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sharing my experience with you all on stumbleupon...giving you an idea on the amount of traffic generated. read more »
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Lisa Barone touches on the quality and maturation of the Linkbait process. She argues that we should focus more on quality, researched linkbait (better conversions) and less on silly photo montages, and crazy cat videos (high traffic but low convers read more »
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A look at the White Hat and the Black Hat approach to getting your keywords noticed within the content of your site/page. read more »
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With all the talk of Google PageRank *yawn* lately, at least we can count on StumbleUpon for love. read more »
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My latest Search Engine Land article:
"Fall is the time of year when we start to look at where search marketing is heading. Looking at the latest search marketing conference agendas, articles, and online news in the SEM space, it certainly appears read more »
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I was accused of having a misleading title regarding my post on Google's PageRank update. Well it looks like Jennifer needs some new boots... take a look. read more »
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Microsoft wins Facebook's hand. Microsoft agreed to invest $240 million for a minority stake in Facebook Inc. that values the social-networking site at $15 billion, beating Google in a closely watched contest. As part of the deal, the two companies read more »
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If your in an area that finds it hard to build natural links what do you do? You create bait and attract or catch the links whether this is done on purpose or as a happy accident. The best way to do this is with content that is directed at a specifi read more »
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Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? read more »
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Steven Bradley asks "Would you offer your SEO services for commission only? As a small business owner would you request someone to market your site based only on how many sales you make?" read more »
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"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
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If your goal is to have a few readers who think you write clever headlines, keep it up then. If your goal is to enlighten lots of people with what you have to say, be descriptive instead. read more »
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In today's socially connected online world, reputation management is becoming more and more a concern for any business. Sure, most companies are able to secure the number one spot in the organic search results for their brand via their company web s read more »
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Tons of people have been using the Digg shout it feature lately. Some Digg users consider the shout out feature to be the most effective way to get a story on the Digg homepage. Others, however, feel that it's nothing more than an easy way to spam o read more »
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If your message is compelling, people will want to buy. You've created desire. But desire is at war with fear. Usually, interestingly enough, it's not fear of losing money--it's fear of feeling dumb. Like a lot of fear, the fear of feeling like a su read more »
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Eric Ward challenges the community to find ten mistakes made within this one link-request email he received. He promises to comment here on Sphinn with the answers. read more »
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Interesting comparison of flocking behavior and social media patterns such as the Digg effect. Even has a link to a cool simulator where you can flock birds and shoot at them to scatter them. read more »
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Well, you can’t pull the plug from link marketing. Ever. Link marketing is, like most other activities, an on going process in stead of a temporary campaign. Although it may seem like you should reach a finish line somewhere, your link race track is read more »
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Networking is a crucial part of success in social bookmarking sites. However, networking does not mean simply banging out a bunch of requests for people to vote on your story.

Networking means developing trusted relationships with people who can read more »
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I have been doing a lot of stumbling to blogs recently, to find out how to make mine better, and have been annoyed with the vast majority of them. Here are 4 reasons why. read more »
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If content is King, then Relevance is the Queen;

There is often talk about how search engines are looking to establish relevance within the query results they serve up. What hasn’t been as well highlighted is how this affects one’s SEO activitie read more »
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I definitely plan to go to a conference one day, this is one I probably would have picked most. Brian with a look on strengthening relationsihps offline. read more »
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If you are one of the growing numbers of in-house SEOs working on larger web sites, things can get a bit "scratch-your-head, where-do-I-start" difficult. If you're managing tens of millions of pages, or even tens of thousands of pages, there's no do read more »
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When you start reading down the list, you might think Michael has gone absolutely bonkers, until you get to his explanations further down the page. read more »
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So in this post I’m first going to explain the different types of social structures that encourage blog comments, and then lay down an exact blueprint for getting more of the topical comments that help build awareness and word of mouth traffic about read more »
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