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Google+ Launches, Gains Positive Reviews From Early Users
Early last month, we talked a bit about the launch of Google’s “Facebook killer” service, Google+, and the addition of the +1 button to major websites. The service launched a few days ago as invite only to start, and quickly overloaded to capacity. Some people that I sent invites …
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For A Good Time Call…Why the Bathroom is the Perfect Place for Internet Marketers
Recently I tweeted a statistic from Google that 39% of searchers use their mobile devices while going to the bathroom. While it served the intended purpose of getting people to @ me (I’m incredibly thirsty for Internet attention), I didn’t think about what this statement really meant for SEO. Several …
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Google FTC Investigation: The Inevitable has Become Reality
Google announced today that they received official notification from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it has started an investigation into allegedly unfair business practices. The monster search and advertising company has been called many things over the years related to their monopoly-esque control of the search market. In the …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
FTC to Target Google in Antitrust Investigation — Mashable With the launch of several civil subpoenas, the Federal Trade Commission is poised to launch the most thorough and comprehensive antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices yet. While many of Google’s acquisitions have been investigated in the past, this movement promises …
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Influencer Profile: Olin Gallet
After a long hiatus, we’re pleased to announce that our Influencer Profile series is back! Every other week we’ll be highlighting one of our talented teammates, and this week’s employee is one of our resident junior developers Olin Gallet. Olin started on our production team just a few months ago, …
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Wal-Mart Purchases Social Media Firm Kosmix
It appears that behemoth retailer Wal-Mart intends to push further into the world of social media after buying the SM firm Kosmix for an undisclosed sum of money (although its rumored to be $300 million) as of Monday, June 20th. Wal-Mart has announced that the Kosmix team will be heading …
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Results Pagination in Google Places View
For a while now, Google has been showing “Related Places” AKA “The Competition in places view. While looking at the results for one of our clients who has recently opened a new office for his law practice in a New Orleans LA suburb I came across this. Clearly Google is …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts To Start Your Weekend
Make Facebook Comments Box Indexable by Search Engines — SEOmoz It’s a common belief in the SEO community that Facebook comment boxes are not indexable by search engines, even with the recent ranking algorithm that promotes valuable comments. This simple piece of PHP code allows you to insert a Facebook …
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Google announces Voice Search for Chrome and more
Google held their “Inside Search” event this week, and as usual, the announcements were innovations worth getting excited about. Then again, we’ve come to expect that as the norm from Google. Voice Search has been a part of mobile phones for a while now, but Google announced that it would …
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Is there such a thing as a real Social Media Expert?
Now that we’re in a society that boasts a Twitter and Facebook for every business from restaurants to fortune tellers, you have to be savvy when it comes to social media. But what if your business has been around for a few decades, and you have no idea how to manage these …
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