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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Roughly half of businesses that buy search ads directly from Google and other Internet search companies don't come back the following year. Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. Facebook beats Myspace traffic.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

Link buying isn’t supposed to help, but it does, and some large companies spend big bucks on this, which is difficult for smaller firms to compete with. My only quibble would be with his advice to use the nofollow attribute for PageRank sculpting; the nofollow tag is insidious and the value questionable. Blogging helps.

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