“Social media is all about the conversation”, I think that phrase started to rankle me around last July and I couldn’t figure out why. It’s something I have taught people in my training class for years, so it’s not like I haven’t agreed with it. Blog – people comment – you reply – they blog [...]

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Music to link build to. Building links with linkbait can sometimes by a labour and time intensive process leaving you drained quicker than snakes ass in Death Valley. Here’s a selection of tunes to help ease the link building or linkbaiting process along. Still smells fresh. Nirvana, Smells like Teen Spirit This one is jammed [...]

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Yes you do. A successful social-media campaign integrates social media into the many elements of marketing, including advertising, digital and PR. Opinion and theory are no match for experience and the best social media marketers now have more than 10 years of experience incorporating interactivity, blogs, forums, user-generated content and contests into online marketing. Adage [...]

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I’m speaking at an affiliate conference, a4uexpo London in October, so I took a closer look at the main sectors that affiliates like to play in. I have it down to seven hot sectors. Hot affiliate sectors Gaming Forex Travel Mobile comms Dating Retail Financial Lets look at the most abstract and probably the most [...]

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It confuses me when people in my industry start talking about their personal preference when it comes to content tagging sites. Why get so excited about how much you like the colours on digg than reddit and other such nonsense. In my industry we deal in eyeballs, offering up your personal opinion about your emotional [...]

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James Caan is best known for being one of the investors on the best thing on the telly at the moment, Dragons Den. Each week, knee trembling business people parade their money making ideas in front of a panel of people who make the Spanish Inquisition look like a 4 year olds tea party. Starting [...]

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So I got my monthly email from evancarmichael.com telling me I had posted no articles which had no ranking and was a big fat loser. evancarmichael.com is a online business site where invited people can write guest posts, I don’t know much about it as I am rarely in the mood to read it or [...]

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If you want to rank for keyword groups around garden furniture or Christmas gifts, you need to take account of seasonal influences. But when should you plan to do your seo? Lets look at Google trends data for the keyword “garden center”. If you spotted the deliberate mistake, give yourself a donut. I will explain [...]

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I asked Rob for a quote regarding Internet Liberalisation as discussed over at Gandi, the ethical domain name provider. Most of the quotes went here, but I thought Robs’ was worthy of a post of his own. If you don’t know who Rob Kerry is and you are in SEO, hide your embarrassment and quickly [...]

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How many linkbaiters does it take to change a light bulb? 2, one to climb the step ladder to put the bulb in, the other to kick the ladder away, take a photograph and submit to digg reddit and stumbleupon.

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