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5 Years of Blogging – Part 1

Nowsourcing — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:57:19 CDT

As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m shortly coming up on 5 years of blogging, which still astounds me when I think of it. There are now many people who have been blogging for five or more years, so it’s not that unusual anymore, but it’s longer than I expected to be running this blog. The official anniversary date will be May 30, 2010, which is exactly five years after my first p

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Social Media Book List: Writing for your Business & The Power of Twitter

WuQV — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:57:11 CDT

A Weekly Series by Teresa MorrowI'm Teresa Morrow, Founder of Key Business Partners, LLC and I work with authors and writers by managing their online promotion. As part of my job I read a lot of books (and I love to read anyway!). I am here to offer a weekly post about one book I am working with and one book I have put on my reading list. The books will cover topics such as social media (Faceboo

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I Read Three Other Blog Posts….Now What?

SeoDesignSolutionsBlog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:57:05 CDT

This blog post tops off my four-part "Now What?" series that has covered three critical components to sales conversions after SEO and increased traffic trends have been achieved: Call-to-action, sleek design and killer sales copy. In the last post I wrote about writing good sales copy. The main thing to take away is that good facts and insightful information is all you really need to sell. So giv

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A Look At Twitter Demographics

Social-media-optimizationcom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:57:02 CDT

I came across this interesting chart from Michael Brito this morning that shows the demographic breakdown of Twitter users by age.Interestingly the fastest growing segment on Twitter (other than bots) is among people 24 and younger accelerated faster than older folks in 2009, according to comScore.Unlike most social networks, Twitter started out being more popular with adults, before it caught on

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MyBlogLog’s Potential Closure Empowers BlogCatalog

blogcatalog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:56:56 CDT

A Notice from BlogCatalog’s CEOYahoo recently announced that it was evaluating the possible sale or closure of MyBlogLog. For us, the BlogCatalog team, it serves as a reminder that any company that is complacent runs the risk of dying. This fact is made more poignant given that MyBlogLog was one of the most innovative social media networks of the past decade. In many ways, they were ahea

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An In Depth Guide to Creating Small Websites That Rank Well

seoish — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:56:52 CDT

I have made quite a few websites and they tend to do well. It isn’t because I am particularly gifted, it is because of the decisions I make before creating a website.I do not try (and fail) to make a million zillion dollars on the web.I do try (and succeed) to make a few hundred dollars a month on websites that are really good and really small (if you make a few of these websites, they add

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comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

BillHartzer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:55:36 CDT

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing.comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, releases its comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In February 2010, Americans

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Domaining

SelfMadeMinds — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:54:17 CDT

While I would never have set my stall out as a domainer I do thoroughly enjoy the research, tracking down of owners, negotiating and buying domains at what I perceive as good value, it’s just good fun. After buying up my geo’s in June – Sept I pretty much kept myself busy and didn’t do anything on the domain front.Enhancement.co.uk was bought late last year & will be a

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Would You Walk Away From It All?

TheNicheStoreBuilder — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:53:17 CDT

Every now and again… an opportunity crops up and you have to evaluate what you really want to do with yourself going forward. That opportunity has once again stumbled in front of me… and I have been approached to be a part of something that could be very big! I’m not talking about ANYTHING to do with the affiliate marketing world, but a local opportunity that would take advantag

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10 Things I Learned from Disney: Dreams Make a Difference

outofmygord — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:50:57 CDT

My friend and fellow Search Insider columnist, Aaron Goldman, has gained a lot of mileage from one column. Sometime ago, he wrote a column entitled "Everything I Need to Know about Marketing I Learned from Google". Since then, he's managed to stretch that out into dozens of columns and an upcoming book. For the next few weeks, I'd like to take inspiration from Aaron and share a few things that Di

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Firefox 3.6; Now That’s What I’m Talking About!

ShankerBakshiDotCom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:48:32 CDT

On Friday I got my first alert that there was an upgrade to the Firefox browser. It also said it wasn’t compatible with one of the add-ons that I liked, and I thought about not upgrading to it. However, Saturday night it popped up again, and I decided okay, fine, I’ll go that route. After all, one add-on does not a perfect browser make, right? Let me say this; you’ve got

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Hassle-Free Blog Monetization With BlogSell

ShankerBakshiDotCom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:48:29 CDT

My Friend Gobala Krishnan is working on a project Called BlogSell which he will be releasing very soon may be at the end of this month.BlogSell is blogging software which helps you make more money online with less effort. Easily manage affiliate banners and links. Sell text link ads, paid banners and paid reviews. No installation required, get started in 5 minutes.This is a unique attampt in blog

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5 Twitter do’s and don’ts

MakeMoneyOnline — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:46:58 CDT

Twitter has taken over the social networking world by a sway with its revolutionary micro-blogging concept. From emails to blogs to tweets, written language is going the nano way. If blogging is a way of healthy social expression then twitter has made it possible to express umpteen emotions in just 140 characters. Its fast, its concise and you can race through hundreds of blogs, sorry, micro-blog

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Chinese Ad Partners to Google: What About Us?

Trav — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:44:23 CDT

Google is/isn’t/might/mightn’t/will/won’t pull out of China over censorship and security concerns. Nobody really knows what the future may hold (although CEO Eric Schmidt’s forecast calls for a 99.9% chance of “something”)—including Google’s 27 Chinese ad resellers. In a letter to Google Monday, the resellers pleaded for some information

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Social Buyers

Elmark — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:43:58 CDT

For small businesses that are in limbo on using social media for business ventures, don’t hesitate. According to eMarketer, research done by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate has shown that social friends and followers purchase from brands that they love. More than 50% of Facebook fans said they are more likely to make a purchase for at least a few brands, while 67% of Twitter fans do

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Google Global Firefox Extension Version 2.2

Rubik — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:42:31 CDT

It’s been a while since our last Google Global update. We’ve been kicked into gear by the forceful upgrade of Firefox to 3.6 lately too. For those of you who have been holding off upgrading Firefox to the latest and greatest version so you could continue to use Google Global, the wait is over. Today we would like to announce the release of the latest version of Google Global.The lates

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Coming Up To 5 Years Of Fun!

Nowsourcing — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:34 CDT

I just realized the other day that this blog is almost 5 years old now…. the first post was on May 30, 2005. Wow. I should do something to celebrate. But what? Let me know what you think….

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How Experts Can Really Help Beginners

WuQV — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:27 CDT

A Guest Post by Amanda Markham My Story: I wanted to take my blog, Desert Book Chick, from its place on Wordpress.com to a self hosted Wordpress.org site. I signed up with a webhost, got my shiny new domain name, got in the driver’s seat, and off I went. It took two painful weeks before I finally had my site looking vaguely like I wanted it to look. Along the way I learned a lot. Being

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SEO and Big Brands…Do they ALL need it?

SeoDesignSolutionsBlog — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:24 CDT

Let's say you represent a BIG brand; one that is a household name. Next, let's say that your products or services are not e-commerce based. Want an example? Sure, let's use Deloitte, the consulting firm specializing in tax, accounting, strategy and technology integration.SEO and Big BrandsA potential customer isn't going to use a search engine to look for "tax consulting", find Deloitte, then use

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A Successful Facebook Marketing Campaign

Social-media-optimizationcom — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:20 CDT

I received some interesting data today from Dessert Gallery (DG), a Houston-based cafe chain about their recent Facebook fan page campaign.Utpal Dholakia, associate professor of management at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and Emily Durham, a Jones School alumna and founder of Restaurant Connections, a Houston?based restaurant consultancy surveyed customers of Dessert

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How to Be Awesome (or Personal Blogging Tips)

blogcatalog — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:16 CDT

When I was a little girl, my mother gave me a diary in honor of my first day of school. It was a small 6×4″ blue and purple book with teddy bears dancing on the cover. It was garnished with a dial lock, my first taste of privacy. I was 6. Mom handed me that thing and told me that one day I’d understand why writing the happenings of your own life can be such a good habit. Of

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Jazz Up Your Blog With Floating Attention-Grabers! Boost Subscribers With STYLE

thenetfool — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:08 CDT

Recently I made an upgrade to the header on my blog, and it was a BIG update at that! Not only did I enhance the looks of the most-viewed area of my blog, but I added a newsletter opt-in box which could potentially boost my subscribers tremendously.But was my excitement premature!?One of my readers, Rob from myTTOOS.com, pointed out the following:Rob: “Really cool, but i bet it will be over

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How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

BillHartzer — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:44:09 CDT

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else in the search engine marketing industry to tell you about the benefits of search engine optimizati

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Outsourcing and Automation Presentation

SelfMadeMinds — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:43:00 CDT

Hi all, it’s been a while since I posted, basically been crazily busy with both business and life in general. I enjoyed and spoke at another Think Visibility conference at the weekend, awesome group of people with some great speakers.I spoke on outsourcing and automation, a subject I’m pretty passionate about and I think it went okay, so I’ve shared the slides above, any questio

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eBay Says Screw 2012 – Declares Doomsday in March 2010!

TheNicheStoreBuilder — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:42:02 CDT

Do You Hear The Background Rumbling? That’s DROVES of eBay Sellers – Running off to the Competition! Well, like they do every time eBay has another fee reduction!Wait… nah… forget it.2010 Spring Seller UpdateeBay is getting ready to make more changes to its system… this time however, the changes are targeted to eBay Sellers, billed as the 2010 Spring Seller Update, a

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Ebay Affiliate Sales (or How To Earn Money from Other People’s eBay Auctions)

Dazzlindonna — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:34 CDT

Most of the people that I know in real life (family, neighbors, etc.) aren’t savvy about how people make money online. If I were to ask any of them how people make money from eBay, I’d bet that 100% of them would say that people make money by selling their junk on eBay. Of course, they wouldn’t be wrong, but they wouldn’t be 100% right either.What they don’t realize

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Google Adsense Publishers Received $5.2 billion in 2009

fullgill — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:41:18 CDT

Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of Product Management just published a blog post where he highlighted Google’s continuous effort in helping publishers to make money online via advertising.He than briefly ran through Google’s three primary ad products:Google Adsense: Adsense has definitely helped a lot of small-large publishers to monetize their traffic and earn advertising revenue agai

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What Will You Go Out Of Your Way To Do For Your Blog?

ShankerBakshiDotCom — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:29 CDT

First, I’d like to mention that I had my final guest posting article on DeAnna Troupe’s blog post last week, titled You Can’t do It All When You Work For Yourself, a small business topic many folks need to learn as soon as they can. I hope you check it out, and I thank DeAnna for asking me to write it for her.You know, ever since I wrote my post on guest posting, it seems I

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How to Tweet with Location Information?

ShankerBakshiDotCom — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:26 CDT

Twitter has added a new feature which allows you to share your tweeting location. Once you enable this feature from your twitter account setting it will be able to tag a tweet with your exact location. You can always disable it and remove all location history from the Settings page.You can include location information like neighborhood, town, or exact point when you tweet. When you tweet with a l

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5 best web design strategies

MakeMoneyOnline — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:35:50 CDT

Guest Post by Vyom MunjaalWebsite design is like any other serious business. A good website plays a key role in driving a lot of potential customers to your company. A website is the only powerful media that advertises your organization globally. Hence, an involvement of a large amount of research and skilled developers is very important.Here are 5 simple and powerful web design strategies you wi

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Now Available in Real Time: Spam!

Trav — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:31:49 CDT

Yep, now you can have spam delivered in real time to your search results on Google or Twitter. This is just why we all clapped for joy when Bing and Google hooked up with Twitter for real time results, isn’t it?Oh, no? Hm. I guess we’re not the only ones. Search Engine Roundtable noted a Webmaster World forum thread complaining about the spam in real time search results. I

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Search Engines: Saving your pocket

Elmark — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:31:38 CDT

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Social Media From Across the Pond

Nowsourcing — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:09 CST

Guest post by Justin Parks – He’s Northern Irish and a big time advocate of social media stuff and making sure its done right. Loves a pint of the black stuff from time to time and tends to swear a lot. You have been warned! He hangs out on twitter and on his social media blog Justinparks.com.There is no question that social media is hitting the mainstream. It is evolving into a m

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Social Media Book List: Get Upbeat and do some Savvy Business Promoting

WuQV — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:05 CST

A Weekly Series by Teresa MorrowI'm Teresa Morrow, Founder of Key Business Partners, LLC and I work with authors and writers by managing their online promotion. As part of my job I read a lot of books (and I love to read anyway!). I am here to offer a weekly post about one author I am working with and one book I have put on my reading list. The books will cover topics such as social media (Faceb

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I HAVE TRAFFIC… NOW WHAT?

SeoDesignSolutionsBlog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:03 CST

Many people who enlist for SEO services are thrilled to see that their traffic numbers are higher than ever before. But then they are quickly puzzled to see that their conversions have not increased, or have increased very little.Getting Traffic is Not Enough...That is because traffic, or SEO, is only half the battle. You need to make sure that the pages your audience is landing on are optimized

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FINDING MY TRIBE ONLINE…MUSIC LOVERS!

blogcatalog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:55 CST

Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole. Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod? “Write the word “pod” in lower case letters. Now, turn it upside down. It doesn’t change!”Very original! Sean read the March issue of blogcatalog’s newsletter and accepted my challenge to R

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Image SEO Tool Improved!

seoish — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:53 CST

I have added more functionality to the image SEO tool.The tool now checks, displays and warns about two other ALT attributes.Dimensions (height / width) are specifically mentioned by the Google image guidelines. Of dimensions they state:“Specify a width and height for all images.”So the tool now displays the width and height if it is there, and if it is not there it displays a warning

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The Net Fool’s Blogger Stimulus Package – Want to Start a Blog? Let Me Help!

thenetfool — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:47 CST

Everyone knows that the economy is rough right now. While the worst may be behind us, there certainly won’t be any measurable amount of “recovery” for quite some time. As people search for more work in tough times, I remind you that blogging may provide that supplemental income to put you over the edge… and quite possibly make you very very successful down the road!Want to

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Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

BillHartzer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:55:32 CST

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What’s interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No wonder Google wants more bandwidth in the United States, right?Well, take a look at thi

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Ownership of an LL.co.uk

SelfMadeMinds — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:20 CST

Comedy timing it seems, after chasing a domain for 3 years I finally managed to secure and purchase SJ.co.ukThey don’t get any shorter or rarer than that in the UK domain space (at present) only 25 LL.co.uk domains (letter letter) are in existence as they were registered before Nominet started operation, one’s like BT.co.uk VW.co.uk & HP.co.uk date back to pre Aug 1996.This week N

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