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Hoping to cash in on the increased awareness and interest in financial and economic news, a group of search and social media marketers have launched Tip’d, a social community for the financial industry. If you’re familiar with digg, mixx, or sphinn, read more »
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Donna does a great job explaining the 5 goals of SEO. It's easy to read and understand for even those not in our field. If you're trying to get people to understand why SEO is important, this article is a good place to start. read more »
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So today I’m(David Brown) finally 100% recovered from our drink-a-thon A.K.A. SMX East. Where I got to meet some new friends and see a ton of old friends! I’ll do a SMX wrap up this week I promise! Todays post though is regarding a Sphinn article fr read more »
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You’re a blog owner. It has a catchy name. After submitting a blog post, you’re amazed at the inbound traffic. The ads in your sidebar are paying your mortgage. People recognize you on the street as that “Cool Blogger”. Next year, you’ll retire read more »
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If you’re still waiting to see if social media marketing is worth your time, I have one question for you—what are you waiting for? Forget about all of the talk predicting social media marketing is going to play a big role in the future; it already i read more »
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Danny Sullivan... and microblogging... vodka, stitches? what? read more »
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I think it's an interesting evolution in the world of Google, since they're now adding recent bloggin information, it may indicate it's usage in the algorithm for the ranking of blog posts. read more »
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David Harry covers a variety of patents Google have for social profiling - while illustrating the massive intrusion into privacy.

However, the suggestion is that this could be a way to monetise social media, but there's no getting around user int read more »
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I wanted a way to give my community members more exposure than just a link to their website. I figured the best way was to give you the ability to showcase your profiles in addition to your website link at the social sites most common in my communit read more »
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In this interview, John talks about getting started, branding, blogging, SEO, outsourcing marketing and tips, getting referrals, specialization and a few of his favorite tools and technologies. read more »
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SEO Is an art form that's evolving. Here's David Harry's take. read more »
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Dave Snyder writes a great post that covers information architecture and SEO. A very comprehensive look at a subject that we don't get to see much written about. read more »
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Most peeps will eventually 'hit the wall' in social cirlces. I've backed away a few times over the last few years... All about blance for me.. With the recent drama's; taking stock of ways to avoid social media burn-out is huge.

How do you balanc read more »
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SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since. read more »
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Excellent discussion about this important topic concerning SEO terminology. read more »
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Michael Gray: When Google took away the supplemental index last year, they killed one of the key diagnostic tools in the SEO’s toolbox, the ability to identify which parts of a site were unimportant (and being infrequently crawled) in a search engin read more »
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Another rant from David where he talks about how "SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales".

In his usual style David goes through gripes about SEO in a step by step, methodical way.

"Well peeps, it seems it’s that time again an read more »
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David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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How To and DIY articles have been time proven tools for publishers to build links and evergreen content. Trendspotting takes a look at the trend and has ideas to help you jump start the process. read more »
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Who: You!
What: Internet Marketer's Charity Party
WHEN: Monday, August 18th 8:00 - Midnight or ??
OPEN BAR! Light appetizers and good booze from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight
WHERE: Agenda Lounge - 399 S. 1st st. (right behind the conference center!) ( read more »
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While there has been no lack of FAIL floating around after its recent launch, there are a few reasons why you might want to take a deeper look. read more »
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This is an easy to understand overview defining the lines between social media, social networking, and social sharing. read more »
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Whenever there’s a big shift in the search results, you need to know what the search engines see, and what they could possibly be changing, to try and find the source of your troubles or success. read more »
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Proof positive that there are indeed women among the most successful search marketers in the industry. Perhaps they're just too busy working with a growing clientele to toot their own horns. read more »
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Essential reading if you want to optimise your Google Product Search feed. Google have released a new Google Product Search Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your impressions, clicks and feed items. read more »
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