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.

How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google

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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Seth Is Wrong On Paid vs Free Journalism

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I’ve been writing about thinking critically recently and the Malcolm vs Chris vs Seth thing is great fodder.

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Why I’m Looking Forward to a Google Operating System

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As I’m fairly well known for my distrust and criticism of all things Google, so it probably comes as something of a surprise that I’m REALLY looking forward to a Google Operating System … allow me to explain …

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Leadership Blogging, It’s All About Leading

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The following post is a counterpoint to the Outspoken Media post titled “Would I Recognize Your Blog In A Dark Alley“, and exists to offer an alternative path to land of unicorns and rainbows.

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Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps?

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This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – June 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 to Invalidate Wikipedia Articles

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Recently Google announced they are experimenting with including Wikipedia in Google News. Personally I’m not a fan of Wikipedia, so I think this is the perfect opportunity to share some tactics on how to make Wikipedia a whole lot more fun.

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How to Practice Kamikaze SEO

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One of the key aspects of any SEO strategy is knowing the risks of the tactics you use. As those tactics approach or break Google’s guidelines the more likely they to get you penalized or banned. Knowing where you are on the risk scale helps you know when it is imperative that you take precautions [...]

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The Big Fat RSS Lie

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Anytime a social media consultant starts talking to prospective clients and they bring up blogging, they talk about how RSS can be used to help them directly connect with their customers … the truth is in most cases it’s a BIG FAT LIE!

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SMX Advanced Pagerank Sculpting and Javascript Linking

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Probably the biggest kerfuffle at SMX advanced this past week was Google’s reversal on how they crawl javascript links, and how they are handling pagerank scuplting.

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Does Your Publishing Schedule Match Your Readers Habits

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In old days newspapers and magazine figured out there where optimal times for publishing certain types of stories, example Tuesday was traditionally “Science Times Tuesday”. As old world publishers transitioned to online publishers those rules probably don’t apply anymore and just might be working against them.

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How Google Profiles SEO’s

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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google’s Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they are in practice profiling SEO’s.

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SMX Advanced 2009 Wrap Up

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Last week I attended SMX Advanced in Seattle and thought I’d share my thoughts about it.

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Wikipedia Invades Google News

June 6, 2009

The following screen shot has to be seen to be believed 7 wikipedia articles listed as news sources in google news (picture after the jump click to enlarge)(link if you can’t see it)

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – May 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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My Customized Laptops from Skinit.com

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So those are my three skinit.com customized computers. The middle Yoda one is a Tablet PC, it’s a little old, slow and very heavy, mostly my wife and kids use it. The Battlestar Galactica one is my main laptop It’s got a big enough screen, decent memory and pretty fast, it also cost about $800 [...]

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Griffin AirCurve Demonstration

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When you use your iPhone one of the things that really sucks is the speaker volume, it barely audible unless you are in a completely quiet room. The griffin air curve makes it loud enough that it’s actually useable

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Looking at Windows MaxiVista

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I’m a big fan of the remote desktop I use it all the time to run scripts without having to log in/out on multiple computers. Check it out for yourself at MaxiVista.com.

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How to Add a Visual Slider to Thesis

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The following is a tutorial on how to add a dynamic content slider to your Thesis wordpress theme. It’s easily adapted to work with any wordpress blog, but like everything it’s just easier with Thesis

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Did Matt Cutts Expose a Hole in Digg

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Last week Matt Cutts made a post about how to connect your Linux computer to a Wii balance board using Bluetooth. This post happened to make the Digg homepage, however what was really interesting is the way he did it, which has exposed an exploitable hole in Digg.

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Dear Michael Arrington Please Save Techcrunch Before it’s Too Late

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The following is an open letter to Michael Arrington owner of  Techcrunch.com, you still have a chance to save Techcrunch before it’s too late.

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