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Oh, sweet. You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wa read more »
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Jennifer Osborne has a great post that promises to help many companies improve their ppc programs by identifying common mistakes. This is a really good resource for anyone doing ppc. read more »
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I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

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A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things you should do on a regular basis to position yourself to be successful in your job search whenever that time read more »
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It would appear that a new bug hit Digg overnight causing all submissions to have no end time in reaching the front page. As you can see below, even submissions with only 1 Digg are showing in upcoming after 1 day 10 hours. read more »
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Pictorial evidence of what could potentially be the darker side of social media giant Digg's founder, Kevin Rose. read more »
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Well hey... why not a little more of this Plurkin' action huh? Some musings from our fav social mom!

— Social Media Mom - I am totally hooked. Plurk is by far, more fun, more colorful and more interactive than Twitter and since Twitter has had so read more »
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According to a poll webdesignerwall.com conducted, just over 1 out of 10 people don’t think SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is mandatory as a designer; and what really surprised me is about 24% don’t even know what SEO is! If you’re among the quart read more »
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Investigating Sphinn proved to be a telling exercise for me. At least, I think so. This article shares some of the data I pulled and the concerns that emerged from having done that research. Hopefully worth a view for anyone caring about the long read more »
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Mashable - Yesterday, following a study that showed declining Facebook application usage, we posted a poll asking if you were fed up with Facebook. The results were a fairly resounding “yes.” In our most active poll ever, only 13% of you said that y read more »
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ShoeMoney's honest answer is there is no future in SEO. From my experiences I am seeing Google SERPS results strongly influenced by Google Toolbar data, Google User history, and Google Analytics data. Googles combination of SEO and social voting via read more »
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Before you go anywhere, you have to know where you’re going. What’s your destination? What’s your plan? Building a blog of quality and relevance is an accomplishment. It’s not something that just happens by letting your fingers type anything. It tak read more »
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Guest post from Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) delving deeper into the qualitative aspects of Social Media Marketing - great post and the threat of violence too!!

Snip - Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach read more »
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David Alston writes, "Social media has simplified the art of the soapbox shout. Information is shared with the masses now using easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools and is recorded and cached for infinity. These two points make the non-stop monitoring of socia read more »
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TopRank - Companies venturing into the SEO world are in fact, venturing into the content marketing world. It’s the reality of how both search engines and consumers will best respond to web site marketing efforts. Great content is an essential part o read more »
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As usual Graywolf is outing the big boys shady tricks, a good read on HP's newest trick. read more »
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The definition of prioritization is the action of arranging and dealing with things in order of importance. Vital information should be consumed first, while less important content should be processed later. read more »
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Everyone has heard the phrase "content is king." This post argues that the saying should be changed to "controversy is king." read more »
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A hilarious cartoon by Dave Harry making fun of some recent attempts at Twitter adverts.

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I take a look at the Top 20 blogs in Technorati and see how much presence they have on StumbleUpon, Digg and Delicious. Do you think the top blogs will have a bigger presence? read more »
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Great post with real online business owners explaining ways you can become a known and trusted authority. read more »
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The Google News Blog announced the addition of "related searches" at the bottom of Google News search results. Related searches are "automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search," said Google. read more »
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Marketers know that social media is impacting their business, but no one knows exactly how much. In what ways is social media changing business, how is this new medium different, and can we measure it? Should we even try? In short, what is the worth read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community o read more »
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Link opportunities are abundant if you know where to look. Sometimes there is value in linking outside the box as your site is only as strong as its weakest link. read more »
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