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9 Tips To Pitch Your Blog Successfully

This is a guest post by Brandon J. Mendelson. I have successfully pitched stories and thoughts to local and national media outlets, ranging from the Albany Times Union, where I volunteer as a blogger, to The Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC.com, E! Online, Newsweek, the LA Times, and others. Work…
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The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With thousands of social networks globally, only a handful of them cater specifically to a special group of individuals, known as Generation-Y. Also known…
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10 Ways For Bloggers To Stand Out From The Crowd

This post was guest blogged by Eric Hamm of Motivate Thyself and Sean Platt of Writer Dad. They are co-authors of Blogopolis Blueprint. Over time you’ll hear us use the term herd when referencing the majority of bloggers on the Net. It may sound condescending, but it’s not. It’s a fact th…
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Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared

Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully …
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5 Questions with Dave Naylor

by Manoj Jasra Search Engine Strategies London is less than a month away and is host to a number of great speakers. This includes SEO Veteran Dave Naylor, Owner of Bronco Internet, a highly talented and successful web development and SEO agency. I had a chance to catch up with Dave Naylor to get in…
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Web Viewers Will Tolerate Twice the Ads in Online Videos

AdAge reports that ABC.com has started research to prove that online viewers will tolerate seeing multiple advertisements when watching popular shows like Grey’s Anatomy (funny, I can’t even tolerate that show.) So in other words, they can serve up ads similar to the way you would watch it on TV…
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Amazon Provides Economic Light in Dark Days

Amazon had a great fourth quarter as reported today in the WSJ. Sales were up 18% and profits rose 9%. Those numbers are pretty strong when things are going well but in today’s economy these are outrageous results. Here’s a few more numbers to drool over. Earnings of $225 million for the quar…
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What Is The Best Business To Start Up In A Recession? - Entrepreneur Poll Results

The results are in from our most recent Entrepreneur Poll. I asked you “What is the best business to start in a recession?” and you responded in record numbers! The top 5 results were: Online Business It Doesn’t Matter - Just Love What You’re Doing Healthcare Education Vide…
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Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders and The Microsite Debate

Posted by randfish Last week, I did a Whiteboard Friday, The Microsite Mistake, in which I called out a practice I see as potentially detimental to SEO - using a separate domain to accumulate links for your content site. I was not arguing against all microsite strategies or all domain separation…
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Affiliate Marketing 101

This is a guest post written by JR Lang who is an affiliate marketer running several niche websites and an Internet Marketing Blog, where she focuses on providing honest and step-by-step guides and strategies to create, optimize and market online campaigns. She loves lists and has created some po…
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What are you good at?

As you consider marketing yourself for your next gig, consider the difference between process and content. Content is domain knowledge. People you know or skills you’ve developed. Playing the piano or writing copy about furniture sales. A rolodex of movers in a given industry, or your ability to …
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Let’s Write an eBook Together!

The idea of writing an eBook with collective efforts has been on my mind for a while now, so let’s give it a try. Basically I want to create a project that would group together the ideas and tips from different people, in a way that it would benefit both the collaborators and the end user (i.e. th…
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Web Site and Social Media Metrics You Should Monitor

This post is the last in a series of posts by Hendry Lee. Check out part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5. Website tracking is one of the least discussed topics. When it comes to blogging, most people only think about how to produce content, promote and make money. Well, newbie bloggers often…
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Q&A: What Is a Sitemap? Do I Need It?

Rajasekharan asks: I couldn’t find an XML sitemap in your blog. Do you have one? If no, why are you reluctant to include an XML sitemap? First things first, what is a sitemap? According to Sitemaps.org: Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites …
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Neatorama Has Social Bookmarking Features Now

Neatorama is one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. They cover all sorts of neat, weird and interesting things. A great part of their stories is also sent by the readers themselves. I have been linked from them in the past, and it sent over 3,000 visitors my way in matter of 24 hours, just t…
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Snipt: Share Source Code on Twitter

Here’s the short description of Snipt: it’s like Twitpic for source code. As opposed to uploading a picture and sharing a short URL though, Snipt lets you upload source code in any of dozens of programming languages, formats it, and then generates a short Snipt.org URL you can share on Twitter….
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GDrive One Step Closer to Reality

Ah, GDrive, the mythical, all-encompassing online storage solution that will practically render most of your hardware obsolete. At least that’s what the legend says; my bet is that it will be another free online storage service, just with more storage and less crap: just like Gmail was (compared t…
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What is school for?

Seems like a simple question, but given how much time and money we spend on it, it has a wide range of answers, many unexplored, some contradictory. I have a thoughts about education, how we use it to market ourselves and compete, and I realized that without a common place to start, it’s hard to fig…
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How One Smart Move Can Attract Constant Attention

What’s the one stat that most bloggers care about the most? Is it page views, visitor location, referring sites or subscribers? I know for me and most other bloggers out there, getting more subscribers is a priority that is pretty high up on the list. Why? Subscribers are people who have said t…
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50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

By Noura Yehia and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type:…
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