DIY Guide to Successful Linkbait Infographic

As most of you already know, links are the currency of the search engines. The more high quality, relevant links you can point at your site, the better your site will rank. The following infographic takes you step by step through the process for creating linkbait, with some helpful tips on how you can create a piece of content that spreads virally online and meets your linkbuilding goals.

via voltier.com

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The Most Powerful Colours in the World

ColourLovers.com released report on the colors of the social web last last week, based on data analyzed by their Twitter theme tool, they were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people's profile designs. Was Twitter's default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online? ...They decided to look at the colors in the brands from the top 100 sites in the world to see if they could paint a more colorful picture.

via colourlovers.com

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What They Know

Marketers are spying on Internet users -- observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com. The Journal also built an "exposure index" -- to determine the degree to which each site exposes visitors to monitoring -- by studying the tracking technologies they install and the privacy policies that guide their use.

via blogs.wsj.com
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