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Social news, bookmarking, networks and other ways to exploit the Internet addiction of innocent users

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Great Niche Social News Sites for Bloggers, Designers and Internet Entrepreneurs


Niche social news sites are one of the most important pillars of an SEO 2.0 strategy. Only by taking part in niche communities you are able to deeply connect with your peers ...
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Interview with Business Blogger Steven Snell on His Recent 50k Blog Sale


Steven Snell is a professional blogger who also runs a design business. He is the man behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and
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6 Twitter Social News Mashups that Kick Digg’s Ass


Refresh Monday is back. This time I revisit the 5 Twitter social news mashups that kick Digg's ass as two of them were obsolete by now. Plus I have added a new ...
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Are You a Real Time Idiot? A Racing Rat on Steroids? A Twitter Zombie?


Blue Eyed Zombie by Josh Jensen After spending two years on Twitter, participating almost daily there, I have noticed a gradual change in user behavior. It seems that many of ...
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Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists


Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks ...
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The Best Way to Convert Visitors to Supporters is to Forge a Bond


Friendship by sarniebill1 In modern SEO we often encounter the term conversion (rate) optimization. It means making visitors of your site your clients or customers in most cases. A conversion ...
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10 New Google Personal Search Blogging, Social Media & SEO Tactics


Image: Trust by notsogoodphotography The new by default personalized search by Google is a big paradigm shift in SEO. Yesterday I wrote about the changes personal search will bring ...
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Death Threat by StumbleUpon Engineer


Just yesterday I published a post that bluntly criticizes the many shortcomings of StumbleUpon. A few hours ago I got the first ...
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12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead


Dead End is a Creative Commons image by Benny Lin StumbleUpon is dead. Read my story first and then the 12 reasons. It was long ago, probably a year or more, ...
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Twitter Lists for SEO How to


Twitter added lists to its Web interface. Twitter clients like Seesmic already follow suit by adding Twitter lists support. Everybody uses lists as if they ...
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Interview with SEO Rockstar & Personal Development Guru Glen Allsopp


Image: Rockstar by N1NJ4. As a regular SEO 2.0 blog reader you probably know who Glen Allsopp is. I have linked his blog postings quite often in the past and ...
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Google Indexes Twitter Links


How to get Indexed by Google in 2009? Just use Twitter. This is no joke. I ran a test on Twitter to find out whether Google indexes Twitter links and surprise, surprise ...
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101 Tweets on How to Use Twitter


* How to Twitter? A question asked by millions of clueless but eager to learn new Twitter users. First off: It's either "how to tweet?" or "how to use Twitter?" The rest ...

Platform Independent SEO & SEO 2.0


Platform independence is a term known from programming. In practice platform independent programming means that a piece of software does not depend on a certain browser, plug in or operating system. For ...

Authority and Trustrank


Yesterday I discovered the original Trustrank paper from 2004. Trustrank is a term coined by some Yahoo engineers to describe a new algorithm to determine relevant search results. The new thing ...
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StumbleUpon: 7 Ways to Influence Stumble Traffic


Question mark is a CC image by Marco Belucci With the meteoric rise of Twitter and Facebook the social discovery service StumbleUpon got almost ...
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The New Delicious Front Page is Broken and Easily Gamed


For years the Delicious front page has been the better Digg. No political bias, no teenage geek crap with b00bs, FAILs ...

SEO 2.0 Changes in 2009


Hello dear Readers, I have the pleasure to announce some minor as well as potentially major changes for both the SEO 2.0 blog and SEO 2.0 as a movement as well. Let's start with ...

6 New SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s the People’s SEO, about Relevancy & ORM but not…


SEO 2.0 doesn't exist and I'm glad it doesn't! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn't exist according to Wikipedia. It existed, someone wrote an excellent article about it but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. ...