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Throwback Thursday: iWon Search Engine, Circa 2001

Bill Hartzer

Today’s Throwback Thursday search engine is iWon.com, circa 2001. Back in 2001, did you make iWon.com your default home page in your web browser? There were quite a few, so I think I’ll be able to keep the tradition going for quite some time. Did you log in every day to get your daily entries in the $10,000 contest?

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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Standards of quality and editorial voice must be maintained, and news organizations in particular play a more important role in society than simply manufacturing content for the sake of making money from it.

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Last month on social: Pop culture, piggybacking, and…pee?

Unmetric

They received the second highest engagement of all their 2019 Facebook content with this post. Neasamani, however, is a fictional character from a 2001 Indian film who gets wounded after his employee drops a hammer on his head. Fashion, fundraising, and burgers. They came, they prayed, they piggybacked.

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SEO is Dead. Content Marketing = Guaranteed SEO

Writtent Blog

While there’s been no official word that Google AuthorRank will be rolled out, it’s clear that Google is perfectly prepared to start using an individual’s expertise to determine content rankings. It’s a measure that allows every web user to vote on the quality of content, and it’s remarkably difficult for companies to game.

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How to Use Facebook Groups to Grow Your Business and Engage Customers

Hootsuite

As someone who ran an unauthorized 2gether fan site on Geocities for three glorious, hormone-fuelled months in 2001, I know first-hand the joy of bringing the community together online. Table of contents. Facebook’s algorithm is designed to prioritize content from Facebook groups with high engagement. Facebook page vs. group.

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Inbound Marketing vs. Content Marketing – What’s the Difference?

Writtent Blog

Are there any major differentiators when it comes to inbound vs content marketing, and what are they? While both inbound and content marketing are relatively new practices, they’ve both won some serious proponents (and probably a few detractors) during their years in use. Content Marketing. Inbound Marketing.

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10 Years Ago Today! My 1st Article About Blogging

Debbie Weil

22, 2001 , that I published my first article about business blogging. My friend Ann Handley , now chief content officer of MarketingProfs , was the editor. It was exactly 10 years ago today, Aug. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later.

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