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Understanding What The Canonical Tag Does
A while back you might recall that we talked about fixing duplicate content on your website and how duplicate content can have a direct impact on your website's ability to rank well in the search engines. The new canonical tag is a new effort by the search engines to help us fix duplicate content on our websites.
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Date: 2009-02-27

Learning What The Canonical Tag Can Do
A while back you might recall that we talked about fixing duplicate content on your website and how duplicate content can have a direct impact on your website's ability to rank well in the search engines. The new canonical tag is a new effort by the search engines to help us fix duplicate content on our websites.
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Date: 2009-02-27

Omniture Developer Connection Announced For ASP
Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), announced the launch of Omniture Developer Connection, available to customers and partners at developer.omniture.com, a place for developers to connect, collaborate and innovate as a community to deliver the next generation of online marketing applications
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Date: 2009-02-27

Mac OS X Update Causes Perl Complications
Apple computers are extremely popular in some corners, and you won't find anything approaching an anti-Cupertino rant in this article. Just the same, Macs are known for having compatibility problems (try seeing how a hardcore gamer reacts to the suggestion he use one), and the latest Mac OS X security update can essentially break Perl.
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Date: 2009-02-27

IDC Revises Global IT Spending Growth In 2009
The continued decline of the global economy has led IDC to revise its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2009.
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Date: 2009-02-27

Agilis Starts Guarding 64-bit C/C++ Applications
With Windows 7 on its way out, people and businesses are likely to start buying new PCs left and right, and 64-bit operating systems are liable to become the norm. And when that happens, people who want to use 64-bit C and C++ applications will have nothing to worry about, because Agilis Software intends to look out for them.
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Date: 2009-02-27

Managing Your Site Analytics Data
Analytics are one item that every site owner should be looking into to find out where traffic is coming from and how users are interacting with the site. However, analytics can sometimes be to much to consume with to much information or a cluttered interface.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Organizing Your Sites Analytics Traffic
Analytics are one item that every site owner should be looking into to find out where traffic is coming from and how users are interacting with the site. However, analytics can sometimes be to much to consume with to much information or a cluttered interface.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Using Twitter Effectively For Business Purposes
Twitter for many used to be a way of passing the time, like watching the crowds walking along the High Street, or watching a turbulent river flow by. Fascinating and in some ways relaxing. However with so many people now using Twitter it has become a rich resource that you can use effectively for business purposes and many people are. How can you best get results that justify the time you may spend on Twitter.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity
While a theme of the enterprise 2.0 is transparency, often the maze of different platforms, repositories, and metadata structures makes finding the information you need difficult, if not impossible. I recently spoke with Josh Rosenthal, founder and CEO at iQuest, about his experience with one of the top 5 international pharma companies that was struggling with enterprise search and had found it easier to re-invent a needed compound that try to find the existing one somewhere within their terabytes of data.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Edit And Share Your Photos With Picasa
It is that time again where I get to blog about that series of Mac Tips I started a little while ago, talking about some of the most helpful and resourceful productivity tools that surely are helping me get the most of out of my MacBook Pro experience as my primary work machine and at the same time help me stay on top of things while giving up on email at work altogether.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Google Ups Its Business Email Game
Two days ago, Gmail crashed, and although the timing of the outage spared most Americans from noticing, a lot of business users in Europe and Asia were affected. So now Google's introduced a monitoring product to help communicate the status of some of its offerings.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Gartner Examines Future Of CRM
The business goals and challenges of customer relationship management (CRM) programs will remain the same today as they were 10 years ago, and they will continue to be the most important during the next 10 years, according to Gartner.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Social Computing Is A Significant CRM Market Trend
Here's a news article from earlier this week that appeared in Customer Strategy, Gartner's Four Steps to Social Computing Heaven:
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Date: 2009-02-26

XP To Windows 7 Upgrade Path Looking Difficult
By all rights, Microsoft should love people who will try to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 - in a sense, these folks are returning to the fold, wallets in hand. Only it looks like actually making the upgrade might be difficult with some computers, and impossible with others.
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Date: 2009-02-26

Google Keyword Tools You Need To Succeed
I just wanted to remind everyone that Google provides some awesome tools for us to use FREE. The data in each of these is fabulous and should be part of any keyword development tool box. I have done write-ups on all three before and included links to them and the announcement blog posts from Google themselves. Enjoy!
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Date: 2009-02-25

Correcting The Dynamic Page Issues For Better Visibility
Years ago dynamic websites posed significant problems for search engines. While the engines have come a long way since the early days of dynamic website development, there are still some key problems that arise. Google has gone public stating that you don't need to fix your dynamic site problems, but in reality that's poor advice for the website owner.
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Date: 2009-02-25

Using B2B Social Technology More Effectively
77 percent of business technology decision-makers engage with social media on the job, yet most B2B marketers are not effectively using social technologies to influence the purchasing decisions of their customers, says Forrester Research. In 2007 Forreter released their comsumer Social Technographics Scale . Now they've done the same for BtoB buyers.
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Date: 2009-02-25

Red Hat Joins Forces With Microsoft For Virtualization
Peter Galli over at Port25 is reporting: "Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors."
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Date: 2009-02-25

New Opengear Console Server To Be Unix Compatible
Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation console server solutions, yesterday announced its record order bookings, largely due to its (open source) channel, according to a report.
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Date: 2009-02-25

Personalize Your Business With Online Reputation Monitoring
Online reputation monitoring (ORM) is here. I suspect you knew or recognize that intellectually, but have you paid attention to it practically? Intellectually, it makes perfect sense and we know it exists. Practically, however, there's not enough time in the day to do all of this. While that might be valid that doesn't mean that it can't change. In fact, I would posit that it must change. You might need to shift your priorities. If you don't, there could be an impact on you and your personal reputation or business that you can ill afford.
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Date: 2009-02-25

Tech Giants Still Considered Good Bets
There are days - and even entire weeks - when it seems like every stock in existence should be marked with an underlined, italicized, and bold "SELL" label. But analysts who make a living on longer-term results believe Microsoft and Google represent safe havens of a sort.
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Date: 2009-02-25

Setting Marketing Focus On Your Landing Page
Here are several excerpts from an article by Jennifer Moline, Landing Pages Made Simple And Profitable:
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Date: 2009-02-24

Recognizing The Value Of Thought Leadership For Marketing
As marketers look for ways to optimize lead generation, they are recognizing the value of using educational content and thought leadership to help attract more customers.
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Date: 2009-02-24

Marketing Your Business On A Smaller Budget
What is the one thing every business, large or small, needs to be successful? It's not necessarily a good brand-though that helps a lot.
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Date: 2009-02-24

Email Marketing Leads To Online And Offline Purchases
The advantages of permission-based email marketing campaigns goes beyond ecommerce transactions and have a positive impact on purchasing behavior and consumer loyalty in the offline world, according to a new survey from marketing firm Epsilon.
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Date: 2009-02-24

Making Web 2.0 Technologies Work For You
Here are several excerpts from an excellent article in The McKinsey Quarterly by Micheal Chui, Andy Miller and Robert P. Roberts of McKinsey & Company, Six ways to make Web 2.0 work. I highly recommend that you take a read through the complete article:
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Date: 2009-02-24

Why Allinanchor Is Important
It is a known fact that the number of links to a particular website play a crucial role in deciding its position on the search engine ranking results. But, how important this is and what are the metrics used by search engine to measure it?
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Date: 2009-02-24

How Important Is Allinanchor To Your Site?
It is a known fact that the number of links to a particular website play a crucial role in deciding its position on the search engine ranking results. But, how important this is and what are the metrics used by search engine to measure it?
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Date: 2009-02-24

Connecting Government Officials With The Public
A tweet from @downingstreet, the Twitter handle of the communications team in the Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street, prompted me to check in at Number10.gov.uk at 11am this morning to witness a question-and-answer session with members of the Cabinet being streamed live over the web from the venue of the regional Cabinet meeting in Southampton.
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Date: 2009-02-24

Iron Mountain Unveils Cloud-based Storage Solution
Companies that maintain rooms full of expensive machines storing data they rarely access have a new option. Iron Mountain Digital has introducedVirtual File Store to act as a secure, long-term, and offsite solution.
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Date: 2009-02-24

Securing Your Site With Google Advice
Hacking is a major problem that is increasing day by day. The Internet world is flocked with hundreds of, infact of thousands of anti hacking software but their effectiveness is still in question! In a recent post at Google's Webmaster Central blog, Search Quality Team of Google talks about two most common attacks resulting in hijacked websites: SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).
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Date: 2009-02-23

Surviving A Recession With Better Management
A global recession such as we are all suffering is not easy for anyone. Some companies will not survive since sloppy business practices only work in good times. The half-full glass can thus be seen as a time of opportunity for the survivors who apply high performance practices. On the other side of the recession, the survivors will be in good shape and will have less competition.
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Date: 2009-02-23

Attracting New Clients Takes More Than A Blog
With the announcement of the winners of the Irish Blog Awards this weekend I am sure that business blogging will be discussed by many businesses large and small. But I'm concerned that they are getting bad advice.
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Date: 2009-02-23

Pirate Bay Enters It's Fifth Day In Court
The prosecution again tries to enter new evidence into the trial resulting in a quick break, a smack down, and the prosecution having to share everything or stop trying to do American style legal proceedings. Peter asks if this is to be a political trial, more fun and games in the court room.
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Date: 2009-02-23

How To Use Thesis For Section Targeting
Using Adsense on your blog usually isn't the most profitable way to monetize it, but it is fairly quick and easy, which makes it a popular choice for many website owners. Last week I moved one of my commercial blogs to Thesis, and was reminded of the importance of using section targeting on your blog.
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Date: 2009-02-23

The Importance Of Section Targeting
Using Adsense on your blog usually isn't the most profitable way to monetize it, but it is fairly quick and easy, which makes it a popular choice for many website owners. Last week I moved one of my commercial blogs to Thesis, and was reminded of the importance of using section targeting on your blog.
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Date: 2009-02-23

Salesforce CRM Spring '09 Bursts Onto Scene
Ah, spring. It coincides with so many nice things, including blossoming flowers, tweeting birdies, and new software. And in this last category, Salesforce CRM Spring '09 may be one of the things most worth a look.
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Date: 2009-02-23

Enterprises Thrive With Strong Internet Marketing
Internet marketing and the SMB can be a powerful match. The Internet and its many channels (search, blogs, social media and more) can create opportunity that was not possible for many businesses just a few short years ago. Internet savvy marketers and business owners see the potential to bring leads to their business that would have never been fathomed in the old world of call lists and caffeine.
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Date: 2009-02-20

View Site Analytics On The iPhone
I was asked to take part in the beta test of this a few weeks ago, and I'm so lame I just finally got aroud to mentioning it. So if you've got an iPhone and you want to be able to check look at your analytics without firing up your laptop or netbook, this is actually a really really good app.
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Date: 2009-02-20

Giving Thought To Your Site Avatars
If you include social media marketing as part of your online marketing strategy, give a little thought to your avatar. Actually, give a lot of thought. Overlooked as they are, they can be crucial to your branding strategy.
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Date: 2009-02-20

Why Does Spam Effect Some People More?
I'm a German national who lives in the Philippines for more than 17 years. I use Gmail for a long time already and I really like it. No problems so far. Just a couple of days back, though, my brother in Germany who also has a Gmail account told me that he receives more than 100 spams a day whereas I get at the most 2 or 3 a month. Can you please give me some advice on that?
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Date: 2009-02-20

Increasing Your Knowledge Of Social Media
A couple of weeks, ago, Geoff Livingston wrote a post called "What Will You Do When Social Media Isn't Special Anymore?" While I agree with part of his premise (that social media won't remain the shiny new object forever), the other part (that traditional agencies will soak up the social media work) is simply wrong. Here's why:
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Date: 2009-02-20

Study Shows Businesses Today Need White Papers
White papers are essential marketing tools for businesses during a down economy. Why? Because lead generation programs become essential during times like this. In addition, prospects are more resistant to sales hype.
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Date: 2009-02-19

Book Review: Breakdown, Breakthrough
Breakdown often seems to strike out of the blue, yet we rarely get to this point without warning signs along the way, writes Kathy Caprino in her empowering book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman's Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose. The author notes that many women, due to a sense of loss of empowerment, are experiencing breakdowns in their lives.
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Date: 2009-02-19

Businesses Are Moving Towards SaaS
Here are several excerpts from an an article by Steve Evans about recent research regarding the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) in small and mid-sized enterprises, SMEs turning towards SaaS:
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Date: 2009-02-19

Dell Updates Multi-Touch Latitude Tablet
Dell has rolled out a new version of its multi-touch, convertible tablet PC. The Latitude XT2 offers improved security, better performance and extended battery life.
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Date: 2009-02-19

Implementing Good SEO To Promote Content
I was sad to see some people who claim to be search experts actually syndicate that John Dvorak article stating that it was good. Of course there are some scammers in every piece of the marketing industry because anywhere where there is demand for a marketing service opportunistic people will look to take advantage of people, but not all SEO techniques are seedy or shifty. In fact, most are not.
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Date: 2009-02-19

Thomson Reuters Launches Enterprise IM Hub
A lot of science fiction shows and movies - while great - feature painfully unrealistic moments in which the hero approaches some alien control panel and uses it with ease. Now, at least on an intraplanetary scale and where instant messaging is concerned, Thomson Reuters has unveiled a working solution to overcoming communications problems.
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Date: 2009-02-19

Extremely Effective Tips For A Successful Site
Now the time has gone when the number of "hits" a page used to get was enough to determine its success ratio… The Official Google Blog has come up with some simple, yet extremely effective tips to determine the success if your website.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Determine Your Site's Success Ratio With Google Analytics
Now the time has gone when the number of "hits" a page used to get was enough to determine its success ratio… The Official Google Blog has come up with some simple, yet extremely effective tips to determine the success if your website.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Recovering Your Sites After A Major Attack
So your website has been hacked. All your pages are gone and you can't log into anything to make changes. What do you do and how do you fix it?
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Date: 2009-02-18

Even Small Businesses Need A CRM Solution
Here are several excerpts from an article by Dale Vile, Research Director for Freeform Dynamics, CRM Promise and Practicality for the Smaller Business. Be sure to also check out my commentary at the end of this post:
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Date: 2009-02-18

Opportunities Of Open Source ERP During A Recession
Earlier this year, Matt wrote that, in 2009, companies will balk at long and costly implementation cycles for enterprise ERP products and turn to open source ERP, especially in the current economy. I'm not completely convinced that enterprises spending on "18-month, multimillion-dollar ERP rollouts" will turn to open source ERP.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Fully Automated Database Mining With KXEN
I got my first chance to really see KXEN's product a little while ago and, as I am off to Predictive Analytics World tomorrow, I thought I would blog about it. KXEN was founded in 1998. The product is designed to deliver automated data mining and predictive analytics at a function level - the user doesn't have to choose variables or algorithms.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Start-up Offers Better Email Management
Ukrainian start-up, SenderOK has launched a system that offers better email management by streamlining the process.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Linux To Figure In Samsung Phone Push
If you consider the issue of operating system exposure, you'll realize that a lot of people spend their whole work days in front of Windows computers. Then, some folks go home and open a laptop or sit at another desk. But thanks to Samsung, Linux is going to be in even more constant touch with certain people as it's used in cell phones.
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Date: 2009-02-18

Developing Marketing Relationships During A Recession
Search marketing has been known as recession resistant because so many companies shift or increase internet marketing budgets there in good times and in bad. When other marketing and advertising channels don't hold up to ROI scruitiny, tactics like SEO hold up rather well. Sage advice on how to execute on this insight can be found at "Recession Proof Search Engine Optimization Tips".
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Date: 2009-02-17

Red Hat and Microsoft Work In Concert Towards Virtualization
Peter Galli over at Port25 is reporting: "Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors."
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Date: 2009-02-17

Using Inner Circle Strategies To Win SEO
If only Google would sit still for one moment! The job of the SEO would be so much easier :) As we all know, the last thing Google wants to do is make life easy for SEOs, so we'll just have to live with the constant change. One of the biggest changes SEOs have had to adapt to in recent times has been algorithm shifts that reward big players.
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Date: 2009-02-17

How To Boost Your Blog
As a communication and community-building tool, blogging is up there with Twitter as a key social media platform. A place to both offer and share opinions as well as a view at the person behind an online persona, a blog is more than just a personal or business journal - it's your voice.
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Date: 2009-02-17

Tools That Can Help Boost Your Blog's Voice
As a communication and community-building tool, blogging is up there with Twitter as a key social media platform. A place to both offer and share opinions as well as a view at the person behind an online persona, a blog is more than just a personal or business journal - it's your voice.
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Date: 2009-02-17

Box.net Makes Content Management More Social
Social media is all the rage these days; even Twitter, with its complete lack of a business plan, was able to raise $35 million in the midst of our recession. So it seems to be a smart choice on Box.net's part to give the latest version of its content management system a social side.
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Date: 2009-02-17

Did Adobe Give Apple The Shaft With Flash 10?
Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn't announced? No iPhone support for Flash yet.
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Date: 2009-02-17

CRM Software Could Save Your Sales Force
Here are several excerpts from an article by Barney Beal, News Director for SearchCRM.com, Sales Reps Are In For A Tough 2009, But CRM Sales Software May Help about the 2009 Sales Performance Optimization Survey from CSO Insights:
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Date: 2009-02-16

Visualize Blog Statistics With Woopra
There are many ways to analyze the effect of blogging with Google Analytics ranking at the top for most due to the pricetag of free and robust features. As the social web continues to grow and become central to the internet experience, analytics and social monitoring software will HAVE to converge to measure on and off page interactions. We don't have that quite yet, but here are a number of other blog analytics tools that offer rich visualization and real time reporting features that are worth a look.
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Date: 2009-02-16

Blog Information Visualized By Woopra
There are many ways to analyze the effect of blogging with Google Analytics ranking at the top for most due to the pricetag of free and robust features. As the social web continues to grow and become central to the internet experience, analytics and social monitoring software will HAVE to converge to measure on and off page interactions. We don't have that quite yet, but here are a number of other blog analytics tools that offer rich visualization and real time reporting features that are worth a look.
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Date: 2009-02-16

Targeting Foreign Customers The Correct Way
Got customers in different countries who you want to specifically target? This can be a difficult task, and one which was also the topic of discussion recently on the HighRanking Forum.
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Date: 2009-02-16

Making Agile Software Truly Agile
Earlier I posted Focusing on decisions to improve the software end product and I decided that this week's posts would be a series of follow-ups on how decision management can and should impact software development. Today on how it should impact/be a part of Agile, tomorrow on Model-Drive Engineering and Thursday on DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
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Date: 2009-02-16

Is Link Building A PR Discipline?
Link Building is a discipline that has a ton in common with basic PR. While there are many important differences as well, both are focused on getting the word out about a business, and getting other people to embrace it. Once you understand how closely tied these are you begin to see why these important functions must work together.
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Date: 2009-02-16

comScore, Mobile Enterprise Preparing Analytics Tools
A mobile messaging campaign can be a mighty thing, causing consumers to either love the convenience of getting info on their cell phones or curse a company due to data charges. Now, a partnership between comScore and Mobile Enterprise will help you better tell which way people are leaning.
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Date: 2009-02-16

New Tag Will Help Combat Duplicate Content
Today at the SMX West conference, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft just announced a new tag that will have a major impact on reducing the amount of duplicate content issues found online and it will help website owners reclaim valuable link popularity.
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Date: 2009-02-13

How To Choose WebForms Or MVC To Build Your ASP.NET Sites
I've read a lot of posts and articles about why and when you should choose WebForms or the MVC framework to build your ASP.NET websites. They are all pretty good, but for some reason they forget or ignore the obvious third option - standard ASP.NET without the WebForm.
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Date: 2009-02-13

Six ISPs Agree To Australian Internet Filter Trial
Australia's government has been mulling the idea of filtering the Internet for a long time, and starting this spring, a test will begin. Six ISPs have agreed to play along as the program attempts to block sexual content, violence, and criminal instructions.
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Date: 2009-02-13

2009 Internet Investment Guide
J.P. Morgan recently released the Nothing But Net Internet Investment Guide for 2009. The purpose of the guide is to provide Internet industry investment advice for clients for the coming year. The information and advice inside, a mix of statistics and trend outlooks, is also valuable for those investing in social media.
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Date: 2009-02-13

AppSense Offers VARs More Support
AppSense, a provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, has announced the addition of six U.S. channel partners, expanding its base of strategic resellers who sell its profiling and personalization solutions.
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Date: 2009-02-13

Recession Provides Opportunity Supply Chain Improvements
It doesn't look like the recession is going to end anytime soon, and that means companies of all types and sizes are going to need to work harder and become more efficient than ever. Improving supply chains is one solution almost everyone should be able to embrace.
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Date: 2009-02-13

Experimenting With Amazon Google Hacks
Sometimes it is not about what you can find, but what you can't find that makes Google more interesting. In the highly competitive world we live it, here are some Google hacks for Amazon that will let you know what is not currently being carried by Amazon.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Understanding The Good And Bad Of SEO
Time and time again it seems that SEO consultants are having to help the general public understand the good and the bad of Search Engine Optimization. There is a wealth of website and SEO information out there that the general public simply can't tell what is good useful information as opposed to silly ignorant and possibly hurtful bits.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Learning The Difference Between Good And Bad SEO
Time and time again it seems that SEO consultants are having to help the general public understand the good and the bad of Search Engine Optimization. There is a wealth of website and SEO information out there that the general public simply can't tell what is good useful information as opposed to silly ignorant and possibly hurtful bits.
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Date: 2009-02-12

First Intel Remote Assist Launched By PCWorld And TechGuys
PC World has today announced the launch of new Intel® Remote Assist Technology, available exclusively on its latest range of Advent PCs, including the massive spec Advent QC6003 and Advent QC8003. Called TechGuys Remote Assist, the new service is only available at PC World stores across the UK and online at www.pcworld.co.uk
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Date: 2009-02-12

Burning A CD In iTunes For Mac
My kids are really into High School Musical and Miley Cyrus, to the point where we bought them the soundtrack and they promptly broke the CD squabbling over it. I know I could buy a couple more but that's pretty expensive! Is there a way to just use iTunes to dupe a music CD so they could listen to the copy and we'd keep their Hannah Montana music (etc) safely stored away?
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Date: 2009-02-12

Businesses Can Do Their Own SEO
As someone who sells SEO as a service it is often not in my best interest to tell people they can do SEO on their own. But it's true. Just as changing the car's oil, fixing clogged pipes, or painting a house are all relatively easy, most business owners can SEO their website on their own. All it takes is some knowledge and time.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Bringing Web 2.0 To Mobile Devices
Volantis Systems few days ago announced the availability of Volantis Mobility Server Community Edition version 5.1. The new release aims at bringing the power of Web 2.0 to the mobile world, including optimizations for the iPhone.
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Date: 2009-02-12

How To Use Your Gmail As A Geo Locator
The Gmail Team rolled out a really cool new feature to their Gmail services: you can now have your whereabouts added to your signature at the time your email was sent. I'm sure half of you are thinking "that's awesome!" while the other half are saying, "who cares?" Google is able to do this through the use of IP detection.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Twitter is not going to charge anyone to tweet
This week, there's been a flurry of news about Twitter's business plans. Okay, so Twitter's business plans have been the subject of news for months, but this time it looked like Twitter was about to come out with a revenue model: charging businesses for certain add-on services.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Online Shoppers Worry About Security Risks
More than half of the UK population still does not shop online, according to a survey by CyberSource.
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Date: 2009-02-12

Getting The Most Out Of Your Social Media Campaign
At last month's Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, I took a question asking "How do I effectively use social media in my business?" Here is the long answer:
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Date: 2009-02-11

Link Building Needs Research On A Regular Basis
As an SEO it's important to do regular research on topics such as link building (among about a hundred other things). As a blogger it's important to post information that I find unique, interesting or just downright helpful.
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Date: 2009-02-11

What's your approach to 2009?
If you've attended any sort of time management, goal setting or time management class in high school or college, you'd feel that you might have been beaten over the head with the Vilfredo Pareto bat.
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Date: 2009-02-11

The Critical Importance Of Writing Good Headlines
One of the aspects of writing online that I am constantly surprised so few people pay attention to is the critical importance of writing good headlines, good titles that help readers identify the topic of the piece and whether it's something they should read or not. There's a secondary benefit too for those of you savvy about search engines, but even without that, I wanted to just write briefly about the critical importance of good titles.
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Date: 2009-02-11

Open Source Monitoring With GroundWork 5.3 Release
Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing.
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Date: 2009-02-11

Increasing Your Site Sales With Twitter
Mike Ober from Yahoo Small Business has posted a fantastic article, "The Twitter Train of Social Ecommerce"
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Date: 2009-02-10

Advertising Is Four Times More Effective On The iPhone
ReadWriteWeb reports that market research agency GfK released a report today that found iPhone users are more likely to recall and respond to ads than other mobile phone users. Surprising? Not really, but the report did find some very interesting statistics regarding mobile users.
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Date: 2009-02-10

Observe Better Site Traffic With Google Analytics
Traffic reports are an essential tool if you have a Web site or if you're running an online marketing campaign. Tools like Google Analytics give great insight into how people found your site and their behavior once they get there.
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Date: 2009-02-10

Discover More Accurate Site Traffic With Google Analytics
Traffic reports are an essential tool if you have a Web site or if you're running an online marketing campaign. Tools like Google Analytics give great insight into how people found your site and their behavior once they get there.
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Date: 2009-02-10

Is Your Small Business Using CRM Software?
Here are several excerpts from an article by Dale Vile, Research Director for Freeform Dynamics, CRM Promise and Practicality for the Smaller Business. Be sure to also check out my commentary at the end of this post:
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Date: 2009-02-10

Dolphin Stadium Hacked For Super Bowl
In what is becoming far too normal, the Dolphin Stadium Web Site was hacked for a few hours and was delivering malware to people who visited it.
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Date: 2009-02-10

Developing And Utilizing SQL Naming Standards
The format for stored procedure names will be:
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Date: 2009-02-10

Pixelsilk Launches New Content Management System
Search engine optimization provider, Pixelsilk has launched its new content management system at this year's Search Marketing Expo West.
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Date: 2009-02-10

Four Great CSS Books For Resource Knowledge
I have a lot of web design books - I mean a lot. I've been collecting them since I started Red Kite in 2005, and I thought this would be a great place to share which ones have been most useful to me as a designer and developer.
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Date: 2009-02-09

Four Influential CSS Development Resources
I have a lot of web design books - I mean a lot. I've been collecting them since I started Red Kite in 2005, and I thought this would be a great place to share which ones have been most useful to me as a designer and developer.
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Date: 2009-02-09

Can Google Survive A Real-Time Web?
Is the Real-Time Web a threat to Google? Rackspace executive Lew Moorman sure thinks so. He's right. Fewer and fewer of my search behaviors have been on Google lately.
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Date: 2009-02-09

Enterprises Need A Good Onsite And Offsite Mix
Seems I get this question nearly every presentation I give . "Why build a branded community or blog site, why not build a program where the audience is?" It's a great question. It's been one of those staple questions for any presentation along with. "Have you consider GEO requirements?" and "How are you measuring success?".
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Date: 2009-02-09

Expanding And Enhancing Your Career Search
Your new job search needs to incorporate much of the new technology as possible. While Dice and Monster might be good, to find real viable jobs, it is time to expand your search and how you search for your next gig.
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Date: 2009-02-09

Government Needs To Fully Embrace Social Media
Recently there has been some talk on a few other DC-based social media consultant blogs about the rise of "Government 2.0" and whether the so-called experts in the space really deserve that title. Yet for all this attention on expertise in social media (justified or not), those of us who at least work and provide advice in the space have not done as much as we need to offer the ammunition to the people who are really in a position to move government forward into using these tools. These are the web masters, communications managers, PR directors and other such people who are the voices waiting to be unleashed within government offices everywhere.
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Date: 2009-02-09

Increasing Your Sites Level Of Exposure With SEO
Unlike traditional media buying, where placement is guaranteed, SEO can appear to be hit and miss. This is because SEO is a strategic process, whereby the SEO will align your site with the often cryptic requirements of the search engines, with the intent of gaining higher visibility for your site in search listings.
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Date: 2009-02-06

Modernizing Legacy Systems Using ILOG Rules
Frank DiGiovanni of Group RCI (a vacation exchange and vacation rental company, part of Wyndham Worldwide) presented on their journey - a legacy modernization using ILOG Rules. Frank identified SOA, legacy migration from mainframe to SOA and how business rules complements these as his key topics. Group RCI's core problem was threefold:
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Date: 2009-02-06

Can Spammers Take Advantage Of Redirects
Google is warning that spammers can take advantage of your site without even making use of your server! They do so by abusing open redirect URLs. In this case the spammers or the hackers take advantage of your website rather than exploiting any security flaw or some other means of spamming.
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Date: 2009-02-06

How To Improve Windows XP Performance
I'm running on an old clunker of a PC and find that all the visual bells and whistles in Windows XP are really slowing things down. I don't need fancy window zooming or anything else, I just need the fastest computer I can create. How do I turn off all these effects?
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Date: 2009-02-06

Unique Moment In Unix Time Approaching
Ever stare at your digital watch at around 11:11 on November 11th? This story's for you. Fans of the hockey mask-wearing killer called Jason may get a kick out of it, too, as it seems a special moment in Unix time will fall on a date near and dear to their hearts.
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Date: 2009-02-06

Hyperic Releases Website Monitoring Additions
Hyperic, the provider of open source web infrastructure management software, on Monday announced the addition of an advanced business intelligence platform (Hyperic Operations IQ) to its web application performance monitoring offering.
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Date: 2009-02-06

Top Tech Companies To Develop White Spaces Database
Seven well-known technology companies have announced they are working together to create a white spaces database to manage the use of the vacant television broadband spectrum, commonly referred to as TV white spaces.
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Date: 2009-02-06

Book Review: Outliers
Our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic, writes visionary author Malcolm Gladwell in his watershed book Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't. The author provides a devastating rebuttal to the idea of why people succeed or fail, and why we need to rethink conventional wisdom on everything from what constitutes genius, to the causes of unusual events.
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Date: 2009-02-05

Advice From Thought Leaders In Knowledge Management
And since it looks like I am on a roll, now that I have returned back home from a long business trip to the US and Madrid and have spent most of the day today on a massively intense catchup with everything that has been happening since I left, I thought I would share with you another presentation which I am sure you are going to enjoy quite a bit.
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Date: 2009-02-05

Test Simple HTTP Loads With Apache Bench
If you have access to a Mac or Linux server, chances are you may already have a really simple http load generating tool installed called Apache Bench, or ab. If you are on windows and have Apache installed, you may also have ab.exe in your apache/bin folder.
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Date: 2009-02-05

Intel Updates Concurrent Collections For C/C++
Intel is aiming to make the lives of C/C++ programmers a little simpler. The tech corporation has let loose a fresh version (Release 0.3.0) of its Concurrent Collections for C/C++, and several improvements have been thrown into the mix.
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Date: 2009-02-05

Box.net Adds New Social Features
Online storage service Box.net has announced it now provides organizations with a more social content management solution.
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Date: 2009-02-05

Edubuntu: Teaching Open Source To Children
Ever since school days, I was taught that a good start in programming is a way to become a good software developer. Today, the college students desire to learn programming languages which are easy to implement and has a good portability across various platforms.
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Date: 2009-02-04

2009 Could See CRM In The Clouds
Here are several excerpts from a post by Chris Kanarcus, Cloud CRM On The Horizon for 2009, that discusses what several CRM analysts believe is in store for the CRM marketplace in 2009:
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Date: 2009-02-04

Does Removing Web Cookies Interfere With Personalization?
Many marketers are asking me about personalized marketing, which you should expect to see more and more of in the next few years. We've already seen behavioral targeting in display ads and personalized search, and we'll see more personalized advertising emerge. But are we marketers just assuming that users will allow all this personalized marketing in? What if they clean their cookies regularly? Will that prevent those users from being exposed to personalized ads?
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Date: 2009-02-04

Give Your Customers The Opportunity To Share
In my role as a social media strategist I'm often asked to review Intel marketing campaigns that contain social elements. And I must say that there are many great examples out there. Two of my favorites are the 2006 What Would You Do for a Duo contest and Mass Animation. Both of these programs include the critical elements needed to make something social/viral: they give our human customers the opportunity to share their personal and creative passions with the world.
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Date: 2009-02-04

Retailers Need To Push Mobile Apps
In a recent Foresee Results survey of online shoppers, nearly a third said they used their mobile phone as part of a shopping trip. That means that 29% of these shoppers stood in a brick and mortar store, and pulled out their phone before deciding whether to make a purchase-which means that these retailers could be filling a significant gap.
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Date: 2009-02-04

Setting Up Blog Comments To Maximize Usability and SEO
With the release of WordPress 2.7 paged comments became a built in feature. By default, they are enabled on both new installs and upgrades. Where it may be good for usability, it may not be good for SEO.
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Date: 2009-02-04

Increasing SEO And Usability By Optimizing Blog Comments
With the release of WordPress 2.7 paged comments became a built in feature. By default, they are enabled on both new installs and upgrades. Where it may be good for usability, it may not be good for SEO.
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Date: 2009-02-04

Social Media To Become A Mainstream Business Asset In 2009
As the economic dust settles and continues to stir, impacting budgets around the world, there are still two constants that we need to keep within perspective; people and products.
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Date: 2009-02-04

Checking Your Site For Clean Web Links
Link building continues to be an important part of marketing and optimizing web sites and web marketers can often get distracted by quantity goals rather than quality.
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Date: 2009-02-03

Tools For The SEO Beginner or Professional
Recently we talked about the importance of Search Engine Optimization. Today, we will discuss some of the popular and absolute tools of SEO industry. Some of the tools to check your website's keyword rank:
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Date: 2009-02-03

Top SEO Tools Of The Trade
Recently we talked about the importance of Search Engine Optimization. Today, we will discuss some of the popular and absolute tools of SEO industry. Some of the tools to check your website's keyword rank:
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Date: 2009-02-03

New Adobe AIR Applications For GMail
Being an AIR app, GoAir and Live Quotes work on Windows, Mac and Linux. GoAir is an offline Gmail Client while Live Quotes shows you relevant information about company stocks.
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Date: 2009-02-03

Is Your Business Using Social Media?
Can social media be used for business-to-business (B2B) brands? The answer is a "Yes!".
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Date: 2009-02-03

Four Issues That May Be Penalizing Your Site
Last month, we discussed about some of the ways to find out whether your site has been penalized by Google or not. According to Search Engine Journal, Google is planning to apply few filters to those websites that fail to follow their Terms Of Services.
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Date: 2009-02-03

Email Marketing Company Launches Alert Tool
Email marketing firm, Email Data Source, has launched a new product called Alerts. The Alerts notifies a subscriber when any of the 40,000-email marketing messages that the company receives daily match criteria set by the customer.
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Date: 2009-02-03

TIOBE Index Puts Pearl In Eighth Place
The TIOBE Programming Community index for January 2009 has been released, and Perl fans should find the news to be mostly good. Perl remains among the top 10 programming languages, and its status "A" makes Perl officially part of the mainstream.
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Date: 2009-02-03

Understanding The Differences In Business And Technology
Business relies on technology to reach the customer, technology relies on business to find those customers, yet sometimes there is a failure to communicate that leaves everyone wondering what happened.
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Date: 2009-02-02

Preventing Your Redirects From Being Abused
Late last week the Google Webmaster Central Blog discussed site redirects and how they can be potentially compromised by spammers. They also mentioned 7 ways in which you can prevent your site redirects from being abused, read more below:
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Date: 2009-02-02

Stopping Redirects From Being Compromised By Spammers
Late last week the Google Webmaster Central Blog discussed site redirects and how they can be potentially compromised by spammers. They also mentioned 7 ways in which you can prevent your site redirects from being abused, read more below:
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Date: 2009-02-02

CMOs Want To Give Customers More Voice Volume
I came across an interesting post on Marketing Pilgrim that pointed at a new study by the CMO Council called "Giving Customer Voice More Volume". It seems that Chief Marketing Officers understand the need to listen to, amplify and react to customer input, but they really don't know how.
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Date: 2009-02-02

Not All Publicity Is Made Equal
There's an old saying that any publicity is good publicity - but is it? True, a discussion about your company or business means that at least people are talking about you but is there a limit as to how far this should go and be accepted as a good thing?
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Date: 2009-02-02

New Study Points To Better-Paying IT Certifications
An old Irish phrase that's meant to be said to friends mentions something about the sun shining on a person's face and the wind being at his back. These days, you'd almost want to change that to his job being secure and bank accounts being full, and new info from Foote Partners indicates which IT certifications are likely to best fit that picture.
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Date: 2009-02-02