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What Has Edward Bernays Taught Me About Link Building

January 29, 2010 By

Edward Bernays, the original spin doctor, passed away before the term "link building" was coined, yet there aren't a lot of people who could teach more about how links should be built. The days of mechanical link building that consisted of directory, article submission and social bookmarking were numbered a while ago. Article submission software and cheap labor can't compete with … [Read more...]

Edward Bernays, the original spin doctor, passed away before the term “link building” was coined, yet there aren’t a lot of people who could teach more about how links should be built. The days of mechanical link building that consisted of directory, article submission and social bookmarking were numbered a while ago. Article submission software [...]

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2 FireFox Addons to Schedule Your Browsing

January 29, 2010 By

I am sure there are plenty of pages you visit weekly, daily and in some cases monthly. It is hard to keep that in mind. Here are two FireFox plugin that might turn helpful: two tools that allow to schedule your browsing: My Weekly Browsing Schedule My Weekly Browsing Schedule automatically opens your selected pages on [...]

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Google Adds Click-to-Call Phone Numbers

January 28, 2010 By +Arnold Zafra, see all posts by

The Official Google Mobile Blog announced that  phone numbers featured on some mobile ads are now clickable. This means that when you see a business phone number on a mobile ad  for a particular establishment, you can simply tap on the phone number and make the call. To make this even more useful is the [...]

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Bing Rolls Out In-Depth Stocks and Fund Pages

January 28, 2010 By +Arnold Zafra, see all posts by

From managing your family daily food menu to portfolio management.  Only goes to show how Bing wanted to be part of every aspects of our lives. Just announced is Bing’s in-depth “stocks and funds” pages. Bing’s stocks and funds page provides detailed information about key finance metrics as well as easy to understand summary of [...]

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How Search Engines Find Your Content

January 28, 2010 By +David Harry, see all posts by

Discovery; where SEO starts… Long before you start to worry about actually ranking content, you need to get it into the index. And of course, to do that, your content needs to be found. In the world of information retrieval this is, appropriately enough, known as ‘discovery’. This in itself can be known as a [...]

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Create a Blog that Promises Success

January 28, 2010 By +Joanna Batten, see all posts by

Awhile back I wrote a post titled: 7 ways to boost your SEO career profile. One of my suggestions was to get SEO certified. Many people had an opinion about that so instead of just giving the advice, I decided to go for it! I am now a student with Market Motive enrolled in the [...]

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Local SEO Limitations to Acknowledge Now!

January 28, 2010 By +Nick Stamoulis, see all posts by

Local SEO is not just something that might help a business anymore, it will. In today’s business space it is absolutely vital for all business to position themselves in search results appropriately so that local visitors can easily locate a business. I speak with people each and every day that think that SEO is the [...]

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January 28, 2010 | 5 Comments | Read Story

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How to UNshorten Any URL

January 28, 2010 By

URL shorteners have become popular together with Twitter: they allow to save on characters and thus tweet and retweet very long URLs. They do have one huge advantage of making URLs short; they also have two huge disadvantage: third-party URLs shrinkers are unreliable (imagine if one of the services just stops existing) and they are [...]

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Watch Obama State of the Union Address Live Online

January 27, 2010 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

Tonight President Obama will be addressing Congress, the Nation and the free world with his first State of the Union address. According to multiple news sources, the President is going to discuss financial initiatives including clamping down on US banks, continuing to build out the US infrastructure, the war in Afghanistan and potentially putting a [...]

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January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment | Read Story

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Majestic SEO Receives Funding

January 27, 2010 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

Cheers to my good friend Dixon Jones and the Majestic SEO team as I read that they just received a nice round of funding! Majestic announced this week that it has received substantial funding from a Dutch investor. If you’re not aware of what Majestic SEO does,  it is a tech company based in Birmingham [...]

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