really? read more »
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Are your readers doing what you want them to do? Are they clicking through to your links, ordering your eBook or signing up for your opt-in? If not, you need to learn a master craftsman’s copywriting secret.

This technique acts like a remote cont read more »
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Jenn gives us her 10 fav rules of blogging and throws in a few monkeys...just for fun.

SEP - Think about needs your readers looking to satisfy? It is possible to come up with really good content ideas for even the most challenging of industries. read more »
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An excellent article detailing what SEO is, how it works and why you as a business owner should care. read more »
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Seth Godin is one of my marketing heroes. He’s a thoughtful marketer and frequently on the vanguard of various new media applications. I read all of his books, and never fail to learn something from them. I subscribe to his blog, and have read many read more »
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I’m officially a Twitter addict. Twitter is a mini-blog in the simplest of terms. You have 140 characters to promote yourself, meet people, say something of interest (or not), reply to others and basically chit-chat or ‘Tweet’.

I can’t help mysel read more »
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I've got news for your guys: You're all doing it wrong.

Using twitter as a link dump for backlinks really isn't a very disruptive use of the system. You dont need any followers, so you don't have to worry about mass-following a whole bunch of peo read more »
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SEO wouldn't be the same without social media and Google wouldn't be the same without SEO... read more »
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My Internet Marketing List of last week got one heck of a response - 22,000 unique visitors in 3 days. Even though most of you losers didn't subscribe to my RSS feed, it gave my limp, damp ego a nice boost. In the interest of beating a good idea to read more »
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Focus Groups: The series - a six part feature series on focus groups. read more »
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While catching up on my RSS feeds today, I came across a post at Matt McGee's Small Business SEM that's a few days old, but well worth mentioning. The post dives into the issue of Alexa rankings and explains why they should not be used as a gauge of read more »
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