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Innovative way to judge a contest, check out the formula:
SEJ user voting at post level + Stumbles + Comments + Sphinns + Diggs + Unique Users + Page Views (Google Analytics) + Mixx Votes + Incoming Links (as measured by Yahoo) = Final Tally read more »
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All the things about Facebook that we love to hate. read more »
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The link building experts at Vertical Measures share 3 great ways to increase the success of your business authoring articles and properly marketing them for maximum exposure on line. read more »
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If Metropolis had an SEO firm, it would be working for Superman. read more »
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A snide little piece from Valleywag shows an interesting strategy employed by Fark.com to get a front-page digg story. read more »
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The problem with an article is that once it’s been read, all the value has been extracted by the reader. They’re not going to bookmark it just to read the same thing again tomorrow. Lists however are completely different in that they supply the user read more »
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The adCenter Community have been hard at work creating the new home for the adCenter Blogs for Advertisers, API and Analytics.

www.adCenterCommunity.com

It's the Number 1 place for adCenter news, views, tips, tricks and best practices and we h read more »
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Joe Whyte posted this list about a year ago and almost all sites seem to still be around. It's a really useful list for us all, and the categorization is very useful. read more »
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Most bloggers give up after a short while; even though there are millions of blogs online, few are updated regularly and most have been abandoned. The difference between success and failure in blogging is often down to persistence. But, when I speak read more »
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Whether it's Microsoft paying a journalist to edit the company's entry on Wikipedia or the CEO of Whole Foods giving an anonymous online thrashing to competitor Wild Oats or Sony Corporation funding an "independent" fan blog, deceptive marketing pra read more »
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Even if it’s a basic healthcare package it’s a whole lot better than having no healthcare coverage in country that (unlike most of the rest of the western world) does not provide universal healthcare read more »
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OUCH! Hard data proves that the recent Digg algo change had a HUGE impact on the chances of getting a story to go hot, and that impact justifies the initial outrage that ensued. Totally great to see actual numbers for things like this. read more »
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Great tips on how to make your blog more popular. read more »
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Extremely interesting examples of bad PPC advertising. read more »
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This is a really good way to launch a simple optimization campaign.

For those that are new to search engine optimization, it covers several key points in building web pages that will generate consistent ranking results. read more »
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MikeonTV writes a guest post for Nowsourcing....

"Digg is to Dugg as ____ is to Del.icio.us?"

When you save a link at Del.icio.us what do you call it?... Saved, Bookmarked, Eaten, Ate, Dellied, Digested, Consumed, Licked, Ripened or just D’ed. read more »
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Digg CEO Jay Adelson calls the rumors about a bidding war involving Google & Microsoft "completely inaccurate". Until next time.... read more »
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Digg has been shopping for a buyer for about 6 months now. It was reported today that two huge players are planning to put in a bid to buy the biggest news social community: Microsoft and Google. read more »
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How much time do you spend working on your Web 2.0-cross voting network? Don’t get me wrong, a network is vital, the right network can propel you into social media marketing heaven. But, there comes a point where watching your story rise on digg and read more »
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Dustin Woodard takes a humorous look at the many possible incantations of Digg, depending upon who they hook up with. read more »
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How do you measure success? The ultimate measure of success for a company may be productivity but what exactly is productivity? Some people are functionally more productive that others in their work environment. Some people express their productivit read more »
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From the article: "User-generated news site Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co. (the ones that recently got Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a few months now, and pitching big tech and media companies on a s read more »
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A fantastic addition the linkdiagnosis plugin which now allows you to right-click a page and see when Google first found it. Essential stuff! read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "It would be great if every time a change was made to a site that the result was positive. Unfortunately, that's not the real world. Sometimes in SEO you make a change hoping to help, but it ends up hurting. What worked somew read more »
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As someone who agrees that Facebook becomes more of a nuisance with each passing day, I'm starting to think that my well-known Twitter resistance is futile.....agree/disagree? read more »
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