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Twiffiency, Twitter Spam and the Making of Twitter-Awesomeness

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When I noticed the super silly Twiffiency phenomenon blow up on Tuesday I was struck by how much people love getting graded. Everyone saw the auto-tweets that Twiffiency sent out on your behalf and quickly tested their own.. ummm, something. See, the thing is, even now, no one has any idea what that score means! [...]

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Calling Out Bad Realtor Websites

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One of my very early posts on this blog was about how bad realtor websites are. I wrote that post almost 2 years ago, yet there are still realtors putting up with less than awesome sites. I was discussing the sad state of realtor websites on Twitter with a couple of friends when @vowconnect asks [...]

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Getting Better Traffic

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Are you spending more time blogging? Want to take it to the next level? Here’s some quick tips.

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Does Your Community Love You?

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Ashley Berman Hale has a strong and loving community. She leads the Raleigh SEO Meetup and was kind enough to take me under her wing as an assistant organizer just a month or two after I started attending. Ashley has been adamant about never charging for any event and always doing as much as possible. It’s clearly [...]

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Caught Off Guard

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I tried to share some SEO knowledge today at a Food4Thought luncheon. After my presentation, two of the organizers asked me to have lunch with them. Lorana Price, Holy Cow’s CEO and brand strategist and Lea-Ann Berst, lead strategist for Sleddogg Marketing Management sat down with me and we talked about the presentation. We ordered lunch [...]

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Latent Semantic Indexing

Sometimes when you are trying to explain a simple idea, people zone out because they think they already know it all. That’s when you whip out a phrase like Latent Semantic Indexing. It’s a great phrase because it sounds like a super complicated scientific method for… well, something. In reality, it’s sort of what good [...]

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Bring The Hardcore Data

Next Wednesday I’m speaking about search marketing at Food4Thought, an invitation only professional series in Raleigh. I was recruited by Lorana Price CEO & Brand Strategist at Holy Cow Branding after one of the SEO Meetups. I’m not sure how search savvy all of the members are, but I know that if I try to [...]

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