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5 For Friday – Links, Stories, & Posts For Your Weekend
We’re back with another 5 for Friday, a collection of the freshest and tastiest SEO news stories, blogs and recommendations from across the web! Is Google Scared of Amazon? — SEOBook SEOBook, latching on to a Bing-sponsored study that indicted Google’s switch from Shopping Search to AdWords-based Product Listing Ads, …
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Think Before You Post: Facebook, Chris Owens, and My Grandma
I had an unexpected conversation with my Grandma on Christmas Day. You see, a while back my parents got her an iPad, and she uses it to get on Facebook pretty much every day. This has been a really great development for her, as it allows her to instantly see …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
• Google FINALLY Admits That GWO Could F*** Up Your Rankings — Graywolf’s SEO Blog Michael Gray complains about then explains a way to fix SEO problems caused by the Google Web Optimizer’s A/B test suite. Apparently some sites have had their rankings negatively affected by GWO, despite assurances from Google that the …
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Google+ Communities Storm Into the Social Media Scene
Google Plus communities, the newest section of the social networking site (often referred to as G+ for short) are meant to bring people of similar interests, work experience, or hobbies into one place. These communities can be created by anyone with a G+ account, opening up a whole new vista …
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Facebook Nearby Updates and How Local Businesses Can React
Facebook Nearby Gets a Facelift Last Monday, Facebook released updates to its check-in feature “Nearby” in an effort to bring some competition to social sites like Yelp and Foursquare. Each month millions of Facebook users check in with the service, reporting their whereabouts to their friends. Now, Facebook is using …
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Quick! Delete Your Instagram Account! (Or Don’t.)
Instagram, the popular photo sharing app recently acquired by Facebook, will be changing its Terms of Service next year. This change in terms, slated to take effect January 16th, provoked a massive storm of criticism because of ambiguous language that some interpreted as allowing the company to sell the licensing …
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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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