For a moment, I’d like you to think back to high school. Remember how there was always that one kid who would raise their hand and ask the question “Will that be on the test?” Now, thanks to Personalized Google News, we have the answer.
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Personalized Google News – Will That be on the Test
Anyone over the age of 30 who spends any amount of time online has to be aware of the gradual erosion of online privacy and how we are slowly moving to a point where our online life has become opted-in by default. … sacrifice your privacy on the altar faster than an Aztec Priest could ever rip out your still-beating heart … A disturbing trend among people in the valley and other technology centric locations is the subjugation or near-complete surrender of one’s work, one’s copyright, intellectual property, and sometimes complete self to the great computer singularity (a concept I am shamelessly stealing from Jaron Lanier ).
I’ve long stated that I prefer full feeds over partial feeds . Now that I’ve spent the past few weeks using an iPad, I feel even more strongly that full feeds are the way to go and that offering partial feeds is an obstacle to getting your posts read by as many people as possible. Two sites I read on a regular basis that offer partial feeds are Search Engine Land and Wired Magazine .
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A Look at Full and Partial Feeds in an Increasingly Mobile World
One of my constant criticisms of bloggers and the blogosphere in general is the sacrifice of keyword focus and the traffic it could bring when bloggers are more lyrical with their prose than they need to be. In my opinion that post meets the goal of being interesting while talking about a commercial subject… Last week I was reading an article in USA today (on my iPad) and came across an article that shows you can do both.
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Writing Keyword Focused Posts that are Interesting
I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail .
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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?
I was having a a few conversations on twitter last week. It was clear that more than one person needed a little bit more explanation about how to put some of the tips I mentioned into action, so here are 6 quick tips to help you improve your posts.
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6 Tools & Tips to Help You Improve Your Blog Posts
While Facebook may be a hot marketing tool right now, there is danger in putting too much effort into making it the center of your marketing efforts. In a recent post I spoke about publishing paths and tailoring your content and selectively publishing it to different websites
In the past I’ve spoken about why I turned off blog comments , but it was mostly from a time/labor perspective. Now I have another reason, one that affects everyone from an SEO Perspective.
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Why Everyone Should Turn Off Blog Comments
For websites that are going to participate in social media in a big way along multiple channels, I find it helpful to set up what I call publishing paths. These publishing paths require you to think about your content before you publish it, what is the best channel for it, and how to cross promote it.
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Social Media and Publishing Paths
Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation.
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Developers VS Users