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Internet Marketing Blog Posts by Search Influence Alumni 
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Hammer Time! Squishing Fonts Into Text With Base64
Ah, fonts. This binary data increases page load time, file size, the number of HTTP requests. Fonts will also cause the page to jump from a basic font to the included one when the font takes longer to load than it does to display the markup. All these hindrances, coupled …
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5 for Friday – Links, Stories & Posts for Your Weekend
Google Introduces ‘Hot Searches’ in Google Trends — SEOptimize Google recently announced an update to their Google Trends product offering: Hot Searches, which will allow you to see the most searched for keywords across the nation in real time. The results show the most searched words, as well as a …
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Driven to Feed: Why Food Trucks Learned to Use Social Media
You may have been told at one point or another that it’s a bad idea to go to the grocery store hungry. There’s another hunger hazard to watch out for that’s sprung up more recently: the Internet. More specifically, the major offenders are Twitter, Facebook, tumblr, Pintrest, and a …
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Will Scott discusses Google+ Local on Thunder SEO
Our CEO Will Scott is among a bevy of local SEO luminaries called in by Thunder SEO to discuss the recent launch of Google+ Local.
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. The Never-Ending Quest For The Perfect Map – Google Official Blog Wednesday afternoon, Google unveiled an assortment of new plans for their Maps features. For starters, they’re now extending their ambitious and mildly creepy quest to photograph every last inch of the planet to the level of an Olympic …
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What Are You Talking About? Semantic Keyword Search & SEO
Have you ever noticed two people to be arguing over the semantics of something? If so, they might make good SEOs! When it comes to search engine optimization, the meaning of the keywords being used in a search are as important as the well-optimized content you spend hours perfecting before …
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Read This! – June 2012
Every month, our Read This! series brings you the best in practical web marketing and online presence-building pieces from across the net. Read on for this month’s selection: The Direct Path to Finding Prospects and Customers Online Direct marketing is focused on the customer, speaking directly to them in order …
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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! Most importantly, this happened. Now for the rest: Beluga Analytics Offers Demographics & Stats Behind Your Guiltiest Pleasures — AimClearBlog.com We’ll start today with something really …
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Google+ Local Business Pages: The Future of Local Search
If you’ve been perusing the Search Marketing blogosphere, you no doubt heard the big news from Google today. If not, we’re here to give you the skinny on Google+ Local. What it means for you, how to prepare, and how this will change the local scene forever. Long story short: …
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TV Ads vs. Facebook Ads: Targeting the Money
I came across a kind of shocking figure the other day while reading about the Facebook IPO. It appears Facebook ad sales generated $3 billion in revenue in 2011. That’s as much money as JP Morgan appears to have lost recently. Whoops. But here’s an even more brain-wrinkling number: traditional …
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