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What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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The video of "You&A With Matt Cutts," a session at SMX Advanced where Google's Matt Cutts took questions from the audience on a wide variety of topics has been posted on SEL. Additionly, recaps of the "Give It Up" session have now been posted as the read more »
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Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Let's step outside the echo chamber and hear what business owners think about using social media. Good experiences: blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more. Concerns: Time commitment, ROI, etc. Anita Campbell collects the stories from a conference this w read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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With all the frustration lately about Twitter going down, disabling features, and developers leaving the service, people still keep coming back for some reason. read more »
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‘Gaming’ social media is the act of using private networks and arrangements to propel your own content forward. Asking for votes is gaming, organizing submission be select individuals is gaming, and so on. The argument against so-called ‘gaming’ is read more »
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TheVanBlog : Best of June links. read more »
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An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
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It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Ever thought about how many of your online friends are actually offline friends? You tell them what movies you have seen and if you liked them (Wall-e anyone?), but would you invite them to go with you to said movie. Here are some insights from a t read more »
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Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
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Matt McGee weighs the pros and cons of his popular comment-followed blog. Some interesting discussion and advice from readers in the comments. read more »
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A source within Google has leaked this list of 22 Google laws. These confidential laws are not meant to be known by the public so make sure to spread the news before this site gets shut down. They cover 3 topics mainly: Ethics, privacy and website o read more »
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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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Viperchill Gives us an insight into how Ebooks are profitable and easy to set up. An excellent introductory post fro those considering this strategy of making money online. read more »
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Being a editor at the ODP , this is only what i feel or felt , after 8 months and more . The points mentioned are may not be a eye-opener but hopefully it is clear enough to be understandable and worth reading once :) In all probabilities, people w read more »
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"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! read more »
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Understanding your visitor is the underlying answer to creating a successful website. However, gathering the required information can prove to be quite a task. There are a variety of ways to gather key information about site visitors and of course t read more »
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Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Simply put, Siloing is architectually structuring your website to get the Search Engines to recognize your site is about your targeted keywords. You want the Search Engines to consider you as the subject matter expert. read more »
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Mixx Groups never really did it for me, but now you can do a lot more with the new version, called "Community" especially improved editorial content and ability to do some customization.

Also you can now use Adsense to make a few cents (or mor read more »
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In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

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