More than any other social network, Facebook users have probably been consistently targeted by phishing attempts, Trojans and every kind of online threat known to mankind. We've all probably seen...

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This guest post is by Peter Lawlor. The more articles I publish on my niche websites, the more knowledgeable I become about keywords, and more importantly, the search habits of my target audience. During the early days of my affiliate marketing business, I would write a post promoting a particular product or service as an [...]

Read More: How to Get More Eyeballs on Your Affiliate Links

Bloggers are always happy to link to a resource we think is good, or a product or service with which we're affiliated. But there are other kinds of external links that too few bloggers use: links to sources of information we've found links to creators of content we're citing links to more detailed information on [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 11. Link to your hosting or blog theme provider with an affiliate link I spoke with one craft blogger recently who has a medium-sized blog and told me that her third-strongest income stream came from two links [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #11: Link to Hosts and Theme Providers with Affiliate Links

If you’re a B2B blogger, you know that links are the currency of SEO. Building credible, authoritative and relevant links back to your blog is an excellent way in which to tell the search engines that your blog is valuable to their many customers (i.e. searchers) and needs to be ranked accordingly.But you also know [...]

Read More: 10 Steps to More Inbound Links to Your B2B Blog

If I were forced to gamble on something, I would bet that more people click on links on news and blog pages that lead to related information than advertisements. The company that powers such related content discovery for desktop websites such as USA Today, AllThingsD, MSNBC, The New York Post and The Atlantic now has a solution for mobile websites too.


Read More: Outbrain for Mobile Integrates Content Recommendation Links for Mobile Websites

The News Corp. News of the World phone hacking scandal marked its third consecutive week atop the list of the most tweeted news articles, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 18-22.

Read More: New Media Index: Tweeted Links Surge on U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal

American Express is going all in on the daily deals business, striking a deal with Facebook that is similar to the one it already has with Foursquare. Through a new Facebook app called "Link, Like, Love," AmEx cardholders can link their cards to their Facebook accounts (just like they can already link their cards to their Foursquare accounts. Once they do so they will get a dashboard of deals from brands such as Whole Foods, Dunkin' Donuts, Virgin America, and Sports Authority.

Unlike Group [...]

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The Twitterverse was in a flurry this week, as early adopters and tech enthusiasts excitedly dissected Google‘s brand new social network, Google+.According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 27-July 1, Google+ accounted for 35% of tweeted news links for the week, followed by a few global warming stories from British publications, the British government hacking an al Qaeda website and replacing bomb-making instructions wi [...]

Read More: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week