Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Makes A Better URL Shortener Bit.ly is a URL shortner for use with services like Twitter where every letter counts. There are many URL Shorteners available online like TinyUrl but Bit.ly Besides having just the URL Shortener, you can also sign in and get detailed stats of all the URLs you have linked to.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 30, 2018

If you are setting up a new instance of WordPress, take a moment to think through what you want your URL structure to look like. Do you want to include the month and year in your URL? By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure. Do you just want to include the post slug? Bad for user experience, bad for SEO.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Back in 2009 I wrote a popular post about the Alexa Hot URLs feature , which was eventually renamed to Alexa What’s Hot. I suspect that it took some processing power in order to determine and update the most-trafficked URLs on the web every 5 minutes. I have to say, I’m going to miss it.

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Almost Savvy

JUNE 12, 2009

Right now, to direct your friends and family to your Facebook page, you must share the current URL, which likely includes a string of random characters and numbers. At 12:01 a.m EDT (9:00 p.m. PDT), there will be an unprecedented rush to the Facebook website as millions of users try to be the first to claim their desired Facebook username.

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Jason Yormark

DECEMBER 1, 2009

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / Booked: Facebook Disabled My Account | Subcribe via RSS Booked: Facebook Disabled My Account December 1st, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share I feel so alone. Dan Says: December 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm Don't be so coy you muppet.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. Do you recommend inserting the canonical URL tag on every page of a site, or only those that exhibit tracking codes?

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 1, 2009

Posted by Irene Koehler in Business , Networking on March 1, 2009 | 40 responses After spending much time deeply immersed in the high-tech, heavily wired world of virtual networking, it can become easy to overlook some of the “old school&# networking tools. Susan says: March 1, 2009 at 2:13 pm Irene, Timely blog.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The study’s key findings include: 22% (108) of the primary corporations listed in the 2009 Fortune 500 have a public-facing corporate blog. This represents a six percent increase over the 2008 study. 86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 17, 2010

Or I get the instant auto-DM robot reply) Twitter profile not complete (no bio, no URL, not even an avatar) Twitter gives you great opportunities for real interaction, if you spend the time to learn how. : Last post is over a year old. Spammy posts are all about them. No @ replies, no engagement. (Or

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics. URL, so I tried using bit.ly

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

What’s Your URL?&# Ready to rev-up your profile? LinkedIn Tip – Got Street Cred? LinkedIn Tip – Mom Was Right, Manners Matter LinkedIn Tip – “Hey, Baby. LinkedIn Tip – Does Your Profile Miss You? Shopping Cart Your shopping cart is empty Visit the shop ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. Tools to Analyze Delicious Tags, Bookmarks, and URLs (Search Engine Journal): I normally do not put toolbox posts in my yearly roundup because I look for posts with actionable ideas to be put to use. And like last year, I have a gift for you.

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Justin Levy

JULY 28, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Twitter Homepage Refresh Written on July 28, 2009 by Justin Levy in social media , twitter 17 Comments - Leave a comment! Do you remember when you were able to search & find content that was in the stream, the bio, the url AND the name!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 7, 2011

Over the last five years, hundreds of URLs have been carefully collected and selected for inclusion in this post. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009. The posts for the last five years are: Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 6, 2010

1) A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of B2B and B2C marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones. YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service ( a la TinyURL). BTW she mentions one of my posts. as my own Bitly?

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

4 Responses to “Getting Ready for LeWeb, Need Your Ideas&# Napoleon says: November 11, 2009 at 8:24 pm The Real Time Web and the Mobile Web: First of all, congratulations on being chosen for Le Web. Firefox users, get the plugin ‘Long URL Please’ to show the complete URL before you click.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Firebelly

JUNE 22, 2010

Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. Find him on Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media?

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

This service launched in 2009 and is basically an audio blogging platform. On May 31, Cinch announced to its customers via email that it would be changing the service's URL from [link] to the shorter [link]. Again, other than the URL change this transition will be seamless to our users. It's a cinch Case in point: Cinch.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 13, 2009

As the store was being built, they placed paper over the windows with their URL, but no information of what they would sell. 9 Ways Twitter Can Actually Be Useful Tags: Community , Facebook , Social Media , twitter This entry was posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pm and is filed under Community , Social Media.

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 31, 2010

Now that is out of the way, before foursquare or gowalla people were doing sharing the same information on Twitter and Facebook but without the shortened URL. If not, I’ll delete it… Reply Gregory Feathers says: May 10, 2010 at 7:00 am Let me start off by saying Foursquare/Gowalla/Twitter/Facebook are for SHARING.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs. Instead they point to an internal Yahoo News URL which then has a temporary 302 redirect to the original article. So it is important to have a requirement for direct links to your original URLs put into the syndication contract.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Search Statistics from SES Chicago | Main | Firebellys Top 9 Blog Posts of 2009 » December 17, 2009 5 Ways to Fan the Viral Flame In the Igniting Viral Campaigns session at SES Chicago last week, Tessa Wegert, Interactive Media Strategist at Enlighten; Greg Finn, Director of Internet (..)

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Firebelly

JULY 27, 2010

Video URL : [link] ] Visit the films official website at [link] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. What do you think? Will you see the film?

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 30, 2009

Tons of notes referenced throughout the book at the end to dive into when and if needed, most with URLs to the source If you haven’t seen the “trailer” for the book, it’s a must see. Jason Yormark Says: August 31st, 2009 at 2:23 pm Definitely worth the time. I also love Qualman’s writing style, very informal and narrative.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

First off, I’m very happy that they are aware of the 301/302 redirecting issue and can handle it when we redirect our domain names or URLs from an old URL to a new URL using a 301 Permanent Redirect. Top Search Engine Optimization Firms for December 2009 Every month, Top SEOs comes out with a list of. Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. Three digit URLs are not required if you submit an XML news sitemap.

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Firebelly

JUNE 8, 2010

Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. Find him on Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral!

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Josh S Peters

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Look at the url on this one: videos.dskjkiuw.com does that really look like a trustworthy URL with the garbled mess in the center? If it isn’t a shortened URL and contains a string of letters like that, chances are it’s no good. The links usually hold some clues as well.

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 31, 2008

What’s Your URL?&# Reply Warren Whitlock says: January 1, 2009 at 3:12 am Social media allows us to be more of the real person we are. Reply links for 2008-12-31 | BlueWave Media - BlueWave Media Cafe says: January 7, 2009 at 4:54 am [.] Reply Napoleon B (@P0_P0) says: February 13, 2009 at 1:33 pm Good points Irene.

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Almost Savvy

JANUARY 2, 2009

Posted by Irene Koehler in Business , Career , LinkedIn , Networking on January 2, 2009 | 7 responses There was a time when a recommendation from your mother that you were a real catch was enough of an objective opinion to satisfy others’ due diligence to determine if you were all you claimed to be. What’s Your URL?&#

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Firebelly

JUNE 30, 2010

Video URL : [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. Below is a message from Pete Cashmore, Mashable s founder, explaining reasons for and goals behind Social Media Day.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 14, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1) | Main | Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/11-1/15 » January 14, 2010 4 Ways To Celebrate MLK Day With Social Media Originally posted on January 16, 2009. Details have been updated for 2010. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When users click a retweet button, they expect to see something along the lines of: RT @[brand] [headline] [URL] That exact format does not need to be followed, but you want to minimize the work that users need to do before sending out the tweet. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Fun idea and I had a few laughs, but (see update at the end of post) Toyota really should have included the YouTube URL at the end of the ads! That URL should have been included in the first place. Update (3/1/10): I have now seen the commercial with the youtube.com/Sienna URL at the end. I know there are multiple commercials.

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Firebelly

JULY 13, 2010

Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. " That line opens this week's YouTube Tuesday video, a clever commercial for camping supplier Coleman. They may be right. What do you think?

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Almost Savvy

MAY 3, 2009

If you have a blog, here’s your chance to share a bit about it with an audience who may not know about it yet: What is the URL? Reply Cath says: May 3, 2009 at 1:29 pm I think a blog is personal. Reply Hjortur Smarason says: May 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm Yes, it’s true. Who doesn’t have a blog these days? And Twitter.

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