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Link Spamming Is Not Good SEO

Small Business Mavericks

This type of blogging was popular in 2005. In fact, in 2005, just about everybody who was blogging was blogging this way, but it’s not the right way to blog. It’s a type of blogging centered around building anchor text link spam posing as search engine optimization.

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Does E-mail Marketing or Blogging Produce More Results

Small Business Mavericks

“Build a time machine and go back to 2005 and start your blog then,” I say. However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape. Today’s bloggers have to take that into consideration as well. Their eyes are hungry, their pens poised over notebooks.

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15 Bloggers to Watch in 2013

ProBlogger

Welcome to the 2013 edition of Bloggers To Watch. My work has changed a lot over the past year – I’ve been focused a lot on the Australian blogger community, and on curators – so this post is very centered on those communities. I believe her archives have a lot to offer beginner bloggers. Tina Roth Eisenberg.

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Facebook will surge ahead in India

The Marketing Blog

If you trackback to 2005-2006, you hadn’t even heard about Facebook. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup. There was a time, when Orkut was a dominating force in India.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Timescapes

Kikolani

5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog? Should your freelancing business have one too? The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing.

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Twitter ROI - Is it Too Popular?

Bare Feet Studios

I’ve been thinking a lot about the effects of Twitter’s popularity and just did a phone interview with Janice Magin of the Pacific Business News on how many local businesses are getting on Twitter. I am thrilled that small business is embracing social media. Being on Twitter is becoming a new normal.

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5 Simple Font Changes to Boost Readers, Comments, and Shares on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Back in 2005, Jakob Nielsen reported that in a survey of web design problems, bad fonts got nearly twice as many votes as the next contender—with two-thirds of voters complaining about small font sizes. Bloggers routinely include images in their posts. The left margin—don’t break it This last tip isn’t exactly a font issue.