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Digital Marketing Specialist, Social Media Consultant, and Tech Geek at Heart

The Thing About Friends and Digg: Hit up the Big Guns

Here’s the deal. If you’re real life friends with Kevin Rose, you have a new product website to launch, and Kevin submits the story for you, expect that the submission will make the Digg front page within hours of its submission. There’s preferential treatment to young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and their...

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Danny Sullivan’s SMX Advanced Opens Up with a Blast in Seattle

It’s been nearly two weeks since the SMX Advanced conference was held in Seattle, but it’s about time for my recap. Barry and I arrived in Seattle late Sunday night, so we missed a pretty good Microsoft party. While that’s a bit sad (and I’ll try to make the next one), the conference series showed that...

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Crappy Site Design, Great Content: Is This Poor Social Media Optimization?

The phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” has been brought to a brand new level on the World Wide Web. Consider the mindset of your users. A penetratingly ugly website design can negatively impact your site and visitors, despite the fact that there may be great content — and especially if you’re a...

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Internet Marketing Best [Blog] Posts of 2006: The Year in Review

Given that I’ve only recently become involved in Internet Marketing, it still is something that I am learning more and more about, and there are a lot of blog posts and books that have helped me along the way. In light of my anti-Digg post, I wanted to take this moment to appreciate the best [blog] posts in the Internet...

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Is Dean Hunt for Real? (Can Matt Cutts Confirm?)

I read with interest about Dean Hunt’s bizarre Google request where an online store owner threatened him via email since Dean’s blog ranks better than the store for a particular keyword term. He writes for a partial SEO-themed blog, yet he needed more advice from individuals on a number of forums (with a link to his...

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Successful Verbal Link Bait from the Mouth of Jason Calacanis

SEOs worldwide were shocked by the Search Engine Strategies Chicago Keynote of earlier today given by Jason Calacanis, who said “SEO is BS, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly.” Despite the fact that many SEOs did get offended, I’m beginning to wonder if Calacanis had...

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