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Internet Marketing Blog Posts by Search Influence Alumni 
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Quora: More Than the Average Q&A Site
I first discovered Quora just a few months ago, and quickly grew addicted. When searching for opinions, recent history, or even anything involving the tech world, Quora becomes my first stop. The site’s main strength lies in the quality of its users who also create quality questions and answers. Many …
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Chinese college student attacks internet regulator — with eggs
Millions of Americans log onto Facebook every day without giving it a second thought, but something we consider a part of our everyday lives is very much a forbidden fruit in China. A recent protest has drawn attention in the news to just how fortunate we are to be …
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Bing and Facebook Likes — Search Becomes More Social
While Google announced its own independent “liking” feature in the form of the Google +1 button several weeks ago, Microsoft competitor Bing announced on Monday that it would be directly incorporating Facebook “like” data into its search rankings. For the logged-in Bing user, a result that may have originally appeared …
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Microformats – Web 3.0? Really?
Microformats, an extension of the concept of the “semantic web,” are renewed again for SEO. While they’ve been around since at least 2005, microformats use XHTML to build upon existing standards to make it easier for people to be able to use normal-looking content and for search engines and other …
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Marketers Like Us – How I’ve Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Having No Privacy
Marketers like us aren’t trying to figure out who specifically visited our site and did what, it’s more like an ant farm than an investigation. Instead of ineffective tools and sheer guesswork, the visitor loses a little privacy to help small business owners understand how people came to and use …
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SEO for Musicians: Take Advantage Of Your Audience!
If you’re involved in any kind of creative endeavor, chances are you’re waiting to be discovered. The duty of the artist is not just to make art, but to share it with others; this goes doubly for musicians, whose opportunities for media expansion have exploded in the last several years. …
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Is Google Ignoring Your Backlinks? Webmaster Tools Can (Maybe) Help (Sometimes)
Anyone who is aware of the most basic and fundamental tenets of SEO knows as long as you’re not screwing up your site too bad (using only flash, no content on home page, etc.), backlinks will be the most important factor determining how well your site performs organically. If you …
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Government and Social Networks: Democracy on the Rise?
In January, the world media and most of its consumers were riveted as events unfolded in #Egypt as the ouster of Hosni Mubarak gradually unfolded. It may have been the most widely televised, blogged, photographed, and tweeted-about revolution in the history of the planet, as people received up-to-the-second updates as …
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Google Places And HotPot Merge Into One Streamlined Service
When Google introduced HotPot, the Foursquaresque recommendation engine based on social results, it was hailed as a seamless integration of Yelp-style reviews and uniquely Google functionality. We’ve already discussed its simple ethos of personalized recommendations based on friends’ and peers’ reviews, furthering the “social results are relevant results” direction that …
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SEO and Public Relations: This Small, Small World Has Room For Both
In a world of fierce, undercutting, and faceless competition, Search Engine Optimization mixed with social media brings back to small businesses a much-needed breath of fresh air. It has been learned that you can’t fight big business on its own turf. Unlike the national chains that have dominated the first …
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