Sites have been using the rel=canonical link element for a while now to help offset duplicate content issues that cannot be eliminated through URL consolidation. While not a perfect solution it is often the best option available in cases like duplicate content caused by appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?source=rss, But you still end up with lots of inbound links to non-canonical URLs because users will naturally link to and share the URLs they see in their browsers. Thus any resulting new links would point to the canonical URLs. source=rss, ?xid=newsletter, MORE >>

[Spoiler alert: The answer is co-publishing!]. Mr. McGuire:                     Co-publishing. McGuire’s advice in the film), my advice to you to make the best use of social media for your next presentation is to co-publish. am defining co-publishing here to mean the “strategic creation and reuse of your marketing content.” ” To maximize the ROI of your investment in creating content, you can simultaneously publish your content on all of your different social networks. Co-Publishing Checklist: Pre-Event. Congratulations! Just one word. MORE >>

The case study I’m sharing  is on  Starbucks and was unofficially published this month, yesterday, in fact. As it stands now, anyone that has a list of urls and wants to know the identity of those urls (the people behind the website/page) will benefit for PeekYou’s Reverse Keyword Lookup API – but the issue with Social Media Monitoring Platforms selection of urls that is culled by Radian6, Sysomos, BrandWatch, Crimson Hexagon are all keyword based. First things First. The Starbucks PeekYou Study. MORE >>

browser extension to generate codes from any URL or image is also available, which can be used even by non-developers. Specifically, data was gathered from the ScanLife Reporting Server — which pulls anonymous data from both the ScanLife mobile application, and 3rd party 2D barcode applications on codes that are being published by ScanLife customers and 3rd party generators. Shortcuts to embedded URLs. Scanbuy in numbers. The advance of barcodes is real and significant. What is the impact of “openness&# and where are barcodes going? and Europe. Where is Scanbuy? MORE >>

My friend Petya Georgieva suggested Seth Godin’s decision to give up on traditional book publishing. If you haven’t read Seth’s blog post about ditching his publisher and editors in favor of working directly with his readers, click here and go read it. Not to say there isn’t major room for other options (we are, after all, having this discussion on a blog), and we all know traditional media is dying very quickly, but being a published author, and a New York Times best seller, still has cache. Death of traditional book publishing? Go ahead. MORE >>