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Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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I listed several things I've done to my Wordpress theme to make the site better looking and more functional for users - including a new hack from Joost (with permission) to get some awesome functionality for guest posters. read more »
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An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives. read more »
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Can being too honest on your blog cost you readers? read more »
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Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
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Whoa. This is big news for anyone who owns a domain, and certainly for folks who buy and sell them. "The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership of a domain name is not ba read more »
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Quick guide for selling your blog read more »
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Scott Hendison's Top Ten Things he learned at SMX Advanced. Whether you attended the show or not, Scott's gleaned some good nuggets that are worth highlighting and examining closely. read more »
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"I came across a fascinating report on the demographics of social network users. Rapleaf ooked at user profiles and demographcs for the major social networking sites (MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 ) as well as for Facebook. The data read more »
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Is this guy crazy!? Jason Gambert has delighted us with another literary and legal masterpiece in his misguided effort to trademark "SEO." 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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Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that resul read more »
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StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven. read more »
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Ok, it’s the middle of the night and I’m sitting in a rock hard airport chair, but my mind is on the takeaways that I have from the SMX Social Media conference. Much of this I knew, but it was heavily re-enforced.

The bigest benefit, as with most read more »
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Lee Odden's Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." read more »
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How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
Say it with m read more »
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Bogdan comments :"I have recently heard news about StumbleUpon banning several accounts because the users submitted comercial content. Here is the message these unfortunate stumblers usually received"

Regrettably, your account privileges have bee read more »
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36.2 million women in the U.S write and read blogs every week and approximately half consider blogs a “highly reliable” or “very reliable” source of information and advice. read more »
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Finding a real good SEO expert to handle all of your website needs can often be a tough task. Having interviewed many, these are a solid list of 10 questions to make sure your potential SEO knows. read more »
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How Disney used MySpace to successfully market its move Step Up 2 the Streets read more »
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What is linkbait and what are some of the reasons for it's failure? read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "The best things about niche link building is that it is (1) highly effective, (2) looks natural, and (3) lets you find targeted audience and like-minded people who will then cite you and link back to your site." read more »
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An account of one of our authors at Blog About Your Blog being banned from sphinn for "spamming". read more »
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I am not sure if I'd agree to this but what the site is saying seems valid. But I just grew up knowing that valid W3C code is required to rank high. Is it really needed? read more »
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A look at the demographics of the top 10 social bookmarking sites read more »
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