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With the number of Twitter users hitting the 100 million mark and after watching Rand Fishkin’s Whiteboard Friday episode titled “Yes, You Really Can Build Links with Twitter”,I decided I had to share this wisdom. It seems that many in the industry seem to have a difficult time believing that Twitter is an effective tool […]
Bing has announced that they have created a whole new level of Facebook integration into their search results and have “designed a new way to experience search, focusing on great design, task completion, instant answers, and vertical categories like shopping and travel to help you make decisions faster.” Bing states in their blog post that […]
This is one of those cases where we get to see why rumors are just rumors. Last week we reported that a potential deal between Facebook and Skype was on the table. Today, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and Tony Bates of Skype have concluded a deal with Microsoft purchasing Skype for $8.5 billion. This […]
What is a MEME? You have probably seen several and may have even used them before without even knowing it. Wikipedia defines a meme as a “unit of social information. It is a relatively newly coined term and identifies ideas or beliefs that are transmitted from one person or group of people to another. The […]
I came across a good post this morning from Greg Niland talking about how to recover after the Panda Algorithm update from Google. As you may know, thousands of sites were devastated by the update, which left many wondering how to proceed and how to regain their once former rankings and traffic. Greg speaks about […]
Recently I was reading a debate about link shortening with non local country code domain extensions. If you use .co you are telling Google you’re Colombian, likewise if you use Tuvalu’s .tv or Liberia’s .ly extensions. This issue was fixed last year and now you can remedy the location issues by using the geo-targeting options […]
Google announced February 17, 2011 on their blog that they were upgrading its social search algorithm to include posts from popular social networking sites of a user’s social network friends into its Internet search results. The new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search is an effort by Google to help a searchers find […]
Welcome to part six in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are: Keyword Research & Selection Competition Analysis Site Structure Content Optimization Link Building Social Media PPC Statistics Analysis Conversion Optimization Keeping It Up On the second day of SMX Social, I had the privilege […]