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SOPA Dope – Today’s “Blackout”, Tomorrow’s SEO Audit
Nearly everyone in the technology sector, especially those focused on the Internet, have een talking about the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act. We’re not here to debate the finer points of combatting intellectual property theft on the internet — the “SOPA Blackout” has done a fine …
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Infographic: The History of Local Search
Dream Systems Media is the copyright owner of this info graphic. Yelp and Foursquare, Google Maps and Siri — these are just the most recent efforts in Local Marketing. The folks over at Dream Systems Media put together this amazing graphic on the History of Local Search today. It shares just how …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
More Bang for Your Buck: Maximize New Links on Old Pages – Whiteboard Friday — SEOmoz SEOmoz’s internet-famous Whiteboard Friday series explains the best practices for making the most of links from old pages. Working from an SEOWizz study, Cyrus Shepard walks you through 4 solutions to make sure Google …
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Interview with Cracked Columnist John Cheese
Cracked columnist and longtime internet comedy writer John Cheese put out a call for interviews recently, and I jumped at the chance to talk to him. Out of all the writers on Cracked, a site I have been fairly addicted to since about 2007, John Cheese has probably spent the …
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SI Social: Timberlake Uses Star Power To Hype MySpace TV
[SI Social is a monthly series from Search Influence that looks at what’s going on in the social media world.] It’s true that most of us may have had a MySpace profile some year ago, but if you’re anything like me, you probably only maintain one major social media profile …
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Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Combines Social, Personal, and Personalized Algorithms
Google search results have been getting more and more personalized since the introduction of personal results in 2005, but the search engine giant’s newest feature takes on your entire world. The new “Search Plus Your World” feature effectively erases the lines between standard search results, hits from social sites like …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend (Plus A Bonus!)
3 Ways to Optimize Images: Search, Social Media & User Experience — TopRank Does your website utilize images to catch your audience’s eye and promote user interaction? You may not be getting as much out of them as you can. Graphics add spice and break up potentially dull straight-text content, …
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Google’s Paid Links – A Short Lesson for Marketing Clients
As first reported by perennial Google watchdog SEOBook, the search engine company has been found using followed paid links for their online marketing, directly in violation of their best practices. Some, including Aaron Wall, see this as further proof of Google’s lack of self-commitment to the values they force on …
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Learn How People Read Facebook and Make Your Business Page Better
With the era of social media marketing only growing by the day, more and more business owners are realizing that maintaining a presence on websites such as Facebook or Google+ is not just an option anymore — it’s essential. Establishing a business page on these sites is the first step, …
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Improvements to Google+ Brand Pages
Yesterday, Google announced three much-called-for improvements to Google+ Brand Pages. After receiving a lot of feedback over the last few weeks, the Pages Engineers have added some new features that should be received well among the G+ Pages community. Apparently, they really do care what we think! Multi-Admin support! – …
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