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To save a thousand dollars ($1,000 USD), 3M takes a ballsy move that instead of paying someone for something made popular on digg and around the web, they steal it. Legal or not, it's pretty shitty. Way to keep it classy, 3M. read more »
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"For almost a year, Keyword Spy have been email spamming both my personal email address and Sphinn (on a weekly basis), regurgitating announcements about its launch and features." read more »
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SEO is bursting with personal brands. Brands that have been so ingrained into the industry that we don't always even realize there's a company behind these folks. Obviously this goes on in other industries as well, but I really think we SEOs take it read more »
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Sugarrae writes "Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):

This “community” is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and delud read more »
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Its’ natural to want to be accepted by the “A-listers”, the “marketing gurus”, the people that have a strong presence, hundreds or even thousands of followers/subscribers/readers. The ‘in-crowd’ of conference glam shooters who have managed to secure read more »
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It's becoming a far more common story: legitimate Facebook users attempting to log in to their accounts and being greeted by a notice that the accounts have been disabled. Tony Adam documents his frustrating experience with Facebook and asks why the read more »
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Want to take your blog to the next level? DoshDosh (Maki) gives great advice ... fancy yourself of the Editor-in-Chief, and not just as a writer.

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One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective helps. Here are 4 ways to look at social media from a different perspective … and none require the submission to go ‘hot’ to receive benefit. read more »
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This year there’s been some people really making it shake that I’d love to give my allegiance to and thank them for their efforts and contributions in the search engine marketing arena. While it was hard to choose just three top SEOs and Internet ma read more »
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ou’re interested in promoting your website and brand through social media but don’t know where to start. You don’t want to spend money hiring a marketing company and want to do-it-yourself. How do you get started? read more »
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A while ago I posted a widely discussed article on indirect promotion on how to grow your site power by building links to pages linking to it. XMCP posted a great piece on how to make the most of your social media profile in terms of link juice. A f read more »
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When this blog was about 6 months old, I considered turning it into an industry news blog or even setting up another one that only covered the latest information. The reason I’m telling you that is because one of the reasons I wanted to start a news read more »
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Ann Smarty details more than 8 ways to evaluate a web page.

"Besides the overall domain strength, there are quite a number of ways to evaluate a site page power. Even if that’s not your site and you have no access to its internal statistics, you read more »
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MSaleem writes... The landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. First the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. Now the elevator pitch is dead and here's how to adapt. read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community o read more »
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The rules and tips for getting started on Twitter need better clarification. Some of these tips are right, but are being done wrong. read more »
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Link opportunities are abundant if you know where to look. Sometimes there is value in linking outside the box as your site is only as strong as its weakest link. read more »
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SEO is becoming a bigger piece of the marketing pie. Jenn Osborne writes "Those who have been in the industry since the late 90’s have seen huge changes in SEO. The industry has really matured. But in the grand scheme of things, if you were to plot read more »
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In the early days of the Internet and PPC (Pay Per Click) Advertising Web site owners where quick to shell out thousands of dollars to out rank their competitors and grab that #1 spot. Gone are the days where you could put up a simple site targetin read more »
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It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
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Earlier this month, Yahoo! unveiled its new oneSearch, which includes voice-based search. Since this was an exclusive BlackBerry download, I decided to give it a test run. We were told by Yahoo! execs that oneSearch will learn my style of speech ove read more »
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As Tad so beautifully puts it, "In SEO 2.0 you do neither sell nor trade. You practice true altruism. Many people know already: Altruism is the better egoism. The more you give away the more you get back."

Uh..Tad rocks. read more »
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If you're not yet optimizing your news, image, and video content, you need to start. Another study released this week backs up previous research indicating that blended, or universal search is changing the way users search. Making sure your speciali read more »
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