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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
Reputation And The “Right To Be Forgotten”: Spain’s Radical Approach To Search And Personal Privacy — Search Engine Land In an era where privacy norms seem to be eroding every day with the advent of up-to-the-minute social media, Spain is taking an interesting tack with regard to the “right to …
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Starting Out on Facebook: Small Business Marketing Solutions or Useless Sales Pitch?
A few weeks ago, Facebook Marketing Solutions, the advertising side of the social media giant, released its new education portal for small businesses just starting out online, titled Facebook for Business. The Facebook page for the group is nothing more than a simple sales pitch for businesses becoming involved on …
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My Space’s Tom Anderson gives Google+ a stamp of approval
Okay, so MySpace may be “dead” now that it’s been sold to Specific Media for a paltry 35 million, but you can bet that many of its years of success had something to do with its founder, Tom Anderson. Your first friend on MySpace now has a shiny Google+ …
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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! Google’s Spam Report Page Gets “Biggest Refresh” In Years — Search Engine Land The Webmaster Tools spam report form has been completely updated and refreshed, heralding …
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Influencer Profile: Scott Shockley
This week’s profiled Influencer is Assistant Production Manager Scott Shockley. Originally from the Greater New Orleans area, Scott graduated from LSU in 2008 with a degree in Marketing after four years in Baton Rouge. He’s worked for a tech startup and Capital One, as well as serving as Tulane University’s …
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Can Bing Ever Compete with Google?
If you keep up with what’s in the news in the world of search engines, you know that there’s been a bitter little rivalry between Bing and Google for some time. In early February, Bing accused Google of stealing their search results. It didn’t help Bing’s case that they didn’t deny the claim …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
How SEO Can Work With Content Strategy — TopRank While much of SEO is focused on the technical aspects such as linkbuilding and algorithm reputation, the quality of website content itself is of at least as much importance. TopRank’s Lee Odden and Content Specialist Margot Bloomstein give you the skinny …
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Pittpatt Puts Google Acquisitions To 100
Thursday, Google acquired Carnegie-Mellon University spinoff project PittPatt, which specialized in facial recognition software for businesses like GE. We’ll be a bit naïve here and take Google at their word when they claim they won’t implement full facial recognition software without “strong privacy protections” and intentionally excluded the feature from …
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Google Isn’t Bowing Down
So, in case you haven’t heard, there was a major update to Google Places late last week. My Friday was filled with confusion, frustration and a feeling of something worse to come. It was sort of like a David Lynch movie with a Local twist. Now that the smoke has …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
4 Reasons Why Contests Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy — Mashable While contests and sweepstakes can be intensive campaigns to undergo, they can have an enormous impact on your customer base and should be part of every media marketer’s toolbox. Check out Ben Pickering’s concise list of four …
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