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Reading, at its fundamental essence, is not about absorbing information. It’s about asking questions, looking for answers, understanding the various answers, and deciding for yourself. read more »
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I [Garrett Pierson] had the wonderful honor of spending some time with Lee Odden of Top Rank. He gave great insight on the changing SEO Industry and the up and coming Social Media industry. Also Within the interview that you can listen to above or r read more »
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The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. read more »
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What's your #1 tip for best practices in social media marketing? Join this writing project and think about boiling it all done to one tip that will help others in the social media marketing world succeed. read more »
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Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
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B2B marketing automation leader, Marketo is conducting a series of interviews with industry thought leaders for best practices and tips to improve lead generation and increase marketing roi. Tom Pick with WebMarketCentral provides some valuable advi read more »
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Michael Martinez: There are hundreds of search resources across the Web that may drive traffic to your sites. Those search resources usually fit into one of these categories:

1. Algorithmic search engines using their own software
2. Algori read more »
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...as new bloggers emerge into the online marketing scene, it is probably the single best website to introduce your site to. read more »
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The Internet, as fragile, infuriating and enigmatic as its features can be, certainly does some things that I'd really like to see implemented, at least for beta testing, in real life. I am not a programmer, so this is piecemealed together from thin read more »
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Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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David Mihm writes "Danny Sullivan’s “keynote” at the recent SEOmoz Expert Seminar highlighted the evolution of search, which he’s also blogged about before at Search Engine Land.

Basically, Danny’s thesis is that search engines have undergone thr read more »
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Lee Oden writes "What exactly, does Web 2.0, social media and even SEO have to do with public relations? Everything!

You’d be hard pressed to find any modern public relations agency practice that isn’t researching or already implementing a digita read more »
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Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
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James Duthie tries to answer the question... Is social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? read more »
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An interesting look at SEO from the other side of the table...

"I wish that SEO consultants and companies would get a good understanding of how a company website is handled before recommending a lot of technical changes" read more »
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“How would you do a Google search for information on headaches?” In other words…if you were looking for information right now on Google for headaches, how would you search it out?

The results are pretty interesting because often times we get to read more »
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Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage read more »
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Google announced that over the next week they are going to implement their Google Suggest search suggestion feature on Google.com. This change will help searchers find popular keywords that other searchers recently searched for. read more »
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Blogging and local search are two hot items in online marketing, and that makes perfect sense: Blogging is a natural way for a business owner to introduce him/herself to potential clients while simultaneously showing knowledge and expertise of the l read more »
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Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Ask ten SEOs what you have to do to get more links, and 9 will tell you to ‘build great content’. In stead of taking this answer for granted, it’s even better to ask yourself why this is true.

Wiep gives us 6 reasons... read more »
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Back in the day when reciprocal linking was useful, some webmasters were trigger happy and aimed to link to everything that would link back, even if there was no relevancy from site to site. Over the past few years, many of those reciprocal links we read more »
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Both SEO and SMM will drive traffic to your site (if done correctly) and both techniques are very popular forms of online marketing, but that’s about where the similarities end. The two methods are so different, it’s like comparing Gridiron / Americ read more »
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This post isn’t going to be inflammatory, walking you through the ABC’s of why Twitter is good and why you should use it.

Rather, the post is here to make you think about Twitter in a way that you might not have before - to use as a scouting and read more »
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One store that gets a lot of media love is Rampage. Today we’re going to look at how Rampage leverages its media coverage, and what it can do to take it one step further. read more »
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