Today: Duplicate content by  Derek Mabie. . Duplicate content is every webmaster’s nightmare. The bigger issue, though, is Google may prematurely give up on crawling your site if it keeps encountering instances of duplicate content. How Does Content Get Duplicated? Many times, duplicate content isn’t intended to manipulate the search engines. For example, printer-friendly versions of pages are duplicate content. We recently discovered a client had identical content on two URLs that read like this: www.website.com/page/subpage. Not exactly. MORE >>

You don't need me to tell you how valuable content is. After all, how many times have you heard the saying, "content is king?" So if content is so valuable, why on earth would someone give their content away for free? We're all doing it on the Social Media Informer (billed as the "best social media content for business"). The Social Media Informer gets great content. The readers get curation in the form of hand-picked content creators and business practitioners that they may not have found on their own. I'll tell you who. And Chris Brogan. MORE >>

Whilst Google does have a data export project, there’s a difference between exporting data and being able to syndicate it. And until I see a handy RSS link for items I +1, ideally with some kind of category filter which means I can take a feed of the information I’m sharing, rather than everything I’ve ever liked, including static content, photos etc, then it appears that Google is intent on following the walled garden approach of Facebook in bringing in as much as possible behind a walled garden. ’ That scares me for a number of reasons. Seriously? MORE >>

Syndicating your blog posts: Spreading the love (via Winnipegs Real Estate Blog) Start spreading the news by syndicating your blog posts Have you noticed how major newspapers often republish articles from other newspapers, (of course with permission)? syndicated contentSo for example you’ll be reading the Grand Forks Herald and find a story about the new Canadian. Blogging Branding Repost.us MORE >>

Blog Content Guidance By Your Audience. That search is pretty understandable, since I wrote a post last year on 52 cool social media facts that turned out to be pretty popular and resulted in a lot of social shares and syndication. This is allowing me to build up my audience’s profile which in turn is helping me write content that they’re going to read. But then we can start taking that one step further, and really start writing content for a specific target audience. The Added Bonus of Community Content. Marketing content marketing lijit MORE >>