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Looking for a creative way to get someone to link to you from their blog?

Tom Tsinas and myself may have found the answer -- betting for blog posts -- paid links are so last year!!! read more »
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Is an industry expert really an authority, if no one knows about his/her expertise?

This post is the fifth in the series on Authority Building. This post will look specifically at 8 techniques used the increase the visibility of a person’s profil read more »
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Yeah, it was a few days ago, but I didn't see any chatter and figured I would since she's been a great pal of mine over the last year and is now in elite company of the other 100 Hots (just 5 of them so far), and the only Lady in the Top 10!!(we're read more »
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Finding your direct competitors is one thing but deciding whose strategies to research and learn from is yet another topic often overlooked and misunderstood. There are two important factors you should bare in mind while analyzing someone else’s str read more »
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Search Engine Land - There was a time in social media, just as in search engine optimization (SEO), when everything was only about getting to the front page. Little attention was paid to what happened after you got there and for a while it seemed as read more »
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A few places you can find live blogging from SMX West today read more »
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An interview with Jonathon Colman of The Nature Conservancy to discuss the secrets behind how non-profit organizations can better leverage web 2.0 sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Facebook to help create social change.

We discuss how to market y read more »
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Brands including Thomas Cook, B&Q, Pricerunner, Sony and Sky are some of the larger names apparently using this method. read more »
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Ann Said in her blog: "Really color perception differs from country to country and from niche to niche. Color theory deserves the whole separate blog to cover it and I outlined only some main points." read more »
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Google is made up of many sections which include campaigns, Adgroups, creative’s and keywords. Each of these sections has their own unique attributes that are really important to understand. Since we want to take full advantage of Google and have co read more »
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Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has neve read more »
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A detailed questionnaire for webmasters to ask themselves about their own website. It is unlikely that you can answer all of the questions with yes, but it shows you where you stand today and where you could potentially improve on in the near future read more »
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In short, being famous in the marketing world had BETTER come with a paycheque…. That I do agree with… This is NOT fame in my humble opinion, a limited notoriety at best. Fame? Uh huh…. My life (David Harry) is all about my family and occasionally f read more »
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Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "It amazes me that link popularity, which is one of the most fundamentally important concepts to understanding search engines and online marketing is on a page talking about "Link doping" and "Incestuous linking". Everyone (in 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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Search engines burn way too much bandwidth and processing time when they crawl unchanged dynamic pages. Here is how you can reduce your server load and bandwidth costs dramatically with proper handling of conditional GET requests from crawlers. read more »
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As these three examples illustrate, you have a choice: take steps to know what people are saying about you online, or prepare yourself for a sickening sort of freefall when the blogosphere insists that you pay attention. Because sooner or later you, read more »
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John Andrews will be one of the SEMpdx Searchfest speakers next month in Portland. I didn't do the same "mini-interview" with John that I did with the other speakers. I wanted to ask John questions that would draw out opinions and observations tha read more »
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It's hard to write a general article about application design mistakes because the very worst mistakes are domain-specific and idiosyncratic. Usually, applications fail because they (a) solve the wrong problem, (b) have the wrong features for the ri read more »
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How much traffic do these social media sites really send? I have come up with a rough guide to how many unique visitors on average you can expect to get from a popular story on some of the top social tagging and news sites. I have worked out my esti read more »
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Lee Odden started a great discussion about SEO fame that was continued today by Rand Fishkin... Here is how a non-famous SEO feels about the topic. read more »
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Brett has a great post which compares the current social media climate with life in the 1990s. read more »
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Great list of link building tools by Link Builder Extraordinaire, Debra Mastaler. Some here I never heard of before and can't wait to check out. read more »
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Hidden in the obscure StumbleUpon toolbar settings is a feature that’ll change the way you stumble! Add a Search Box to the StumbleUpon toolbar. read more »
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