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As twitter folds under the mighty pressure of Matt Cutts Google by removing the ability to get link juice from your profile link,Did Twitter stop the bots ..NO read more »
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Here's a run down on the new features at a glance. Just downloaded it and so far everything still works. read more »
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Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently... read more »
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Kate Morris writes "Back in the day, selling SEO/M services was relatively easy. The internet was "new," business owners were completely oblivious to the craft of search engine optimization, and were willing to pay people to "get them on the web." T read more »
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12 easy questions to separate the can-do's from the no-clues. So many great SEO consultants out there... make sure you get the best!

I rarely promote my own posts, but this has had such great traffic in the last few days, and some superb comments read more »
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Best of The Web adds a local component, making a great directory an even better resource on the consumer level. read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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Adam Sussman (Shandyking) has officially joined the BOTW team. Adam is a great SEO and awesome guy. I can't think of a better fit for the BOTW crew and really looking forward to the new things coming. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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Screen shots and feature descriptions have been leaked for the new changes coming to Reddit.com. The changes are only the first round and appear to be the biggest update to the Reddit site to date. read more »
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Mike Tighe has a great list of Twitterers who are also active Sphinners. Add your name to the list! read more »
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During the recent downtime for Digg this last Tuesday, they implemented a nice little change in the algo for all Digg users. They have increased the amount of time a submission will be included in the upcoming section and be potentially promoted to read more »
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When putting together a social media campaign, you should consider many different things before you actually submit your content. You need to think about creating good social media accounts, quality content, and which social media site to submit to. read more »
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Google has gone and added search boxes in the search results. Based on how often people show they have desired a more specific search result, the boxes will show under the site links on the search results page. read more »
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Informative article about social media profiles. read more »
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Reddit has recently started to support additional languages such as German. They also support 1337 (Leet) language as well. Do you view your Reddit in 1337? read more »
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Reddit launches its new beta custom subreddits program allowing people to create their own subreddits, which are similar to groups. read more »
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Digg went down shortly today and many have wondered what changes, if any, were released in the short time it was down. read more »
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The great white north won't be the same, but Seattle just got more interesting.

Todd 'The Oilman' Friesen writes a great post about an exciting career change.

Congrats Todd! read more »
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QGYH2, Reddit’s most active member, reached a monumental achievement this week by receiving an amazing 100,000 karma level on Reddit. A feat so big that Reddit even recognized the user by adding qgyh2 (100,000) to the Reddit logo in the upper left h read more »
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Should traffic be your only metric when thinking about social media because if its traffic your after as a marketer mixx is a poor relation to other social media sites read more »
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75 million voting-age Americans have already used the Internet this year to find information about political candidates.

Earlier this year, a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed that 80 percent of likely caucus-goers between 18 and 34 years old read more »
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While Digg had everyone Cheering for the release of the long anticipated “Images” section, they took a small stab at Shout spammers as well. read more »
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Oilman gives us a new and refreshing rant on the wonderful new Canadian YouTube. Don't miss it and feel free to email him custom made Canadian Flag YouTube Logos.. It will make him smile. read more »
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Todd is such a good friend. He's written a whole post just for Vanessa Fox and how she could use our assistance. read more »
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