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For years, no decades the de facto advertising standard for small business was the Yellow Pages. If you werent listed then how would anyone find you? While the Yellow Pages still maintains a huge directory of listings you should ask yourself if anyo read more »
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Article talks about Reputation Management and the role it can play when it comes to C-Level executives and beyond. read more »
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Wow! I can not believe I just posted this blog yesterday and this morning on FOX News I see Virgin Mobile has teenagers submitting videos of themselves stripping in order for Virgin to make clothing donations to the homeless! "You take your clothes read more »
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Your company has experience incredible growth over the last decade due to the incredible increase in connectivity and information sharing abilities of the internet. Your online sales have increased, your overall growth has increased, but at the sam read more »
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Brett Borders writes "When negative or unflattering information about you or your company appears in the search engines, it's easy to panic. But before you rush to make a slew of new pages and profiles, you should be aware there is a more effective read more »
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Ruud Hein writes "What valuable lessons, if any, do we teach on Sphinn regarding SEO?

A high-level analysis of one week of Sphinn postings.
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I’m coming at this from an angle where a non-SEO site owner says "hey, I have to do some read more »
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Short and to the point, exactly what you should focus on to increase your page rank. read more »
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Local optimization of websites has picked up steam as of late. While the concept is nothing new the technology that allows marketers to more effectively target their audience has improved considerably. 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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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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Lee Odden writes... It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, "We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?". read more »
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With the announcement of the confirmed Delta/Northwest merger the competition needs to surpass them online in order to maintain market share when this giant comes to life. No longer will an airline endure the costs of major hiccups without addressin read more »
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David Wallace writes... The days of flipping through a big fat yellow book to find a local business are quickly coming to a close. After all, why settle for a simple phone number when an online search can also net you menus, pricing, hours and consu read more »
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Article talks about how Obama used Online Reputation management for his campaign read more »
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Article talks about presidential candidates and online reputation management read more »
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Post talks about Starbucks and how they used Reputation Management techniques to build customer relationships. read more »
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Did you know that there are three simple alphabet letters that can make or break your social media campaigns? So many times we overlook these three letters and never realize that they can help improve your social media profiles’ success. read more »
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Postive points on a Microsoft Yahoo! merger read more »
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Article discusses how online marketing and specifically email marketing can benefit small and medium size business. Online marketing is not just for big business anymore read more »
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If you want to make money blogging you have to treat it as a business. Here are 8 elements that are critical for treating a blog as a legitimate business. read more »
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Article about Local Optimization and how it can help business read more »
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Great post by Diane Aull. "I was talking recently with a friend who's been trying to hire an SEO to work on her company's website. She was surprised to find out how much it could cost to hire a good SEO (by "good" I mean those people I was willing t read more »
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Brian from Nowsourcing has a great presentation showing how to sell social media. Its very worth the read! read more »
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Talks about the relevance of online reputation management as it pertains to business and individuals. This article is short but well written. read more »
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Tim Nash does it again with a great analysis of using PDF's for SEO. Well worth the read. read more »
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