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The wonderful Brian Clark from Copyblogger again with a brilliant post on why the number three is so important structurally when writing engaging content.

This is one of the best blogs out there. read more »
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Great takeaways from new Forrester/Heidrick & Strugggles study. I love seeing the hard statistics like this. read more »
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Seems like this social bookmarking is a tough nut to crack, but read to the bottom for a one-off Sphinn related offer.

Getting onto the front page of Digg has always been notoriously difficult, so I realized a while ago that chasing the Digg vote read more »
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Pandemic Labs was featured in this excellent article about the potential power of social media marketing from the Wharton Business School magazine, Knowledge@Wharton. read more »
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From the article: "Is everyone who uses social media websites for SEO bad? Are they all spammers? Absolutely not. Some of the most respected members of the SM sites are SEOs by profession. Without “outing” any, it’s clear that they are active co read more »
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Popular social news site “Digg” has a reputation for being a democratic news website worthy of competing with mainstream sources such as CNN. Both news sources focus on completely different “news worthy” stories, but a few months ago we were lucky e read more »
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For the Digg connoisseur… these are tools you need to keep your addiction fresh. Enjoy! read more »
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Shoemoney shows that Neil and Rebecca Kelley are better comment baiters than he is :) read more »
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Sphinn's a more sophisticated community on the whole than Digg or many others in terms of what gets Sphunn. Jane Copland at SEOmoz (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-things-we-didnt-have-back-in-my-day) pointed to Reddit, where an in-depth piece got 40 read more »
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I think that this is one of the easiest ways to market your blog using MyBlogLog. It's not only easy, it works! read more »
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From the Wharton Business School Magazine, "Knowledge@Wharton," a great discussion of the power and possibilities of social media marketing and the potential for companies who are willing to take the risk. read more »
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An excellent posting by Steven discussing a subject rarely covered ... blogging for those in non-technical industries. All too often, we take for granted that readers are technically savvy, and often that will not be the case. read more »
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Everyday I am amazed by the countless number of pointless tags that are inserted into the header of a website. read more »
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Li Evans writes, "As I delve deeper and deeper into Social Media and it's practical uses in online marketing, I'm just amazed by the lack of understanding, especially by PR Firms and Advertising Agencies. I've worked in PR and when I see other PR P read more »
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Topical brainstorming mastery: "Let your creativity run wild (it can take you in wonderful directions) but be RUTHLESS in culling ideas that don’t actually add anything to your blog" read more »
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With DVR penetration on the rise and a decreased consumer response to commercials, the time is ripe for companies to begin exploring new online marketing options. read more »
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A nice little near-rant From Jennfier. It sounds like some one is having fun lately. I do just enjoy the cathartic nature of such posts

SEP - we’ve done a bunch of paid search for them over the past year but organic hasn’t been much of a priority read more »
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An explanation of why longtail keywords are more important than shorttail, and how to maximize your traffic for them with deep links. Overlooked by many SEOs, they're easy to rank for, and bring in truly surprising amounts of traffic.
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"..the chief executive of the Penthouse Media Group remains so bullish on the sex-related entertainment industry that he is investing $500 million in a group of social networking sites." read more »
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Burning editorial on how PageRank wrecked the web. Excellent writing!
"Let's pick up all the trash in the world -
That would be like asking everyone in the world to please be nice so the old algorithm will still work. " read more »
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Blogging Bits offers this piece of advice to stop Blogging Procrastination for good...

Write a post everyday right after turning on the computer, even before checking your email and stats. Do it for a couple of months and You won’t even remember read more »
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Luxury hotel chain, Ritz-Carlton, will be using a series of web films in a viral marketing effort to help ditch their stuffy image and appeal to younger people. read more »
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Pandemic Labs discusses the power of viral marketing and social media marketing for small business. read more »
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Pandemic Labs presents some data showing the power of reaching Digg's front page. read more »
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Pandemic Labs discusses the functionality of the Flock web browser and its implications for the social media, viral marketing, and viral advertising industries. read more »
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