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1. Marketing Profs tells us how Pop Labs' Charles Lewis, a.k.a. the Poetic Prophet uses a rap video to spread great tips on Web site design coding for prime SEO. I first told you about this back in February, but it's definitely worth the revisit!

2. How can you make the ordinary stand out? Scott Monty from Crayon introduces us to Jim Kosek at AccuWeather.com in From Mundane to Engaging: How One Man Does It. The 6 minute video is worth the watch.

3. Scott Buresh gives us the lowdown on coding your pages for robots in All Search Engines Love Spiders: How Meta Commands Can Help You Love Them Too.

4. While we're on the subject, Copyblogger tells us Why Writing for Spiders is the Least Sticky Strategy of All.

5. Purina is using the long tail (*groan*) to aggregate and rate user-generated content about pets with PetCharts. AdAge has the scoop.

6. On April 12th Andrew Baron, founder of the popular Internet tech show Rocketboom, decided to auction his Twitter account on eBay, complete with more than 1,300 followers. Moments later, Chris Brogan posted Is Your Community For Sale?. The differing viewpoints expressed in the comments show what a hot topic this became. The eBay auction was pulled 3 days later. Mashable has the re-cap.

7. Smashing Magazine brings us Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas and proves that it is important to provide a good user experience where site visitors provide feedback.

8. What to do when your competitor has a misstep? AdAge reports that Skyy Vodka Capitalizes on Absolut Mess in the debacle over the U.S.-Mexico border.

9. SEOMoz shares the lessons learned from trial and error using Digg in I Submitted to Digg But All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.

10. SEO is Not Free Traffic from SearchEngineLand.com debunks the claim that there is no cost to SEO.

Friday Fun

Well, maybe not so much fun, even on Fridays, for the kids that have to play in them. Check out these nightmare playgrounds amassed by darkroastedblend.com. Creepy!

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