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We caught up with Kerry Parkins at Mixx.com to get her views on social news and how it effects politics and business. read more »
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I sat down with Ed Freyfogle to discuss Nestoria, a really intuitive property search engine. We talked search and social media. Take a peek. read more »
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Distilled got in touch with Richard Millington at Feverbee to find out a bit more about the subject. Rich is an expert in building online communities and is currently working with Seth Godin in New York. read more »
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Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicat read more »
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Traffic is usually what the success of a website lies on, so you need to know how to build traffic as effectively as possible. Luckily, over the last 2 months I’ve helped launch over 10 sites and quickly drive them to large amounts of relevant traff read more »
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Dr. Pete Meyers, a well-known usability expert and Twitter addict, has decided to ring in 08-08-08 by celebrating "Twitter and [his] international friends by spending 24 straight hours on Twitter."

So no matter what time zone you're in, help @dr_ read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I made some changes to my sidebar and I noticed that I’ve started to build up a decent number of posts on my weird take on history, sociology, psychology, memetics, viral marketing and social media (I like to call it protoviral) read more »
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My look on how Google personalised results can show you some interesting results and how to deal with that. read more »
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With US inflation at a 26-year high and no end in sight, the economy is setting off alarms for businesses and consumers. This economic crunch gives businesses two paths to follow. Which one will you choose? read more »
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I can't say that I know Danny personally. I have met him once at SMX London, but that's about it. Oh, and he replied once when I asked him why no coffee in the morning:

Which kind of brings me to the topic at hand. Danny twittered about a New read more »
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Google being taken on by Lastminute.com in the UK courts over recent change to their adwords trademark bidding policy. read more »
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Link Building can definitely be an extremely difficult task if you want to take it on based on purely human labor to go out and request for links, whether they are one way or reciprocal. read more »
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In my capacity as amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, I have discovered a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social structures. The syndromes identified include: read more »
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There has lately been a furore in the UK in the way google has changed the trademark policy on Paid Search. Recent Articles include one at SEO Chicks (http://www.seo-chicks.com/502/the-lift-of-brand-trademark-on-googleadwords-is-google-getting-greed read more »
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PageRank for images - a help or a hindrance? Either way it's progress.. read more »
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I'm a big fan of Google Alerts and use it a lot. Jaan presents a way to use it that I never thought of before - to track new back links. Good stuff. read more »
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Can you tell what the status of an industry as a whole is? Can you predict financial issues by analyzing search data?

Hitwise seem to think you may just be able to. Excellent deductive article on the US housing market... read more »
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SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. read more »
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Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. 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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Darren Rowse writes a guest post on SocialMediaMom....4 Tips for Social Media Toddlers.

So many of us as Social Media Toddlers seem to get bogged down by the way things should be done or by being concerned of how others will receive us - but pe read more »
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An interview with five SEO experts from all four corners of the world (sort of). Questions ask about accented characters, languages vs. countries and the future of geo location. read more »
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From SEOMoz, Someone is trying to register "SEO" as a service mark. Apparently, the guy who's doing this has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. That means he has passed the preliminary review by the Trad read more »
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When we analyze incoming links, we tend to focus on more or less the same set of link parameters. However, sometimes looking beyond the regular, can provide the opportunity to not only succeed in link building, but even dominate the niche you are co read more »
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