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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Today’s most effective marketers are optimizing content across channels, coordinating search and social marketing activities with traditional PR, and measuring their web presence and performance with sophistication. Just 4% of marketers said their companies were “very effective” at measuring social marketing in 2012.

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How the YouTube algorithm works in 2022

Sprout Social

2012: Watch time. In 2012, YouTube announced a new metric “ Time Watched ” to use in their search and Suggested Video algorithm. According to the paper, the user’s watch history, search history and video completion history – all contributed to producing recommendations that were more personalized than ever.

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24 of the Best Google+ Guides, Tips, Rants and Raves of 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Though he calls Google+ a “half-baked invention,” Daniel Flamberg nevertheless advises that “savvy marketers should use Google+ these five ways,” including experimenting with hangouts, expanding social assets and audiences, and optimizing branded search: “Link owned digital assets to Google+.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Social

Check out our Transparent Pricing Dashboard How our finances have evolved while staying true to our mission Looking at our finances over the last nine years, you’ll notice fluctuations within the different categories. Several categories of expenses help support Buffer’s overall operations.

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 3 – SEO

Josh S Peters

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been around as long as search engines. Over the years it has changed dramatically and now we have social media activity influencing search results in all of the major search engines. Search engines still run on keywords.

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The Anatomy of a Google Reconsideration Request: Manual Link Penalty

Bill Hartzer

The first thing you must realize is that when your website traffic from organic search has gone down, you don’t necessarily have to file a reconsideration request with Google. Reduced number of internal links per page (category and state). Optimized Meta tags and titles making them more natural. Improved page speed.

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How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Bill Hartzer

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. While I have not seen any reports of websites being banned in the Google search results, in some cases, traffic from organic search is down as much as 50 percent as a result.

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