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What is Earned Media?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Getting to Google Page One means increasing your website’s Domain Authority , and a great way to do this is to get backlinks from other high authority websites. Here a software company has published a research report using a hook that’s sure to interest reporters. I first published them in 2006 and then updated them 2018.

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Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough?

Small Business Mavericks

» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

I’ve been working virtually, at least in part, since 2006. But right now, you are literally competing not just with other IRL event producers, but the Facebook algorithm, Google spiders, and your grandmother’s neighbor who has just discovered hashtags. Roben Farzad 🎙️ (@robenfarzad) April 8, 2020.

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Who's The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing?

Small Business Mavericks

» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. I’d be curious to know if any of those signals and features include crawling Google’s search results. Evidently, Google thinks Bing could be doing something underhanded as well. That’s a bold claim.

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Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips

Adam Sherk

I hadn’t published this previously because there already a number of other good resources out there. Todd Defren published a useful checklist back in 2008 and Lee Odden, probably the strongest advocate, has written multiple posts such as Essential Press Release Optimization Tips. Google News Optimization Tips. Title/headline.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

This resulted in the account which became the basis for my Google+ account. One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. It was likely in 2007 and I never really used it.

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The Changing Face Of Article Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

Google slapped the article directories hard, so hard that you might not want to keep putting your articles there. Try HubPages, Google Knol, and Squidoo Lenses. Or find websites within your niche that publish articles. Where are they publishing? What are they publishing? They may work and they may not.

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