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

The Downside of Social Media (Or Why it Sucks to be on Top)

You might think it’s all fun and games when you become a top submitter on a social news site. However, that’s not exactly the case. The more popular you get you get, the harder it is. It’s a natural progression of what some people might consider “celebrity” status: once you hit fame, you’re...

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Digg Story Gets Promoted 7 Days After Submission

Wow, this totally came as a shock… I submitted this 7 days ago and thought it died. There was an incredible response to the article I submitted but I thought the story expired to the land of the forgotten. Then, I saw the popular stories in my feed reader, and I’m astonished. Here’s the Digg story so you can see...

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Some of my Favorite Free SEO and Social Networking (Blog Rank) Tools

Some of the best things in life are free. I am thankful to those who have shared wonderful tools with me and I would like to share them with others too. A few of these are new tools. Some are old and well-known. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. SEO Tools SEO for Firefox: An excellent Firefox addon that provides users...

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Will SEO Ever Die?

There has been a lot of controversy in terms of SEO lately. First, there’s this scathing article by Daniel Dessinger about the SEO industry, which prompted a lot of questions, many of whom are wondering if Daniel is on the money, or at least close, but others who have tried to invalidate the claim. I give Rand another thumbs...

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Craigslist Founder Refuses to Sell

Today, the founder of the famous craigslist website, an almost entirely free classifieds and social networking site, announced that he has no desire to sell his site. This came shortly after MySpace was estimated to have a value of $15 billion by a Wall Street analyst. Craig Newmark, the brains behind Craigslist, was quoted as...

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I’m Stuck in the Sandbox and I want Out!

As a new blogger and a new face to the crowd of SEO, I’m faced with this big challenge: where are my readers going to come from? I encountered this issue before when I first started blogging back on my personal blog (now defunct … or rather, just hidden) back in the day, but my friends were not the type of people who...

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