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Internet Marketing Blog Posts by Search Influence Alumni 
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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! Times-Picayune changes bring strong reactions among subscribers and those farther away — Times Picayune/Nola.com Much to the dismay of many morning paper readers, the technological media …
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INFOGRAPHIC: The Local Business Owner’s Guide to Mobile Apps
We’re proud to publish this new infographic from the talented team at Avalaunch Media. If you’re a small business owner, check out this array of useful mobile tools and apps to maximize your potential. The world of technology is changing rapidly and small business owners need to utilize it in …
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SEO Tips from Contemporary Classical Composers
It’s not only the cyberflâneurs that are the sources of invention for internet marketers. Music composition’s relationship to internet marketing seems like it would be improbable at best. Our world is one of visitor data and consumer behavior, conversion optimization and backlink profiles; how can that compare to harmonic keys …
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What’s the REAL Organic Search Market Share? Part II
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about the difference between comScore’s organic search market share numbers and what I’ve seen in Google Analytics accounts over the years. In the numbers I’ve seen, Google’s share of search was always much more dominant than the approximately 65% market share …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. Mapping the Mobile Future, Apple To Drop Google Maps for In-House Creation — Marketing Pilgrim A permanent split between Apple and Google is on the horizon. In a key test of the company’s post-Jobs era leadership, Apple is planning to do away with Google Maps on their devices to …
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Google’s Comin’, Yo! Penguin Update Resources You Can Use
Over the past couple of months, there has been a great deal of hysteria surrounding the unnatural link warnings being sent out in Google Webmaster Tools. These warnings and the release of Google’s Penguin update mean that now is definitely the time to start trying to “act natural” with your link-building methods. …
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To Fix or Not To Fix: Consideration Before Making Your Site IE6-Friendly
If you surf the Internet casually, you probably don’t particularly care what browser you use. Internet Explorer is the default on most people’s computers, and friends I love dearly and don’t judge have told me they just don’t feel like downloading and installing a new browser. Laziness is also probably …
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Read This! — May 2012
As always, we’re proud to feature best-of-the-web stories and practical advice for competing online in our monthly Read This! feature. Check out May’s offerings after the jump! • 6 Ways to Boost Your Rankings Using Google Authorship Are you using Google Authorship to get your face in the SERPs and increase …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. How to Seduce Your Readers & Woo – Bait – Links Link bait has to accomplish a lot, and without the help of bright buttons and testimonials that help landing pages along. If you don’t nail your presentation, you aren’t going to get the results you want and all …
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Will Scott at the Search Insider Summit Writeup
Our hardworking CEO Will Scott got a shoutout in the writeup of the Mediapost Search Insider Summit today! Click here to see what Mediapost had to say about the event and a recap of Will’s comments on retargeting cookies and social content.
