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From William Flaiz, Search Engine Watch

"With every holiday season comes the inevitable parties and get-togethers. As with any social gathering, you might find yourself among unfamiliar company being asked about your job.

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In my previous post this week, I talked a little about my honeymoon planning frustrations, which led me to delve into the social media applications and the specific tactics that the travel industry as a whole should adopt. read more »
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Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement from TorrentFreak reports Yahoo China has lost their case over linking to unlicensed music in China. read more »
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"Wow, a story about Microsoft and Internet Explorer and most all of the comments in here are positive? I Never thought I’d see that!" read more »
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Latitude, an online marketing business run by entrepreneur Dylan Thwaites, the business adviser to the Treasury who has been fiercely critical of the Government's plans to change capital gains tax (CGT), is set to be sold for £55m-£60m read more »
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Danny and I created a little Facebook app that tells the industry how Danny and I see the news for the day. For example, some days it might be a slow news day and a slow forum day in the SEM industry. Danny and I always say, "it seems slow today," read more »
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Having a healthy comment count on your blog implies engagement with your audience and makes your blog feel more authoritative. But with Sphinn in the mix, many of the best, most authoritative comments are given to Sphinn not the post itself. It's a read more »
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Daniel takes a look at the potential upcoming sale of Digg, looking at the reasons why they might be keen to sell now. read more »
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Why has Facebook been so successful against stiff competition from other social network sites? read more »
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A guest post by Aaron Wall on the Compete blog - one of these days I will have to go experimenting with the Compete data. read more »
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If you're new to the field you'll face an uphill battle against floods of incorrect information being put out by inexperienced people anxious to make their mark in a saturated SEO community. read more »
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Everyone can create a Google toolbar button to increase his traffic very little but still.. read more »
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No htaccess? No problem! Follow this short, easy, copy-paste guide and get your juicy content on your own domain, and use WP. read more »
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Christmas time is a good time to think of others and give them of yourself.
Matt Cutts has asked; "Does anyone want to mention specific charities? Or mention other things that might not strictly be charities, but might be “good deeds” that readers read more »
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Oh, Boy!! Marty is on a rant....

To the majority of SU folks who support our writings about SU, THANK YOU for spotting real heart when it’s right in front of you. To the rest of you…get a life read more »
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So client education aside, what's the absolute best tool for conducting research into the backlink portfolio of your site? Should you go with Google Webmaster Tools or Yahoo Site Explorer? Let's start by comparing the numbers... read more »
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Just a few nifty techniques to spy on the competition, keep abreast of reputation management, start a link building campaign, you know, the usual secret SEO stuff... read more »
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In the 90’s blogging exploded, and in the words of one writer, “There is no end in sight.” Simple information turned into highly impactful banks of information with the potential to create change. read more »
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Please, no more friend requests. If you are like most people - in the last few months you have gone from bemusement as invitations deluged your inbox, to addiction as you obsessed over what people wrote on your wall and finally depression once Faceb read more »
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Back in November Mashable presented their Open Web Awards and invited Collective Thoughts to be one of the Judges. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing w read more »
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There are millions of blogs out there, and getting noticed amid the cacophony of such a noisy and active crowd is the key problem for any new blogger.

In the face of such overwhelming odds, how can you differentiate yourself? How can you get noti read more »
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Another one of my rants: "Digg, I think you forgot that you can’t just ignore your community simply because you’re ready to sell. In fact, that’s exactly why I urge nobody to invest in Digg." read more »
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Everything you need to make your site be ignored is here. Read the list, follow its pieces of advice and get ready to never make money. read more »
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Image is something, a photo can psychologically influence visitors decision making. But an image won’t do much more than that. It won’t influence the person to spread the message of your company or site.

Does your site convey the right message? read more »
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Let me paint the picture for you. You spent the last 8 hours perfecting a killer linkbait. You're proud of your work. You think it's going to do well on Digg, it collects some votes...a few hour later, you receive an email from someone claiming that read more »
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