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Proof That Google’s Secure Search Now Affects More Users
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 102 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seerinteractive.com
Category: SEO
Did Google just take the next big step in rolling out secure search? It certainly looks that way. Since our team went through the process last week to exclude all ”(not provided)” traffic from SEER’s Search profiles, the change was obvious this… Read more
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Online Database of Social Media Policies
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 102 Days ago
News Source: http://socialmediagovernance.com
Category: Social Media
175 policies in this database  - Great references info. Read more
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7 SEO Friendly Site Features that Developers Often Miss
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 107 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEO
But unfortunately, a lot of developers can have a bit of a blind-spot when it comes to SEO. While some on-site SEO features almost always come as standard now Read more
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4 Steps to Understanding the ROI of Your Newsletter
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 110 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
...what many businesses may not be doing on a regular basis is tracking and measuring their newsletter efforts, to ensure they get the most out of what they put into it. A newsletter should have a clearly defined purpose, goals and metrics, to ensure… Read more
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7 Quick Ways to Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Social Media Marketing Workhorse
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 114 Days ago
News Source: http://www.copyblogger.com
Category: Social Media
Your LinkedIn profile says everything about who you are professionally. And since it tends to rank well on Google for your name, people will read your LinkedIn profile when they want to do research on you, your product, service, or company. Read more
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Ultimate list of PPC advertising tools
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 122 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: PPC
Here’s a peek at the tools that can help you manage a successful online advertising campaign. Today’s list is limited to PPC advertising tools. Tomorrow, we’ll have an ultimate list for social media advertising tools. And soon, we’ll circle back… Read more
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Dear Brands, Be Edgy Without Being an Idiot
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 123 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: Social Media
How about a Dr. Pepper Ten to cool you down? Oh wait – sorry ladies, you’ll need to go powder your nose or go re-vacuum the stairs. This extreme beverage is only for men – no women allowed. I know because it says so right in the advertisement. Read more
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Link Building Tool Review: Raven Tools
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 124 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
My review will focus on tools under the SEO and social media categories you can use to build links. Link Manager What it does: Link Manager, a management and database tool, lets you save pages/links you’re interested in and assign tags for follow-up. Read more
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Facebook Page Analytics Updated with Conversation Metrics & API
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 132 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: Social Media
Facebook has just revealed new tools to help companies, large and small, connect with their target market and better measure the conversations happening around their brand. Page Insights now includes a “People Talking About This” metric, displayed… Read more
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Tips For Using Descriptive Links For SEO On Mobile Websites
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 132 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
On a typical website, navigation menus are often loaded with links, and sometimes forced to rely on context to keep the links short. For example, the “Services” link tells you… not very much at all. But it’s assumed that you can see that… Read more
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How To Handle Negative Comments On Review Sites
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 146 Days ago
News Source: http://www.openforum.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
When your business gets large enough to get noticed on Yelp and Google Places, you’ll even have customers giving you reviews about their experiences. Since you’ve been providing such excellent service, you can smile as you see comments pop up on… Read more
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Understanding Your Backlink Profile
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 152 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Michael Gray writes... As SEO’s and internet marketers, understanding and knowing the value of backlinks is one of the key aspects of our job. However, many articles I read and people that I talk to, really don’t understand it’s not just the links… Read more
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Why “Second Chance” Tweets Matter: After 3 Hours, Few Care About Socially Shared Links
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 158 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Social Media
There have been various studies suggesting that if someone doesn’t see a tweet or a Facebook post within a few hours, they’ll never see it at all. Now link shortening service Bit.ly is out with another. After three hours, Bit.ly has found, links… Read more
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Report: Young women are 'power users' of social media sites
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 166 Days ago
News Source: http://www.cnn.com
Category: Social Media
People keep on flocking to sites like Facebook and Twitter, and young women are leading the way. The percentage of Internet users who are on social-networking sites continues to climb, according to a survey released Friday by the Pew Internet &… Read more
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12 SEO Experts Shared How +1 Button Can Impact on the Google Search Results
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 166 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ranashahbaz.com
Category: SEO
In this post you will find out what some of the top SEO gurus have to say about “How can the +1 button impact on the search results in coming months?" Read more
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5 Mobile Marketing Tips From Cindy Krum
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 174 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
"This year, mobile web access has risen to nearly 15 percent of all UK web traffic, which means the number of websites missing out on this prime traffic is also increasing," Heart Internet director Jonathan Brealey said. Read more
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Website Metrics: Your Business Site is in Good Condition – What Now?
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 178 Days ago
News Source: http://level343.com
Category: SEO
You’ve taken your website through the evaluation process...you’ll eventually have to dig in to the metrics and make sure things are happening like they’re “supposed” to. Read more
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Why Google Panda slapped quality sites
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 178 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wordtracker.com
Category: SEO
Very interesting thoughts on how Panda has worked and failed and why sites with great content got nailed by Panda. Read more
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Using Data to Drive SEO Results
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 180 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEO
One of the cornerstones of any successful SEO campaign is the ability to use data to drive SEO results. I like to divide the data analytics process into three main phases: Read more
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Making the Case For SEO in a Social Media World
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 195 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: SEO
In the last few years social media has jumped to the forefront of online marketing for many small businesses. Some business owners aren't even bothering to market (or in some cases even build) their websites anymore. Are we entering an age where SEO… Read more
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Calling All SEO’s! You Be The Judge and the Jury
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 198 Days ago
News Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com
Category: SEO
An article that was run at SiliconValley.com (which is part of the Mercury News) has opened up the latest can of worms of a website (and in this case a large network of websites) feeling mistreated by Google. Their cause has been picked up by antitrust… Read more
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Google's Negative Ranking Factors
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 205 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
By now you've heard about SEOmoz's study of Google ranking factors, but what about negative ranking factors? Sure, positive factors such as the correlations between social media shares and higher rankingsearn a lot of attention - and they should. Read more
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An ex-Googler's inside view on Google+ vs. Facebook
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 208 Days ago
News Source: http://money.cnn.com
Category: Social Media
Dhanji R. Prasanna is a Sydney-based software engineer. He recently left Google after a nearly three-year stint working on projects like Google Wave. Read more
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Google Research Paper on Online Reviews for Merchants and Products
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 264 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobythesea.com
Category: SEO
Do those ratings and reviews influence in some way whether or not particular businesses show up in Google Places search results? Do they influence searchers choices in where to visit, after seeing the ratings and the numbers of reviews? Read more
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Hacked Canonical Tags: Coming Soon To A Website Near You? 
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Moderator Story Found By: MelissaF 268 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEO
Google recently alerted website owners of a recent trend involving the hacking of websites to insert acanonical tag and point it to the hacker’s site Read more
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