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Twitter Short URL’s Conquer Techmeme

August 29, 2011

After the full roll out of the t.co short URL’s on Twitter last week, the preferred Twitter shorter URL’s are now conquering Techmeme as the target page of an article featured on the Tech News aggregator. See the earlier post on TheNextWeb: Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves and on this blog: Why Twitter [...]

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Why Twitters t.co is Brilliant

August 21, 2011

Yesterday I spend some time on Skype with Zee from TheNextWeb.com to give my perspective on his article. He needed an SEO perspective on the Twitter Short URL roll out, and what it would mean. You can read his article here: Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves. The conversation was brief, as Zee was [...]

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Top Stories on Slashdot

August 18, 2011

Now that I have been able to look around behind the scenes and got my hands on the internal analytics for Slashdot, we are kicking around with the idea to expand the push of the most popular stories on Slashdot beyond the Popular page. In Google Analytics you can easily put in a filter for [...]

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Speaking at Evo Conference

July 9, 2011

This is still in DRAFT, more great content and screenshots of the slides will be added later today and moving forward. Slides now added at the bottom of the post. Yesterday I spoke at the EVO conference in Park City. The conference is focused on the evolution of women in social media. I was invited [...]

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Instant Twitter Feedback

June 11, 2011

Twitter can be very helpful in a world where SEO SERP’s are changing based on location, personal preferences or keyword search sequence. If you have a question, you can get Instant Twitter Feedback if you simple ask your question on Twitter. I was very surprised to learn today, when I did a search for Black [...]

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Group Messaging: The Next Big Thing

May 23, 2011
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This post has been written by Amy Vernon on request. Group Messaging took a huge jump in Q1 2011, where media attention was all over the start-ups and applications from established companies like Google. Is Group Messaging the next Big Thing, Hype or Here to Stay? No question mark there – the sudden abundance of [...]

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Demand Media Stocks Plunge

April 18, 2011

Not sure if this is a direct consequence of the recent roll out of Panda/Farmer or the decrease in US state solvency, where new confidence metrics were published today. But it seems Demand Media stock has taken a beaten over the latest news, either of the two… In the press, demand media is trying to [...]

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Levi’s Jeans Sold for $60,000 Traffic Outburst

April 3, 2011

Years ago, an old Levi’s jeans was sold for $36,000 on eBay. This was not a Levi’s 501 as reported in conflicting stories, but rather a Levi’s Strauss 201. The Jeans was sold for so much money because it was made between 1890 and 1900. I wrote about the Levi’s jeans from 1890 some time [...]

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Engadget Black Hole SEO

March 1, 2011

Every morning I usually start with reading the headlines on my favorite TechNews aggregator Techmeme. It has become an obsession for me to get up to date on the News and stories which broke over night. This morning was not different at all, and with the Jetlag from Europe kicking in, getting up at 5.30 [...]

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StumbleUpon Breaks Traffic record on my Site

February 14, 2011

Did I already told you how I like StumbleUpon? I’m not only using it, and liking it, to discover new great sites and content. I also get great number of visitors through StumbleUpon to some of my websites. And lately I’ve experienced first hand that StumbleUpon is on Fire. I have a theory about the [...]

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