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Brian Wallace writes "Today, I gave a social media presentation for the American Marketing Association, Louisville’s monthly seminar. There was a great backdrop at the University Club, part of the University of Louisville where attendance was in upw read more »
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We just added two new clients this week and both were first interacted with via our blog. Blogging is a powerful tool, it isn't just for branding and advertising you can build strong relationships and develop business with it. Here is how we did read more »
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Given we just launched HatedOrLoved.com an online Social Network Community that will be coming out of Beta 1.0 into Beta 2.0 this weekend, it may seem odd that I am about to extol the virtues of what is in essence a competitors site. Yet that doesn’ read more »
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On April 6th 2008, a gathering of 4000 people participated in the Cedar Fest street party. This was organized through a page that was created on the social networking site Facebook that promoted the event.

What could be a more perfect example of read more »
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Recently in the post I did called an “Open Letter to Google” a lot of debating went on. One thing to come out of this is that many SEOs consider the link based algorithms used by Google and other Search Engines to be so flawed that they should be do read more »
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Jack Spirko has published an open letter to Google explaining why SEO’s should not be treated as enemies of the Google state read more »
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The SEO community gets a lot of blame for Google's problems. Here are a list of solid reasons Google is better because of professional SEOs and how even the true spammers should get some of the praise for making Google what it is today. read more »
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Most people would tell you Google is not in anyway scared of Social Media, that they are capitalizing on it and buying some of the most successful examples. If we look both a decade into the past and into the future as well though a different image read more »
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This is the third article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way read more »
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Recently I published a very popular post on 20 Social Networking Sites that are good for building links. I put a lot of work into the research behind that project and isolated 20 great Social Sites that actually were useful for good old fashioned li read more »
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Currently in Beta 1.0 Hated or Loved is like Digg or Mixx with a cool twist. Rather then stories being buried they will be featured as "Hated" or "Loved" hence any story that gets a reaction will end up being featured. It is good to be loved but i read more »
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Today, social news web site, Mixx, announced new features to their service that will help them break news faster by getting big news stories promoted to the home page in a timely fashion. On the Mixx blog post about the changes, they point out that read more »
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Is SEO ever a waste of time and/or money? American Express certainly seems to think so, even going so far as to suggest that search engine specialists will naturally try to trick the filtering techniques of engines and are likely to get your site ba read more »
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The title is worth the Sphinn alone. And I'm all for the concept too! read more »
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Twitter is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it’s a virtual water cooler. For others, it’s a great way to get answers to questions. Since I started using Twitter, I have more than doubled my blog traffic over the last several months, and read more »
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It looks like del,icio.us is making some very welcome changes/updates. "Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format...." read more »
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February 12th, I found out that one of our team members, Tony Rugely, had been hospitalized with a perforated appendix. This was very sad news to hear about my colleague. Since then, a group from the office went to go visit him. He was in good spiri read more »
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Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy an read more »
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Much has been written about using specific social media sites to drive traffic to a blog. I’ll include a few links to things I’ve written about specific sites below - however in this post I’d like to speak in a more general sense and share some prin read more »
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All you email marketers out there may not realize the potential role you could play in generating links to your organization’s website - how and why to build links if you are an email marketer. read more »
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JoeAnt drops to a PageRank 3 as even the good directories seem to be dying out. read more »
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Nowsourcing debuts a new weekly column, "Overheard on Twitter" .... check it out. read more »
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If you don't think Matt Cutt's retro post on building links to your site that he recently published applies to you, then perhaps you need to reshape your thinking. read more »
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A scintillating interview podcast with "Mr. Twittering in the Bath" himself. You heard it here first :) read more »
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News blogs are fast-paced blogs which track, aggregate and disseminate current news on a set range of topics. Their main selling points are comprehensiveness and timeliness: a good news blog must cover the field throughly and speedily by pointing re read more »
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