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The SEO Value of a Shared Twitter Link

Twitter continues to be a hot topic of discussion not only among interactive marketing agencies and tech geeks, but also among the mainstream media and traditional marketers. There is no doubt that Twitter is a tremendously powerful tool for increasing brand awareness through its incredible reach, but recently I began wondering about the SEO value of the platform in addition to being a driver of brand visibility.

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Search Marketing for Beginners

This is a presentation I gave to a team at Time Inc in 2008 as part of The JAR Group.

Topics covered include research, social media, search engine optimization, paid search, and analytics. This presentation was given in consideration of specific client needs and geared towards an audience of traditional marketers that was relatively unfamiliar with search.


The Year of the Lifestream

I should have written this post on January 1st, but I’m making it known today that 2008 will be the year of the lifestream, and FriendFeed is not the answer.

Like many, you probably have no idea what FriendFeed does. FriendFeed is currently ahead of the pack of a number of recently released web applications that give users the ability to get up-to-date information on what their friends are uploading, sharing and commenting on across the internet. Add your Del.icio.us, Facebook, FlickR, Youtube, etc. accounts to FriendFeed and it consolidates your recent activity. You then add your friends to FriendFeed, and you can follow them as well.

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Who the hell is Yael Naim …and how musicians are missing out on search

You get three guesses! One, no. Two, no. Three, no. Ok, here is a hint. Have you seen the new commercial? You know, the one with the all white background, goddess of a voice singing “I’m a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take,” and suddenly a mysterious manila envelope appears only to reveal the thinnest laptop known to man the Apple MacBook Air!

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Why Digital DUMBO Matters?

DUMBO is a neighborhood in Brooklyn – the word stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. As written by our friend Hide at DUMBOnyc.com, “In 1978, the naming of Dumbo was conceived by resident artists as a way to make the area sound silly and unattractive to people looking to buy real estate here.” For a more complete history of DUMBO read on here and here.

DUMBO use to be most famous for producing cardboard boxes and Brillo soap pads but now the area is perhaps most famous for its innovation in digital media and technology.

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