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Never forget…

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The guy in the glasses cracks me up.

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A comprehensive, in-depth list of blog-specific marketing strategies designed to drive traffic from search engines, referrals and brand building. Includes descriptions of how to implement each tactic and pitfalls to avoid.

Thanks Rand, this list is awesome.

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Depending on your audience, the following issues could arise and should be considered when analyzing site performance and visitor behaviors: Cookies, Pathing, Web browsing behaviors, Time on site, and Paid search.

Web browsing behaviors are constantly changing. As a result, analysis of those behaviors must evolve to match those changes. A recent change that has become more prevalent over the past few months is tabbed browsing. The Firefox browser made tabbed browsing much more common, and now Microsoft has added it to Internet Explorer.

Tabbed browsing allows people to open more than one window within a browser and easily bounce back and forth. If you haven’t already discovered tabbed browsing, check out this example.

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Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain. Using Google’s Book Search service, Web surfers hunting titles like Dante’s “Inferno” and Aesop’s “Fables” will be able to download PDF files of the books.

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This guys boss recently decided that we’d be more productive if his workplace adopted an open floor plan, which includes having all monitors facing outwards so ‘Big Brother’ can keep a constant eye on what we’re working on. In order to continue reading digg in peace, he whipped up a little proxy app which I thought some of you might find useful.

It’s very neat, and have included a screenshot of Digg on it - looks just like Office ‘03, love it…

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Thank god there are a few people in the House left…Democrat Tim Ryan from Ohio kicks the Bush Administration ass - literally. He was responding to why young people think the Administration will institute a draft despite their denials. WOW!

Danny is leaving Search Engine Watch and SES by this December. We believe the specific reason was contractual in which Incisive Media and Danny couldn’t come to terms on some sort of equity in the future of SEW and SES. What will happen with Danny? What will happen with Search Engine Watch? Who will replace Danny? So many Q’s…

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In the era of bloggers democratizing journalism and broadening access to different viewpoints, YouTube achieves milestone with first “whistle blower” video posted on its site. Recently a 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen. When all else failed what do you think he did? Obviously the simple choice was to post it on YouTube.com

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Google continues to expand in Microsoft’s backyard. The Internet search giant, which opened a sales office in Fremont three months ago and a development center in Kirkland in 2004, is now taking a serious look at gobbling up nearly all of a 20-story office building under construction in downtown Bellevue.

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