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Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Find out whats hot and whats not with these killer market trend tools. read more »
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Why should anyone care about being a role model?

Because people will listen when you speak. Because people will care about your opinion. Because people will talk about you and the things that you have to say. read more »
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Data feed optimization is the process of modifying product feeds to rank highly in one box results and shopping comparison websites.

This is a great resource for data feed optimization services, blogs, and tips. read more »
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Businesses are beginning to realize that their customers need to be their new spokespeople. Some people call it buzz marketing, others call it word of mouth. It’s both of these and more. The main thing is community. A business needs a community of c read more »
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oK... Now (the)Lisa is digging into the fray. I might just have to jump in with a rant myself in the comming days... so many rants, so little time... *sigh*

Bruceclay.com - As you might imagine, I disagree with Jill. Taking a look around, I think read more »
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Jordan looks at Yahoo! Buzz, and how it differentiates itself from better know social news sites. He explains what you can and cannot do, and offer more insight.

Good post! read more »
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"The emails from people looking to bring a blogger on board asking for a list of requirements still come in. I suppose with my 10+ years of blogging experience (...) I do have some pearls of wisdom worth sharing." read more »
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Implementing a Blog is relatively simple to do…the tough part is getting the client to agree to one.

Jennifer Osborne shows us how to sell a client on a Blog Strategy. read more »
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Utah Web Servics - With that back drop what will change with the current process of evaluating billions of websites and how they are ranked, featured, marketed, promoted, placed and branded. What companies are they looking at acquiring, what is the read more »
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You might be wondering which form of multimedia you should be utilizing the most. I believe it was the CEO of Podango who was speaking when he layed out a pretty good rule of thumb. “Blog everyday, podcast every week, vidcast once a month.” The poin read more »
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Google has gone and added search boxes in the search results. Based on how often people show they have desired a more specific search result, the boxes will show under the site links on the search results page. read more »
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In the search marketing business there is a responsibility for all participants to better understand that what they do each day “represents risk to any CEO or CFO” mostly because these senior managers don’t get the SEO process, don’t understand the read more »
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Think about how contestants are approved each week:

* American Idol contestants have to win over judges in the early rounds with an apparent combination of factors such as: youth & relevance, a good singing voice, charisma, stage presence, et read more »
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(Ahem. Don't blame me. I didn't write the headline!) So, as Todd Malicoat tells us ... "here is what you should do if you really want to be a total outcast douchebag at an SEO Conference." read more »
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The nofollow attribute was not created to be a substitute information architecture—one for end users and a different one for the commercial web search engines. Instead of solving the problem SEOs are creating a new one. read more »
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Search Marketing Gurus will be the vehicle driving most of the questions during the Calacanis keynote at SES NYC. Li has asked for tough ones, so lets not disappoint her eh?

The Rules:

You cannot ask "Jason why are you such an jerk?" or any ot read more »
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SEOmoz launches their new SEO analytics service which tracks various metrics all in one place. Looks groovy to me! read more »
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Nice idea for a tool.

"Get alerted whenever your discovery on StumbleUpon is reviewed or given a thumbs up." read more »
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Matt Bailey raises his beer glass to the Pubs of England and waxes nerd poetic on the similarities between pubs and social media. read more »
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Why are you giving away content for free? What are trying to achieve by doing so?

It is important to keep in mind the reasons why you are publishing blog post after blog post, all full of ideas and information and giving them away read more »
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Gonzo SEO explains why his blogroll carries names like Shana Albert, TheMadHat, Brian Chappell, Copyblogger, Matt McGee and others he calls "Gonzo SEOs" read more »
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He sometimes goes off like this at the office, too. It's a task to get in all the beeps, though. read more »
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We've always been pretty open here at Search Engine Guide about how we do things. Partly because that's just who we are, but mostly because we like the challenge of doing things on a budget (like our readers) and ending up with examples that can hel read more »
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