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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

Now, Google is in the news (literally) with a gamification project of their own, and I think it has some potential. This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Google heralded the launch with the following description: The U.S. Keep your badges to yourself, or show them off to your friends.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. Widgets and badges. Media relations.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

He actually said to me, “No one searches at Google for a recruiting firm.” Our blog has about 4,000 RSS and email subscribers. When I log onto LinkedIn, it’s hard to look at five profiles of marketing professionals and not see a “marketing maven” badge on at least one of their profiles.

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7 Best Newsletter Builders for Creating Great Newsletters

Writtent Blog

Social media and Google Analytics integration. RSS-to-email and blog digest capability. Social media and Google Analytics integration. Google Analytics and Survey Gizmo integration. Social media and Google Analytics integration. Other features include: Unlimited image hosting (exceeds market standard). A/B testing.

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Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

Adam Sherk

Related posts: New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com URLs Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall The Daily Show Visits The New York Times Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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3 Top Challenges Facing the Social Content Curator

Socialmedia.biz

What’s more, the tool integrates with the top social media dashboard tools in the business – including Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social and Oktopost – so that you can easily set your account to include Start a Fire badges on every URL you post. Challenge #2: Automated curation tools have been known to aggregate low quality links.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, November Discounts & Life on Facebook

Kikolani

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. How to get your community to build links for you – ways to motivate your community to link to you with badges, leaderboards, and more. Implications of Google instant preview – guess what?

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