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An Open Letter to Argyle Social

Most of the social media ROI tools only focus on one side of the equation, here’s my argument about the other end of the equation.

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Raleigh Media Leaders Event

The December 2010 Raleigh Media Leaders event wrap-up

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Google Local Steps Over Plain Organic Listings

Google pivots again, local results overwhelm traditional organic results

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Serious Link Building

There is nothing more important for SEO than high quality inbound links. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you had a world renown expert to tell you his secrets? Oh, wait… you do. At least for one night.

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SEO at a glance

You can do a preliminary SEO audit by yourself in just a few minutes. Here’s a how-to.

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WordPress Permissions

Don’t let file permissions make your WordPress life harder than it has to be.

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Check Your Domain URL For Canonicalization Problems

This post isn’t terribly sexy, but it can help you fix a problem on many sites. Once it’s fixed, you shouldn’t have to worry about it again.

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Real Estate BarCamp, the Raleigh, NC edition

I was excited when I started talking with Meredith Morgan about speaking at this years RDU Real Estate BarCamp. I’ve long felt that there are a few industries that have had to figure out the Internet fast, or perish. One is the newspaper industry which I recently left, but another is real estate. I remember [...]

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Raleigh Blogger Roundtable

In a couple of weeks I’m going to do something new. I’m going to bring about a dozen bloggers and make something great happen. The Blogger Roundtable will be my first event that attendees will have to pay to attend. It’s scary to make the jump from, “I know a little more than you so [...]

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Twiffiency, Twitter Spam and the Making of Twitter-Awesomeness

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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