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Online Marketing News You Can Use April 28, 2011

Thursday, April 28th, 2011 | Filed under Online Marketing News.

The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers – New Study by Google and Ipsos OTX.

Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen via a “new Internet company, AVOS.” Via TechCrunch.

Facebook investors to offload $1 billion valuing it at $70 BILLION. Sellers have lowered their price after previously trying to offload shares at a price that valued the company at $90 billion, which would make Facebook more valuable than Time Warner Inc. Via Reuters.

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Are Paid Links A Bad Idea?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | Filed under Ask an Expert, New @TopRank.

This question has the potential to ruffle the feathers of SEO professionals on either side of the debate: “Are paid links a bad idea?”

‘Paid links’ are exactly what they sound like – paying someone or some company to link to your content. Like any other practice that involves the word ‘paid’, paid links can straddle the line between legitimate (for example, a paid online directory) or laughably illegitimate (think the linking equivalent of a Nigerian email scam).

So why the prickliness over this question that has been weighed in on by most online marketing and SEO professionals, including our own experts at Online Marketing Blog?

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