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Most people think Digg is just a popularity contest - the more votes your content gets, the better chance of getting promoted on the home page. Not so! Digg uses a sophisticated algorithm to determine what content gets promoted, and Muhammad Saleem read more »
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A smart robots.txt logs crawler requests, maintains the crawler IP list, serves gibberish to nosy users, helps identifying new crawlers, is lean and easy to validate because it comes with crawler directives for the requesting search engine only.

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The only problem with Facebook's opt-in advertising system is that the users who they are selling to marketers didn't really opt-in. What they did do was fill out a profile in which they said they "liked Guitar Hero," not that they "would like to ge read more »
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Tanya Ferrell has done a lot of reading on social media marketing and found that there are 5 basic types of social media marketers. She describes them in full in this article. What type are you? read more »
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Muhammad Saleem has created StumbleRank, where we rank StumbleUpon users for fun and competition. Check out the list to see who the movers and shakers are on the best and most fun socially driven site around. And make new friends while you're at it! read more »
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from the page "My marketing knowledge was expensive to acquire, but everything else was good enough to compete for cheap or free (at least in that market at this moment in time)."

Aaron Wall is so good, he manages to extract maximum information f read more »
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Maki explains (brilliantly, as always) why social media marketing is not difficult at all. It is something every one can do with some effort and knowledge. Unlike other skills, social media has a remarkably low barrier of entry. Everyone is invited read more »
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If you’ve never traversed along the road to viral content, where can you get started? What is makes good viral content? I’ve talked briefly about great lists. I’ve talked about videos. I’ve talked about pictures. Now I’m going to talk a bit more abo read more »
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Seeing positive recommendations from your friends about areas where they are topical experts, is much more powerful, and more importantly more click inducing. read more »
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