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Understanding your visitor is the underlying answer to creating a successful website. However, gathering the required information can prove to be quite a task. There are a variety of ways to gather key information about site visitors and of course t read more »
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Your avatar is the first thing that catches attention, make sure not to lose out on that. read more »
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MSaleem writes... The landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. First the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. Now the elevator pitch is dead and here's how to adapt. read more »
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Is it time for one site to be everything to everyone (in a similar fashion that Yahoo or AOL was 10 years ago)? We are all now forced into situations where time and the efficient use of it have become acutely important. read more »
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Are companies paying affiliates to change links? read more »
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Once again, eKstreme comes through with hard data, as his Social Alerter tool analyzed those lucky stories that got submitted more than once and went popular more than once on Digg. Very interesting to see the numbers crunched like that. read more »
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There are lots of different people out there calling themselves SEOs. Some of them are actually really good. But, for today, let’s take a look at 11 sure fire signs that your dealing with a bad one: read more »
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In social media, marketers need to understand where their brands intersect with the passion points of their consumers. But ultimately, they need to empower consumers to express themselves via their connection to the brand. In most cases, brands can read more »
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Data visualization tools can certainly help to make complex data easier to understand. After seeing some pretty impressive data visualizations of social networks it might be interesting to try and visualize the StumbleUpon network. read more »
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My latest twitter is ” I still think Twitter is as useful as trying to water roses with an over salivating dog.” read more »
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Eeek! Someone discovered an SEO agency voting only their content on social media sites and the expose reaches the digg home page... read more »
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This competition will filter out the "wannabes" from the real SEO's. If you think you can rank a new site on top at Google for ANY keyword you like in 45 days, you win $250. read more »
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Tim explains why StumbleUpon reviews that show up in the search pages help add to Click Through Rates and overiding Titles and Descriptions.

Great Analysis!
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Maki (DoshDosh), Jennifer Laycock, and other familiar faces share online marketing secrets. This is also certain to be the only time I'm ever mentioned in the same article as Seth Godin, John Jantsch, and John Battelle. :-) read more »
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Great video from Aaron Wall explaining how to get the most of Adsense with high paying keyword (not using high paying keywords list) read more »
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Previous free Google resources & reviews from PPC Expert David Szetela were TREASURE trove-toolkits for educating PPC employees. Here is a review of Yahoo's new (great & free) 43-page PDF eBook. read more »
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Facebook, as you’ve probably noticed, is everywhere. And with that ubiquity comes a massive audience just waiting for your web app. Whether you’re looking to make things easier for your current users, or you have the perfect idea for a Facebook-only read more »
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Domain Tools reports that Google will stop allowing "domain tasters" to register a domain, slap Adsense on it for a couple days and make $$, then drop the domain. Quote: "A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they read more »
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Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches read more »
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Many top digg users helped push an article to the front page of digg tonight, that discussed the changes Digg made this week to the number of votes it takes for a story to be promoted to the front page. read more »
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What's in your SEO Toolbox? David shares SearchRank's list of must-have SEO tools including Keyword Discovery, SearchStatus, ClickTracks, Ranking Manager, GWC and Bzzster. read more »
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Brian Clark at CopyBlogger takes issue with some of the marketing professionals still sticking to outdated ideas of how a blog works and what constitutes an effective blog.

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Very funny article about the importance of PageRank size. read more »
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Sphinners can now help creating awareness for Sphinn amongst bloggers. I'm participating in a big group writing project which aims at revealing advantages and drawbacks of major social media sites. My site hosts the Sphinn part of the project. If yo read more »
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With America heading for a market crash the rest of the world no doubt going to feel the effects who will be the winners and can your company compete in such markets its at times like there we (some of us) turn to Economists read more »
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