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LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger. read more »
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Tim Nash delivers another thought-provoking post on how block segmentation could be used to help analyze a web page.
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have. Here’s how to start." read more »
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Why SEO needs to be bought and sold on quality of service - not price points.

Link beetle, anyone? read more »
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A great description of Online Reputation Management by Glen Allsopp. Glen also gets into high level details about process. This is a really good post to introduce people to the concept of Online Reputation Management. read more »
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Nice list of 25 things you should and can help your PR promotion. read more »
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What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference). read more »
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Your clients are enjoying more exposure and tangible results than they ever did before. If you don’t know how to properly sell this value to your clients, you could be losing money and not even know it. read more »
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Email marketing offers a great opportunity to connect with current customer as well as potential prospects. Compare for example traditional website visitors to subscribers of an opt-in mailing list. Site visitors include those who land on the site b read more »
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Investigating Sphinn proved to be a telling exercise for me. At least, I think so. This article shares some of the data I pulled and the concerns that emerged from having done that research. Hopefully worth a view for anyone caring about the long read more »
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Guest post from Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) delving deeper into the qualitative aspects of Social Media Marketing - great post and the threat of violence too!!

Snip - Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach read more »
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Very cool breakdown and tool from DaveN - very handy.

Snippet - I can see that I have too many internal links, I still like the 100 links on a page rule, so that means I need to do some culling, most probably in my NAV .. any way externals links read more »
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The most important thing you can do when talking to an SEO client (be it your boss in your company, or a different company you consult for) is to learn how to explain SEO in the simplest terms possible. read more »
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A new WordPress theme from Fathom SEO lets anybody create an "About Us" page for the social media era. read more »
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Brian Turner - The problem is that link building isn’t simply about building links - it’s about managing a site’s entire link profile, and especially managing the risk built into developing links.

The bottom line is that when someone specialises read more »
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An excellent detailed account of a gathering in Vancouver, BC, Canada that drew three times as many participants as planned. They were fully briefed on all the exciting things you can do with WordPress by some real experts. Well worth a read. You read more »
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If you have ever had a few glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon or a couple bottles of beer while working over the weekend at home, it could be pretty easy to get a little side tracked, especially if you have many diverse clients with similar keyword segme read more »
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ScoutLabs - I’ve noticed an increasing number of research paper headlines on the topic of Internet Addiction Disorder over the last few years. So, instead of just ridiculing the concept out-of-hand, I decided to actually read through the research to read more »
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Google is like Venice: powerful and defensible; Webmasters are like Constantinople: a power in decline to Venice. read more »
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Some journalists have jumped on the Twitter trend. Here's a list of some of the more prominent journalists and media outlets Twittering. read more »
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The BBC claims applications can easily harvest user data from Facebook. read more »
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"If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria’s Secret, it wouldn’t be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn’t need search engines to find Victoria’s Secret product read more »
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Interesting way at looking at an old favourite, getting images to work for your site. Warning, this site does contain pictures of semi naked women so if you're a bloke may not be safe for work or whilst your girlfriend or mum is looking over your sh read more »
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Virgin Money is the latest in a string of financial service providers to drop their affiliate marketing in the UK.

SEO and Bruce Clay also get a mention. read more »
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How many times have we hit publish on a blog and then realized we forgot to do something crucial, whether it is changing post slugs or a crucial spell check. Here is a quick checklist of what you should do before you hit publish. read more »
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