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Social Media Marketing or SMM for short, what is it? SMM is a marketing technique that allows you to promote a website or product through the use of social media websites. SMM will bring you traffic, links and attention and is a very effective form read more »
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Welcome to the fourth free ebook friday on the general marketing blog. Last week we gave you The Ultimate Guide to Yahoo Answers which is still available for download. This week it is the turn of The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing. read more »
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Whilst browsing the Internet i came across a new website called Socialbrowse a website similar to stumbleupon. Socialbrowse is basically a social bookmarking website that allows you to share your links with a single click. read more »
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Have you ever wondered what the top blogs are by the number of RSS subscribers that they have. Well wonder no more i have compiled the top 5 blogs from Online Marketing, Make Money Online and Seo and Webmaster blogs based on there RSS count. read more »
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So its that time of year again when the Almighty god of Google updates its pagerank and all the little green bar trolls start getting all overly excited. So bloody what who actually gives a damn about pagerank? not bloody me for starters. read more »
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In this guide, you will find a list of literally hundreds of social sites that you can ultimately use to make more sales. I will leave it up to your imagination on how to best use this information, but near the end of this report, there are a few id read more »
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A great little post about the components of blog posts, and tips for creating each of these components.

Nicely done! read more »
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There’s a lot that goes into a successful social media campaign, much more than just creating great content or asking some friends for votes. Here’s a look at 10 different factors that will influence your success read more »
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This video fills in the blanks. It's about time more people make videos like this. You can learn heaps from what this guy has to say....... check it out read more »
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A quick tip from DaveN about getting a link from your Twitter page. read more »
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I have seen it said around the web that a blogger should never write a blog post that apologises for not blogging - no matter how long it has been, no matter what happened to get in the way of blogging, you should return as if you never left. And no read more »
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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into th read more »
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When talking about usability, most people will refer to "simple things" like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your Web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.

Stuff like that is important (the point of driving read more »
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Should a local business setup a Merchant Circle account to network locally with other businesses? How can it effect search results and promote your primary site? Read on to find out. read more »
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BLVD Status is an analytics program that has a LIVE dashboard similar to something you would see in Have-a-Mint but with really robust information like conversions, search engine rankings, outgoing link information and many more data points. BLVD St read more »
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The #1 ranking page on Google and Yahoo for a killer local real estate query happens to be a domain for sale. [sarcasm]Nice job, search engines. That's good for users.[/sarcasm] read more »
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Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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What goes around comes around. read more »
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Stories of failure are more common than success stories when it comes to social media. But since this is a new platform, you can expect a lot of mistakes while people are "getting it". I've listed 6 common mistakes companies make when they enter soc read more »
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What happens when you do everything right and Google is just broken. read more »
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How many Affiliate marketers do you know that have made mistakes. Probably quite a lot i should imagine as it is far easier to make mistakes than getting it right mainly because of being too idle to do anything about it. read more »
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So how do you get started building a large following on Twitter. To begin start following some of the more popular members in your subject. Then look at who they are following and follow them, you will find that the majority will follow you back. read more »
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The wet dream of all webmasters is to get to the frontpage of Digg or Reddit. After reading how Cracked.com did it on Digg (hit the frontpage) I decided to write a follow up for StumbleUpon. That’s how it works: read more »
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Some tips for those who think social media requires too much time to bother. read more »
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