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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
Search Optimization and 404 Errors — SEOChat If you’ve been on the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably seen a colorful or visually engaging 404 page that pops up when you’ve reached an invalid page on a website. What you may not know, though, is that these pages …
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There Will Be Blood – Competitors Can Now Destroy Your Google Listing
Google is feeding local business owners to the wolves with their latest Places update. Lior Ron, Google Places Product Manger, announced yesterday evening that Google will be “helping” business owners keep their business listings updated by now allowing anyone, mischievous competitors included, to edit your entire Places listing for you. …
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Influencer Profile: Joe Luft
Hailing from the frosty northlands of Chicago, IL, SI Internet Marketing Associate Joe Luft graduated from Tulane University in 2010 with a degree in Political Economy and no desire to be a politician or a lawyer. As an IMA Joe is responsible for a wide variety of tasks around the …
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Netflix Pulls Plug on Qwikster
You may recall that we were mulling over the whole Netflix situation only a few weeks ago, which has seemed to be getting more ridiculous ever since the company announced pricing changes in July that made users choke on their dinners. Twice the price for what they were getting …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
Will small businesses survive the future of SEO? — Skyrocket SEO The SEO industry is constantly in flux and, while it can and has been dominated by those with deep pockets, small businesses have some significant advantages that the savvy marketer can leverage into a tightly-coordinated and effective campaign. Skyrocket …
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“i” in the Sky: iPhone 4S and iOS 5 Release
It’s that time of year again, when tech lovers gather around in a dimly lit room and attentively watch a group of middle-aged men dressed in overtly casual attire deliver the State of the iPhone. A tradition since the iPhone was first unveiled in 2007, this semi-annual (depending on Apple’s …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend (Plus An Announcement!)
The Content Strategy that Made Justin Bieber a Star — Content Marketing Institute You may or may not be a fan of the teen star Justin Bieber and his ubiquitous haircut, but there’s no denying that some serious marketing has gone into making him one of the most famous and …
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Social Media For Readers and Writers: Cursor Takes the Publishing Industry To The Next Level
Is the traditional trade paperback and remainder-bin production model of books doomed? With new devices for the digitization of books appearing every day, from the freshly-announced Kindle Fire to slick iPad e-reader apps, the conclusion that the publishing industry will soon go the way of the dodo is easy to …
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Influencer Profile: Colette Bennet
Search Influence Internet Marketing Associate Colette Bennett is also a freelance writer who has been producing content across a wide variety of geeky topics since 2006. She has written for a wide variety of videogame blogs, including Kotaku, Destructoid, GamesRadar, Touch Arcade and Gamasutra. She also does work on color …
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Social Media and the 2012 Election
As the 2012 presidential hopefuls cultivate their public personas through careful manipulation of social media outlets, it’s easy to forget that before the 2008 presidential election, social media had never been used on such a scale. Politicians had relied on old school phone banks and direct mailing campaigns for decades …
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