Maki writes, "You really don’t need many tools when it comes to Digg, trust me. There are only a few which are truly essential. If you want to use Digg efficiently like a power user, try the ones in this list."

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Most people who gravitate toward copywriting love words. Dishing up lots of them is relatively easy. The real challenge is editing to achieve a tight and lively style.
So if your writing has become bloated and sluggish, perhaps what you need is a little exercise to trim the fat and energize your selling copy.
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The best way to write content that will go viral is to spend time Analyzing the Success of Others. Take some time out to analyze the types of posts that are going viral in your niche.

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Yesterday Google announced a new product named Ad Manager. In short, it is a hosted ad management solution, like OpenAds (aka PHPAdsNew) but OpenAds is not hosted. So the benefits of the Google Ad Manager product is that you don’t have to use your server resources to serve up ads, you can use Google’s. You can see a tour of the product, if you are interested.

I actually started experimenting with it yesterday on our forums. The top four ad ads, (first two rows) are served via Open Ads, while the bottom row (last two ads) are served by Google Ad Manager. I selected one ad to show my Google AdSense ads and one ad to show some test banners. Here are the ads that are generated for me now (keep in mind, I keep testing them, so they may change):

Let’s zoom in on the Google AdSense ad:

Notice the little icon at the bottom left of the AdSense ad? It is not clickable or anything, but I think it symbolizes that the ad is served by Google Ad Manager. Why? Because no other Google AdSense ads have that icon.

I will be testing this out in detail and then I hope to provide an easy step by step walk through on how to set up ads that rotate in our blog ad format (which is the typical ad format for most new blogs these days). So if you are wanting to play with it, hold off a bit until I get the kinks worked out and so I can simply guide you through the process (or you can do it yourself).

Of course the discussion about trusting Google, Google owning the world, the Internet and now DoubleClick…

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld,DigitalPoint Forums and Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

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Have Your Say!

Insert your message in the next Brave New Films video for $199 - not that I am saying you should, but 5 or 10 years ago it would have been hard to imagine this level of fan integration into the funding, creation, and promotion of documentaries. Where are we going to be in another 10 years? Will this video get 500,000 views on YouTube? Might this $199 be a cheap ad buy for people looking to appeal to this demographic? At that price point it is almost an impulse purchase for O’ReillyGoesNuts.com or BoneUsFoxRingtones.com.

Fund Anything

Sites like Kiva allow you to loan to business people in the 3rd world, and offers open ratings on past loan payments. If you are looking to make money in the process, outfits like Prosper and MicroPlace might work too. And Fundable allows you to raise funds for any cool projects or ideas.

Why Your Funding Source Matters

Is it cheaper to get funding and buy ads or grow organically from direct support? Getting capital from a VC may get you some coverage, but it is probably nowhere near as valuable as donations from hundreds or thousands of fans. 4 reasons direct support funding from fans is so powerful are

1. they minimize risk and create deeper direct connections
2. participants feel ownership, which creates meaningful relationships and project evangelists who provide emotional support and spread buzz well ahead of your launch
3. people care much more than they do offering free support (to appreciate how non-committed free support is, hundreds of bloggers talked about the launch of Citizendium, and I donated to the project like a day or two later - and was the first donor to the project)
4. successful projects show social proof of value as they pick up momentum

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Here’s a list of 12 search engines that could eventually replace Ask.com.

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Three recent link building articles have appeared on Sphinn that are worthwhile for link builders. I’ll walk through each of them and explain why they are important.

In Squeezing the [Link] Juice out of Low Hanging Fruit, Bob Massa talks about how hard work pays off. He emphasizes many points but stresses that you should carefully select quality directories to submit to and submit properly. This way, you don’t have to pay for links.

Matt Cutts wrote a post with SEO advice on links in 2005 and published it on the 11th. He suggests that you should become a resource, provide an ongoing service, be valuable, and keep your product open. Quality content breeds links naturally. If you think about it, has much really changed?

Another post is Loren Baker’s explosive organic and paid link building tips. In this post, Loren says that you should aim for relevancy, selective anchor text, and says that you should not be concerned about nofollow. Sometimes, he acknowledges that you may have to pay for those links and you may want to take advantage of new sites to build your links on. It doesn’t hurt and they will eventually age.

Do you have anything to add? Forum discussion continues at Sphinn (Bob Massa), Sphinn (Matt Cutts), and Sphinn (Loren Baker).

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How much time do you spend working on your Web 2.0-cross voting network? Don’t get me wrong, a network is vital, the right network can propel you into social media marketing heaven. But, there comes a point where watching your story rise on digg and

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A great step by step competitive research guide by SEO Chicklet Lauren Vaccarello:

Step 1: Who is your competitor and where have they been?
Step 2: What kind of market share and traffic do they have?
Who is linking to your competitors?
What ke

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Sam’s Club is partnered with "Innuity" for small business $25 "SEO!" Will the affiliation increase the public’s perception of SEO or ruin our reputation? Another SearchEngineGuide video-rant.

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So Jason is predicting that “Google will have 90% search market share in the US one year from now“, and while people may cringe at that thought, I don’t think it’s a completely unlikely scenario.
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Posted by OliverTaco

My list of RSS feeds is divided into three big buckets - News, SEO, and Politics.  And I happened to notice something pretty interesting.

Where is the Monkey in This Picture?

Here is a screen shot of a blog post we wrote when we launched Digg Friend Finder:

And here is a post on Instapundit:

Right, we should all have the luxury of a bazillion readers a day who will (like me) put up with stuff like that.  (Note that I am not climbing onto my partial-article-feed hobby horse!)

Who Makes an Effort? 

Well, it turns out that it depends on what "make" means:

• 42 SEO feeds, 126 posts reviewed: 0% mangled text, 65% of posts had a graphic or something visual
• 55 news feeds, 165 posts reviewed: 10% mangled text, 0% graphics (excepting posted videos)
• 25 political news feeds, 75 posts reviewed: 25% mangled text, 0% graphics (excepting cartoons and videos)

What’s Up With That?

I think the graphics thing is explicable, but I don’t really have an explanation for not caring that your text is mangled.

Has anyone else thought about this and come up with a good explanation?

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Check out this great free video from Jeff Walker (no email registration required) that debunks the whole Internet marketing guru product launch thing. If you haven’t heard of him, Jeff is the guy who devised the product launch system back in 2005, and I think he’s a little concerned about how it’s now perceived.
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Intro from Rebecca: Yes, this post pretty much just pimps our PRO tools, but it’s been a busy week and sometimes it’s nice to have a little praise, damnit.

I am a new SEOmoz PRO member, and I have just been absolutely LOVING all the great tools! I especially like the Term Targeting tool, and I’ve used it on my personal site with striking success. I had no idea how un-targeted certain pages were! And for other pages that I thought were targeting certain keywords, I come to find out they really weren’t.

After revising a few pages according to the Term Targeting tool, I then re-checked those pages using SEOmoz’s other great tool: the Rank Checker. I checked the SERPS for those new pages and terms, and I was really impressed with the outcome: modest, but substantial increases in ranking.

As an SEO specialist and CEO of a multimedia communications company, I had been utilizing the SEOmoz free tools with my SEO clients, but that was limited, and I need to do more. So, I finally "broke down" and bought the subscription. I don’t regret it one bit. 

These tools really work!

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Another great article by Patrick. From the site: The problem with switching to another method of search is that it won’t stop SEO. SEO is about optimising a site so that it gets higher rankings in a search engine - it doesn’t matter whether the sear

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

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Tad shows his readers how to easily put together a dynamic Blogroll instead of using the standard static Blogroll.

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Barry Schwartz reports on an insider tip that IAC may sell off or abandon their Ask.com search technology and outsource it to Google.

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Posted by IsRobot

I was thinking, "If there was one bit of advice that would stand me in good stead for my SEO efforts, what would it be?" This inspired me to try a little experimental poll. I realise I myself am not adding any content of merit here (I just don’t have the experience to do so), but I think that the answers of the community here will more than compensate. That being said:

1) If there is one bit of advice you would give about SEO right now, what would that be?

2) If there is one bit of SEO advice you wish you’d been given (say, in the last couple of years), what would that be?

3) If there is one thing you wish your clients understood or did not ask of you, what is it?

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Saddle up boys, the enforcer of spam is raising a posse to go hunt those bastards who buy links. Wait a minute, some of those bastards are my mates. Should I rat them out or not?
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