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We are in a technology bubble that’s about to bust and leave peoples’ time wasted like splattered paint on the floor. The moment that the mainstream realizes you don’t need to be involved in 10, 20, 30 (100?) social media platforms will be the momen read more »
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Google Friend Connect released on Blogger, but still trying to fly under our Googling Social radar... Google instead of Friend Connect calls it Following on Blogger.

You can try out Google Friend Connect full version and add it to your Blogger bl read more »
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Social Media properties just may be the focus of the next big “slap”. While its both popular and profitable right now, it seems obvious that in short time the people who are using them right will excel… and those who are simply using social media ‘f read more »
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Ann Smarty looks at the world's hottest web and search trends. read more »
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My first impressions of SocialMedian.com, the news aggregation and voting site launched last week. I've also included a list of SEO/SEMs newsmakers who are already active in the system. Reserve your username, click the links and get set up. This one read more »
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Location!, Location!, Location! is an guideline most associated with the real estate industry, however it seems to apply a to the the SEO/Social Marketing space with a slightly different context. The most common ways to implement a company blog is read more »
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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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Do you strongly believe in the potential of your website? How does it compare to your competitors’ websites? Is your website the best thing in the world? This article go through the importance of believing that what you are doing is great. read more »
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I’m guessing marketers of products for itch relief, athlete’s foot, and the like already know this… but itching can be stimulated by seeing other people scratch, and even by images of itch-causing creatures like bedbugs. Last month’s Scientific Amer read more »
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Part 2 in a series on keyword research, this post explains how you can find negative keywords with the Google Keyword Tool, Google Suggest and Google Product Search (with screenshots). read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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"Social media and SEO are now inextricably linked. You couldn't separate 'em if you tried." - Ian Lurie. read more »
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Like Avinash Kaushik says about web analytics, "The goal is not to collect more data – it’s about extracting insight from this data.”

The Get Elastic Blog provides 7 tips to remember when using the keyword tool, how you can apply keyword research read more »
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A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of letting employees use social media at work, and how to make it work in the benefit of employers. read more »
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The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
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Sephy raises some important questions - like where did 759 bugs disappear to in 24 hours or so, whatever happened to supporting old versions of Wordpress, will post revisions bloat your database to an unmanageable size, and the fact that turning any read more »
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12 cool ways to use wikis. A succinct and useful overview of wikis. read more »
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The Socialprise examines the real marketing impact of conversations, and moves beyond marketing to discuss the importance of collaboration and co-creation in a competitive global marketplace. read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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If you have been following the presidential race at all, you have seen how social media has played a major role. This could be called the first Social Media Driven Presidential Campaign. read more »
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This afternoon Facebook will introduce commenting on all mini-feed items. This means that you ’ll be able to comment on status updates, new friendships, application updates, or other activities listed in your friend’s mini-feeds on their profiles. read more »
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Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with one winner amongst hundreds of losers. But even if you weren’t the Wood read more »
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Back in 2007 the folks from 97th Floor released a promising Firefox add-on to help facilitate cross-submissions between social bookmarking sites. Unfortunately, development on this add-on stopped in October 2007 and it wasn't long before the add-on read more »
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