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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
FTC to Target Google in Antitrust Investigation — Mashable With the launch of several civil subpoenas, the Federal Trade Commission is poised to launch the most thorough and comprehensive antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices yet. While many of Google’s acquisitions have been investigated in the past, this movement promises …
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Influencer Profile: Olin Gallet
After a long hiatus, we’re pleased to announce that our Influencer Profile series is back! Every other week we’ll be highlighting one of our talented teammates, and this week’s employee is one of our resident junior developers Olin Gallet. Olin started on our production team just a few months ago, …
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Wal-Mart Purchases Social Media Firm Kosmix
It appears that behemoth retailer Wal-Mart intends to push further into the world of social media after buying the SM firm Kosmix for an undisclosed sum of money (although its rumored to be $300 million) as of Monday, June 20th. Wal-Mart has announced that the Kosmix team will be heading …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories & Posts To Start Your Weekend
Make Facebook Comments Box Indexable by Search Engines — SEOmoz It’s a common belief in the SEO community that Facebook comment boxes are not indexable by search engines, even with the recent ranking algorithm that promotes valuable comments. This simple piece of PHP code allows you to insert a Facebook …
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Google announces Voice Search for Chrome and more
Google held their “Inside Search” event this week, and as usual, the announcements were innovations worth getting excited about. Then again, we’ve come to expect that as the norm from Google. Voice Search has been a part of mobile phones for a while now, but Google announced that it would …
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Is there such a thing as a real Social Media Expert?
Now that we’re in a society that boasts a Twitter and Facebook for every business from restaurants to fortune tellers, you have to be savvy when it comes to social media. But what if your business has been around for a few decades, and you have no idea how to manage these …
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Google Transparency – Is It Really That Bad?
Could it hurt Google to be a little bit more clear? Mr. Kohn at Blind Five Year Old thinks not. Google’s public persona can be unclear and capricious, while the size of their user base is so large that noise from their algorithm can have deep effects on the livelihood …
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Please Tweet Responsibly – Learning From Others’ Social Media Mistakes
Twitter is a social media force to be reckoned with, and nowhere is that more apparent than in recent news. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Twitter is a global microblogging platform that allows users to broadcast information, ideas, status updates, etc. in 140 characters or less. Tweeters …
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Google’s +1 button coming to new websites
You may have recently read about the advances of Google’s +1 button, which originally debuted in March of this year. The button allowed Google users to recommend content from search results and ads, and as of June 1st, the button is showing up on other websites as well, for well …
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MonitorThis — Keep An Eye On Your Brand’s Online Reputation Without Lifting A Finger
While Google may seem as inescapable as the Empire, it’s not the primary search engine (nor English the primary language) of many areas of the world. As the Internet makes impressing potential customers and business partners in a cohesive manner more important, managing the different pages that these individuals will …
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