Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 13, 2011

Enter The Age Of Facebook Phone Calls » New Search Engine For Vets If you are a veterinarian or pet doctor, then you now have a new way to market your practice. It’s a search engine for veterinarians powered by Google. There have been search engines launched for specific professions for years.

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Small Business Engineering Case Study Press Release 161

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

According to Compete.com, traffic to the site did fall off sharply in February and March of 2011 after an initial surge, but has rebounded to new highs since then (though half a million unique visitors per month isn’t particularly impressive for a social media site). Then they began to taper off and disappear.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011. Search engine optimization – First, build a website. Update your blog daily.

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Small Business Press Release Social Bookmarking How To 161

Bill Hartzer

MAY 13, 2011

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 65.4 Google Sites led the U.S.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2010

An annual marketing budget survey of business-to-business marketing trends released today is showing that marketing departments are going to increase their budget in Social Media and in Search Engine Marketing in 2011. Marketers seem to recognize that Google, Yahoo! Post on Google Buzz. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Engineering Survey Social Media Marketing 108

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This last year Google brought a large number of algorithm changes to the table. According to Search Engine Land , some domains saw a 94% loss in visibility, and others were left picking up the pieces after they lost 80% of their keyword positions. queries according to Search Engine Land. The launch initially impacted 12% of U.S.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are 11 concrete ways I think the environment in which B2B Marketers operate will evolve in 2011. After 9 years of Search Engine Marketing – I think it is safe to say any keyword you are going to buy is maxed out when it comes to the Google AdWords auction process.

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Social Media Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Getting high quality links to a website is the best way to enhance site quality and visibility on search engine. But after Google first updated on 23 Feb 2011, all website owners and SEO experts are very strict to create back-links for a website. Because these kind of website penalized by Google any time.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2012

Web Traffic Tracking Alternatives to Google Analytics by uber.la. ” Top 50 WordPress Plugins for 2011 to Zoom SEO, SMO & Audience Engagement by Zoom Factor. Not too surprisingly, All in One SEO Pack, Akismet and Google XML Sitemaps top the list. 14 WordPress Plugins Worth Considering by JT Pedersen.

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WordPress Movable Type Review AJAX 184

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 3, 2011

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Angie is also a Search Engine Watch columnist and speaks at national events including SMX, SES, and OMS. Allison Mooney. allimooney. Ambal Balakrishnan.

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Twitter Pharmaceuticals B2B Biotechnology 279

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News?

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News Google SEO Postrank 274

Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Tweet On November 7 2011, Google+ launched their highly anticipated pages. For long, Google’s message to business has been to “hold your horses”, while they were creating a proper solution for businesses and brands. The benefits of a Google+ presence. Most importantly, your Google+ Page will be included in search results.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 17, 2011

» What’s The Best Discovery Engine? Until Bing called itself a “decision engine,&# not many people had heard that term. And I’d wager to say the same thing about “discovery engine,&# though I like that term. 7 Responses to “What’s The Best Discovery Engine?&#

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Small Business Engineering StumbleUpon Case Study 117

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.)

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 3, 2011

Why do you think YouTube is the #2 search engine in thw world? He never Googled anything; he never went to any other site; his entire web experience was confined to YouTube videos. YouTube as a search engine. This is different, and powerful- YouTube is the next Google. Did you know that it was? Video as a search result.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2011

Google does that automatically for you based on your IP address, or based on your personalized settings if you are a user of Google’s personalized search features. I’m pretty certain, and I’m sure Frank would agree, that Google Places will be the main focus on Google’s local efforts far into the future.

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Small Business Google Case Study Press Release 170

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 27, 2011

Tweet Most of us see it every day: The Google Doodle. Google uses their identifiable logo to honour special occasions around the world to the amusement for all those who uses the search engine every day. Google also organises annual Doodle 4 Google contests, targeted at school children.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 6, 2011

We can't just talk about world-class websites and getting found on the search engines anymore. beating out Google (according to Experian Hitwise )! Avinash Kaushik , the analytics evangelist for Google and the bestselling author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0 Does your website suck? How up-to-date is it?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, here are my top 10 posts of 2011 by pageviews: Which NBA Teams Have Seen the Most Growth on Twitter and Facebook? Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag. Looking at my 2011 posts, it is interesting that a sports topic got the top slot since that’s not a major focus for me.

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SEO Publishing Press Release Social Media 119

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2011

I am still amazed that search engine optimization firms like RankPay are still relying on what I would call shady marketing techniques like sending UCE Spam (UCE stands for Unsolicited Commercial Email), trying to get more search engine optimization business. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Chris B. Post on Google Buzz.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. But enough about that.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

» 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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Google Content Case Study Press Release 150

Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Also, a very comprehensive report by Bruce Clay, who is one of the oldest, largest, and most trusted search firms in the world, compiled a very comprehensive report entitled “ The SEO Factors and Trends Report for 2011 ”, which I found out to be very detailed and covering almost all the aspects of SEO Ranking Factors.

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Engineering SEO Mobile Report 121

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. (Happy Holidays! This is #1. This is probably my favorite post of the year. – Jay).

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Google Picasa Adwords Engineering 151

Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. But enough about that.

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Google Picasa Engineering Adwords 150

Kikolani

DECEMBER 6, 2011

What Your Analytics Software is Hiding From You – There are many reasons for confusing and missing data in Google Analytics. The Advantages of Google+ Pages vs. Facebook Pages – Google+ pages have several advantages over Facebook pages. The following should convince you to at least give Google+ pages a try.

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Analytics Research Real Estate Google 118

Bill Hartzer

MAY 17, 2011

According to a new report out from comScore , 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google -owned website. comScore has released the results from a study of the search engine market in Latin America. billion queries in March 2011. Post on Google Buzz. percent market share. More than 16.7

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

How can you make a press release more friendly to blogs, Twitter and search engines? Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. Pitching to Google’s Fresh New Algorithm via News, Blogs, Events & Google+ by Search Engine Watch.

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Vocus Press Release Tips Blogger 188

Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2012

Google is constantly trying to stay ahead of the spammer curve by making improvements to its search engine system. Less frequently, Google makes structural changes that have even more dramatic impact on search results. According to SEOMoz 2011 Ranking Factor survey the top two factors influencing rank are link related.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2011

Just this week Facebook surpassed Google and is now the number one site visited on the Internet. Facebook drives 3x more traffic to news sites than Google News. Tip: Since Google News and Yahoo News only index around 70 characters in the headline of a release, aim for that length and you will be good to go in Twitter too.

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News Content Hitwise Smart Phone 95

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 13, 2014

A business owner in Columbus, Ohio is offering fellow business owners free advice on how to rank quickly in the Google search results while staying away from costly SEO firms and using Search Engine Optimization to rank number one in Google. says that he knows the value (first hand, apparently) of ranking well in Google.

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The Realtime Report

JULY 8, 2016

Google To Ban Payday Ads, But Invests In LendUp. Google Inc. Google Ventures (now known as GV) is also a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google and Google Ventures are individual entities which operate independently of each other. Google’s goal also to make money, just in a different way. Google Bans Payday Ads.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. Bing responds: “We use over 1,000 different signals and features in our ranking algorithm,&# Bing vice president Harry Shum said Tuesday, referring to the mathematical code that search engines use to choose their results.

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Google Press Release Case Study Small Business 79

Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

Featured Post – Social Media ROI with Google Anlaytics 5. This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Conversion-Fest Blogging Contest. 5 Ways to Make Your Blog Appear in Search Engines – Boost your blog’s search engine visibility with these five tips. Social Media.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Chalk this up on the list of another one of Google’s products that failed. Well, I wouldn’t call Google Sidewiki a total failure, but rather a Google product that just did not “catch on” with everyone. Not only did you have to have the Google Toolbar installed, you had to make sure that it was turned on.

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The Realtime Report

JULY 27, 2012

Google Plus: 170 million “people who have upgraded” via Google. via Search Engine Land. billion in 2011 to $16.9 billion in 2011 to $8.8 Social gaming revenue more than doubled between 2010 and 2011, with the sale of virtual goods largely responsible for the revenue in this area. via LinkedIn.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 17, 2012

It's time to pay attention to Google+. Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whether or not it would be able to compete in a Facebook world.

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