WordPress is an amazing tool and of the Content Managment Systems I have used, it is by far the most SEO Friendly out of the box. However, there are still issues with pages on your site straight out of the box. A lot of the pages on your blog can cause duplicate content issues. However, straight out of the box this isn’t an issue. Your blog will still rank for all your keywords and there is no danger of your blog – which is full of unique content – from being deindexed. Not actioning the duplic...  show all text

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Hey Guys! We’ve got something cool today for those who are interested in creative corporate design and branding. Plenty of cool stationeries, business cards, letter heads, tags, bags and similar items will amaze with quality. In some cases you’ll see that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication as our fellow Leo da Vinci would say :). That’s right, design doesn’t need to be complicated to be appealing to the audience. In many cases simple and clean designs will do the job. So as usual .. get ...  show all text

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<< Previous | Next >> The "world famous" Black Rodeo in Brooklyn, New York for U.S. News & World Report. Photo: Kenneth Jarecke. << Previous | Next >> View all Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally posted on Mostly True, the blog of photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke. Jarecke was kind enough to share it with Raw File readers. Included above are a selection of his photos. We don’t think they suck. Chances are, you suck. Worse yet, nobody is going to tell you. In the pas...  show all text

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Learn how to choose the best people to follow for your company's social media networks, and which tools can make your decision easier.

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Here's a puzzler. Back in September 2011, less than 6 months ago, Jesta Digital loudly committed $15 million to establish Jesta Labs, a New York-based mobile services startup incubator. Fast forward to today, and the incubator has vanished from the face of the planet. Their website has been taken down, and we hear pretty much everyone who had anything to do with Jesta Labs has moved on.

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(Image Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) In the months leading up to the passage of Proposition 8 — the controversial 2008 California ballot initiative that bans gay marriage — some 18,000 same sex couples obtained marriage licenses. The marriages came to a screeching halt when Prop 8 was passed with 52 percent of the vote. Today, a federal appeals court is poised to rule on the measure. Prop 8 supporters says they are fighting for the traditional definition of marriage. Opponents argue tha...

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Want to make money with kindle? What if there was a way to GUARANTEE you could publish profitable ebooks on the kindle store. Are you ready to turn your ebooks into cash? Click here to find out how. http://www.publishabookonkindle.com

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Read 'How To Make Money By Working From Home' on Yahoo! Singapore Finance. There is an abundance of work-from-home opportunities, but research and caution is crucial to finding a legitimate home-based job.

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It’s time to start outlining your ebook; this probably won’t take you more than an hour to do. I’m also gonna answer the age-old question, “how long should my ebook be?” There’s a simple answer to this question – but first, a quick update. The topic I chose for my Ebook was Blog Design & Conversions. More specifically, “design tips and tricks to attract and convert visitors into subscribers and customers”. The idea behind outlining is to create a path for your writing. You sometimes hear that w...  show all text

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Extole, a startup which offers a suite of social media marketing has raised $10 million in Series C round funding, led by Shasta Ventures with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Trident Capital. This brings the company’s total financing to $22 million. Extole’s technology makes it easy for brands to power social referral programs, social promotions, social testimonials, and social analytics. Products such as Refer-A-Friend and SocialBuilder ar...

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This guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Maybe it’s as simple as an error message that detracts from the professional appearance of your site. Perhaps the contact form doesn’t send messages to your contact email address. Or is it that the whole site just displays as a blank page, otherwise known  show all text

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Is surprise-hit Pinterest covertly capitalizing on the product-sharing behaviors of its burgeoning user base? Evidence amassed by savvy observers suggests as much. Pinterest is the invite-only digital pin-board site where people, mostly arts and crafts enthusiasts between the ages of 25 and 44, “pin” products, recipes, and photos to themed boards. The two year-old company is an insanely buzzy up-and-coming social network that attracts millions of visitors each week. But unbeknownst to the avera...  show all text

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Tweet Do you ever feel a strong urge to update or check Facebook? Is the desire to Tweet overwhelming and you have this compulsion to “Tweet” for no particular reason? Are you starting to wonder if you have a social media addiction? Well joining the self help group “social media addicts anonymous” may not be far away as a recent study by Chicago University has revealed that social media is in fact more addictive than sex, alcohol and cigarettes! Pinterest the New Addiction Pinterest is the new  show all text

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In what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn drivers of police roadblocks and speed traps. The suit, filed in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general’s office, is also going after users who compose the tweets. Brazil’s government is levying fines of $290,000 until Twitter changes course. The government charges that such tweets break the law and directly endanger “life, safety and property,” CNN repor...  show all text

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Before your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they ...  show all text

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If you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines. Your search traffic may have dried up overnight, with once-healthy streams turning into a sad little trickle. Or you may have noticed a nice, steady improvement as you’ve climbed higher in the SERPs (search engine results pages), while other sites that used to outrank you suddenly evaporated. There’s a super-secret new ingredient in SEO. It was always a factor, but it’s become even more...  show all text

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Amazon and Viacom to Sign Video Deal Next Week; Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales; Path Uploads Your iPhone Address Book to Its Servers

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“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and...  show all text

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The British Cabinet Office warned businesses that the country may not be able to accommodate surges Internet use during the 2012 Olympics.

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This is a guest post by Mitt Ray. A white paper is a cross between a magazine article and a corporate brochure. They posses both the educative qualities of a magazine article and the persuasive qualities of a brochure, this educative and persuasive quality of a white paper makes it one of the most powerful marketing tools. As it first educates the reader, builds trust and then and only then does it market the service or the product to the reader. White papers were first used only by companies...  show all text

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Paul McCartney will offer a free live stream of his performance from Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 9 on iTunes.

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Guest blogging is one of the most efficient, yet misunderstood, social media marketing tactics. It’s not new. In fact, it’s almost as old as blogging itself.  It started becoming a standout tactic just a few years ago. This post answers one of the most frequently asked questions: Is guest blogging good for “big guys?” By the way, “guest blogging, the time waster” is one of the myths I busted in my previous post for Social Media Examiner. Today’s article is one more argument in favor of guest bl...  show all text

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Amazon and Viacom might sign a deal as soon as this week, bringing Amazon one step closer to launching a standalone video streaming service.

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Press Release: Sean Donahoe announces the ‘Six-Figure Product Creation Webinar.' Donahoe stated recently, “This is going to be Awesome! We are changing our focus, with the products we represent and this is one of Astronomical Magnitude. People are so burnt out with all the scams and one-click-wonders that have been sold online lately. So we have decided to focus back on the educational side of Internet Marketing. Rather than having to depend on tools to help you make money online, we are determ...

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While the use of blogging as a marketing and communications platform continues to grow for many organizations, you still might be facing this question from your boss — “Why are we doing this?” The most obvious answer is that you are ultimately trying to influence some behavior or attitude. You want your readers to buy, register, understand, donate, attend, etc.  But there are many other tangible benefits of business blogging that might be more difficult to measure … but no less important. Here ...  show all text

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Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011. The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks. “It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. “It puts the ball back in the user’s court,” muses Andrew Beck, a web designer at Blue Fountain Media. “It flattens the informa...  show all text

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