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Interview with Fraser Kelton of Glue, New Promising Social Network

July 2nd, 2009 by Ann Smarty | No Comments

This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue.

1. Please share your background. What brought you to the Web 2.0? Also please tell us a few words about your [other] projects you were doing before joining AdaptiveBlue.
I’m originally from Hamilton, a beautiful [...]

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What If Google Profiles “Lazy” or “Selective” Outlinkers?

July 2nd, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 3 Comments

The topic of your link neighbors is well discussed. It goes without saying that:

a backlink from a resource linking to only reputable sites is good;
a backlink from a resource that links out very seldom and is very conservative / lazy about out-linking is good.

But is it actually a separate profile for such sites (that [...]

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SEOpivot: Find Your Site Most Promising Keywords

July 1st, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 4 Comments

SEOquake addon developers continue to impress us with always new awesome tools. This time they are launching a new one called SEOpivot.
This tool finds your site most promising keywords by looking at your site current Google rankings and identifying most powerful words that your site already ranks high enough. In a way, the tool works [...]

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StumbleUpon Tip: Use Google to Choose the Best Category and Tags

June 30th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 10 Comments

Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being one of the most important element of the story success, proper tagging is very often overlooked.
Let me first make it clear why you should do at least some research [...]

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How to Track Your Reputation or a Keyword in Multiple Resources via One Unifed Feed

June 30th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 3 Comments

We have way too many resources to track today: thousands of blogs, social media networks, forums - somewhere someone may be talking about you and you may be unaware.
Here’s a cool solution to keep an eye on everything: create your own united, customized RSS feed and add it to your preferred feed reader.
Feed Killer [...]

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5 Lesser Known Video Search Engines

June 29th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | No Comments

Are you in need of some video inspiration? Need some fresh air? Let’s have a look at a few video search engines that can help you refresh ideas for your upcoming creation (note: I didn’t mention here most popular engines, like Youtube and Google as I am sure you are well aware of those):

Video [...]

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3 Cool Greasemonkey Scripts That Improve Microsoft Bing

June 29th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 2 Comments

I already listed a couple of great Greasemonkey scripts combining Bing with Twitter:

This time I am following up with more cool Greasemonkey scripts for early Bing adopters:
1. Bing Numbered Results: add numbers to Bing results:

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Announcing Winners Circle Internet Marketing Training Program and Community

June 29th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | No Comments

Gyutae Park, a talented blogger and also SEJ contributor, is launching a new a new kind of Internet marketing training program & community today called Winners Circle. What makes this program unique is that it uses case studies, interviews, and examples to show you how to create winning businesses in various [...]

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How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure

June 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 5 Comments

Are you a frequent speaker at search conferences? Getting prepared for the search conference must take plenty of time and effort. Well, here is a great tip how you can drive another benefit from your conference presentation: turn your PowerPoint presentation into the video file, record your speech and here you go: you have some [...]

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Getting Google Crawl Without Indexing?

June 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 7 Comments

Very often we have to deal with site (partial) duplicate content issues created by the site CMS, like:
Pagination:
domain.com/category/
domain.com/category/1
Sorting:
domain.com/category/pricing-high-low/
domain.com/category/pricing-low-high/
Blocking the pages via Robots.txt Disallow directive will prevent bots from crawling the page but is it probably worth trying to let them spidering the page without indexing them? This may help a lot for discovering more inner [...]

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