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In part two of my social media marketing series on Yahoo Answers, I show the opportunities to get direct referral traffic from YA, as well as indirect search engine traffic because YA pages are showing up in the SERPs. YA was the #4 referral to Smal read more »
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"In other words, among the daily deluge of millions of news items, stories, announcements, press releases etc., that scream at all of us, there are a couple, and just a couple, that indicate or lead to a real linking opportunity or a strategy idea." read more »
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From Sméagol to Gandalf the Grey, which LORT character are YOU???
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The short version:

Shoemoney lies a lot.
Shoemoney trashes an undeserving affiliate network.
Shoemoney gets called out on wickedfire.
Shoemoney sends C&D to wickedfire. (and cries more) read more »
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What is good content? How do you produce the sort of content that will help your blog to build a readership? read more »
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Jeff's a power user on Digg, SU, and Sphinn, and here he shares a large part of his technique for building up these profiles. read more »
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Hearts beating @ Occam's Razor, Master Avinash Kaushik: "I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google." read more »
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Vote: ways Google might fall from dominance. read more »
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Making money with Incentivizable Campaigns. Over 450$ in just a few days. read more »
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"I had an unconfirmed resource emailing me that Google Adsense will be testing a paid review service within the next couple months to beta testers via Adsense. I promptly emailed contacts at Google to confirm/deny with nothing back yet."

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Stumbleupon allows changes to be made to your site's review tags without notifying you or the other reviewers! This is dangerous material concerning reputation management! read more »
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Does the evolution of search and the web point towards search engines favoring sites that update and change frequently,and follow the conversations between site owners and their audiences?

Nice discussion of the topic. read more »
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Glen of ViperChill does a Guest Post for BlogStorm where he gives us 5 reasons why Guest Blogging is a good idea. read more »
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Thought I'd stir up some additional SEO controversy here and point out my article over at Talent Zoo.

"Have you been held hostage by a search engine optimization (SEO) or search marketing company who claims that your search engine rankings will read more »
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How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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Thinking of tapping into the Facebook crowd for some high-profile advertising? Take a look this list of 100 tools & tips to help maximize all Facebook applications & opportunities. read more »
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When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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This year you need to be more creative no more using Digg for the social aspect, no more late night chats about the natural high you get when playing the game that is Digg. If you are like most up and coming “middle class Diggers” seeing your storie read more »
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If its true that only 16% of people actually read blog postings, and the other 84% only scan ... then writing blog posts in a scannable format is CRUCIAL!

This post highlights 6 of the most important elements to consider! read more »
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When the networks screw people over it is the fault of "users" or "the algorithm," but when the central networks do not like what we do we are "criminals performing illicit acts." read more »
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Title says it, posted on sphinn against Andy wishes but I was tired. read more »
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Maki (DoshDosh), Jennifer Laycock, and other familiar faces share online marketing secrets. This is also certain to be the only time I'm ever mentioned in the same article as Seth Godin, John Jantsch, and John Battelle. :-) read more »
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Vanessa Fox on using social media to point to your own content; specifically, hosting an image on Flickr and linking back to the page on which the image appears. read more »
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Greg Boser's beautiful description of a penalty to a major real estate site. His point about a site being penalized for its indirect (as well as direct actions). While I wrote a similar post on the issue at the same time, I believe his take on the r read more »
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Propaganda is created to influence the minds and actions of people, in order to generate a response that achieves the goal of the propagandist. It's also a strategy that's quite easy to use in your promotional campaigns. Maki explains how... read more »
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