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Six Types of Social Spammers
searchenginejournal.com · Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:59

I hate spammers, and I’m 100% certain other people do too. Everyone at some point in time has had some type of experience with spammers. But you almost have to admire these individuals, almost. The techniques used are as varied as the outlets in which they are unleashed. During my thirteen years of internet exposure, I’ve had the displeasure of running into six types of spammers. The first of which I call the Sniper Spammer.

1. Sniper Spammer

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How To Configure Cassandra On A CentOS Media Temple DV Server
socialtimes.com · Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15

Cassandra LogoAfter reading about distributed database solutions and watching the entire NOSQL movement I had to figure out a way to start building something on a distributed database system. While I only needed one server to get started on (i.e. I didn’t need multiple database nodes right away), I already have a couple projects that are breaking from the old MySQL replication plus Memcached problems (effectively articulated here). In other words, it’s becoming a pain in the butt to maintain the system so I decided to dive in. Here’s how I first got setup.

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New “Ask an SEO” Help Section from SEO Design Solutions
seodesignsolutions.com/blog · Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:46

A few weeks back we asked for feedback on our writing style, and specifically how we can help our readers, albeit SEO professionals or click-and-brick small business owners, improve their SEO efforts. The result: SDS How-to SEO Section.

Introducing the Ask an SEO Help Section from SEO Design Solutions

Introducing the Ask an SEO Help Section from SEO Design Solutions

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Passing The Torch as an SEO Manager
searchenginewatch.com · Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:01

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Whiteboard Friday - Twitter as an SEO Research Tool
seomoz.org/blog · Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:34

Posted by great scott!

Sure, you use Twitter as a social media tool, but have you ever considered it as an SEO research tool? No? Well watch and learn this week to find out how you can harness it in a whole new way.

Now that social signals (particularly Twitter) are becoming more important in the engines, they can help you pinpoint when a keyword is going to trip the 'Query Deserves Freshness' switch. If you can figure that out, you can gain a big competitive advantage by publishing fresh content in a targeted, timely manner.





Rand mentions a couple of tools for using Twitter to target and time your content. One is Trendistic, which helps you see trends in Twitter; another is our very own Blogscape Social Media Monitoring prototype (inside PRO Labs), which monitors and... [View Full Article]
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