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Google’s Comin’, Yo! Penguin Update Resources You Can Use
Over the past couple of months, there has been a great deal of hysteria surrounding the unnatural link warnings being sent out in Google Webmaster Tools. These warnings and the release of Google’s Penguin update mean that now is definitely the time to start trying to “act natural” with your link-building methods. …
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Internet Privacy in 2012: It’s Not Easy Being Anon
Now that we’re all settled into 2012, we still find ourselves catapulting forward through the Information Age. Some have even classified our current place in time as the Personalization Era [sic]. This is a time wherein the information collected about you online can and does tailor your experience on the Internet to your interests and/or …
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Google Free Europe
Google has landed in hot water in France after offering its Google Maps product for free in the country. America is known as the land of the free, and we all know big businesses get to do pretty much whatever they want. The idea of a government stepping in to …
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[eBook] Google Plus for Business
Take Seven Steps to Social Media Heaven today! 90 million users can’t be wrong: Google+ is the newest and fastest-growing social network, recently opening its doors to small businesses. The multifaceted integration with search, social discussion and sharing, and the rise of a platform for authority has made Google+ a …
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My So-Called Zeitgeist
Google released their annual “Year-End Zeitgeist
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Interview with Cracked Columnist John Cheese
Cracked columnist and longtime internet comedy writer John Cheese put out a call for interviews recently, and I jumped at the chance to talk to him. Out of all the writers on Cracked, a site I have been fairly addicted to since about 2007, John Cheese has probably spent the …
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Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Combines Social, Personal, and Personalized Algorithms
Google search results have been getting more and more personalized since the introduction of personal results in 2005, but the search engine giant’s newest feature takes on your entire world. The new “Search Plus Your World” feature effectively erases the lines between standard search results, hits from social sites like …
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Improvements to Google+ Brand Pages
Yesterday, Google announced three much-called-for improvements to Google+ Brand Pages. After receiving a lot of feedback over the last few weeks, the Pages Engineers have added some new features that should be received well among the G+ Pages community. Apparently, they really do care what we think! Multi-Admin support! – …
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Google Evolution Video: The Past, Present and Future of Search
As a followup to their recently-released peek under the hood, the Google team has produced this video showing the remarkable evolution of their search service. Watch the once-humble engine (check out that MS Word Art logo!) exploding in under fifteen years from plain-text results with a month or more’s lag …
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Guest Post & Infographic: 6 Ways You Can Use Google+ to Build Authority
Kaila Strong is an Account Manager at Vertical Measures. Internet Marketing Infographic by Vertical Measures Knowing how to build website authority is essential both in terms of increasing traffic and maximizing sales. With the emerging popularity of Google+, just about anyone with a Google profile can utilize the platform to …
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