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Its much harder today to get your blog indexed and ranked in the search engines. At one time blog marketing was easy. read more »
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Less than one-quarter of US Internet users ages 40 and over use social networking Web sites, according to the JWT BOOM/ThirdAge "Boomers, Healthcare and Interactive Media" study conducted last month. read more »
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How to make people click your links on Twitter. read more »
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Great illustration of the interaction and interdependence (is that a word?) between the various factions of search marketing, with a touch of humor thrown in as well. Would be great for getting corporate honchos to understand the necessity of each read more »
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Guide to some of the best Twitter Apps read more »
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You see a lot of posts about how businesses are using Twitter but most of them talk about the strategic approach, not the tactical application. Here are a few ideas on how to start twittering tactically. read more »
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"I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn't no read more »
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Facebook have banned a political Facebook page and threatened its creators with being banned from the site.

The page users, which had over 3000 fans, are outraged and a new Facebook page has been created to call for its re-instatement. read more »
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If you're a consultant or marketing manager, I'm sure you can relate to this one - it is soooo tiring trying to convince clients and/or management that corporate blogging is worthwhile.

In an exercise to get some "hard facts" and "real data", I s read more »
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Google to launch Google Friend connect, enabling you to add social networking to your site - well if Google lets you of course. read more »
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Yup..it's official... I am hooked up and in need of an intervention! read more »
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Insight into the future of Mobile social networking read more »
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Friends Reunited to relaunch with massive advertising campaign to help regain ground lost to Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and others. read more »
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If you ever wondered how to optimize your on page factors to create relevance for your content, this tutorial highlights a few SEO techniques for using consistent naming conventions, tags, site architecture and links to enhance continuity. read more »
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Examining how Bebo, Squidoo and Facebook are ranked on Google. read more »
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Inc. Technology article about optimizing blogs for increased search engine traffic.

"Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SEO) read more »
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Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! 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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Charles Arthur of the UK's Guardian newspaper gives a really good overview of what Twitter is, how to get the most out of it and the various tools have grown up around it. It's great to see the MSM getting behind a site like Twitter, so let's give T read more »
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A discussion around how Google is attempting to use iGoogle's open development environment as a platform to compete with Facebook. read more »
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This is a good article which discusses other ways to increase your SEO workforce when you are not able to bring on the additional headcount. The ideal situation for in-house SEO staff is to identify the core tasks that leverage their industry experi read more »
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How does Google address vertical search?

I think they do it brilliantly. This post explores the different ways is currently addressing vertical searches, and how this strategy keeps them ahead of the game. read more »
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StumbleUpon and Google have a lot in common, just how will this contribute to he future of search as a whole, how many different new ways of acquiring information or entertainment will pop up along the way, and which will prove the most successful u read more »
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Some interesting thoughts and ideas on using Twitter for marketing and business building. read more »
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