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With certain linking strategies under fire and others frowned on by the search engines, I thought I'd focus on what links do count and share how and where I find them. The short answer to the question "what works" is: they all do. read more »
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That'll teach those spammers! :) read more »
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One of the things that happens once you start participating in a few social networks is that you start to form Friendship Pockets. The tighter your friendship pockets become, the more strength they collectively have. read more »
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Have you seen the Whopper Freakout yet? If you haven't, you certainly should, it'll have you laughing as people truly do freak out about not getting a Whopper. Burger King's latest advertising efforts offline so sweetly coincide online. It's really read more »
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Here's some tips from a seasoned Facebook user, which should help even the most experienced Social Networker get a little more out of our favourite social network... read more »
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Tom Tsinas takes an in-depth look at the grand daddy that coined the term 'social bookmarking' aka Delicious. Check out the post for details on Delicious traffic, history, and even weird Delicious trivia. read more »
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(Don't know why this is not a blog post) With the rising cost of most traditional forms of marketing, who wouldn't prefer their customers to do their marketing? Unfortunately, very few customers ever become true fans. After all, many businesses focu read more »
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It's like cheating on taxes."Systems are in place to allow people to share one-off interesting stories with a few of their friends [on sites like Digg], they are increasingly being used to MASS-spam entire friends lists to rally for votes." Ick... read more »
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Digg Explorer is an interactive visualization in which circles are fluidly positioned in various ways to emphasize patterns of interest. For the 500 most recent popular stories there are graphs illustrating which topics or subtopics have the highest read more »
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Maybe I'm late to the party, but am noticing quite a few features on Sphinn that I hadn't before (ie. "Latest Comments" and "Top 10 Most Sphunn in What's New" in the sidebar there, the option to "Save" a post now). All in all, welcome additions, so read more »
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A timely interview with marketing guru Seth Godin about his upcoming book, Meatball Sundae. SEMpdx is hosting a free Webinar featuring Seth Godin January 15th, where he will give away copies of his new book to the first 300 registrants. Visit www. read more »
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The Top 10 SEO pick up lines for 2007! Check it out. read more »
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What follows are six simple questions you need to ask yourself if you’re starting a business blog or have one already. They won’t take long to answer, but they will help you strengthen your writing, connect with your readers, and build your business read more »
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Why some shouldn't comment on a blog read more »
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**UPDATE** This is Official, the screenshots pretty much say it all. It appears Google has stopped showing ads for keywords related to the link buying market. read more »
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Luxury hotel chain, Ritz-Carlton, will be using a series of web films in a viral marketing effort to help ditch their stuffy image and appeal to younger people. read more »
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The well-known and highly respected Google researcher, T.V. Raman speaks at the University of Washington in a nearly 1 hr video webcast.

"This talk will highlight specialized browsers in the context of accessibility; for use in mobile environm read more »
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Most domain registrars will not filter what you put on your REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO and WILL allow the script tag! As you know, being able to run scripts, the sky is the limit. You can be a hacker and steal document.cookie to hijack a session to get read more »
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While we wait for the Digg recommendation engine, which is perpetually 'coming soon', one enterprising Digg user has taken the initiative and built one himself. After putting in 200 hours of his own time, Dmytro Mulyava has come up with Digg Filter, read more »
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Google's product feeds can be optimized just like websites by knowing the components of the Google Product Search algorithm and how to manipulate feeds before they are submitted. read more »
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Its easy to become a domainer but you just have to be creative.
Read my few steps to building yourself an empire of expireds with traffic. read more »
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You already know that leaving comments at blog posts will get you free links. But page rank of the posts is usually much lower then PR of main page of the blog so the "strength" of that link is weak. However there are sometimes exceptions, and the i read more »
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Story Highlights:

# eMarketer: Spending on behavioral targeting will nearly double to $1 billion next year

# Privacy groups have called for the creation of a "do not track" list

# Users' comfort with data profiling has shifted over the year read more »
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Social bookmark sites to promote your blog. Plus a tool to help submit to several social bookmark sites quick and easy. read more »
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If there is such a thing as a writer’s block, then there is also what everyone calls a blogger’s block.

Some of you may already know that kind of feeling. These are times when you feel that you cannot seem to start blogging anything. That everyth read more »
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