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Nickey Cakes has the best and most interesting/humorous rap up on the Affiliate Summit read more »
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3 nice tips from Gabriel Goldenberg on how you can make use of Archive.org read more »
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"In the world of business, lots of figures are thrown around. There’s a whole school of thought in the world of investing that only looks at a company’s financial statements and decides whether or not to buy their stock based on those numbers. The m read more »
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Nickycakes makes a great post about why RSS subscriptions are valuable, why people unsubscribe (they don't) and how to optimize and grow your subscribers. He also continues to constantly refer to himself in the 3rd person. read more »
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
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I'm not usually a big SEOmoz fan, but this article about good places to start when building links for a small business turned on a few lightbulbs for me. read more »
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Gab of SEOROI explores how your sites pre-existing distribution and readership effect the impact of your content. read more »
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Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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Check out Nickycakes' post to get a coupon code to get a free registration for Affiliate Summit East Boston, valid for the next 24 hours only! read more »
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How to build branded search demand by advertising on the sites that share the most common links/traffic. read more »
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Datapresser is a one-of-a-kind content creation and network management system that takes the pain out of your day-to-day SEO tasks. Tracking the performance of the many sites in your network can be a huge challenge. And creating content for those si read more »
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"Twitter at Michael Arrington and make it seem like he replies" - just one of the recommendations Jane makes in her hilarious rant about a particular breed of female Twits. read more »
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Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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How Google has become a superpower, and seemingly untouchable... read more »
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A very good summary of the recent SEO hoax as linkbait debate. I do not necessarily agree but it's a thorough overview. read more »
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After a year of domain investing, Aaron of Flipsquare shares 5 mistakes he wishes he never made when starting out. Also includes some great tips on finding undiscovered domain properties. read more »
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Sphinn, all nicely collected in one place. read more »
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Good overview on why to hide as much referrer information as you can from the affiliate networks. read more »
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The conferences have already had link buying panels, but they were pretty tame as far as things go. Would you attend a panel that focused solely on greyhat SEO at an SMX/SES show?

There's nothing shameful about wanting to learn and even use greyh read more »
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Are you being left in the dust because you don't know how blackhat seo's are outranking you? SlightlyShady tells you why you need to know their tricks to stay ahead of the game. read more »
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How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
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There’s no doubt that creating a valuable piece of content is a great way -and maybe even the best way- to attract links. However, when I mention link baiting (or link targeted content), I often get reactions like ‘it sounds nice, but link baiting p read more »
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Ever wonder what a spammy sales page would look like if done by a 5 year old with watercolor markers? Wonder no longer. read more »
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From the page: Google has already demonstrated an immense desire to invest in startups with unique ideas and the right code to implement them. By storing your code with Google, what is to stop them from just peeking in? By using the AppEngine, you b read more »
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However, upon further inspection it looks like the external links have had the evil “nofollow” tags stripped from the links. This means that not only can Stumbleupon send massive amounts of traffic, but can even send a bit of pagerank and authority read more »
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