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How Brands Use Pinterest

Mindjumpers

Tweet Pinterest, the social bookmarking tool for images and videos launched in 2010, has become a new favorite platform for many of us – myself included. The retail deal site Ideeli have created boards to show off products from their own site, but also to show inspirational images from blogs. million in September.

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A Pinteresting Story

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In August of last year, Time Magazine named it in its " 50 Best Websites of 2011 " and last December, the analytics firm, Experian Hitwise , said that Pinterest's user-base had forty times the number of visitors it had from only six months prior. Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers - via Mashable. social bookmarking.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

Bloggers have an advantage that static and retail websites don’t. In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Complete your social network and forum profiles. The answer is, a lot. Google’s Panda update.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Ultimate Resource for Successful Small Business Websites (Samir Balwani): This isn’t completely social media marketing focused, but it definitely covers a great deal of detail on how smaller businesses (consulting firms, law firms, realtors, restaurants, retailers, etc.) 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start … 2011?

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