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Review of the Online Group Buying Industry

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Group buying is a trend that had incredibly growth throughout 2010. Group buying, which refers to social buying or collective buying as well, is the buying an offer which has been significantly reduced, due to the fact that it is only valid if enough buyers are found. Enter: Google Offers.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Tweeting of purchases is a plug that money can’t buy – Social Media ROI Monetization

Laurel Papworth

At the end of the online checkout, Amazon thanked me for my purchase and then asked me to tweet, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google Plus the Amazon link with an image of the DVD, the price and a description. My article in The Australian April 1 2013 . A FEW days ago, I bought a DVD on Amazon. Twitter: @silkcharm.

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Google's Third Wave Of Innovation

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Is it normal that a search engine is buying up all of the robotics and drone companies? If you''re in the marketing profession, you have to be scratching your head at the moves that Google has made over the past little while. Google''s first wave of innovation. Google''s second wave of innovation.

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Google One Pass: Payment System for Digital Content

Bill Hartzer

For example, there are people who just buy the Sunday paper just for the coupons while others are only interested in the Business, and Sports sections of the paper. Magazines have a similar issue. Something else that is great about Google One Pass is that it allows users to just use one login to access the content anywhere.

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Digital PR and the Google Penguin

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Corporate magazines, thought pieces, by-lined articles for executives, sponsored radio shows – we’ve done it all. That means you have to learn how Google operates and keep up with their constant tweaking of the algorithm. So Google counts links from other sites to your content and weights the value of those links.

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Why ‘First Click Free’ Can Lead To Higher Revenues

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However, if you put all of your content behind a pay wall, then it can’t be indexed by Google. Unless, of course, you give Google’s bots access to that content. Think of it as like a magazine rack. You walk into a convenience store and see a rack full of magazines. You can do that with First Click Free.