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Lisa Barone writes "We’re all hoping to create strong, thriving communities around our brands. We want folks to want to interact with us. We want to be friendly and to encourage conversations. We want our site to feel warm and comforting and to smel read more »
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"i will be participating in the search for my successor, and i will continue as ceo until the board selects a new ceo. once a successor is named, i will return to my previous role as chief yahoo and continue to serve as a director on the board." read more »
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Keep in mind one simple fact: a company executing online reputation management wisely will not be noticed for doing so. If an organization appears to be trying to hard or not trying at all, that’s when you know a gap exists in their strategy. read more »
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Dave Snyder writes a great post that covers information architecture and SEO. A very comprehensive look at a subject that we don't get to see much written about. read more »
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Dave Snyder writes "Before I got into SEO and SMO I was a teacher. It was a way tougher job than I have now. I taught crazed 7th and 8th graders to write. Not just write, but write for standardized tests. Which meant quick, informative pieces, that read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "You might have noticed that I love tables in general and Excel in particular. Once you view any data in Excel, you notice things you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. Thus I am listing 6 ways to export your backlink information to Ex read more »
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A great break down of how to use keyword research to provide insights into your information architecture planning for a web site. read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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So the guy whose image British paper the Daily Mail said was a Googlebomb (http://sphinn.com/story/68956) points out that he has explicitly stated that he doesn't want them using his images - something which they did with no credit. Nice. read more »
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A list of 12 tips using call to action that can make a dramatic impact on your website overnight. While geared toward blogs, these tips easily apply to any type of website and should be utilized in every aspect of your marketing strategy. read more »
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Widgets are a great way to inject more creativity and dynamism into post-click marketing. The beauty of widgets is that they're portable, sourceable, flexible and relatively inexpensive to develop and deploy! Here are 4 of my favorite free widgets t read more »
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This is a guest post from kd kelly. kd kelly, aka dotlizard, who has learned a harsh lesson or two in her time on the internets, and wants to warn us about the dangers of social media as it relates to trusting relationships that end in lies, decepti read more »
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The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday. read more »
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I’ve been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn’t work or focused on rather outdated an read more »
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I don't know about you, but there is nothing better than a great write up and a music video to make the start of the day ROCK! Thanks Tamar ;0) read more »
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Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! read more »
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Michael McDonald of WebProNews gets kidnapped! read more »
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Whether you’re looking for new customers, a new audience, a new business partner, a new vendor, new friends, or a new one night stand, you can maximize your use of the Internet and the wave of social networking sites that have cropped up to help us read more »
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Graywolf exposes the potential Gray Hat techniques that Match .com is employing! read more »
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Both discuss page rank reduction, site hacking and how you can stop it. They also talk about subdomain changes, especially related to Google. read more »
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This my view on the whole paid links debate. It's a little long, but I promise there's a point. read more »
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A complete guide for preparing and serving DMCA Notifications to protect your copyrighted content, including a free DMCA template and legal department contact info for the major search engines. read more »
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Want to explode your site’s traffic for the holiday season rush? Many Internet and technology-related sites have experienced exceptional results by receiving a paid review from JohnChow.com, a blog that has over 14,000 loyal RSS subscribers and gene read more »
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Exhaustive and in depth coverage of 14+ sessions of SES Chicago & PubCon Las Vegas 2007. read more »
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