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How To Look Your Best In Search Results

Mom always said, "Put your best foot forward." It's valuable advice, because often how you appear on a first meeting sends subtle signals about you and can influence what happens next. We should also be concerned the same way with how we appear, what information is presented about us, in the search results. 

Shop.org Summit: Secrets Of Paid Search

Click-through rates could be so much better for your site if you only...well, keep reading to see what some sharp industry pros had to say with their Paid Search Tips.

Google Disappears Facebook Code Blog

When Google-owned Blogger sends you a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice, at least they're polite about it and liberally use the word "alleged." But they only ask once, as the person who posted Facebook's source code on his Blogspot blog learned.

Facebook Source Code Sees The Light Of Day

For Facebook, it wasn’t a great way to start the weekend - the site’s home page source code was posted online for all to see.  On the bright side, data belonging to Facebook’s many users appears to be completely safe and unaffected.

Check Your Email For Nuclear Secrets

Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory just can't seem to keep control of its data, as a consultant dropped an email into the inboxes of board members for a firm charged with keeping such data secure.

YouTube's 2 Success "Secrets"

Meant to blog this earlier when I came across it, but a guy named Matt — a student at Stanford studying design and business — wrote a post the other day about a couple of special visitors who came to his class: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube.

Leading Bloggers Gather and Share Secrets

Let’s face it folks, blogging is hard work. While working on an article about the dark side of blogging, I was delighted to see that some really successful bloggers are separating from their keyboards and coming together to share their tips, strategies and encourage one another.

What PPC Agencies Don't Want You to Know

I just published a new article, called "The 5 Secrets PPC Agencies Don't Want You to Know". This article is part of  Search Engine Land's new Strictly Business column, which covers topics related to B2B search marketing.

Another Thing CIOs Should Know About Requirements

I saw this article on CIO magazine  - Five Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements. It seems to me that there is one more thing (at least) that they need to know about requirements: Business rules are NOT requirements

Secrets of Successful Online Communities

This past weekend I was moderating a panel at CommunityNext, a smart event focused on everything about online communities coordinated by Noah Kagan. The event was a fun gathering of extremely smart folks from some of the hottest online communities today - and panelists/speakers shared many great thoughts on topics ranging from how to be more awesome, to the genesis behind HotorNot.com.