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When Gambling with Paid Links Backfires (and What Lessons Can Be Learnt)

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owl 1 day, 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

When Gambling with Paid Links Backfires (and What Lessons Can Be Learnt)

A look at the much publicised case of gourmetgiftbasket.com and why Google looks to punish sites with ranking penalties for buying paid links. Google hates paid links. Epitomising PageRank manipulation, it allows sites to gain an unfair advantage in their rankings. This in turn can skew results and lead to algorithmic confusion – not good [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:Google’s Newspaper Clampdown Highlights Risk of Paid Links 5 Lessons Hugo Chavez Can Teach Us About... (more)

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tags: Blackhat SEO, Buying Links, Google, Google AdWords, Google Ranking Penalty, Link Building, Paid Links, PPC, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), SEO, Social Media

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Digg Names Long-time Amazon Exec, Matt Williams as New CEO

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owl 1 day, 20 hours, 2 minutes ago

Digg Names Long-time Amazon Exec, Matt Williams as New CEO

Back in April Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced he was stepping down and leaving the company. Today, Tech Crunch confirmed that they have hired Matt Williams, long time Amazon executive, has his replacement. Williams has worn many hats at his over a decade working for Amazon, including: GM of the Web-store, Director of Tech Alliances, [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Digg Names Long-time Amazon Exec, Matt Williams as New CEO (more)

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tags: News, Social Media

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Facebook Like: Or, How to Spam the Socialsphere

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owl 2 days, 3 hours, 37 minutes ago

Facebook Like: Or, How to Spam the Socialsphere

Where there’s traffic and visibility to be earned, spammers aren’t far behind. Here’s a look at the growing problem of Facebook ‘Like buying’. Social media is a catalyst for conversation. It enables user-moderation and the viral spread of popular online content. It is quick, cheap and effective. As a consequence, people are willing to exploit [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:Digg Implements Nofollow to Prevent Link Spam. Partly. Facebook Dominates Online Information Sh... (more)

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tags: Digg, Facebook, Facebook Like, Google, Like Buying, Link Buying, Social Bookmarking, Social Media

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Social Media Book Package Giveaway!

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owl 2 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes ago

TweetAs a thank you to those that visit and contribute to my blog, I’ve wanted to do some sort of giveaway for awhile, but wanted it to be somewhat relevant to what I do and write about. My blog certainly doesn’t generate crazy amounts of traffic or revenue, so I couldn’t exactly get too crazy, [...] Socialnomics Book Review Olive Garden on Facebook: How To Not Use Social Media 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant (more)

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tags: Social Media, Software

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Pay Per Fan: What Big Brands Are Paying For Facebook Fans

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owl 3 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

Pay Per Fan: What Big Brands Are Paying For Facebook Fans

Although it may sound weird or repulsive to some purists, brands have been buying fans on a cost per fan basis for months (some for many moons). Cost Per Fan Is No Big Surprise When you step back, it makes sense: Many companies operate on a cost per action basis to get emails… fan bases [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Pay Per Fan: What Big Brands Are Paying For Facebook Fans (more)

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tags: PPC, Social, Social Media

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Qualities Of A Successful Blogger

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shaniadavid 3 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes ago

“Content is king” a well known statement about the significance of content in improving the visibility of a website among other global competitors. Content can be in any form. It can be part of the website or in the form of blogs or articles that serve as marketing tools. Blogging has become a trend not only for website promotion but also to share personal thoughts with others. To increase the numbers of readers at a blog it is needed to follow some useful tips so that blogs can become good, informative ... (more)

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tags: blog traffic, blog writing, Blogging, blogging tips, informative blog writing, seo company, Social Media, successful blogging, website promotion

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Social Media Blog Regurgitation

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owl 4 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes ago

I’ve struggled lately coming up with blog posts. I feel like we’ve read it all before. There are so many social media blogs out there, I think it’s hard to differentiate one from the other. How many blogs just seem to regurgitate the same things about social media? Do I really need to write one [...]This content from: Freelance Social Media Social Media Blog Regurgitation (more)

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Monitoring your Brand Online: A Case Study with VAMC

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owl 6 days, 5 hours, 58 minutes ago

Search engines and social media websites can make or break a company nowadays. With millions of users frequenting Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and more than 1/3 of the world using Google to find information, businesses need to know how their brand is being portrayed online. Online reputation management through social media websites and search engines is [...] (more)

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tags: case stury, how to monitorize your brand, monitoring your brand online, search engine monitoring, SEO, Social Media, VAMC case study

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What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data

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owl 8 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes ago

What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data

TweetI didn’t really get serious about blogging until the past year, and even then, I haven’t written as much as I would like. Like many bloggers, I’ve gone in and out of writing, and that doesn’t help with maintaining a consistent flow of traffic to your blog. At the end of the day, driving eyeballs [...] Social Media Friendly Blogging My 9 Favorite WordPress Social Media Plugins How To Use LinkedIn Groups To Drive Website Traffic (more)

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tags: Blogging, Social Media, Wordpress

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How Just Noticeable Difference Theory Impacts Your Blogging

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owl 9 days, 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

How Just Noticeable Difference Theory Impacts Your Blogging

Just noticeable difference (JND) describes the marginal difference in a stimulus (compared to a similar stimulus) needed for that difference to be perceived. Also mathematically represented as: That’s a freight train of earth-shatteringness, right? In blogging lingo, it means you can’t just be different from other blogs. You have to be sufficiently different in some [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.How Just Noticeable Difference Theory Impacts Your Blogging (more)

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tags: Blogs and Blog Search, Social Media

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How Brand Awareness Can Prove To Be an SEO Asset – Part 2

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owl 10 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes ago

In the second part of our look at how a brand identity developed online and in the real world can influence SEO we look at how it can all come together. Interplanetary alignment, karmic balance or divine synchronicity; whatever it may be, businesses are boosting their SEO efforts through exposure alone. As we found yesterday, [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:How Brand Awareness Can Prove To Be an SEO Asset Display Advertising ‘Great for Building Brand Awareness’ How a ... (more)

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tags: Brand Awareness, creative marketing, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), SEO, Social Media

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How Brand Awareness Can Prove To Be an SEO Asset

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owl 11 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes ago

This is the first in a two part look at how developing your brand’s awareness both offline and on can benefit your SEO work. When it comes to successfully implementing Search Engine Optimisation theory, there is often a fair amount of hard work and effort required. There’s keyword research to be done, content to be written [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:Display Advertising ‘Great for Building Brand Awareness’ How a Press Release Can Benefit Your Brand and SEO Web Host... (more)

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tags: Brand Awareness, Brand Visibility, Internet Marketing, offline marketing, Online Marketing, PR, Press Release, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), SEO, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

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Is it better to build a niche or a brand?

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owl 12 days, 7 hours, 31 minutes ago

This blog post was crowdsourced from Linkedin.com - I want to thank all the wonderful people that took the time to give their opinion. (more)

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tags: Branding, business development, crowdsourcing, Niche, Social Media

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Facebook Places: Should Everybody Know Your Business?

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owl 13 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes ago

Facebook Places: Should Everybody Know Your Business?

Yes, it appears Facebook has once again set off the privacy alarms. It only seems like yesterday when shared post after post liked from my news feed took me to instructions on how to change my privacy settings to remove my voice mail number from public view...with Facebook Places barely out off the launch pad, the backlash hit me like the heat from a blast furnace. (more)

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tags: Facebook, Industry News, Social Media

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Can Social Media Activity Affect Career Prospects?

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owl 15 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes ago

Can Social Media Activity Affect Career Prospects?

After Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, claimed that our social media past could be so damaging to future prospects that people would have to change their names, we take a look at just how true that may be. More and more people are flocking to social media sites to share their lives with the world. Facebook [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:Is Social Media Detrimental to Business? Has Social Media Become Too PR Orientated? A President, A Senator and the Dangers of Social Media (more)

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tags: Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

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Changing Social Media Clients Mid-Stream: When Free is Suddenly No Longer Free

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owl 16 days, 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

Changing Social Media Clients Mid-Stream: When Free is Suddenly No Longer Free

Think about why you use Twitter and Facebook. The casual user with only one profile on each needn't worry in this situation - this change won't affect you. However, for the entrepreneur monitoring several Twitters, Facebook pages, and even LinkedIn and Foursquare, not only do you stand to let a lot of hard work go stagnant, but now you have to shop around for an alternative solution, and basically start anew. (more)

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tags: Industry News, Social Media

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Social Media Controversy: Quantity vs. Quality to Gain Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers

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owl 16 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes ago

Social Media Controversy: Quantity vs. Quality to Gain Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers

The old adage, “there are lies, damn lies and statistics” has never been more true when it comes to social media marketing. We are such a numbers driven culture that we place ultimate value on statistical results — we equate higher numbers with better results. This works in many areas of life, particularly sports. In baseball, for example, careers are made based on batting average, home runs, number of saves or simply won-lost records. (more)

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tags: Adage, emarketing companies, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Fans, instant fans, LinkedIn, mari smith, Marketing, measuring results, Online Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social media page, Social Oomph, Web Success

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Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

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owl 17 days, 3 hours, 41 minutes ago

Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Why aren’t more companies leveraging the power of social networking? Here are the obstacles: They don’t understand the benefits They are afraid to empower employees who don’t normally network or market or represent the company There’s no nationally recognized solution for training Fortune 1000 companies how to do this So let’s go through these point [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (more)

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tags: Social, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

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3 Up & Coming Social Media Tactics Every Small Business or Startup Should Consider

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owl 17 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes ago

3 Up & Coming Social Media Tactics Every Small Business or Startup Should Consider

Starting or maintaining a small local business is no easy task. This is especially the case when you offer a product or service that is provided by major players that are hard to compete solely on price with. For every story of a mom and pop shop that has fought off the corporate giants, there [...] Making Dough(nuts): A Real World Example of Using Social Media Effectively Olive Garden on Facebook: How To Not Use Social Media 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant (more)

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tags: Social Media

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Using SEO to Manage Your Reputation on Google

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owl 21 days, 6 hours, 7 minutes ago

Using SEO to Manage Your Reputation on Google

Some elements of the Internet can’t be tamed, but can you really manage your reputation on search engines through SEO? In a multi-media, multi-platform world, keeping a spotless reputation can be an uphill struggle. With tabloid hacks circulating for scandal, inquisitive bloggers getting undercover exclusives and media consumers increasingly wanting bigger, better content – any day [...] You might also be interested in the following related posts:Has the Value of an Organic Google Ranking Been Eroded? ... (more)

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tags: Facebook, Google, Google Page Elements, Google Rankings, Reputation Management, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

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When Gambling with Paid Links Backfires (and What Lessons Can Be Learnt)

Digg Names Long-time Amazon Exec, Matt Williams as New CEO

Facebook Like: Or, How to Spam the Socialsphere

Social Media Book Package Giveaway!

Pay Per Fan: What Big Brands Are Paying For Facebook Fans

Qualities Of A Successful Blogger

Social Media Blog Regurgitation

Monitoring your Brand Online: A Case Study with VAMC

What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data

How Just Noticeable Difference Theory Impacts Your Blogging

How Brand Awareness Can Prove To Be an SEO Asset – Part 2

How Brand Awareness Can Prove To Be an SEO Asset

Is it better to build a niche or a brand?

Facebook Places: Should Everybody Know Your Business?

Can Social Media Activity Affect Career Prospects?

Changing Social Media Clients Mid-Stream: When Free is Suddenly No Longer Free

Social Media Controversy: Quantity vs. Quality to Gain Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers

Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

3 Up & Coming Social Media Tactics Every Small Business or Startup Should Consider

Using SEO to Manage Your Reputation on Google

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