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If you've been on twitter today, you would have seen a lot of people voicing their disgust at Jason Calacanis' words during todays keynote. In particular, Rand Fishkin twittered that he left in disgust. And it was bugging me that I couldn't find out read more »
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"Some bloggers use social media to boost traffic and draw links, but they write off the opportunity to gain subscribers through social media as being unrealistic. While it’s true that social media users are typically less likely to subscribe than th read more »
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Blogging itself is a trend and if you do blog then you have already followed this one. But there a lot more appearing and you have to make use of everything to bring traffic and increase your readership. read more »
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Most of our clients have several things in common, they are normally running Wordpress and the first indication they have been hacked is either a sudden loss in rankings or the stop badware notice appearing for their name. Now Wordpress is not inher read more »
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I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

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Includes digg count to links in your search engine's results. Also allows you to submit news to your favourite social news website Digg.com from search engine results directly. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes this post for SearchEngineJournal on 3 of her favorite online tools that check rankings in a variety of search engines. 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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Darren Rowse is regularly asked how he’d promote his blog if he was starting out again today and didn’t have the profile that he currently has.

First in a series of posts - all of which are focused upon the topic of finding NEW readers. read more »
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"Marketers know they are years behind consumer behavior, but are not necessarily willing to make any marketing changes unless they can get proven results. This, again, is a function of too many marketers looking at social media as a ‘campaign’ inste read more »
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Definitions exist for the sake of creating continuity among the collective. You hear the term conversion being thrown around like a rag doll in internet marketing, but what does conversion truly entail? read more »
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Dogs are smart. read more »
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In part two of my social media marketing series on Yahoo Answers, I show the opportunities to get direct referral traffic from YA, as well as indirect search engine traffic because YA pages are showing up in the SERPs. YA was the #4 referral to Smal read more »
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Your search marketing efforts build the incoming links and link juice which help lend authority and ranking to your site. Sometimes there is nothing wrong with sharing that property with the right people, and letting the ‘wrong people’ go thirsty. read more »
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From Sméagol to Gandalf the Grey, which LORT character are YOU???
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Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard appro read more »
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The envelope please...and the winner IS! (Check out the results over @ Online Marketing Blog.) read more »
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Once upon a time directories provided value to webmasters who were either looking to get new sites indexed or increase their site's link popularity or both. Now I am seeing a trend where directories are not as helpful in these two areas as they once read more »
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Internet security is a big problem, and it isn’t just for the IT staff anymore. It affects us as SEOs. Don’t believe me? Consider the incident reported at the end of last year by security research firm Sunbelt Software. read more »
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21 Blog post ideas for the ones that own an Internet Marketing Blog. It is normal you sometimes don't know what you write about :) read more »
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We have no authoritative voices in the SEO community. We all lack proper credentials, formal training, and credible validation for our expertise. Search engine optimization itself is still chaotically defined according to whims and personal preferen read more »
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A list of 25 websites that every seo should know in 2008 read more »
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I've spoke to Esteban for a few years now and its always great to see someone grow in the industry, great post. read more »
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The changes in the Digg algorithm over the last week have resulted in a lot of chatter among marketers, bloggers, and media. Giving credit where credit is certainly due, I do think that Digg ’s update definitely made it harder to push through non-or read more »
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Webmasters are often afraid to implement the SEO techniques they've spent hours learning because they fear they may lose their existing rankings? God forbid their SERPs get knocked to the next page, but they can prevent such an event by taking some read more »
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