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SEO Guide to Creating Viral Linkbait and Infographics - Distilled

SEO Guide to Creating Viral Linkbait and Infographics - Distilled

peter/ruby_basic - GitHub Setting Up Your SEO Project / Agency for Success The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. For the past 1.5 years, I have been the Client Development Executive for Distilled's NYC office. I helped open this office in June 2011, and at the time we were struggling as an office because we had few leads, minimal recognition in NYC, and massive competition from both local bespoke agencies and larger full-service agencies. Within 6 months, I was able to ensure the SEO consultants were at full capacity. Currently, my role entails working with both amazing big brands and innovative startups to help Distilled consultants solve pain points and define scalable solutions (usually not pertinent to SEO). This post was written for SEOs who are client-facing and those who manage their own agencies. For SEOs: how to set up your project for success Why the cycle of sadness is so important I'm going to start off with something to wake everyone up. Dear Mr. or Mrs.

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Turning SEO Link Building into SEO Audience Targeting with Twitter profiling Admit it. You’ve sat in a meeting with your SEO Agency and thought, “surely, this shouldn’t work”. Endless, near irrelevant “guest posts” at best, “article submission” and “directory link building” at the very worst. For the past decade, “SEO” and “Marketing” have been allowed to remain almost entirely different disciplines. With a few exceptions, the vast majority of the SEO industry has been allowed to stumble along without a second thought to who they are targeting, where those people might be, and how best to reach them. Today, I want to share a combination of a few simple tools that actually help us identify our target audience, show us who might be influencing them and how to identify what content those influencers share. SEO has finally arrived at the intersection between search engine rankings and real marketing. Start by identifying Your Audience Let’s think about an audience and do some imaginary targeting for a moment. Let’s return to our market research scenario.

Happy Nerds - Programming Links for Kids DistilledLive | Big Data vs. Personas for Content Planning Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C Objective-C Objective-C is the primary language used to write Mac software. If you're comfortable with basic object-oriented concepts and the C language, Objective-C will make a lot of sense. If you don't know C, you should read the C Tutorial first. This tutorial is written and illustrated by Scott Stevenson Copyright © 2008 Scott Stevenson Calling Methods To get started as quickly as possible, let's look at some simple examples. [object method]; [object methodWithInput:input]; Methods can return a value: output = [object methodWithOutput]; output = [object methodWithInputAndOutput:input]; You can call methods on classes too, which is how you create objects. id myObject = [NSString string]; The id type means that the myObject variable can refer to any kind of object, so the actual class and the methods it implements aren't known when you compile the app. In this example, it's obvious the object type will be an NSString, so we can change the type: NSString* myString = [NSString string]; Accessors

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The Unix Command Line: Text Files By Gordon Davisson Copyright (c) 2002, Westwind Computing inc. Working with Text Files: more and less - display the contents of a text file, one screenful at a time (hit the spacebar to get the next screen). Note that this only works well with plain text files, not Word files, RTF's, PDF's, or anything else that contains formatting information. less also allows you to go backwards (type "b") in the file. In either one, type "h" for more detailed help. Examples: more /etc/inetd.config print the inetd.conf file to the terminal, one screen at a time. ps -ax | more use the ps command to generate a list of processes running on the system, and pipe them to more to display them one screen at a time. grep - search the contents of a text file, and print lines containing a given word or pattern. pico - edit the contents of a text file. vi and emacs - other text editors provided with the standard OS X installation. tail - print the last few lines of a text file. Text File Format Compatibility:

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