Wordpress has announced a Twitter Widget for the Wordpress blog. You can read about it here….
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/twitter-widget
Of course, we will add it to this blog as well, as we have on www.searchwizmarketing.com and www.webcast1.com.
Twitter is growing rapidly in popularity and usefulness in marketing strategies. Twitter is a micro blogging platform which addresses the question of [...]

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Twitter is not the only micro-blogging platform anymore. Here comes one of many similar websites….SPNbabble is a micro-blogging service that enables you to share comments, tips, and insights with friends and colleagues here as well as on Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Tumblr and Facebook. Register today. http://spnbabble.sitepronews.com/

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Twitter is no longer the only 140 character micro-blogging platform. SiteProNews has announded a twitter compatible clone: http://spnbabble.sitepronews.com which can broadcast on Facebook and Twitter at the same time.
It appears, according to a UStream broadcast I viewed last night, that the SMS based micro-blogging platform is taking over as the leading internet social networking phenomenon, [...]

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Initially, I wrote this first post: Sometimes it pays to read those newsletters that come from various companies. A link on Jayde.com’s newsletter reveals a great free SEO and website stats tool. The “Link Popularity” tab will return instant results which eliminates the need to look up these findings manually…. Check it out here: http://www.getip.com [...]

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Initially, I wrote this first post: Sometimes it pays to read those newsletters that come from various companies. A link on Jayde.com’s newsletter reveals a great free SEO and website stats tool. The “Link Popularity” tab will return instant results which eliminates the need to look up these findings manually…. Check it out here: http://www.getip.com [...]

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Why am I refusing your link exhange request?
Although not as popular a practice in recent years, link exhange requests still find their way into my email inbox on a daily basis.
It seems that many “link managers” are not up to date on the quidelines of what constitutes good link strategies.
I receive many link exchange requests [...]

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Linking strategies – what does pinball has to do with real estate?
It still is a wonder to me why I receive email requests to “exchange links” that seem to make no sense.
The emails go something like this:
“I found your website on Google, and it is interesting to me. I would like to exchange [...]

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I was excited to see that Google had added a complete detailed and down-loadable table of search engine search queries data into the Google Webmaster Tools panel. However, after checking the stats against real-time stats, I discovered discrepancies.
 The latest reports in Google Webmaster Tools indicate “Last updated August 2, 2008.” I  believe the results reflected [...]

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Here is the source code from an email I just received from what appeared to be from Google AdWords. It is easy to determine this email was a fraud for several obvious reasons.
1. The “To” field was blank.
2. It was addressed to “Dear Advertiser” rather than being personalized.
3. The source code reveals a link [...]

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WARNIN:
I just received an email telling me my AdWords campaign is not running due to incorrect information. A view of the source code reveals an “imposter” URL. (The Subject line has a typo, whcih also is an indication something is “phishy”):
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From: Google-AdWords-noreply [mailto:adwords-noreply@google.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:59 PM
To: Frank
Subject: Your AdWords Google Account is [...]

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