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Pubcon New Orleans 2013 is Just in Time For Jazz Fest!
Here at Search Influence, we’re excited to hear that Pubcon is coming back to New Orleans! In September, Pubcon announced that they will be coming to New Orleans for their spring 2013 conference (they must have heard about all the exciting stuff happening at the SI offices). Dubbed “Pubcon New …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts for Your Weekend
• Survey: 91 Percent Have Gone Into Stores Because of Online Promotion – Marketing Land Wanderful Media conducted a shopping survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults and released their findings yesterday. Millennials were the group most inclined to go online to check prices or other product information. The most common online …
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Hold Off on the Half-Baked Google+ Local Merge
This weekend while shopping for Christmas presents, I found this ad at one of the booths. The flyer advertises a seminar that will teach business owners how to claim their Google Place Page and Google+ Business pages. While we do encourage small businesses to claim these pages, we recommend holding …
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Facebook User Vote Ends, Facebook Eliminates Voting
Last week, Facebook gave its users the ability to vote on a proposed set of changes to the site’s governance and privacy policy. The proposed changes specifically dealt with the sharing of your data with affiliates (specifically Instagram), how and what users can message you on the site, privacy and …
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Read This! — December 2012
Every month, our Read This! series brings you the best in practical web marketing and online presence-building pieces from across the net. Read on for this month’s selection: • Forget Linkbuilding, Do A Groupon — Local SEO Guide The Groupon system can have its headaches for the vendor when improperly-applied, but there’s …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts for Your Weekend
• 7 Fun Ways to Inject Holiday Spirit into Your Social Media Campaign – Search Engine Journal It’s official: the holiday season is here. Get your social media in the spirit! Incorporating the holidays into your company’s online presence can create many business opportunities. During the holidays, people are spending more …
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Google is Flip-Flopping on Practitioner and Practice Listing Quality Guidelines
Back in June, Linda Buquet posted a great piece detailing Google’s new policy on practice and practitioner listings. In that piece, there was a direct email response from Google stating that “…at the moment we do not remove or merge individual practitioners.” Now it seems that there is a split …
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SI Social: Hitman Social Media Game Shows How To Do It Wrong
Social media is a fairly new medium, so it’s no surprise that people gaffe from time to time when they try to execute it right. Of course, there’s a varying degree of severity between “Whoops, I posted the wrong link!” to “Oh my, I’ve done something so bad that I …
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New Orleans T-Shirts & More: Two Local Businesses Lure Culture Bearers with Loyalty Marketing
I am a New Orleans t-shirt and jeans kind of person, and our eclectic “come as you are” culture certainly lends itself to dressing comfortably while slurping oysters, swigging Abita beer, or bobbing your head to the stylings of Kermit Ruffins or the Hot 8 Brass Band. Two (of many) …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
• What next for SEO? Five search trends for 2013 — The Drum There were some big changes in the search marketing landscape in 2012, and you’re likely to read all about them in an endless stream of “year in review” posts over the next month. This article focuses on forecasting …
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