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During SMX last week, I did a series of posts that discussed what I believe to be the top five mistakes in affiliate marketing which culminated with this post, which I believe is the biggest barrier to success in affiliate marketing: Only Wanting th read more »
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Straight talk from Loren Feldman of 1938 on why personal branding is a made up term and a complete waste of your time. read more »
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We Build Pages, 10E20, BOTW, SEOmoz, Sugarrae, Frank Watson, Search Engine Journal, Sure Hits. Help us help the Ronald McDonald house, and more... this is the SMX East party to attend. read more »
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I wanted a way to give my community members more exposure than just a link to their website. I figured the best way was to give you the ability to showcase your profiles in addition to your website link at the social sites most common in my communit read more »
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A theme has quite a few things it has to take care of, and a lot of themes out there don't take care of all of these. This is a checklist that should help you prevent getting into trouble when you start using a new theme. read more »
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Is there a line between blog marketing and pay per post? Are promotional gifts just another form of money? Ciaran comes down on the side of no. read more »
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After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Peter Da Vanzo writes, "Link building is hard work. Have you ever tried to get people to link to your pure commerce/commercial brochure-web site? You know how tough it is out there. The link economy has become so established, we've even got strategi read more »
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I like Guy Kawasaki, I really do, I don’t always agree with him, but I do think he’s a smart man, and a thought leader in the space. That said I do think it pretty unfair that the A-List bloggers in the space get “free gifts” in exchange for bloggin read more »
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Incrediblehelp explains why top sphinns are getting on his nerves, and the need for unique content that isn't just recycled SEM talk. read more »
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(Disclaimer: There is good news here too - but only if you take immediate action. Warning: Some of this is considered ‘advanced SEO’). read more »
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Earlier today I reached some sort of boiling point and I started up a rant about Google and the topic of reputation management online. This blog post is targeted at Google and may feature some debatable stances. Ultimately though, I hope it's worth read more »
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Think Eyetracking recently completed an eyetracking study and compared it with an eyetracking study they did in 2005 for people looking at a Google search results page. Google has become the 8000 pound search Gorilla. During their meteoric growth th read more »
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Slightly Shady is back. Content speaks for itself:
Networks can do 2 things that a lone affiliate can’t (or won’t due to substantial effort being required).

1. They can gather up the offers for us to promote easily (Biz Dev Department)
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Jane thinks that there is a lot of hot-air which passes for insight in the search industry. I think she should just get on with creating good content....

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Tips on how to maximise your PPC campaigns in these lean times..... read more »
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To save a thousand dollars ($1,000 USD), 3M takes a ballsy move that instead of paying someone for something made popular on digg and around the web, they steal it. Legal or not, it's pretty shitty. Way to keep it classy, 3M. read more »
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David Snyder shares his presentation from SES on leveraging established social media platforms to create blended SERPs for your brand/company. Good stuff! read more »
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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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SEO is bursting with personal brands. Brands that have been so ingrained into the industry that we don't always even realize there's a company behind these folks. Obviously this goes on in other industries as well, but I really think we SEOs take it read more »
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Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Patrick makes some interesting suggestions on how to out wiki wikipedia by providing better quality articles within your niche to inherit some of the phenomenal link love Wikipedia gets.

It sounds like an awful amount of work but I can see how it read more »
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An interesting question is what someone should look for in a potential link developer and how to go about finding them. Rae lists (and pretty much answers) several must-ask questions for link development job interviews. 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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