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Google Isn’t Bowing Down
So, in case you haven’t heard, there was a major update to Google Places late last week. My Friday was filled with confusion, frustration and a feeling of something worse to come. It was sort of like a David Lynch movie with a Local twist. Now that the smoke has …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
4 Reasons Why Contests Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy — Mashable While contests and sweepstakes can be intensive campaigns to undergo, they can have an enormous impact on your customer base and should be part of every media marketer’s toolbox. Check out Ben Pickering’s concise list of four …
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Influencer Profile: Paula Keller
New Orleans born and raised, SI’s own Account Manager Paula Keller was thrilled to get connected with a growing company in a growing industry after graduating from Louisiana State University with a degree in Marketing. With a strong interest economic development and a goal of being a part of the …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook Shopping Will Be B in 2015 — All Facebook In light of our recent focus on Facebook integration, this is an interesting infographic — social commerce is a booming field, and it’s predicted that Facebook shopping alone will generate over $30 billion in 2015. Take a look to …
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Donde Esta Mexico, Google?
The realm of Local SEO can be a complex, frustrating land. A fruitful, popular land but a land where seemingly easy obstacles can quickly turn into uphill battles. And, if your client happens to be in a country other than the U.S, that hilly jog transforms into a trek up …
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Lunch & Learn – Anthony Coleman on Facebook Tabs and Iframes
Around here at the SI office we take our lunches seriously, and at the intersection of tasty food and a bunch of fun, hardworking SEO professionals comes our new “Lunch and Learn” series. This recently-debuted program is a biweekly tradition here at the office, where an Influencer will take the …
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Google Antitrust Case – Google+ Defiant in the Shadow of Harvey Birdman
Over the past few years, Google has been investigated by the FTC over most aspects of their business, largely circling around their aggressive acquisition of properties to vertically integrate other services into their core search. As Google has added features such as Products, Maps, and Video searches and integrated them …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
The Future of Mobile Payments — Mashable Online monetary transfer giant PayPal has boldly announced that wallets will be obsolete by 2015, aiming to replace traditional credit cards with mobile phone payments. With Paypal gearing up for focus on mobile payments, as well as Google’s recently launched Google Wallet service …
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Influencer Profile: Steve Maloney
We’re back with another Influencer Profile! This week’s honoree is Production and Content Manager Steve Maloney, he of impeccable taste in headgear and nut-based snack food. While most people think of newspapers as what happens when you print out NPR, Smaloney (as he’s known around the SI offices) used to …
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Google Realtime Eliminated – Social Search Goes Topsy-Turvy
San Francisco’s Topsy.com is poised to become the new leader in social search with the holiday weekend closing of Google Realtime. The Google service, which displayed results garnered from Twitter and Facebook feeds, was eliminated after Google’s contract with Twitter expired; however, Google claims that the shutdown is temporary and …
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