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Nice overview of how social media can be used to have a positive impact on a newly launching blog, both from the point of view of an experienced blogger launching a second blog, or for a novice without an existing social media network. read more »
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Blogging startup Six Apart launched BlogIt tonight, a Facebook blogging tool application that lets users quickly post to their blogs and then send notifications of the post to various social networks. read more »
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Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. read more »
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Recently LinkMoses seemed to have a problem listing Best Practices for Link Building that others found satisfying. His new Q&A blog may cure that. However Best Practices may be too much of a challenge.

A less demanding task is to define what read more »
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Submitting your RSS feeds and blog URLs to as many sources as is possible will optimize your sites visibility. Obviously this is equal to promotion / advertising that is either free or at low cost advantage. read more »
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Bill Slawski wonders whether or not search engines might care whether a web site has a privacy policy or not. Is the content of a page less relevant or more relevant if there's a link on it to information about how any data collected about visitors read more »
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Interesting article on SEO standards. read more »
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Twitter limits its human writers to 140 characters and is a success. Google SERP snippets are 155 characters and are written by computers. The winner is? read more »
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Snippet: "The Internet is people. People are the Internet. People dislike advertising. It is that simple, yet the advertising industry thinks that they can change it to their own liking. This is completely wrong in so many ways, and delusional."

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I will be doing several reviews of a newly launched SEO software RankSense by Hamlet Batista. To make the most of my reviews I encourage you to download a free trial version and test the options I’ll be describing. That’s very easy: just download th read more »
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How important is using images in your posts? Michaels example is one of many to show the benefits of putting your little 3 minutes worth of effort into adding an image, including locating, cropping and tagging. As Michael puts it, "How nice is it to read more »
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A great post on comparing SERPS across multiple SE's by Ann Smarty. read more »
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One great way to get lots of links is to launch a massive media campaign. This works particularly well if you are a large brand. What if you aren't? Well then, you are at a disadvantage. Massive media campaigns are great ways to get lots of links, a read more »
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Any tweet on Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters. Unfortunately there is no automatic shutoff if the tweet has little value.

Writing a haiku with its discipline of five sounds/ seven sounds / five sounds would at least slow down the proc read more »
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A simple analysis on Annie7's (SEOSMARTY) site on how the new search within search (teleportation) is not necessarily the best thing for brands. read more »
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Online marketers have watched the rise of social media with interest. We have always known about forums of course - an early “social media” - and there are many marketers who still enjoy the link and traffic benefit of participating and contributing read more »
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Stan Schroeder wrote a piece on Mashable questioning whether the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter should be used for anything important. He says, "if it’s important, don’t say it on Twitter. If it requires a response, don’t say it on Twitter. read more »
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As we all spend more time in social media, such as Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon or Sphinn, the ability to write catchy headlines becomes as important as it ever was. If someone skimming through a list of possible topics is intrigued by your headline, read more »
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The questions:

So why do you use Google Webmaster Tools?

Do you set up separate account for each site?

Do the tools let Google see too much into your own practices?

Please share your thoughts! read more »
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A new site where soon people will be able to review SEM companies. could be good, could be bad. read more »
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On the same day that comScore reports a large downtrend in Google's paid click performance, their Senior Vice President decides for some reason to dump a very large chunk of his stock in the company. read more »
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