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How Social Networking Has Killed Digg and SEO 1.0


Three years ago I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon will kill Digg and SEO 1.0. Did they? No. I was wrong. Social networking did though. Let me explain. StumbleUpon ...
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101 Ways to Make Your Blog More Popular and Successful


* After 13 years of online publishing, 7 years of blogging for a plethora of blogs, being an SEO for six years and being paid for blogging for five years by now ...
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Search Marketing Standard: The Future of Print & SEO – Interview with Associate Editor Frances Mary Krug


The Search Marketing Standard is not only the oldest search marketing print publication I know of, it's also the most focused and probably most popular one. Over the ...
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The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU


This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleUpon resources. Resources made not by or outside of StumbleUpon itself. Here are the best: StumbleUpon ...
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Stop Social Media Hopping Now to Save Your Business Later


Social Media: Paradise or prison? Are you social media hopping? Have you been on Friendster 5 years ago, on MySpace 3 years ago, on Facebook for a year or more ...
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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 ...

7 Social Sites Every Business and Professional Should Use


Update August 28th, 2009: Due to popular demand I added Facebook to the list. Also I put Friendfeed at the end of the list as not that important. Btw. it's ...
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Think Relationships not Technology


Links is a Creative Commons image by Ravages. After Matt Cutts' disclosure that PageRank sculpting support has been discontinued many SEO practitioners struggle with the issue of
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3 Traits of True Social Media Experts


Expert by Pete Prodoehl is a Creative Commons image. In recent years and months the Web has been flooded by social media experts. They're everywhere you move, you ...

Top Social News Mashup Sites


Once, when I got stumbled for real I ended up on top of the Internet section of StumbleUpon. That meant more than 2000 visitors just from ...
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Web Trends 2009


You know by now that I'm a big fan of the Web Trend Map by iA. I featured the 2007 and the 2008 web trend ...
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Top 10 Most Awesomely Amazing Creative & Funny Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks


CC: Eye am feeling silly by Cayusa. OK, I admit it, I'm part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a ...
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12 Social Media Trends You Must Be Aware of


CC: Please use revolving door by Thomas Hawk. Social media is evolving, revolving and sometimes struggling. It seems there are trends which are there for a while now. Some sites reflecting ...

Social Media Refocus: What Site is Next?


Dear Readers, over the past 1.5 years I've spent a tremendous amount of time on my favorite 3 social sites, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Mixx. ...
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Who to Follow on Twitter?


CC: The meaning of follow by dhammza. Twitter is SEO 2.0! In fact Twitter is more SEO 2.0 than StumbleUpon, Mixx or other social media I hailed. Yeah, Twitter has surpassed ...
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SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?


CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it's time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you ...
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Kevin Rose Explains How to Spam Twitter and Everybody Loves it


CC: Cut here by Phoney Nickle. Kevin "cut teats" Rose, not only infamous for his sexist remarks but also as a failed entrepreneur who
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Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration


Social bookmarking, it's what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to ...
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Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?


Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been ...
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Meta-Social Media Services Compared


CC: meta mini moo by darkmatter. While taking a look at this list of social search engines compiled at the