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So today I’m(David Brown) finally 100% recovered from our drink-a-thon A.K.A. SMX East. Where I got to meet some new friends and see a ton of old friends! I’ll do a SMX wrap up this week I promise! Todays post though is regarding a Sphinn article fr read more »
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I [David Brown] am pleased to be here writing my first ‘official’ ProspectMX blog post on a subject that I truly love - Twitter!

If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, maybe we should start with a brief explanation. Twitter is a ‘Micro- read more »
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Link Building Basics by Loren Baker SEJ read more »
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Great first installment of what promises to be a most informative series about PPC by the guru himself, David Szetela. David covers persuasive techniques and more.... read more »
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Great podcast about link building. Love the chart. read more »
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Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of work. Taking elements from Twitter, web directories, search engines and the Yellow Pages, Twellow.com lets Twitte read more »
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iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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This video cracked me up. Love the cinematography, music, and old school effects. Nice job guys :) read more »
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The online community has been in an uproar since the news that someone is in the process of obtaining a trademark for the term “SEO.” Jason Gambert of Modern Consulting Solutions has gained approval from the Trademark Office and is now moving toward read more »
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Microsoft Live Search has unveiled its new web service, the Live Search News (LSN). The Live Search News is very similar to Google News, or a more appropriate way of putting it is that LSN seems to be a toned down version of Google News. read more »
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The popularity of our recent post offering ten easy links in 50 minutes is proof positive that plenty of website owners are having trouble generating good links – people flocked to this post to get an easy link. So why aren’t you getting links natur read more »
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Blogging startup Six Apart launched BlogIt tonight, a Facebook blogging tool application that lets users quickly post to their blogs and then send notifications of the post to various social networks. read more »
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Greg Meyers writes, "One of the first things I worried about with the Yahoo purchase of Indextools, was the impact it would have on the agencies who have many of their own clients under this umbrella. So, in the spirit of sharing what I know, below read more »
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Greg Sterling writes, "If Hakia were using an automotive analogy, the site might be saying to Google, "We're BMW, you're Chevrolet." The Hakia blog explains how the engine is taking a "quality" approach, trying to assess the credibility of sites in read more »
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The early mail guys knew what mattered: tracking your results, knowing your profitability metrics, marketing to strong lists, testing different versions, writing compelling headlines, crafting copy which sells. read more »
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Fantastic blooper real of Mike and Crew. read more »
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“Trust in the Internet is plummeting.” Those are the words of Jason Calacanis, the CEO and Founder of Mahalo, during the WebProNews interview at SES New York. Calacanis and Mike McDonald discuss users’ experience on the Web in which Calacanis refers read more »
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Mike McDonald had a nice chat about social media platforms with Brent Csutoras and Todd Malicoat of Stuntdubl at SES New York. Malicoat expresses his endorsement of Facebook, while Csutoras praises Twitter. Csutoras refers to Facebook as “toy” and d read more »
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Greg Boser, the President of Web Guerrilla LLC, spoke to Mike McDonald of WebProNews at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York. Boser discusses the infamous “PageRank Sculpting” and recommends its use. read more »
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hilarious new video for SES by WebProNews read more »
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Rand Fishkin is no stranger to the SEO world, but what about his brother? Evan Fishkin, representing “Generation Google,” talked with Mike McDonald of WebProNews about the launch of his SEO speaking career at SMX West in Santa Clara. He explains the read more »
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Mike McDonald of WebProNews had the opportunity to talk to Chloe Spencer at SMX West in Santa Clara. Chloe is the daughter of Stephan Spencer who has appeared on WebProNews several times. Chloe started a cheats site for neopets called neopetsfanatic read more »
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He sometimes goes off like this at the office, too. It's a task to get in all the beeps, though. read more »
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Michael Gray's spin on the agenda of the upcoming SES NY. read more »
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Mike McDonald of WebProNews had a nice chat with Danny Sullivan during SMX West 2008, in Santa Clara. Search Engine Land's Editor-in-Chief discusses the show including the first ever search bowl. Universal or blended search were among the hot topics read more »
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