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When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space.

This was largely due to the fact that if your content got the most “buzz” it had a chance to be featured on Ya read more »
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The genesis of this post started long time back when I started the Social Media Marketing space in India for a while now. After hovering around in the Web, I've found very few comprehensive lists on Social Media Blogs in India. So this effort is pri read more »
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A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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Barry Schwartz writes, "It has been about two weeks since Google launched Ad Manager. Most people do not even have access to the new beta ad management software, but for some reason, I always had access. In any event, I spent a few days playing with read more »
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I see very less information on Google News optimization on the web. Is it because there is less demand or that is it so lucrative, SEOs wouldnt share their knowledge/experiences ? In this introductory post, I give some overview on news.google.com, m read more »
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What about the 15 Billion valuation from Microsoft? Thats not taken into consideration here? read more »
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Today, we’ll talk about the use of “nofollow” tags to control the amount of link juice flowing within a site and its internal pages. To better explain this I came up with an illustration that should help the “not so technical” crowd understand this read more »
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Life is more than SEO and SEM.
If you are a kitty lover SEO, and wish to start your busy week with something refreshing, Matt Cutts has posted today a very nice photo of his second cat Ozzie “The Winner Of SMX Search Bowl 2008” :-)
If you have a S read more »
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And why do you nofollow external links? Or how do you treat people nofollowing links pointing to your site? read more »
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Is this something Google is doing to monetize Youtube or there is some involvement/share of webmasters? On refreshing the page I couldn’t get the ad back, neither have I seen this ad unit on other embedded youtube videos. Lucky that I took a screen read more »
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Google has released the new video ads via youtube. I have already noticed like regular Google ads you are extremely limited to choosing which videos you want played and if it is relative content for your blog or website, but I think people are more read more »
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David discusses the latest and greatest way AdSense publishers can make money - with video advertisements. David says: "These media types are scary to many advertisers because they seem to be so far outside their “text ad comfort zone."...advertiser read more »
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Can Piwik become the next Google Analytics? Atleast for me it does. I explain in the post how it specifically applies to people who want to analyse traffic from countries where transparent proxies messes up the stats. read more »
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Googlebot's love-hate relation relationship linked to MTU setting? The problem started in November, had gone away and reappeared all of a sudden. Would be quite interested to know if any one else faces such problems or its an isolated issue? read more »
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It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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Esteban Panzera reviews the pros and cons of self promoting in the Social Media space. Great read and good insight. read more »
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Here is a rarely used method for helping you gain better search engine rankings for relevant keywords. It is a simple method of looking at the “Top Search Queries” section and picking some posts on your blog, that with just a little push can have se read more »
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Have you ever thought about appearing when someone uses the define command at Google? Now you can do it easily with this 11 easy tips. read more »
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People are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs - ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads. Here’s how they look... read more »
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