From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Follow Friday: Where to Get Your Puppy Fix & Other Online Smile-Generators

by Christy Correll on May 28, 2010 in Follow Friday
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The next time you need to turn that frown upside down, consider visiting these sites. If at least one of them doesn’t bring a smile to your mug, well, there’s just something wrong with you.
The Daily Puppy – Bookmark this site now so that the next time you are about to have a meltdown at [...]

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Why I Couldn’t Resist Adding SEO Site Tools to Chrome

by Christy Correll on May 17, 2010 in SEO
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I have a confession. Early this month I blogged about how I had cleaned up my Firefox  toolbar, insinuating that I only needed three primary browser extensions in my SEO tool kit. At the time I wrote this, this was true. I swear.
Less than a week after publishing “Is your SEO tool kit getting a [...]

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Follow Friday: Ten Thousand Nets & Other Organizations Dedicated to Stopping Africa’s Biggest Killer

by Christy Correll on May 14, 2010 in Follow Friday
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Do you know what Africa’s biggest killer is? Nope, it’s not HIV. Until last night, that’s what I thought. It’s malaria.
Yeah, malaria, that disease that no longer exists in the Western world. However, if you have the bad fortune to be born in sub-Saharan Africa, you are well-acquainted with what is one of the world’s [...]

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If Orwell’s 1984 Scared the Hell Out of You, Please Sign the ACLU’s Petition Against Facebook

by Christy Correll on May 13, 2010 in Social Media

According to news reports, Facebook called a company-wide meeting today to discuss its privacy polices. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Facebook’s meeting on privacy issues is a result of a growing number of Facebook users who have become alarmed alarmed by the company’s casual attitude towards protecting user information.
As a result, the [...]

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New Twitter Tool Blackbird Pie Leaves Tweets Half-Baked

by Christy Correll on May 5, 2010 in Wordpress Thesis Hacks
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Blackbird Pie is the newest Twitter tool to be released. The tool (or toy, depending on how you look at it) is simple enough to use. To test it out, I found a witty tweet by my tweep Alex Friedman, a quirky online marketer and comedian here in Denver who tweets a lot about the [...]

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Is Your SEO Tool Belt Getting a Little Heavy?

by Christy Correll on May 5, 2010 in SEO
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These days, we are fortunate to have a huge variety of SEO tools to make our work easier & more efficient. Since so many of these tools are free, however, it is easy to clutter up your browser with many more tools than you actually need. I recently decided to clean up Firefox on my [...]

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Have You Taken seoMoz’s Industry Survey Yet?

by Christy Correll on May 4, 2010 in Marketing
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Do it for love, or do it for the chance to win a shiny new toy — just do it!
I just took SeoMoz’s biennial search marketing industry survey and think you should, too. As Rand promised, it only took about 10 minutes. That said, it was surprisingly comprehensive given the lack of pain involved in [...]

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How to Make Author Comment Links Do-Follow in Wordpress Without Using a Plugin

by Christy Correll on May 3, 2010 in Wordpress Thesis Hacks
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Because you don’t need a plugin to remove one word of code for you
By default, Wordpress nofollows author comment links. For those of us who would like to reward our commenters with a little link love, there are plenty of plugins available that will remove the nofollow attribute from these links. However, you probably already [...]

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