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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: SEM
I'm not going to try to explain John's post in a couple sentences but I will say that by the time you're done reading it, the strong statement he makes with his post title doesn't seem that radical any more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:32 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Google
Interesting question from Jeremy. What are your thoughts? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 4:38 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://michaelmartine.com)
Category: Networking
Deanna de Bara does a guest post over at Remarkablogger: "The best way I can think to describe Twitter is that it is basically a public chat room, only instead of reading what everyone has to say, you can pick and choose who you listen to as well as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 6:55 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martinbowling.com)
Category: Google Searching
Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 2:09 am
Posted By: markus941 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: sciencebase 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google AdSense
Telling visitors to reward bloggers and webmasters by clicking on Ads could be in breach of all kinds of T&Cs. According to Blogstorm, web economics would change immediately if everyone considered this ethical and treated Adsense ads like an online read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google AdSense
When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: Guillaume 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
It just couldn't get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a couple weeks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
SEMpdx Member Tracy Chapman shares with the Yahoo PPC folks (and us) why she won't allow her Yahoo accounts to be optimized without her consent. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google is like Venice: powerful and defensible; Webmasters are like Constantinople: a power in decline to Venice. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 4:46 pm
Posted By: mike.tekula 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
Maki(doshdosh) offers some great tips on how to leverage existing reference content you find on the web to provide real value to a sub-section of your market or audience and attract traffic and links to your blog/site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 6, 2008 - 3:51 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.auinteractive.com)
Category: Contextual Ads
From Markus: "Based on my experiences in the past few months I can say that Google has nothing to worry about. Facebook Ads are not even close to being an Adwords killer." Contains a good case study.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 6, 2008 - 6:37 am
Posted By: wiltonbiz 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
For years I've seen a free and flowing stream of information and advice about how to build links, and as the engines have improved detection of the junk, the better link builders continued to thrive while those who sold crappy services to crappy con read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 6, 2008 - 3:42 pm
Posted By: SiteMost 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Many people jump into social media marketing because they feel they "should be doing it". Many times companies don't take the time to identify their goals and why they want to engage in a campaign. Identifying and measuring social media metrics can read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: tnash 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: News Sites
Should traffic be your only metric when thinking about social media because if its traffic your after as a marketer mixx is a poor relation to other social media sites read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 10:51 am
Posted By: gyutae 349 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google SEO
This is a tough post for me to write, but I’m going to write it because it should serve as an example. Let me first give you a little history. Picture it (kudos to anyone who got that intro)… I wasn’t always known as Sugarrae online… I switched to t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2007 - 9:08 am
Posted By: streko 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.streko.com)
Category: Google Other
a good selection of the google blog about Knol translated into what they were really saying... read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2007 - 8:50 am
Posted By: floppy 372 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
Aaron and Giovanna Wall collaborate to put together a complete SEO guide for Bloggers from start to finish. Excellent work both of you. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 10:43 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 378 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
There are countless companies that target real estate agencies and individual agents, offering “complete web site packages” and “custom solutions” that always include “search engine optimization” so you can “maximize your traffic and sell more house read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 3:50 pm
Posted By: hotwheel 383 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: News Sites
Breakdown of what the top 100 stories to hit the Digg homepage look like (titles, length, categories, type of post, etc.) Awesome data. Must Read for social media marketers! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 12:13 am
Posted By: Wiep 383 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Link Building
Matt responds to one of his readers, who responded to an old post with a few questions.

"Do you think that ‘baiting’ gives the term ‘linkbaiting’ a bad precedence? It seems that some people think that ‘linkbaiting’ automatically means a trap of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 11:10 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Google Other
Google is an factor that is outside of your control. Sure, you can follow their rules or adjust your behavior to fit in but that still doesn’t put Google within your palm. What do good entrepreneurs do with uncontrollable factors? They create what-i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: westward 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.westwardstrategy.com)
Category: Online Marketing
A very simple change in how you write advertising or marketing content can have a dynamic impact on the performance of your campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: markus941 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.auinteractive.com)
Category: Paid Search
Want to know what call to action keywords get the best CTR for your vertical? Check out this presentation from this year's FOOA conference. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 12:03 pm
Posted By: St0n3y 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Link Building
If your in an area that finds it hard to build natural links what do you do? You create bait and attract or catch the links whether this is done on purpose or as a happy accident. The best way to do this is with content that is directed at a specifi read more »
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