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I want you to see these, because these are the videos I was thinking about making but didn't. Here are some prime tips on blogging, adsense and gaining traffic and followers for your writing. So if you get this far, and I need to listen to the full Ad Sense one, then it is time to ...

There are amazing tools and websites set up to help you do your web site better. Today I am focusing on performance and validating functionality. Several tools are Firefox plugins and some are web based. So lets get started with site performance first: My favorite validation tool is Is My Website Working A Great Site for Checking ...

[Crossposted from FluentSearch.com] The new dashboard controls are great. You can create your own hierarchy and use 1 - 4 colums for your own workflow building. MAJOR WIN! [caption id="attachment_433" align="alignnone" width="544" caption="the new wordpress 2.8 dashboard page"][/caption] and the plug-in management page has some nice new options: [caption id="attachment_435" align="alignnone" width="567" caption="wordpress 2.8 plugin management page"][/caption] I'm not a ...

How To Get Your Blog To Rank In Google by Lisa Barone Be passionate about your subject: Okay, so your blog is going to be about your business or industry, that’s a given. But who’s going to be the person responsible for blogging? Just because you’re the head honcho, doesn’t mean that responsibility is best placed ...

(Is search dead now that social media is king? I don't think they can live apart, but together they make a synergistic knockout punch.) Here is my ten minute presentation on SEO, Search and Social Media. Google PPC/Adwords 1. Use adwords dollars to understand your market and what terms have power 2. Adwords can inform your SEO work in ...

Google "Plus-ifies" search with social features in effort to un-plus Facebook (ARS Technica) The first is "personal results," which draws from photos and posts shared by the user and those in the user's "circles" on Google+. With a click, search results can be narrowed to just those from within Google+ that have been explicitly shared with the ...

[cross-posted from http://themble.com/bones/]Bones is a WordPress Theme for DevelopersBuilt around the HTML5 Boilerplate, Bones is a rock solid foundation to start any WordPress project. Keep what you need, remove what you don't. It's totally up to you.Bones is not a FrameworkFrameworks are great, but sometimes they make things more complicated than they need to be. Bones is bare and ...

[cross-post from WebLiquidGroup] With the amount of conversation across the web about Pinterest in the last couple of months, you would almost think that there is no better place for brands to be going for social engagement. With the platform seeing impressive monthly growth rates (2 million to 4 million daily unique visits between January and ...

[cross-post from SEOMOZ] Analytics is one of those words: it gets used correctly for the most part, but often gets used as a catchall. As marketers, we understand the importance of having web analytics set up, of having an analyst on staff, and of constantly working with the data as a part of our daily practice. ...

Posted Reaching Consumers Through Mobile Marketing: Tweets from #mmaf2013.

Published Mid-Year 2013 Marketing Blog Metrics, Do You Know Your #Blogging Goals?. Published Paying Attention to the Here and Now: Real-Time Analytics.

Posted Brand Tweets Drive Automotive Shopping Action. Shared Big Testing is Better Than Big Data – For Further Study. Big Testing is Better Than Big Data – For Further Study ...

Posted Optimize Digital Touchpoints: Attribution or Path to Purchase?. Published Social Media Marketing Basics and Best Practices.

Posted Sunday Series: Traffic Rises to Political Blogs. Published Review of VINE Using VINE: Um, Not So Much.