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This approach means consumers win, marketers/advertisers win, the environment wins, FB looks good. We look good. Win win for all. read more »
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Here is the interview we promised with one of Digg top users read more »
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Muhammad Saleem writes, "When I attended South by Southwest 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a panel where four somewhat lost panelists were (with difficulty) trying to come up with metrics to measure success from a social media marketing campa read more »
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The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
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Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name (either out of vanity or for business purposes), you will enjoy playing with the following online identity read more »
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Whether you want to sell your website or you are just willing to know how much you have potentially earned so far, you might be curious to know how much your website is currently worth. read more »
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You can easily introduce your own blog, full of ideas, temptations and dreams. Freshly picked fruit from the vine of your mind. But how? read more »
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If you are like most Social Media users, you have more than one of social media profile on the web. Letting your friends and blog readers know what sites you use will allow you to connect in more places with new and current friends. read more »
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A recent study revealed that ONLY 15% of Fortune 500 companies communicate with consumers via blogs. This number was lower than I expected, at least as far as Fortune 500 companies go. It is not surprising to me however with regards to businesses in read more »
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Its’ natural to want to be accepted by the “A-listers”, the “marketing gurus”, the people that have a strong presence, hundreds or even thousands of followers/subscribers/readers. The ‘in-crowd’ of conference glam shooters who have managed to secure read more »
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In July 2006, SEOMoz released their now famous page strength tool - a better metric to quickly assess a site / page’s relative importance and visibility.

Today SEOMoz released a new, improved tool to evauate websites, the Trifecta. Here is a ran read more »
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As pessimistic as this is, I’m convinced 90% of human motivation is fear. The best landing pages I’ve had open up and discuss the benefits of the product briefly. Then everything after that is either dispelling fear around them making the purchase o read more »
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Here’s a list of 50 ideas (in no particular order) to help move the conversation along read more »
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A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
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Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? read more »
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| Collective Thoughts | Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a little more touchy feely with it for a web 2.0 world. Trust me, this will be fun. Here is a list of my top 10 fa read more »
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"When I was asked if I was “plurking yet”, I thought it had something to do with baby vomit. But no, it is once again another Web 2.0 name and once again another lifestreaming service that tries to imitate Twitter, while at the same time it tries to read more »
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In this "back to the basics" style of post, I look at what is actually included in the process of developing a SEO strategy. Contents include mapping web pages to keywords, optimizing title tags, meta description tags, image alt attributes, content read more »
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Well, well, well. The Australian media have really taken up the story with the long running show 'Media Watch' making the Lyndoman linkbait story and how it duped the Daily Telegraph their lead feature!

There is a full online transcript plus ther read more »
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Social Media is truly becoming a valuable tool when it comes to mobilizing the consumer to support disaster relief and SocialVibe is setting the stage to be a leader when it comes to helping our fellow man. What are you doing to utilize social media read more »
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How many links does an average Digg story have when it goes popular, after a week, and after 30 days? read more »
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Though unwritten, there are implied rights and rules of engagement, set and enforced by the mob’s wisdom, which we should make official. read more »
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Well its absolutely true! A group of friends with similar interests but complementary skills is beneficial for all involved, especially where each works to help the others in the group. If each member is an authority in their respective realms, and read more »
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