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My 5 favourite YouTube search engine videos
Many of our prospective clients want to research the usefulness of search engine optimisation (SEO) but prefer to view a few videos rather than read relevant articles and visit forums.
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10 Essential SEO Tools That You Can Not Live Without
Some you may use already, some may be new to you.
A concise guide however to the top SEO Tools we should all be using.
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Who's Getting Link Love on Twitter? An Analysis of 2 Million Links
A massive tweet data set containing over 2 million links is analyzed for linking patterns. Lots of numbers to dive into!
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Stop Building Invisible Links - 3 Ways to Find Them
Are your links invisible to the search engines? Every link building campaign is time consuming and resource-intensive. In order to be efficient and get the most "bang for your link", it's important that you know which types of links are valuable and
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The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions
From Matt McGhee: "If you've been thinking about what's in store for 2009, join the crowd. The start of a new year always brings out the proverbial crystal ball, but perhaps this year more than most, online marketers are trying to figure out what's
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Why I’ve Never Been More Embarrassed for Yahoo
Andy Beal writes, "Someone over at Yahoo made the bone-headed decision to start unilaterally messing with the keywords and bids of sponsored search customers. If that wasn't bad enough, Yahoo just updated its Terms & Conditions-making advertisers fu
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6 Totally Free Social Search Engines to Start 2009
Here are 6 free social search tools that may help small businesses make their initial foray into searching the social web more productive while keeping costs to a minimum.
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Affiliate Hackers Hijack Obama’s Twitter
In a blatant display of stupidity, some bright soul hacked Obama's twitter and used an easily traceable affiliate link to try and make a quick buck. Say hi to the Secret Service for me, moron!
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Dazzlin Donna and the Gypsy have started Project Jump Start 09. Something all of you newbies should check out and some of you old dogs provide to. Great idea, specially in these times when we need innovation and entrepreneurship more than ever.
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13 Predictions of 2009 by John Battelle
Like every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy.
Quoting a random paragraph from the article: "...Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time eve
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Big List of 2008 Marketing Recap Posts
This is a collection of 2008 year-in-review lists, articles, and blog posts that are related to online marketing, doing business online, running a small business, and the like.
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Google Analytics Embraced by Fortune 1000 Companies
In an age when many companies need to scale back some of their costs while still increasing results, Google Analytics proves to be the best platform to track and analyze visits, conversions and other important data.
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Tweetbacks Beta: Trackbacks for Twitter
Dan Zarrella continues to rock the social media world. Unbelievable.
He's created a script you can install in your blog posts that will show tweets about the post, just like trackbacks, but for tweets.
Um... AWESOME
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Now for My Next Trick, I'll Turn Brand into Cash - by Sarah Lacy
I'm not saying brand doesn't matter. I'm just saying it doesn't matter the way it seems like it should on paper. In the last year, a lot of college kids or journalists young in their careers have asked my advice on becoming a brand, and I've told th
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Twitter in An Information Retrieval System
Twitter is more than just a social tool. Because of its wide use and availability via smart phones & SMS it has become a very powerful medium of communication.
Is it powerful enough to be used as a medium of an Information Retrieval System? Lets
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14 Essential Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Search
Greasemonkey is an addon for Firefox allowing users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. To use the scripts you find in this post install the Greasemonkey extension first. This list of
Greasemonkey scripts i
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Using Social Media for Reputation Management
As potential customers, business partners, and employers begin to use the Internet as a research and background check tool, your reputation in the search engines is becoming increasingly more important. For most of my clients I recommend taking a pr
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35+ Internet Marketing Blogs that are Worth Your Attention
A categorized list of excellent internet marketing, SEO, and social media blogs.
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Tickets On Sale for April Search Marketing Conference
Registration for IM Spring Break has opened. Taking place April 2-4 in Deerfield Beach, FL, IM Spring Break will have a limited number of tickets available for sale, starting with 200 tickets which are going on sale today.
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5 Reasons to Get Obsessed with Conversion Rate Optimization
My new years resolution: take conversion rate optimization more seriously. Here's five good reasons why you should too.
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The ultimate goal of this exploration is to merely encourage a sense of understanding, fire up the imagination and hopefully stir the passion. When those in the SEO industry speak of ‘standards' and pontificate the future, pausing to look at the IR
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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008: Social Media, SEO, and More
I always look forward to Tamar's yearly roundup of the best in Search, Social Media & Internet Marketing...
"Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. "
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Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring
How to manage your reputation and monitor your rankings on Google.
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The power of Twitter (clients) exposed
Joost de Valk writes... This story shows the power of Twitter and how you should always be prepared for major traffic spikes.
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SEO Geo Targeting - Now more than ever!
Businesses often implement geographical market segmentation based on their product/service offering. A florist based in Seattle is most unlikely to serve customers based in New York. Similarly, a ‘car breakdown' service provider in the US would not
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Internet Shopping Usability: No Guidance, No Interaction, No Sale
Google brought up many excellent search results for me. It didn't take me long to realize they were all distributors of this particular piece of furniture. I was delighted to discover the first site I visited had what I wanted. Or did they?
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27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community
Chris Brogan writes - "Do you like learning about magic tricks? To me, the best magicians are the ones who share what they know. Penn and Teller are like that. They love deconstructing tricks in front of you? So, do you want to learn some blogging s
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Jane Copland is leaving SEOmoz & Seattle. Their loss is Ayima & London's gain. Apparently Martini's share price went up 20% at the news.
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4 Reasons Why PPC Is The Best Online Marketing Channel
Brian Carter goes over the best reasons to use PPC as your advertising model.
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Google Guide to SEO - Are Social Media Links on Death Row?
Is Google going to kill all the "suspected" links that coem from social Media?
Are they gonna stop buying traffic from social media sites?
How is this gonna affect the community?
Check graywolf's post for more info :)
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SEO Bounce Rates, Behavioral Metrics and the Birth of SEO Surfbot Nets
Fantomaster writes... So maybe it's yet another fad, just like one of the many that have hit the SEO industry consistently ever since it came about to be. Remember the "theme based search" debates? Reciprocal links? Directory submissions as the be a
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Link Building is Like Losing Weight - Are You a Linkless Fatty?
It's a new year, which means one thing - everyone is out at the gym trying to lose weight…again. It seems like an endless cycle. They make New Years resolutions to eat healthy and exercise, yet by December they're heavier and more out of shape than
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How Monitoring Twitter Can Help Build Links
A great article by Julie Joyce on how you can use Twitter to attract links and build brand. Read it and tweet!
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Project Jump Start ‘09 - DD’s Mini-Stimulus Plan
Donna Fontenot's plan to help one person a month kick start their very own online business in 2009. :)
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Tough Love For Microsoft Search
A pretty amazing write up by Danny Sullivan covering what he believes is wrong with Microsoft Search and opportunities available to them.
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How To Research Links From a Domain
While I [Ann Smarty] have previously touched upon a few tools allowing to explore any page outbound links (explore and validate page outbound links, visualize page outlinking tactics, etc), I never looked at ways to find all websites a given domain
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Keep Innovating or Prepare To Be Run Over
Lisa Barone writes... You're getting soft.
You're sticking to what was once big and you're not moving beyond that. You're not hungry.You're not forward-thinking. You're out there sitting in the pit of fake celebrity and you don't even notice the
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Little Known High Value Links!
Here are a few ways and places you'll find high value non-nofollowed inbound links for your site....
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From avatars on social networking sites to link bait stories created for hype & hysteria. Trust between company, product & consumer has whittled away so what exists now is a battle of who can write the better tale and sound believable.
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Dev Basu rounds up of the Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008 and separates the signal from the noise to provide readers another valuable meta-list to bookmark and refer back to as Twitter continues to grow exponentially in 2009.
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