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Use Google Knol to get some prime internet real estate and promote yourself while doing it. read more »
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"There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen be read more »
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or those of you who blog for the purpose of generating additional sales of your products or services (as opposed to making affiliate revenues from the traffic), and have not yet seen the benefits, there is hope. Below follow 12 of the most common mi read more »
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SEOs look at the source code of almost every page - I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s quite natural, I’ve been looking for tools that can represent the information in a better way or allow for more valuable options read more »
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Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. read more »
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The karma system at Plurk is much too needy in its current state. It’s no surprise that some sources claim plurks numbers are down. This same piece also mentions that those that are into it are really into it. read more »
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Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. read more »
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So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it wou read more »
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Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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Take a look at what Google Knol is and its defining features. read more »
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As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn't use any user behavior data as the article implies. read more »
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This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you're working with RSS. read more »
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I don't care what you think about Toolbar PR, you know you're gonna check it... read more »
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How to optimize for multiple word order search phrases. From the post:

Determine Relative Traffic Levels
Make the Higher Traffic Phrase Priority One
Optimize on the Page (& Site) for the Different Phrase Ordering
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Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.

In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg for $200 read more »
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Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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Do you broad or phrase match keywords in Adwords? By default, you can't see which terms Adwords uses to trigger your ads - it could be totally bogus keywords!

You need this hack to expose exact keyword referrals, or you'll spend too much on Adwor read more »
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Some Twitters have reported today they have noticed that Twitter has unfollowed all or most of their followers!

For example Andy Beal has lost 1800 followers :-)

http://twitter.com/andybeal/statuses/866569011

And look and see what other Twi read more »
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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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3 trends that seem to determine how much traffic something generates on Stumbleupon and ideas on how to get around them. read more »
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Fantastic and quick read of the 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. read more »
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If you have been on Reddit much over the last few days, you might have noticed the share feature has returned. Click on the “share” button under any submission and fill in the blanks to send your favorite stories to anyone through email. read more »
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