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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

Back in 2003, when Google was beginning to crack down on paid links, I had a conversation with Shari Thurow about how Google determined, in an automated fashion, whether a website contained paid links or not. Then, perhaps deal with those sites that they found.

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Twitter ROI - Is it Too Popular?

Bare Feet Studios

My colleague, Robyn Levin, stated it well on her blog: On a whole, I think this is a good thing, but here’s the problem: whenever technology becomes fashion, return-on-investment (ROI) tends to get lost in the excitement of the latest.com catwalk. I think coupons are cool as long as it’s a good coupon for something that I want to buy.

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A great opportunity for Nokia that no one has mentioned…

The Way of the Web

Integration with Xbox Live and gaming on mobiles has been mentioned by senior Microsoft staff for years, even before the Xbox 360 launched (One of the chief people involved in the Xbox project, J Allard, talked about it in-depth in an Edge magazine feature back in 2005).

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244: How to Find More Traffic for Your Blog Offline

ProBlogger

People are more likely to comment on, share, and buy your products and services. But someone that you meet in person is going to be much more highly engaged and that person is much more likely to become a subscriber, to share what you’re doing with other people, to leave a comment, and to eventually buy something that you are selling as well.

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GoHawaii's A Thousand Reasons to Smile Makes Me Frown, Not Smile.

Bare Feet Studios

I write this because I find it so frustrating that our tourism, advertising, and PR leaders are still doing things in such old-fashioned, expensive, boring, and ineffective ways. I have been giving free talks on this stuff since early 2005. Before You Leave… Please visit this web site, A Thousand Reasons to Smile.

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220: What You Should Include in Your Email Newsletters

ProBlogger

You might even think email is dead (or at least old-fashioned), and that you’re better off building connections through social media. When I started doing email, I think it was back in 2004, 2005, there weren’t really that many tools. Or maybe you have a newsletter list, but you haven’t sent one in months. But today there are so many.

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

Convince & Convert

As such, particularly with what I’m trying to build within the social media program, it gives me buy-in across a lot of different levels. What we didn’t have was a good way to make sure that everybody would be able to weigh-in in a timely fashion. Jay : Or to say it another way, three hours is too late. Big shoutout to her.

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