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Manage Your Online Reputation in Multiple Languages

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In addition, a massive 85% of web users would be much more likely to buy a product if the information available was in their native language – so it’s well worth getting your brand out there in more languages than your own. Monitor Message Boards. Some sites may emerge as key hubs where your business is being mentioned.

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Visibility is More About Social Than Search

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Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Instead of spending time, talent, and treasure on automated systems, advertising, link-buying, and savvy inbound marketing programs, concentrate on generating community engagement. PS: this is the year of the message board !

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How to Evaluate an Expired Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

A friend recently asked me about a domain name he was thinking of buying. If a domain name has 30,000 links from one message board (a footer link?), If you end up buying the domain name will other site owners linking to that domain name remove the links to you? Look to see if the domain name is still in Google.

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KeywordSmash Free Keyword Research Tool Launched

Bill Hartzer

News (Google news, Yahoo! Discussions (forums, message boards). Domain Names for Sale: Why You Should Buy a Keyword Rich Domain Name One of the best kept secrets of the search engine. . - Demographics (Google Insights, Compete.com, Alexa data, etc.). - Ads (pay per click ads). news, etc.). Articles (article sites).

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The Internet Could Be Closed For Business

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Back then, the majority of people still used one of the major ISPs and portals as their destination (think AOL , Yahoo or whatever). When people got more comfortable with the Web and browsing on their own, the beginning of blogs and message boards (which happened in parallel) were an indie-like fairground for independence.

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

Forums : I used to be a forum (message board) junkie a few years ago and definitely built my authority in some. Scan Yahoo Answers for interesting questions related to my niche 3). I’m thinking of buying a few physical books related to my niche and writing blog posts based on what I read from the books.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). The genius of this plug-in (and the reason it’s named after Seth Godin) is that you can set one message for first-time visitors, and a second message for repeat visitors.