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Social media expansion is important because this provides foundations for broader / faster mindshare, along with supporting your search engine marketing objectives. You *can* convert traffic if you target appropriately (research needed), and do not read more »
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Are aggregators putting other social media sites at risk? Do they threaten to take over or are they just a drop in the ocean in respect of the number of users they have? read more »
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Yahoo! have updated their Quality Score system and dropped $0.10 min CPC. read more »
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Darren reveals he was once (among other things) a minister and Goth. Interesting interview. read more »
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SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. read more »
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Great writeup by Matt on Small Business Marketing Unleashed. It was a great show and his post captures nicely some of the intangibles. 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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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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Fake Steve Jobs: "Squirrel Boy is in a friggin panic. He's got execs bailing out left and right. Yesterday it was his CIO and VP of engineering." read more »
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Hitwise analysis showing that 1 in 7 people searching with Google UK in March choose the 'pages from the UK' options. read more »
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Zimini (www.zimini.com) is hiring and looking for experienced sales people in every major city as we expand our sales force. Zimini launched at the DEMO Conference (www.demo.com) and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, on Fortune Radio, Pr read more »
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A common question that comes up is “How much money do you lose in a campaign before you start profiting?” In my experience, the ball park time is around one week, sometimes 2-3 weeks. Here are the super affiliate strategies that I employ when first read more »
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What is Google up to this April Fools day? read more »
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Andy Beard discusses the effects of changing the title of a blog posts after it has been initially posted for SEO purposes. 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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This post goes into the concept of building deep links on the external side of structure. In other words building depth in reverse from your site back into the external structure of the web. Doing so allows the same number of links to produce a ma read more »
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A list of useful social bookmarking sites that pass Page Rank for link building, including their qualifying factors: PR, PermaLinks, DoFollow anchor text links, domain age, etc. read more »
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