SEO Tools and Extensions

I am not a big tool user in general. By that I mean the types of tools that supposedly help you “optimize” your website. There is no perfect page for SEO purposes, so in my opinion any tool that claims to give you information such as how many words you need here or there is [...]

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Yahoo Getting Local With Alike Mobile App Acquisition

Yesterday, the mobile app Alike that helps users discover nearby venues and places to visit based on their interests was acquired by Yahoo. From their blog: We’ve always been passionate about the growing power of intelligent mobile experiences. We believe that distilled information, deeply personalized and made accessible anytime and anywhere, is what makes mobile experiences [...]

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Yahoo Reached Agreement to Serve Google Ads

After many failed negotiations between Google and Yahoo, Google finally reached an agreement with Yahoo to serve its Adsense and Google AdMob for mobile on Yahoo’s network. [Here is the official announcement] “we’re excited to announce that we recently signed a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain [...]

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Google Going After Amazon With Channel Intelligence Acquisition

Google announced today that it is acquiring Channel Intelligence, a company that helps consumers find and buy products online. Google admits that Amazon is a threat to Google business. Google is built around people searching on Google for things to buy and that is the most valuable search from a commercial perspective. Google is trying [...]

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Google Increases Spam Detection Algorithem In Google+ Pages

Google recently made changes to improve the quality of reviews on local Google+ pages. The idea behind it is to help business and people get ratings that are  real, relevant, and trustworty. These reviews appear in Google+ Local for business and Google Maps. Googler, Dasha made the following recomendations for reviewers and businesses: For reviewers: [...]

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Sneaky Footer Links and Other Footer Abuses That Google Dislikes

In my “18 SEO Killers” article from the end of last year, I mentioned footer links as a potential SEO problem. I know this confused many people because I didn’t explain what I meant by them. I didn’t mean that it’s bad to have any links in the footer of your website. But there are [...]

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18 SEO Killers You Must Clean Up and Avoid for 2013 and Beyond

There’s a lot of talk lately of Google having finally killed SEO through their Panda and Penguin algorithms, which continue to ensnare more and more websites with every new update. So is SEO really (finally) dead? When you look at some of the Google organic traffic losses that companies have faced since the very first [...]

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Learn Google’s Guidelines for Safely Testing a Website in Search

Small business owners have options when it comes to testing their websites in search. They can consult an Internet marketing expert for tips on how to find the right combination of elements to launch a compelling website. They can just wing it and hope that what they have created will have visitors knocking down Google’s [...]

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Using Keyword Research to Find Long-Tail Keyword Phrases

In my article “Getting Ahead in Google,” I mentioned finding and using less competitive keyword phrases that still bring targeted traffic as an SEO strategy. Well, one of my Twitter followers asked me what they were supposed to do if there weren’t any long-tail keywords for their niche. He told me that his site focuses [...]

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Can Facebook pull off a smartphone biz?

   For years Google did not know how to use its $40 billion cash pile to add a new revenue stream to its highly profitable ad business that still accounts for 96% of its revenues. As it kept worrying the Google owners they ventured into creating the Android software for smartphones hoping to cash in [...]

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How to Engage and Keep Social Media Followers

Some businesses are so concerned with getting social media followers that they forget that what’s really important is keeping these social media followers. Social followers aren’t locked into any kind of contract. It’s just as easy to unfollow a brand in social media as it is to initially click the “Like” or “Follow” button. The [...]

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67 Ideas for Blog Topics

You’re likely sick of hearing about the importance of having great blog post content. But you know you need it in order to have something to promote via social media. And you know that great blog posts can bring in lots of long-tail search engine visitors. What you may have trouble with is what to write [...]

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5 Tools to Help You Manage and Grow Your Social Media Effort Online

80% of Americans use a social network site, and they spend more time on Facebook than any other United States based website. Businesses of all sizes and across all industries have wholeheartedly embraced the social media phenomenon. More than 70% of businesses polled reported website traffic increases once they implement a social media marketing plan. [...]

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Now You Can Facebook While Driving

Published on 10 January 2012 by in Headline News

Now You Can Facebook While Driving

The Mercedes Benz SL 2013 could soon permit drivers to go social with Facebook, Google and Yelp while driving.

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