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Recently, with mucho fanfare, TLA launched a new service called inlinks – designed specifically to restore freedom to the link buying industry – freedom from the prying eyes of the grand overlord Google, freedom from… well actually just from Google. read more »
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Brett Borders writes... social media has given us some amazing new channels for self expression. Common people are getting empowered and gaining an international audience by creating and sharing good stuff. read more »
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First part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 1 focuses on the importance of domains. read more »
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Every time I talk to the guys at Reddit, they are mentioning yet another change, feature, or addition to their site. I really don’t know how they find the time to do it all, with having only 5 people (6 now actually since they hired Erik the “Manage read more »
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As an SEO, I’ve always been a little perturbed to know that the American oriented Google index has, as its home, the aggrandized Google.com domain. read more »
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You have a Twitter account, and you’ve followed some people. Some of those people are now following you back and you’re thinking “great, now what?” Or maybe you saw my Viral Tweet Test and wondered how you could accomplish the same effect for your c read more »
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When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space.

This was largely due to the fact that if your content got the most “buzz” it had a chance to be featured on Ya read more »
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I really enjoyed researching the article and seeing how companies are starting to use social media communities as a way of filtering their content and coming up with the most popular and interesting material... read more »
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New tools and options that should keep Google in the fight against more expensive analytics solutions. read more »
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Blogs are my favorite CMS for “going viral.” Cheap, easy, expandable, everything you could want. But when you’re launching a blog and your goal is going to be lots of social media and viral traffic, you’ll need to make sure you pick the right theme. read more »
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If you've spent hours laboring over your latest work you want to make sure it can withstand the surges of traffic it's bound to receive. Here's 5 tips to protect your site from common problems associated with large traffic spikes read more »
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“We thought the lipstick brand was too geared toward women and men who wear lipstick. As a man who doesn’t wear lipstick, but is curious about Natalie Portman’s dating habits, I personally wanted a site that was less pigeonholing.” - Alexis Ohanian, read more »
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Naoise Osborne takes a look at the US and Canadian election campaigns and their use (or lack thereof) of Adwords marketing, trashes the Valleywag post from the other week, and does his own mini-analysis, the results of which are surprising. read more »
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Brian Wallace interviews Diggboss, the programmer who behind the script that got hundreds banned on Digg this week. read more »
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8 Search, Marketing, SEO and Social Media Bloggers were asked why they got "into" what they do.... here they give their answers.

Bloggers include Brent Csutoras, TheMadHat, Tad Chef, UtahSEOPro, Dazzlin’ Donna, Derek Edmond, Jill Whalen and mysel read more »
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A viral content sharing report: Dan Zarrella's eye-opening study of why and how people share content online. It explores content type preferences, sharing methods, motivations, reach and frequency. read more »
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Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. read more »
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Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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With the rising popularity of web browsing, social media news sites, and iPhones, a mobile section is fast becoming a feature every good social communities must have. read more »
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“One of the ones that filter to the top was “vote up if you don’t think self posts should get karma” and a useful discussion ensued. We decided to make the change after that. Reddit is a democracy after all.” read more »
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As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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If you have been on Reddit much over the last few days, you might have noticed the share feature has returned. Click on the “share” button under any submission and fill in the blanks to send your favorite stories to anyone through email. read more »
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Social media marketing is one of the fastest changing forms of marketing online. Every time a new site, service, or community is launched, there comes both new opportunity for marketing and the possibility that the site you just spent months partici read more »
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Writing a Business Plan can be extremely overwhelming. Writing a business plan for an internet business using a “template” b-plan is frustrating; we have tried many times. The majority of b-plan templates are 20 years old an don’t take into consider read more »
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Digg has made some new changes today worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site. read more »
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