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Twitter, Facebook, Denial of Service Attacks

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These large sites ( Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft ) have complex back end programming that make the site run as expected as well as front end programming to control the incoming traffic and direct it to available servers, known as load balancing. Large popular sites are typically the victim.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

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To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo. With perfect timing, the Social Media Club Question of the Week ( #SMCQ10 ) has been about “Free Content.&# This goes hand-in-hand with the problem of paying people to talk about you.

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

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Instant messaging has stuck around through the ages as a free service but most of those services are supported by bigger businesses making money in other ways (MSN, AOL, Yahoo…) Maybe Google should/could buy out Twitter. :) And then again, sometimes businesses simply fail. In a way Twitter is like instant messaging.

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

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There are also many people who live here and have friends all over, and who are also active on the social web like Neenz , Arleen Anderson , Angela Keen , Vernon Brown , and Ryan Ozawa. I don’t mean to suggest either/or – new media or old media – they both can play.

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The Ultimate Guide to Keyword Research

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Yahoo) or broad terms (e.g. According to SEOmoz, Wordtracker also get their data from search queries performed on Yahoo. The Power of Questions (Yahoo Answers). own a huge knowledge-base of questions and answers on the aptly named Yahoo! Yahoo Answers. Forum Referrals. Wikipedia Analytics.

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The Most Important Blog Post You'll Probably Never Read

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You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » The Most Important Blog Post You’ll Probably Never Read The Most Important Blog Post You’ll Probably Never Read Written by Glen, this post has 148 Comments This blog post is quite long so you probably shouldn’t read it. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"