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A client recently asked me to share a few blogging tips and recommend some good articles to read. I went a little overboard ... and put together this huge list of 61 recommended articles and posts about blogging. Now you can just bookmark this one a read more »
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Take a little journey through the top SERPs for 'SEO Services' and find out why some providers are likely not worth the pixels their sales pitch is on. read more »
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Excellent write up of an interesting last session at SES, choice quotes,

Rob Key
"You no longer own your brand. Your brand is a conversation."

"The decentralization of content creation and the wide availability of affordable personal publish read more »
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Sphinn is a social Web 2.0 bloggers playground. I am getting a little tired of the "schoolyard bullies" saying what can be posted and what can't.

I am totally against SPAM. I am in total agreement that SPAM posts should be deleted. So please, do read more »
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Article about the top 12 AdWords campaigns mistakes our clients have made before they come and work with us. Some are relatively new. read more »
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Don't let the title fool you - I'm not against buying links. In fact I buy them quite often for clients. However I am frustrated time and time again when searching for good links. I find a great site in which there is an opportunity to buy a paid li read more »
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Shimon Sandler provides a quick reference guide that should help you optimize your site. read more »
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In a bit of fun, Yahoo's Flickr staff create "Faceball", spread it around the world and lament Google's lack of balls. read more »
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Google is apparently still falling for invisible links embedded in hit counter code. read more »
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I hear so many weak opinions on reciprocal linking, people getting their panties in a twist as they fear ruining a one way link by linking back will cause black hooded men to crash through the windows and kidnap you for medical experiments.

Eric read more »
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6 brand new wordpress plugins that will save you time and can be very useful on your blog read more »
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Neil Patel talks about what surprises him about social media and what web site is being ignored by marketers. read more »
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I must see for anyone that does any kind of Internet related work. Anyone that has ever used instant messaging should see it as well. read more »
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What a great tool! I know it’s possible to drive great traffic from StumbleUpon but I never dreamed of getting massive traffic to my blog. Many people understimate the power of StumbleUpon and put Digg in the first place when they talk about social read more »
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64% of all searches done on the internet are through Google. That's more than half of all searches online, making Google a colossal search engine. But Google isn't just a search engine, it's a business. A corporation that is not only viewed as one o read more »
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Very useful reference sheet. I know most of you probably do not need it, since it is already imbedded on your forehead, but it is still a nice cheat sheet. read more »
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Social media interview with Cameron Olthuis. Cameron talks about what social media tactics work and which ones he feel are a waste of time. read more »
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A fun post from the folks at KoMarketing! I relate to far too many of them... read more »
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A simple experiment to test how many words you can put in the title element and still expect to be indexed and ranked by Google. read more »
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Amazing -- Answers.com issues a press release to advise investor that traffic from Google has dropped 28 percent last week due to an algorithm change. Various issues! (1) Apparently those direct definition links don't bring in much traffic since the read more »
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$165K in Adwords + Broken Google Analytics = Pissed Off Clients. read more »
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Great article by SearchEngineWatch about training new search engine optimizers. Most of us need to be reminded of a lot of the traits that make up a good SEO - and this article does just that. read more »
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... or as I like to call it: "The Many Faces of Rand".

Randfish wrote up a good article ranking a handful of emotions that compel people to link or share content. And just in case you were wondering what that emotion looked like, Rand added a vi read more »
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Four part recap of the session I gave at BlogHer. It's introductory SEO, aimed at bloggers who are new to the idea of using search to drive traffic. There are no cat pictures. Sadly. However, Buffy is briefly mentioned so all is not lost. read more »
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So, this discussion is a follow up to a recent SEL article on networking for in-house SEMs.

I know many in-house folks keep a low profile, but does this mean they end up limiting their networking opportunities.?

And for those who are active in read more »
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