Are the blogs that you follow helping you to solve a problem you have? Increasingly I've noticed that the writers I follow the closest are those that are actively assisting me attain the goals in my life. These could be as minor as learning how to draw, or as major as becoming a better husband. [...]

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We're stat crazy like most SEO business oriented people are. We track everything at least twice and have tools to track the tracking… [feels dizzy]
One of the things we track is how the content we share with you is doing. It's a list we check not twice but trice using the Wordpress plugin Popularity Contest, [...]

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There has been chatter lately about Google making page load speed an important part of their algorithm. For most of you, this shouldn’t be a huge concern. Or is it? After all, it’s nothing new. Usability studies have shown time and again that web users like speed. Not the kind that is a poor lifestyle [...]

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Using standards-based web design your site can also display effortlessly on the iPad. First out of gate, you increase your reach and branding by giving iPad owners another destination.

The iPad introduces a new family of handheld devices.
More versatile than dedicated ereaders, more comfortable for e-content consumption than smart phones or PDA's and definitely less bulky [...]

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Lead nurturing builds relationships and educates leads to increase leads’ trust in you and in your expertise more, and makes the sales process easier. Not all SEO businesses recognize the value of lead nurturing, and this puts them at a serious disadvantage. Here are a 5 lead gen tips for local SEO services sales.

1. Aim [...]

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Copernic, makers of beloved reputation management monitoring tools like Copernic Agent and Copernic Tracker but also of one of the best desktop search tools, today announced they've launched a new and improved home page.

Here's what they left on the table.

Canonical URL

Copernic.com redirects to www.copernic.com – which is a good idea. A bad idea [...]

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The New York Times plans to put up some form of a paywall. That's geek-speak for saying the New York Times wants to become a subscription site where you pay to get access to (most) stories.

As someone who makes a living from work that exists on the web I can understand their desire pretty [...]

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In the old days (2008, for instance) if I wanted to know what was going on with, say, real time search, I'd just Google the term. But today, I might check it out on Twitter Search to see who's tweeting on the topic.

Or, if I want to see a little broader view of what's hot [...]

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Musician John Mayer announced last week he's having a 'digital cleanse'; going cold turkey on social media for a week.  This is notable as Mayer is one of the most rabid tweeters in Hollywood.  He even got dumped by Jennifer Aniston for it.  (Now that's a habit!)
So will your own social media program face a [...]

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Google Search Does A Half-baked Job
As we noted in a previous post, Google Search deals entirely with logic.
Computer algorithms handle the information content of websites as expressed in bits of information.  However human brains handle much more than just logical information.  Some have pictured this by suggesting we all really have 3 brains.  Of [...]

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