How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

Evernote is a mobile cloud based note taking, storage and informational retrieval product. In this tutorial I'll show you how to use it to create a conference reference.

How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google

While it's unlikely Bing and the Wall Street Journal will ever reach an exclusive deal, the treat of one does expose a weakness for Google.

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Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

The power and responsibility of twitter lists in the search ecosystem

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Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL's. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over time.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn't a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

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The Affiliate Marketing Newbie’s Guide To Finding Niches

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When I started out in internet marketing, I browsed around various lists of high paying keywords as well as some arbitrary lists that veterans just decided to share [without explanations] on their blogs.

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How I Got Lost Using Google Maps and the iPhone

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Over the years chances are you’ve seen stories about Google Maps or similar services sending people off course, sometimes by hundreds of miles. When you use any of the mapping or GPS services you always have to use common sense, but I’ve always wondered if this happens because these people maybe aren’t the most technologically [...]

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My Email Inbox Reduction Experiment

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So this summer Matt decided to try biking to work for 30 days, Quadszilla tried blogging for 30 days, both worth while endeavors but I was looking for something to do that had value that would last longer than the 30 days … so I decided to reduce my inbox.

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – August 2009

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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How Google Calendar Can Screw Up Appointments When Changing Timezones

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While I don’t make my use of  Google products like Google Apps and Google Reader secret it still continues to amuse some people when I do.  However a few weeks ago when I went to SES San Jose, I encountered a new “feature” that occurs when you change time zones, and it didn’t do me [...]

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SES San Jose 2009 Recap

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So last week I was at SES San Jose and thought I’d share a few thoughts …

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How to Turn Off Personalized Search in Google Chrome

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With the impending arrival of Google OS I’ve been spending more time in Google Chrome, and figuring out how to customize things to my liking. Here’s a tip on how to turn off personalized search in Google Chrome.

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Does Google Know What Websites You Own

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If you happen to know anyone who has been building and publishing affiliate websites before 2000, chances are pretty good they operate with a different set of rules than affiliates today. Number one, they build and develop isolated little pockets on the web, they do very little interconnecting of websites, and they try really hard [...]

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Does your Blog Suck … Here’s How to Fix It

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He’re’s a little secret, I’ve slowly and steadily been unsubscribing from SEO blogs for the past few months, and last week the total number of  marketing blogs I read dropped below 10, and I think the time has come for an intervention. For a lot of you the time has come to ask yourselves does [...]

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Make Thesis Work Better With Digg and Facebook

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If you’re involved with social media sites like Digg, Facebbok or Reddit, you’ve probably seen stories with images next to them. If you’ve submitted stories there, you may have seen it present you with a few image choices, sometimes the one you want is there sometimes it isn’t. Then there’s the the case where the [...]

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What are You Doing With Your Social Media Traffic?

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While I may have some level of notoriety within the SEO community and internet marketing space, once you step out of that area, I’m a nobody as writer Paul Carr so eloquently pointed out last week. Robert Scoble the original poster boy of blogging, is known far and wide by the tech community, but who [...]

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – July 2009

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?

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If you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a  “California” lifestyle piece, however, after doing a bit of research it turns out there’s a lot more intrigue, questionable journalistic ethics, and deception [...]

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Cloaking Affiliate Links, How and Why

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Today’s topic is one that gets asked about pretty regularly, should I cloak my affiliate links to search engines, why or why not, and what are some of the best ways to do it.

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How to Add a Carousel to Your Thesis Blog

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If you’ve spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you’ve seen those small little photo’s accompained by a title or bit of text in or near the masthead. I’m not sure if it has a proper name, but most people I’ve talked to call it a carousel, in this tutorial I’m going to show [...]

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Using Tags for Better Ad Targeting on Your Blog

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When you’re running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you make more sales, and ultimately put more money in your pocket, is to have ads that are targeted to match the content. In this tutorial I’ll be showing you some tactics on how you can [...]

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Checking for Broken Links and Link Rot and the Importance of Good Site Architecture

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Recently I’ve been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I’m fascinated by what I’ve discovered.

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How I Handle Backups and Disaster Recovery

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After reading about Lisa Barone’s laptop being stolen, I got into a bit of a discussion about how I use cloud computing for part of my backup and disaster recovery plan. Since a few people started asking details I think this post might be useful.

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Why I Turned Off Blog Comments

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There’s been a bit of speculation as to why I turned off comments here, and the occasional are comments coming back or is this just a temporary thing. My apologies for not addressing this sooner, but I’ll give you the real reason and address some of the speculation as well.

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Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet

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It’s hard to imagine that if you’ve been involved in internet marketing for any length of time, that you aren’t familiar with the concept of linkbait. Since most of you are part of the Generation X/Generation Y crowd, and supposedly aren’t easily fooled by “the media”, it’s inconceivable that so many of you took the [...]

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