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"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
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There are so many SEO tools out there with more and more releasing and existent ones coming out with new features frequently. It’s hard to keep up with all of them, test them out, and find a good fit for you. While the majority of SEO Tools are a di read more »
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From the post: "...apparently Pepsi does want to talk to a few hundred people, including Chris Brogan. Why? Because Pepsi knows that cafe conversations are what is driving the social web..." read more »
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The economic Grinch is threatening to steal Christmas this year, but there are some things local businesses can do to avoid getting coal in their stockings this holiday season. Here are three tips for punching up your online local marketing presence read more »
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Google keeps expanding, there's no doubt about this. But more interesting is how each expansion allows them to handle an entirely different type of data(be it credit cards, cell phone contacts, or email contacts) that can be used to better classify read more »
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I have tried not to abuse this but how easier would it be to upset some big brands read more »
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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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Sugarrae gives insights on how to promote a brand new blog. read more »
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Interesting story about changes Google made in July of 2007 to its calculation of bounces and the resulting data inaccuracies. read more »
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Google has been at the top of the PPC and personalization game for the past few years. Their goal has always been to produce the best results for the end user, no matter the results to the advertiser. In late September 2008, some friends on Twitter, read more »
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When you’re an in-house SEO, much of your success is dependent on the information you dig up and how you use it. read more »
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In this 1500+ worder, easily, Peter intelligently argues *against* SMM, highlighting exactly why and how it doesn't work.

In stating that side so clear he forces you to either provide counter balance (start a discussion) or validate the time and read more »
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I think the requester was crafty evil. They brought it to a professional that has talent and excellent credentials. I'm thinking that they knew that it would be impossible to do in 20 days, but they would very happily take advantage of every thing read more »
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Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
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Deanna Writes...
"Seeing as how we are currently in a serious economic recession, more and more major companies are relying on what is known as “word of mouth” advertising to generate buzz for their products. These techniques are a cheap and effec read more »
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Out of this research has grown my latest project, the ProtoViral WordPress theme. Built to be flexible design-wise, it allows you to customize it to match the look and feel you need, while including a wide range of flexible and powerful viral market read more »
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Essential insights on link development from Eric Ward: look for passion & partners and pretend once in a while that you work for Google ´making sure search results are good for your particular industry´... read more »
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Grant Griffiths writes:
"Maybe the “post” on Wired’s “Blog” made me cranky, but I really think they are full of crap...

"If bloggers today can't compete with the Huffington and The York Times, tell me this: Why is it that the Wall Street Journal read more »
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You have a Twitter account, and you’ve followed some people. Some of those people are now following you back and you’re thinking “great, now what?” Or maybe you saw my Viral Tweet Test and wondered how you could accomplish the same effect for your c read more »
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A great guide on how to turn your Wordpress blog into a jobs board. read more »
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Alex Cohen of SMG gives a great run down of 6 elements that can help you really track you analytics by putting them in your dashboard. From KPI's to Summary Trends, Alex gives a rundown on why these are great additions to your dashboard. read more »
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Google, for the fourth time that I know of, has messed up the exchange rate that they pay publishers outside of the US. Of course, each time, this is in favor of Google paying less to publishers. 4 times!?!?!?! read more »
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Chelsi Nakano says:

"A recent study by Rubicon Consulting reports that 80-90% of the content on any given social media site is produced by less than 10% of its users...

"...it is critical that companies understand who the Most Frequent Contrib read more »
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New Forrester study gives hope to online retailers this shopping season. Although US consumers are pessimistic about the health of the economy, they express a marked interest in the ability of the web to save them money. Free shipping also ranks as read more »
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Communications among humans has always been a social phenomenon, stretching back through time since before written language. But the rise of the internet has created new forms of media for memes to travel through, accelerating their spread and chang read more »
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