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Utilizing Online Advertising To Increase Site Traffic
Link building is a very powerful tool being used by many businesses today in order to reach out to their customers in a more convenient and cost-efficient way. Using the Internet as a means of communication is one of the main strategies that businesses apply today. Many companies have prospered by using the right combination of link building strategies.
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Date: 2010-06-30
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Solving The URL Duplication Error With Canonical Links
Just recently, search engines like Google and Yahoo partnered with Live Search to introduce a breakthrough improvement in the search engine playing field: the Canonical Link Element. The Canonical Link Element enables web developers and search engines alike to eliminate the confusion in searches caused by different links that basically point to the same web site.
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Date: 2010-06-30
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Is Linux a Viable Gaming Platform?
Imagine games on Linux - I wonder if you can - No need for dual booting - A magnificent plan! The setback from major game developers porting their titles to Linux has been profitability. The Linux community can not logically hold it against a game developer for porting to such a small segment of the market.
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Date: 2010-06-30
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Cisco Finds Social Networks, Random Devices Pose Security Risks
The results of a new enterprise security survey should be reliable; they stem from a poll involving 500 IT security professionals based in five different countries. They're not likely to make enterprise security experts happy, however, as they show that users often disregard rules in order to use social networks and unsupported devices at work.
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Date: 2010-06-29
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Disgus Adds Better 301 Migration Services
Disqus is used by a huge number of blogs thanks to its impressive set of discussion features, including threaded discussions, cache-friendliness, viral spread through Facebook connect and Twitter, email replies features and universal install-ability.
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Date: 2010-06-28
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Seagate Steers Buyers Away From SSDs
When a company urges consumers to buy the latest and greatest thing, the message/advertisement can often be ignored. Seagate has taken the opposite approach, however, informing individuals (and companies) that solid-state drives aren't for everyone, and that idea definitely deserves some attention.
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Date: 2010-06-28
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Supply Chain Management Software Market Withstands Recession
Although it's often hard to see negative numbers and then think positively, new data from Gartner may deserve that reaction. Gartner found that worldwide supply chain management software revenue decreased only 0.7 percent between 2008 and 2009, which doesn't seem bad considering how the global economy was performing at the time.
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Date: 2010-06-25
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Using Local Search Optimization To Boost Your Ranking
I am knee deep in a project for a client that is designed to take their national presence and represent it locally (in Google primarily) through making sure their 28 local branches are found in local searches. It's an interesting process and is not as easy or clear-cut as it sounds. The project, in fact, has made me wonder just how many companies like my client exist out there.
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Date: 2010-06-25
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Making Local Search Work For Your Site
I am knee deep in a project for a client that is designed to take their national presence and represent it locally (in Google primarily) through making sure their 28 local branches are found in local searches. It's an interesting process and is not as easy or clear-cut as it sounds. The project, in fact, has made me wonder just how many companies like my client exist out there.
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Date: 2010-06-25
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How Vendors And Strategists Differ In The Social CRM Space
After spending a lot of time speaking and interacting with vendors and strategists in the Social CRM space it became very clear to me that vendors and strategists (or consultants or analysts or whatever else you want to call them) are on a very different page when it comes to understanding and explaining what Social CRM is and/or does. I think what we are seeing now (also in the E2.0 space) is a space which is being "pulled" by vendors so to speak. I realize it's not this cut and dry and that not all vendors fall into the "vendor" mindset and that not all strategists fall into the "strategist" mindset. Having said that let's a take a look at where the disconnect might be between vendors and strategists.
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Date: 2010-06-24
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SysAdmin Documents Encounter With Conficker
Monty Python fans may remember a certain sketch in which characters promise to show an audience how to cure all diseases. Then the advice doesn't go much beyond "become a great doctor, cure something, and make sure your colleagues do their jobs right." Too many security articles follow this route, as well, but a new one provides a more useful look at how an IT administrator was hit by (and overcame) a virus.
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Date: 2010-06-24
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How To Rename File Sequentially In Linux
As part of some user interface testing I'm involved with on an Ubuntu Linux system, I find myself frequently having to rename groups of files in a sequential manner. That is, I'll have files like "output mm-dd-yyyy at hh:mm:ss" and need to rename them to "testrun-xx-file-yy". Is there any way to automate this so I don't have to go crazy typing?
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Date: 2010-06-23
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What The Yahoo/Bing Integration Date Means For Search?
The search merger between Yahoo! and Bing may finally have an integration date thanks to a timeline which is being sent to advertisers. The timeline identifies August 2010 as the date when Bing will start providing organic results for Yahoo, with paid search campaigns making the transition from mid July to the end of October.
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Date: 2010-06-22
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Cooking with SQL: Short and Sweet
One of my fondest childhood memories revolves around my Grandmother's cooking. She was able to take out store bought hot dogs, boil them in a pot of water, and serve them up on piece of bread for many of my childhood lunches. Likewise, one my of fondest SQL memories is the first time I used conditional statements in my SQL to significantly shorten my overall code. Nothing better than hot dogs and SQL...
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Date: 2010-06-22
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An Educational Web Hosting Horror Story
Every CTO worth his (or her) salt considers a number of factors when picking a company to handle business domain names and email, including price, reliability, and ease of setup. Only one man's tale has made clear that CTOs should also consider how a hosting provider will respond to hacking, since this can put everything at risk.
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Date: 2010-06-22
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CDC Pivotal Social CRM Launches
Not too long ago, LinkedIn acquired its 70 millionth member. Later this year, a Facebook-centric movie written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher is due to come out. And a man's execution was even recently announced on Twitter. So social media is important, and CDC Software is recognizing that with a new CRM solution.
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Date: 2010-06-21
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The Snowball-Effect of Embedded Tweets
Building a large following on Twitter is easy. Attracting targeted followers, who are actually interested in what you have you have to say, is not so easy. Anyone can mass-follow thousands of random people and expect a fair few to follow back - many users use a ‘followers' total as a kind of status symbol and will happily return the favor, just to keep you on their list of followers.
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Date: 2010-06-18
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Google's Approach To Handling Employees Laid Out
Like it or not, Google is the place to be. Just about any person who's familiar with how the company works would drop whatever he (or she) is doing in order to take a job with it. And Google works, too, consistently thrashing its rivals. So consider modeling aspects of your firm after the search giant.
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Date: 2010-06-18
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Using Enterprise Collaboration Technologies To Increase Productivity
This is the first in a series of my notes on the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, June 14- 17. This post covers the workshop, Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration Technologies. It was led by Oliver Marks, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, ZDNet Collaboration 2.0, and Sameer Patel, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, PretzelLogic.or. Oliver and Sameer are some of my favorite tweeters and bloggers so I was pleased to attend the session. Here is the description. My notes follow. They are done real times so please excuse typos.
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Date: 2010-06-17
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MySQL in C
Many languages include the ability to connect to a database and utilize the information stored within. For those that don't have these abilities automatically, there are different varieties of MySQL connectors available for installation. The version for C is the connector/C. Once the connector/C is installed (instructions on how to do this can be found here), you can add a connection to a mysql database to any C program with ease.
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Date: 2010-06-17
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Adding Local Keywords To Gain SEO Ranking
This post will go over a number of tips when determining which pages will be chosen for keyword optimization. If you have been following along by now you should have a list of keywords that you would like to integrate into your website, also if your homework is done from the last post you should have created a complete list of all the pages on your website. Don't start the steps in this post without it.
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Date: 2010-06-15
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Using Localized Keyword To Boost Your Online Presence
This post will go over a number of tips when determining which pages will be chosen for keyword optimization. If you have been following along by now you should have a list of keywords that you would like to integrate into your website, also if your homework is done from the last post you should have created a complete list of all the pages on your website. Don't start the steps in this post without it.
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Date: 2010-06-15
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PERL Loops
There are several different flavors of loops available when coding in PERL. The four most commonly used loops are the while loop, the until loop, the for loop, and the foreach loop. Below you will find a quick tutorial on how each is used.
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Date: 2010-06-15
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New Data Expresses The True Value Of SEO
Presumably anone who reads this blog really does not need to be convinced of the value of SEO, but chances are that all of you have run into situations where you are trying to explain to someone else of the value of SEO. This is often a very challenging activity. New data from a survey by The Info Tech Group provides some great additional tools for when you need to make this argument.
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Date: 2010-06-14
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Do You Value SEO As Much As You Should?
Presumably anone who reads this blog really does not need to be convinced of the value of SEO, but chances are that all of you have run into situations where you are trying to explain to someone else of the value of SEO. This is often a very challenging activity. New data from a survey by The Info Tech Group provides some great additional tools for when you need to make this argument.
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Date: 2010-06-14
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CRM Suit Results In $460 Million Settlement
In what might be considered a win for the CRM community, a legal settlement has established that CRM software is quite valuable. HP will most definitely regard this as a loss, though, since the settlement involves it paying British Sky Broadcasting a whopping £318 million (or about $460 million).
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Date: 2010-06-14
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Summit On Sustainable Supply Chains Organized
Conferences can be great places to pick up some useful tricks and learn where an industry is heading. Or, barring that, good places to knock back a few drinks and establish some friendships/business relationships. So supply chain management specialists might want to consider heading to a summit on sustainable supply chains this October.
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Date: 2010-06-11
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White Papers, Social Media Judged To Be Symbiotic
White papers and social media may seem to be at odds with each other at times; it can feel as if sites like Facebook and Twitter have shortened people's attention spans to the point that white papers are of little interest to anyone. Still, at least one expert thinks white papers and social media complement each other.
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Date: 2010-06-10
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Gaining Insight On Individual Customers And Their Influence
There is little doubt that customers are ruling the roost right now - to a point that should be of concern to business - and a reason to rejoice. On the one hand, because we are human, we love to complain and thus the virally negative press and publicity that a bad customer service problem can lead to grab much of the headlines.
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Date: 2010-06-10
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Bernanke Bets On Continued Recovery
Whatever the stock market is doing right now, know that the situation might have been worse if not for something U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said earlier this week. Bernanke gave investors a bit of encouragement by indicating that the economy isn't likely to enter a second recession.
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Date: 2010-06-09
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The Battle Over Best-Of-Breed Vs. Integrated Suite Continues
The best-of-breed vs. integrated suite battle has been ongoing since integrated ERP software first came on the market. In the early days, buyers were forced to choose between standalone systems that performed one function very well (e.g., accounting, production planning) or one integrated system that offered modules for each function, but with varying degrees of functional depth.
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Date: 2010-06-09
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Using Social Media To Boost Your SEO Campaign
Social Media is big, how are you using social media for your business? Are you utilizing it for SEO in linking campaign, local search, or to increase your brand? Whatever the answer all of the above is fine. Where social media shine is the use of the popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, and FourSquare to name a few.
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Date: 2010-06-09
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A Uniform Query to the Community
The language of SQL is a lot like the English language. You have North American and Great Britain dialects of the language, not to mention significantly varying degrees of those dialects broken down amongst the geographical regions in which they're spoken.
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Date: 2010-06-08
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CIOs Focused On Cost Savings
Organizations across the financial services, healthcare, retail and public sectors are failing to align their IT and business priorities, according to a survey by market research company Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Micro Focus.
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Date: 2010-06-07
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Results CRM QuickBook Integration Gets Thumbs Up From Intuit
As the company responsible for products like Quicken and TurboTax, Intuit is a trusted name when it comes to financial software, and when it comes to CRM products, Intuit in turn trusts Results Software. The Results CRM and QuickBooks Integration was recently tested by a Gold-Certified Intuit Application Developer, and it received a score of 9.75.
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Date: 2010-06-07
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GCC Allowing C++ Code
For years, we have been using the gcc compiler to build our source code into executable programs, so you're probably asking yourselves what the big deal is. The big deal is that for the first time ever, C++ code will be used to /write/ the gcc compiler, which has always been written in C and nothing but.
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Date: 2010-06-04
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Moving Beyond CRM To The Future Of SRM
In Engage!, I review the important catalysts and methodologies defining the new era of Social CRM or sCRM. In the discussion, I also introduce the idea of SRM (social relationship management), a new concept that may at first blush, seemingly challenge the promise of sCRM However, its only intention is to spur thinking beyond the literal frameworks of traditional customer relationship management, whether it's social or one-way.
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Date: 2010-06-03
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How To Debug Your WordPress Upgrade
This week I upgraded a new client's WordPress blog from version 2.6 to 2.9.2. All went just dandy. Then today he emailed me to say that he'd noticed his post excerpts were not appearing where they were supposed to, in single post pages.
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Date: 2010-06-03
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iPhones Winning Over Enterprise Users
Enterprise messaging experts who aren't fond of the iPhone (and specifically, who aren't fond of the iPhone despite never having tried it) may want to rethink their stance. AT&T revealed at a recent conference that enterprise users now represent about 40 percent of iPhone buyers.
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Date: 2010-06-03
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Hitachi Releasing A Hybrid SSD with Optical Drive
When developing and manufacturing netbooks, notebooks, and other portable computing devices, there's always a balance between power and mobility. Generally, the more power you put into a device, the heavier and less mobile it becomes. Therefore, manufacturers have to decide what sort of balance they have to reach before releasing a product.
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Date: 2010-06-01
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A Whole New World (Wide Web)
Although Perl may not be able to produce flying carpets, blue genies, or beautiful Arab princesses, it can be used for nearly limitless other applications. One of Perl's greatest strengths is playing nice with other programming languages, and thus why it may be valuable to experiment with wrapping popular APIs into a Perl script that can be used by the application(s) of your choice.
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Date: 2010-06-01
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