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Community Blogging: Building Hyper Niche Alliances

Jan 22nd

Posted by Dustin in Blogging

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There has been a lot of chatter recently about 2010 being the year of hyper niche or hyper local.  In terms of marketing and development, I believe there will be a far greater emphasis on web 2.0 applications geared towards local B2B and B2C.  E-commerce will continue to evolve with More >

Business, Multinational corporation

Do You Become an Official Spokesperson Once You Make A Brand Endorsement on Twitter?

Jan 18th

Posted by Dustin in Advertising

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I love parodies especially when they’re not so tongue-in-cheek like Mark Logan starring as the Twitter spokesman in this video by Comedy.com.  It also led me to questioning whether or not Twitter users become self-appointed brand ambassadors once they make an endorsement of a product or service in a tweet.  Being a More >

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Social Media Strategy Uncovered: How To Market My Blog With Twitter

Jan 14th

Posted by Dustin in Blogging

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I really believe in transparency and openness as it applies to me being a blogger and I’m eager to show you what steps I have taken over the past few months to build my blog, following on Twitter, and how I measure my effectiveness. It has been a slow building More >

Feedburner, Twitter, Twitterfeed, Web 2.0

E-Commerce Storefront To Be Unveiled In Febuary: We Would Like Your Help

Jan 8th

Posted by Dustin in General

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Hey Everyone,

Behind the scenes I’m currently fine tuning the technology for our e-commerce store which will be making it’s grand opening on this site in February.  Having been in conversation with several information technology and electronics manufacturers my goal is to offer hard-to-find software and gadgets at below market prices.

I’m more interested More >

e-commerce, electronics, software

Geo-Target Google Real-Time Search Results With a Keyword Optimized Social Media Strategy

Jan 7th

Posted by Dustin in SEO

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Instant gratification is the universally shared value of most searchers and deservedly so. With a wealth of resources readily available at your fingertips why should you have to browse for hours to find exactly what you’re looking for? We want what we want, we want it now, and cheap (or More >

Feedburner, Google, keywords, Twitter

CuteRank 2.2.0 Press Release

Jan 5th

Posted by Dustin in SEO

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CuteRank.Net – Jan 4, 2010 – CuteRank.Net, an innovative provider of easy-to-use SEO software, recently released an upgraded version of its free keyword position checking software called “CuteRank”. It allows webmasters to check multiple keyword positions on multiple search engines, saving their time, and boosting their efficiency.

“Being a webmaster myself, I More >

keywords, SEO software

Bloggers Are Always Hungry For More Free Inbound Links

Jan 4th

Posted by Dustin in Blogging

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Anyone new to SEO let me provide a small pearl of wisdom: many inbound links, especially from higher ranked pages and from subject-specific sites will always help increase your page rank.

In the process of continuously searching for more and more places to list my domain name in order to create more inbound links to More >

backlinks, inbound links, links

A Chance To Make a Donation to a Worthwhile Cause – CRAB

Dec 30th

Posted by Dustin in General

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Recently I have spent some time thinking about how I can be of more service to the community, not only by participating in events I believe in, but also using my blog as an opportunity to help better fund these worthwhile causes.

When I was Head Sailing Instructor at the Croton More >

charity, Sailing

Over 50 Free Ways To Grow The Ultimate White Hat Organic SEO Campaign

Dec 28th

Posted by Dustin in Marketing

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I will admit, the title to this post is a little misleading because when it comes to maintaining any search engine optimization campaign there is always a cost, even if you are passionate about doing it yourself.  If you decide to manage your own SEO, keep in mind that there More >

blog, Google, indexing, keyword density, link baiting

Want to Blog For Us?

Dec 20th

Posted by Dustin in Business

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Being mostly a one man operation I have realized that to truly grow it is important to turn the “I” into a “We”.  I know that there is an abundance of talented bloggers out there who enjoy a conversation regarding Social Media, SEO, Wordpress, web standards, or just about anything More >

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