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Tested analogy for explaining SEO to win friends and influence people. read more »
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Expired domains are everywhere, but they're very tricky to make the most of. Here Gab explores how to use archived copies of the site to re-create it, and then how to use this original content to create a nice link supplement for whatever site you m read more »
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It could be the "Year of Social Media," considering the explosion of sites like Facebook, Digg and Twitter. Or it could be the "Year of Blended Search," considering the changes made by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com.

For many, it might be read more »
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Yesterday, Dave Davies and I (Jim Hedger) used our weekly WebmasterRadio.fm show Webcology to predict the key trends and fortunes of the coming year. When we agreed to do a predictions show two weeks ago, I figured it would fairly easy. I have been read more »
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Shana put together an awesome collection of resources for marketing with social media. Well done! read more »
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A look at the stats - Google's attempt to stop their famous trademark becoming 'common usage' doesn't seem to be working. 2007 was a bumper year for 'googled' and 'to google'. read more »
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Big $$ budgeted, Christmas weekend critical for client's sales cycle. Client's credit card canceled for fraud, only Discover card left. Google does not take Discover. Facebook DOES. Amazing results. A case study: Facebook saved one client's Christma read more »
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Online coupons seem like they would be a winner but there has not been a big breakout success in this niche. The NYT covers the launch of a new coupon site but the real story is that online coupon sites have grown only 6% in the past year.
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Votrs.com is a URL shortening service that makes it easier for your friends to vote for stories on your favorite social sites. Put in the URL of a page you think will do well in social media, select the ones you think it will do best on, and Votrs w read more »
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Positive review by Stoney deGeyter of Pole Position Marketing on SEOmoz's document Viral Marketing and Linkbait on the Web. Includes the link to SEOmoz to read this document yourself. Stoney clearly explains the publication in a direct and to the read more »
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Not that many bloggers think about it, but some people want to print your posts and if you don’t let them, an article you spent a lot of time on may lose some readers read more »
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The trusted local review sites that Live.com draws their reviews from and which ones actually transfer star-rating value. Also how to use these reviews to leapfrog your competitors. read more »
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By David A. Utter - Thu, 12/27/2007 - 7:25pm


Hundreds of blogs on the Bloggers service have been found to contain links to servers that will infect visitors with the notorious Storm worm.

It's Back and it is worse than before


Stay awa read more »
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Recently, I’ve decided to experiment with affiliate marketing arbitrage. This is a whole new arena of generating revenue online for me, so I really have no idea how successful I will be, but I thought I’d point out this technique to readers who migh read more »
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How have I learned to use Twitter in my online communication? Let me count the ways...I put some thought into how Twitter has substantially changed the ways in which I communicate online. In this post, I want to lay out in a longer form (< 140 chara read more »
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An interesting comparison of different ways to present information on local businesses read more »
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An in-depth analysis of the Google Reader privacy uproar. read more »
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This article contains search engine use stats for 2007. read more »
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The AdWords Addict has been playing with an AdWords Robot! It's a fun tool that will instantly check your landing page (or the landing page of your competitors) and tell you which keywords are hot - and which are not.

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From the page: "THE PATENT INFRINGEMENT FIGHT BETWEEN Google and HyperPhrase Technologies over the contextual linking components in AdSense and Google Toolbar just got more complicated, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overtu read more »
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This week boasts a surprising number of great blog articles despite an expected lull over the Christmas holiday. Several of my favorite bloggers took the whole week off but a few never skipped a beat. In the next few days we will be barraged with "b read more »
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Certain things you need to consider before advertising your blog. read more »
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From what I gather, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works with Wordpress 2.3 - so simple tags steps up to fill in the gap. read more »
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Nathania has a great post about additional buttons she'd like to see added to the Stumbleupon toolbar. I have to agree with her ... these would be great additions. Anyone have other ideas too? read more »
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Jennifer Osborne talks about setting New Year's Resolutions for your blog, in addition to for yourself. In it, she talks about understanding what you really want your blog to accomplish, and then offers some means to measure your performance against read more »
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