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In this interview - the co-founder of YouBundle.com discusses the future of the search market in which machine results from google will be trumped in relevance by hand picked results by self-appointed and community verified experts on the result. read more »
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An in depth post about how to improve your rankings in Google Local/Maps quickly and efficiently. read more »
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Video interview with the LiveRail's ceo, talking about the weaknesses of Doubleclick in terms of video ad targeting. read more »
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Video interview with Rich Pearson, VP marketing of Attributor, a company that enables publishers (like AP, Reuters, Condenet) to turn copied content into a lucrative content distribution strategy. read more »
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Have spammers and phishers finally begun the slow take-over of Facebook, as they did MySpace? read more »
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The best way to write content that will go viral is to spend time Analyzing the Success of Others. Take some time out to analyze the types of posts that are going viral in your niche. read more »
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It looks like del,icio.us is making some very welcome changes/updates. "Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format...." read more »
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Read about Microsoft latest release, and why they need Digg to suck up their social data. read more »
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80% (84%, actually) of the time spent on blogs comes from 20% of the audience, a comScore study finds; this presents an opportunity to develop a unique audience for your blog. read more »
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Twitter is Feng shui! read more »
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Bringing up the comparison of Facebook versus Twitter read more »
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After Andy Baio called “bulls**t” on CANSEI DE DER SEX Music is My Hot Hot Sex, there’s been renewed interest in stats-gaming on YouTube. The video is still online at 91,195,785 views and counting, but it’s no longer listed as the most viewed all ti read more »
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Small businesses are STILL not using blogs to market themselves and, in fact, most folks I talk to don't even know what a blog is. If you know someone without a blog, this article was written for them. 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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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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Why is it important to reveal and to hide the real value of Techcrunch? read more »
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Hilarious micro-site on how shopping carts have 'evoluted'. A bit of a red-neck spin on shopping cart abandonment with a bunch of videos, photos, poems, and miscellaneous funniness. Digging deeper you'll see it's been done by Verisign, but it's not read more »
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Take Gmail to the next level with these power user tips and Greasemonkey extensions for Firefox. read more »
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Ann Smarty Discusses the importance of Niche Blogging and Branding. Are their goals synonymous?

Excerpt: Niche blogging also allows you to generate organic search traffic by focusing on niche related keywords and highly relevant inlinks. But is i read more »
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Video Interview with Manoj Bist from Blogbard. Blogbard turns your feeds into audio to listen to them while you're on the go! read more »
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Turn your directory into a dynamic content-distributed platform to preserve your leadership and make extra ad money while you're at it. read more »
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So advertising performances on social networks are poor? So what? That's rather good news! read more »
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On day one of SES London Lee Odden was able to catch up with Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik to do a short (10 min) video on several topics important to web masters looking for better results on Google read more »
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Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
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Google Blogoscoped wants his readers to try to redesign the iconic Google logo. When we saw their blog post we knew right away we wanted to throw our hat into the ring. 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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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008