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David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Where we set forth the Internet's "Power 15" for brand influence. If your brand rocks on these 15 sites, your sales should rock as well. By contrast, bad news on these sites can really hurt your business. read more »
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Tony Adam writes... When I started learning about SEO and the role it can play for any business, whether small or large, there was one quote that put it all into perspective. It was a business meeting that I was having with the owner of our company read more »
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Pundits have been touting the promise of local and mobile search for years, but it seems like hype often outweighed substance—until now. This year, we're seeing the convergence of a number of key factors that resoundingly demonstrate that the local read more »
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Stoney deGeyter asks the question, "When I only have about 65 characters to work with in a title tag (that which is visible on the search engine results pages), should I use any of that valuable real estate to display my company name?" read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... 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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What if you didn’t move the page and simply deleted it and don’t have a page that carries the same information as the old one? Or what if the page never existed in the first place and the broken link was simply to result of someone else’s error duri read more »
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Are you kidding me? This must be a mistake. This is just way confusing in my opinion. read more »
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AdSense turned five just a few days ago. I remember when it was still in diapers. ;-) read more »
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Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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Google offers a wide variety of products aimed at small business owners, and many of them are free — or very low-cost. But does that make these products and services a good idea? I’ve written before about Google products a small business should use. read more »
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Seriously, if you're gonna redesign a site, it might as well be a cool one like WAN. You'll get a lifelong link, and Brent saying nice things about you. Plus, I'm gonna send you guitar hero so we can b*tch about Tom Morello being a guitar alien fr read more »
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Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Well, it was a little later than we expected, but Yahoo has announced a non-exclusive deal with Google around search and search advertising... read more »
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Robots from Vanessa over at Jane and Robot. Huge and awesome. read more »
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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
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QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. read more »
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Brian Carter discusses some great tactics for rescuing your SEM campaign from failure. read more »
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he he... Maki worked the word 'Plurk' into the title.....

DoshDosh - You can keep on thinking of ways to leverage a new social channel like Plurk, but don’t forget: In the end, people market people. If these lifestreaming/microblogging sites hel read more »
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Taking tactics straight from the battlefield, a detailed look at how to defeat larger and well funded opponents. Signatories of the Geneva Convention look away now. read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
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