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Five for Friday: Facebook’s Payment Feature, DuckDuck Go, & More!
1. Facebook Messenger Payments Service Is Nationwide – Mashable Facebook’s vice president of messaging products, David Marcus, recently announced that Facebook Messenger has rolled out its payment feature. Users can add their debit card information in the Messenger’s settings. You can then send payments by starting a conversation with a …
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Five for Friday: Facebook Aims to Please, Amazon Goes the Way of Uber, & More!
1. Facebook Update Takes Into Account Time Spent Reading Stories – Search Engine Journal Facebook looks to be taking the next step forward in studying user behavior. The social networking giant is now directly measuring user activity and engagement, even when the user isn’t interacting with content. How important to …
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Unlike Your Dad, These Guys Know How To Use The Internet
The other day, I was trying to remember why I had posted a curious image on my friend’s Facebook wall in 2010. In a stroke of brilliance, my friend suggested we do a “reverse Google search” to see where the picture originated from, all while we were using Google Chromecast …
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How to Win Followers and Influence People: Build Your G+ Following in 3 Steps
We’ve cracked the code to successfully increasing the Google+ following for a small business (or at least we know we’re on to something). Our little experiment shows that if you follow three simple steps, you can gain more followers on Google+. Now, before you equate the importance of Google+ (colloquially …
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Social Giving Success: An Intro to Online Marketing for P2P Fundraisers
Which do you trust more: an ad or a friend? The answer is pretty clear, right? At least that’s what many nonprofits think, and that’s why the face of fundraising has changed significantly over the past decade. Instead of just soliciting direct donations, we’re seeing more and more peer-to-peer, or …
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Return Of The YT Channel: Moving YouTube Channels Between G+ Pages In 2015
In the early ages of YouTube and Google Plus connections, disconnecting and reconnecting channels to the correct G+ page was not an easy feat. I once wrote a blog about this lengthy workaround for LocalU. Not long after that blog post, Google released a support form that allowed you to …
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Five for Friday: Google’s Phantom Update Revealed, Remembering Sally Ride & More!
1. Google’s “Phantom Update” Is a “Quality Update” – Search Engine Land In early May, many people noticed significant ranking changes, which led to the rumor that Google had run a Panda update or a spam-related update. However, Google denied this, leaving many stumped by what could have mysteriously caused these …
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Give Content a Natural Glow: Medical Marketing Makes the Switch to Natural Content
Back in the early days of search engine optimization, there were a lot of shady practices that were less than ideal for site visitors. Keyword-stuffing, spammy tweets, backlink schemes, and useless content were often the norm, as these tactics helped websites climb the ranks of the search engine results page. …
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Five for Friday: Survived Mobilegeddon? Check Out What Google’s Doing Next
1. Immediate Mobilegeddon Aftershocks – Moz Following the much-anticipated release of Google’s mobile update, a.k.a. “Mobilegeddon,” SEO authority Moz has taken its first look at the immediate aftershocks since the rollout. MozCast Mobile tracked the performance of mobile SERPs across a 10k keyword set over 10 days, but since Google …
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More Locations, More Problems? Optimize Your Franchise SEO—Part 2
In part two of this two-part series about how to successfully optimize your franchise SEO, you will find three more winning strategies and steps for multi-location or franchise SEO. It’s All About Location The effort to have each location found in its own market is often perceived as the most challenging …
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