It’s a mad mad world out there and with spring in the air this web wanderer is getting in the groove.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 05/04/2010

For years now, search engine marketers have been predicting the death of SEO. I’m not sure why we’re all so quick to denounce our livelihoods, and I’m also not sure I agree with the sentiment. SEO is Dead (2006): Stoney deGeyter predicts that SEO-only providers would be “dead” by 2010

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Despite the News, SEO is Not Dead

Search Engine Strategies Toronto returns to Toronto June 9 – 11th.  The largest annual search engine marketing conference and trade show held in Canada, SES Toronto is a must-attend event in the Canadian online marketing community.

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Attending SES Toronto Could Change Your Life

Besides Link Manager and Website Directory that allow to effectively manage your link building campaign, SEJ tools have another cool feature to help you organize your link building contacts. The Contact Manager is used to manage relationships with website owners and editors.

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Keep Track of Your (Link Building) Contacts with SEJ Tools

Two big A’s continue their row. The latest round was fired by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs in a lengthy blog post entitled ‘Thoughts on Flash.‘ No it’s not some new memory technique or a way to save your childhood before old age strips you of it.

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Steve Jobs’ Flash Dance – Contradicts Self on Reasons for No Flash for Apple Mobile Platforms

LongTail Video, who made the JW Player, have acquired Bits on the Run. They can now begin offering a full range of video tools and management as well as an easily embeddable player. LongTail is well-known for the JW player, a Flash video player that can use FLV, H.264/MPEG-4, and even MP3.  It features their build

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Bits on the Run Gets a Long Tail

We all know that YouTube is the number 2 search engine on the Web in terms of query volume.  It sounds impressive, but what does that mean for local businesses trying to reach customers? After all, aren’t most of the 13+ billion clips watched each month on the site Lady Gaga videos

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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of YouTube

Keyword Tool Supercharger is a great tool developed by GeekLad . It means to provide more competition and keyword analysis data for a widely-used free keyword research tool – Google Adwords Tool .

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Enhance Google Adwords Tool with Keyword Tool Supercharger

“Come Get Some!”… Duke Nukem So, there’s the guy I sort of know and, well, you see… Let me start over.  My wife is really good friends with a woman whose husband has a very similar position to mine.  Oddly enough for reasons not pertinent to this post, I’ve only met the guy a couple times and each meeting was brief enough so that we really never had a chance to “talk shop”.  I never ascribed much to this fact until it was communicated to me that the fact our lack of communication (with our being in the same industry) suggests to him that I am remote, inaccessible & aloof. Huh

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The Schism Of Contemporary Professional Relationship Expectations

comScore has released their March 2010 Video Metrix numbers and one of the most fascinating things is that YouTube viewers are watching, on average, 96 videos in the month. That would be 3.2 videos per day, every day.

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YouTube Almost Hit 100 Videos per Viewer Last Month