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StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?

Adam Sherk

It has been a couple months since StumbleUpon rolled out its Channel pages for all members so I thought I’d check in and see how media brands are doing. These figures will continue to rise as user awareness grows and companies do more to promote their Channels. Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle? Breaking News.

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Company Settles with FTC for $250,000 Over Misleading Online Reviews

Bill Hartzer

A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers&#. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This!

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. For this study we profiled 66 companies from ’9′ verticals and analysed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no. anyways, great job Daksh.

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How to Manage Social Media Profiles

yMarketingMatters

The most active are Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter , Google+ , Pinterest , YouTube , Flickr , and SlideShare. The top bookmarking sites are StumbleUpon , Digg and Delicious. Then there is your company blog; it is seemingly a fulltime job. This landscape may change in the coming year. But that doesn’t really matter.

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Google Search Quality Still Lacking After Google Farmer Update

Bill Hartzer

As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about their search quality. Let’s take a look at Google’s search results for a popular news item that I wrote about yesterday, Chitika’s FTC Settlement in regards to behavioral ad targeting. Let’s try a Google search for Chitika FTC.

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Google to Encourage Americans to Get Online

Bill Hartzer

Usually, when someone has plans for something, they will purchase the domain name related to the new product or service–and companies planning big campaigns or products and services are no different. In an interesting move, Google has purchased a bunch of domain names related to encouraging people to get online. Tweet This!

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Google Targets ‘Scraped’ Content and ‘Content Farms’

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In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users. According to Google, its algorithm tweak “noticeably” impacted 11.8%

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