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Social Media Tips - Twitter.com Web Client Enhancements with Greasemonkey Scripts

Twitter Website an Abomination An axiom of Social Media is Twitter is not going away anytime soon. The corollary is that the Twitter.com website is not improving much anytime soon. Even the latest retweet feature was clearly implemented by aliens who have never actually retweeted, since the messages do not append whom it is being [...]
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Social Media Tips - Managing Facebook Pages

We interrupt the 30-links-in-30-days linkbuilding campaign postings (1/2 way through at 15 days finished), to bring you a few helpful Social Media Tips on managing Facebook Pages. Facebook Applications for Facebook Page Management The best approach at this point in the development of Facebook is to use Facebook Applications, rather than tools external to Facebook, [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 15 - SlideShare

This post languished as a draft for many days, sorry for the delay, hope it was worth the wait! Day 15 means we are halfway there! Thank you everyone who has followed some of our 30 links in 30 days linkbuilding campaign series. The daily requirement (even though sometimes the blog postings bunch up) has [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 19 - BluehatSEO

We venture into an area which is one aspect of Linkbuilding, although perhaps not the most savory. That is, comment links. This is where we go to a site specifically because of the following: Comments are allowed Follow links are enabled The pages themselves gain enough PageRank Comment Follow Links - Blogs Blogs are one [...]
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SEO and SEM - 2010 Edition - More Mobile and Social

In early November, a few big acquisitions set the strategic tone for the coming year. Current Trends for the web are more mobile (which is small, but growing) and more social (big and growing bigger). What this means for SEO and SEM is the topic we take up here. Signs of the Times - Facebook [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 18 - Panoramio

Panoramio is Image Sharing Integrated into Google Maps and Google Earth Enough said. It is a free photo sharing site. Ok, maybe not enough. As of July, 2009 Panoramio photos are being included in certain Google searches. A Different kind of Link Panoramio is a different kind of link-building process. It consists of links that [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 17 - Wikimapia

Today we turn to a new topic which is an aspect of local search, namely geographic or map search. There are several map tools out there (besides Google Maps and Google Earth). Some are overlays or information provided within a mapping interface (think of an object on a map as a result entry on a [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 16 - HotFrog Directory

Link Directories - Meh Link directories, meh, whatcha gonna do. There is the wonderful abyss that is DMOZ. My current theory is that it is run by a blackhat software utility whose author is now dead. How else can you account for the 5 second time-on-site for the page checking of a submitted entry? However [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 14 - Docstoc

Following up on yesterday's post and culminating in the post tomorrow on SlideShare, we continue to review the link-building opportunities in file sharing social media. A Review: Filesharing and Linkbuilding In Day 13 of the 30 Days of Linkbuilding we discussed the simple sharing of files (which granted, can become quite complex) represents a significant [...]
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