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When Google realized that Facebook wasn’t an aberration, anomaly or an afterthought it made its move. It created a social network that glued all its online assets together, collected social data and added social signals to its search algorithms. That glue cost them over half a billion dollars to design and develop. Google+ emerged from the Google lab womb with serious intentions. 
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Google’s on an uncompromising mission. It wants to give its users access to accurate information, unique content and the finest writers. It continually tweaks and improves its algorithms so that the best of the web gets the exposure it deserves. Unfortunately, there’s a flipside: a penalty. That’s the consequence of Google taking issue with something on your site. Sometimes a penalty is well deserved, but even if you know you’re in the wrong, you probably want to do something about it.
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Google Adwords Analytics is the analysis of the marketing campaigns which run on Google Adwords, one of the most popular advertising systems in the world. If you do multi-channel marketing for your company than you simply can’t afford to ignore this paid channel. In order to get optimum results from your Adwords campaigns you must possess good practical knowledge of how Adwords works and how different campaigns, ad groups, keywords and landing pages are analyzed and optimized for traffic and conversions.
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Google created and launched its own social network in 2011 called Google+. Aside from being “just another social media platform,” Google+ also integrates Google products, services and search engine features all into one easy-to-navigate page. As a business, you can create a Google+ Page and build a community around it. This not only gives you the benefit of connecting your business with potential customers, but also boosts your website’s placement in Google-powered search engine results.
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5 questions to answer before developing a mobile marketing strategy for B2B and building a business case using data in Google Analytics.
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This week the engineers behind Google search, arguably the world’s most popular internet service, announced that the engine is to undergo its most radical makeover to date. The overhaul will be gradually rolled out over the next few months, but its effects could be transformational, both for users and businesses. Google is now going to start fusing semantic search technology with its classic keyword search system. In easy speak, this means that whenever users enter a certain type of query, Google will try to supply a single answer, rather than just spit out thousands of blue web links. This step change really is the Holy Grail.
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Have you created a Google+ page for your business? This article will show you what three top pages are doing. Still in its infancy, Google+ has become a very hot topic. Amid concern that this “new kid on the block” couldn’t compete in a social media landscape owned by Facebook, some have opted to dismiss the platform entirely. While Google+ and Google+ business pages are still in the early stages, there is growing evidence that they’re here to stay.
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Google recently announced social search features with a mouthful of a name: Search Plus Your World. We’ve been hearing rumblings around the Valley that Google was working on big new features to integrate Google+ with search results and this has been an obvious evolution for the search engine ever since they released their new social network. This new set of features will include posts, videos, links, photos and more from your friends on Google+. It is not yet rolled out to everyone but will be made available to those signed into Google+ in the United States over the next few days.
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If you’re a small business that hasn’t given much thought to how you can benefit from local search, you’re missing out. Optimizing for local search is a fanatic way to reach consumers and get traffic to your site. Phone books are good for little more than testing your strength these days as people turn to search engines in order to be introduced to local businesses that can meet their needs. This excellent post suggests 11 ways to go local!
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This is a message that can't possibly be repeated often enough: Good content trumps SEO. Don't believe me? Fair enough, but how about the head of Google's webspam. In a recent video on Google's Webmaster Central Channel, Cutts answers a question about SEO practices and whether "poor" sites with bad SEO are penalized by Google.
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Rembember the days of meta tag domination – when all you had to do to get a first page ranking in search engines was to have a few keywords in your meta tags? Those days are over. Search engine marketing has morphed into a complex beast consisting of domain authority, page rank, follow/no-follow, and social cues, just to name a few. With all the complexities that have appeared in search engine optimization over the last 10 years, many people have shifted towards strategies of trying to influence the search engines by getting thousands of crappy links pointing to their sites using unnatural and automated methods. That was effective in the last several years but now that Google is getting smarter and penalizing for trying to game the system, using “black-hat” SEO techniques can actually hurt your rankings.
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It’s true that Google wants the most relevant and quality results at the top of their SERPs, but we can’t overlook the fact that they also want popularity. Your company might be the cool (and smarter) new kid in school, but those that are established and already deemed “popular” are going to stay at the top for a little while longer. This might not seem fair, but in the way of SEO there are really two ways to look at the dilemma. Read on..
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Many bloggers stop the promotion of their content on social media sites at Facebook and Twitter. While Facebook and Twitter are great ways to spread the word about new and existing content, it is by no means the only relevant social media platform available to bloggers. Google+, however, has broadcasting components that can make the promotion of content easier and can create more interactive reader experience.
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Google Plus is a ghost town. Google Plus is for computer nerds or photographers. Google Plus is like a lame version of Facebook. No one reads anything on Google Plus. No one cares about Google Plus . No so. At some point you’re going to need to pay attention to that social network gnat that’s buzzing at your ear, and for very good reasons. Read on...
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I’m no SEO expert, but I think I’ve developed a bit of a knack for getting some decent organic search results from blog posts. All I’ve done is utilised a few basic SEO practices, so I thought I’d share them in the hope that it inspires others to make similar changes.
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AdWords' biggest advantage over other display networks is the extreme granularity of targeting available. There is no reason it can't work as well for you as search. Here's everything you need to know about bidding, optimization and much more.
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When Google unveiled brand pages on its Google+ social network, detractors argued that Google+ will never compete with Facebook, but it’s showing that it can offer a serious alternative social channel to share content, build links and connect with customers. Here are a 6 tips to jump start your Google+ business marketing campaigns.
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January 16, 2012 2:16 PM
Hi Steven, many thanks for sharing this post on your Facebook. I really appreciate your interest in my site. Please feel free to follow me if this sort of content is useful to you.
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There is a continuing disconnect with people’s personal use of the internet and how they then apply digital marketing to promote their business. The company CEO will use Google for researching and buying a new car but when it comes to optimizing his web site for ranking high in Google he struggles to see the value and perceives that building a website is all he needs to do to be “found online” and generate mountains of cash.
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January 16, 2012 2:14 PM
Thanks Lisa for your interest in this article and my site. I would love to have you as a follower if that's of interest to you.
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I know the headline is a bit contradictory. Local search is still considered SEO by those near and dear to our hearts. Maybe for you targeting people all over the world makes sense. I’m certainly not saying to forget it completely, but I read a lot blogs semi-regularly and you might be pretty well served if you started catering to your local audiences with a more grassroots marketing campaign.
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Yes, I realize the irony of an SEO firm telling you that ranking first in Google and Bing isn’t going to make a difference for your business. Shouldn’t I be shouting the value of rank from the rooftops? Here’s the thing though, while ranking well is important (there are plenty of reports detailing the percentage of clicks the top ten sites get), it isn’t the only thing you should be worrying about. Today’s Internet user is smart; they know that just because a site is ranked first that doesn’t automatically mean it’s the best site for them. 1st ranked sites may get the lion’s share of clicks, but clicks do not automatically equate to conversions.
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