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MARCH 9, 2011

Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years. WordPress has plugins that do the same thing so it’s really nothing new. But I have yet to see a really good tool that allows you to embed Facebook content. Ditto your tweets in the new or old Twitter formats! Just take a look at the page.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Once upon a time, a business could utilize the organic reach of their Facebook Page posts and show up on the news feeds of interested followers. Chris Crum has put together Everything Facebook Has Said Over The Past Year About News Feed Ranking on WebProNews. Now, not so much. Facebook combats click-bait headlines — August 2014.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Conducting research for your blog articles and other content marketing initiatives is one of the most important activities you can perform. In fact, if you aren’t doing research, then your content is going to be dry and boring, maybe even lacking in the facts department. You don’t want that. It will affect your readership.

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MAY 29, 2011

All Facebook shares these tips for effective marketing and public relations through Facebook: Post your best content on Thursday because that is the day it is most likely to get read. Release major news releases early in the morning; otherwise, you will get shuffled to the bottom of the news feeds.

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JUNE 16, 2012

If you’re looking for evergreen SEO tactics – those methods of optimizing your website that worked ten years ago, work now, and will continue to work long after most people have forgotten when they started, – then I have some good news for you. Here are 5 ways you can SEO your website that will always work.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Facebook is making a deliberate effort to slide business content a little further down on the priority scale in news feeds. That means you have be a bit more crafty in how you approach your content sharing. Facebook’s EdgeRank puts a high priority on the last 50 content items a user interacted with.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Now, to paraphrase it in more common layman’s terms: Your signal-to-noise ratio is how much chatter you engage in that doesn’t benefit anyone in any real sense (noise) versus the optimal value you provide in your social media content (signal). Let’s say you have a Twitter account and you post 100 messages within 30 days.

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JULY 30, 2012

If you’ve wondered when it would happen, here’s the good news : Google+ is now being integrated into search engine results. Google+ content is being integrated under the guise of “actively discussed on Google+.” No one knows what the criteria are for Google+ content being selected to appear in SERPs.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

When is the best time to publish your content? That goes for blogging, e-mail content, social media content , and everything else. You can publish your content on Sunday and Monday morning all the people who’ve been looking forward to your next post will be there to read it. When you publish it is not an issue.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Here are the 5 essential elements that every online press release should have to be effective in promoting your business: Optimized Headline - News stories have headlines. It needs to provide the who, what, when, where, why, and how of your news story. Sometimes news sources just run your press release as is.

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MAY 12, 2012

Blogging can be hard work, especially when it comes to delivering good quality content on a regular basis. The key phrases there are “quality content” and “regular basis.” ” We’ll leave it up to you to decide on the timing of your content. The main issue then is quality content.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

In 2008, a little over half of the US adult population (55%) went online to get news about the presidential election. Search Engine Journal just came to the rescue with Albert Costill’s addition to their Content Marketing 101 series. That’s a big shift in usage mindset. Do You Need Help To Do A Podcast?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you publish routinely to your blog, send links to that content in your newsletter. There are any number of ways you can do that–host an event, jack the news, or promote from within. You can even go further than that. Sign them up for your newsletter. Your customers just might link back to you.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The company has announced that it is rolling out a new blogging feature. This is good news for some businesses. Online marketers have traditionally held that you want to publish your content on your own blog as much as possible, but there are times when you want to build an outpost. I highly recommend you read it.

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APRIL 28, 2011

But unless you’ve heard the news, you might not guess who the buyers were. Its current life will expire at that time and the new Delicious will be born. Are you as excited about this news as I am? Unloads Delicious Yesterday, the Internet’s largest has been – Yahoo! – sold Delicious.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

If the advertising on your web page pushes the content down below the fold, then your site may receive a ding in the search rankings. Google wants to present searchers with the best content. The rules related to SEO are constantly changing and so it always pays to stay on top of the latest news. Why do I say “mean?”

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JUNE 10, 2011

Let’s say that Small Business Mavericks has a staff of five writers, all of whom write content for the blog. It’s important to point out that this markup must be used only on content that exists on the same domain. rel=&# author&# Defines Authorship. rel=&# me&# Defines The Person.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Post content at different times of the day and test your results. According to Wittman’s study, Facebook’s algorithm specifically targets posts where engagement was requested, and those posts are now being shown less often in users’ news feeds. It’s important to understand why fans click the Like button.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Placing your news article or press release on bad sites with unfocused content, cheap PPC ads, or other issues. Don’t publish content anywhere it could hurt your business. In an age of online content marketing, public relations is not all good. You could drive traffic away from your website with bad PR practices.

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JULY 20, 2015

This is pretty significant news, for a number of reasons. First, let’s look at the two reasons cited for this new development: They don’t want to spend time filling out registration forms. That’s just an apt reminder to keep your content interesting and engaging. When are Passwords an Issue?

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AUGUST 26, 2011

It’s a new social curation tool that allows anyone to start their own online newspaper, except that the “news&# one prints isn’t original content. does is take links sent out through Twitter and curates them into one news source according to the publisher’s preferences. What Paper.li At 8:00 a.m.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Well, the good news is, you can do that! The wrong way is to steal the idea and the content. Besides, using someone else’s content verbatim is going to pose search engine optimization issues for you. You don’t want to get in trouble for plagiarizing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Link Blog and News Content to Products and Categories – always a logical and valuable way to add to your optimization. Link Categories to Products and Services – so simple and logical that sometimes it can be missed with a site update. link building internal links links online health checkup'

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APRIL 6, 2012

If nothing else, writing regular content your blog will continually remind the search engines you exist, and they are constantly searching for new, up-to-date and relevant content. Questions asked by customers, product or service news and general industry related matters are a good starting point.

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MAY 21, 2013

This is great news. Specifically, there are three new improvements to Flickr that I think make it worth sharing photos (and videos) to again. has decided, after eight years, to spend some energy improving Flickr. Here they are (in a nutshell): 1 terabyte of space for storing photos and videos. Access Flickr from anywhere on any device.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

He lists tangible benefits of hosting local events: you can easily build citations and links, get brand exposure in news mentions, increase your foot traffic (so plan for increased sales), get positive reviews and social exposure when attendees tweet to their followers. grand openings or new product promotion. fundraiser or 5k sponsor.

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APRIL 17, 2011

These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. It means this: That you set up Web properties beyond your own business website that give other people a platform as well. The key is not to tell you what you should be doing, but to give you license to use your imagination.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

A recent poll shows that 84% of Facebook users don’t like the recent changes they’ve seen in their news feeds. Provide the content for free so that audiences show up to consume, then charge advertisers for the benefit of getting their products in front of those consumers. Is anyone surprised ?

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MARCH 21, 2013

ABC News has seven suggestions on how you can celebrate this momentous occasion. Pepper your Twitter stream with self-promotional content but keep it leaning heavily on the value side. Today is Twitter’s birthday. The social media service turns seven. I won’t recount them. You can read the article.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

“…while the buying and online habits of millennials seems to dominate the news, their buying power pales in comparison to the buying power wielded by baby boomers — some $3 trillion in just the United States alone.” Old school marketing still works, particularly with the older boomers. Baby boomers value privacy.

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MARCH 2, 2012

From the manufacturers perspective, they building brand awareness, promoting their product, and helping an onseller increase sales – all good news for the manufacturer. It’s easy to put a post together that covers an interview, and can help to provide content on those days when the brain cells don’t want to cooperate.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

She will head up the Huffington Post Media Group, which will consist of all Huffington Post and AOL content. If you look at AOLs goal, to develop a diverse group of news and content sources that cover the local, national, and international scenes, then it may very well be a good buy. Now, it’s a content publisher.

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MAY 6, 2011

This is important news for a number of reasons: First and foremost, a slow loading website or landing page can affect your conversion rate. It is almost near consensus that Google finds page load speed important. It is almost near consensus that Google finds page load speed important.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Because this field rides on the crest of what’s happening NOW, marketers tend to rely on current information and ignore what’s old news. What I Learned About Content Marketing By Analyzing 614 Posts is a quick look at the results of analyzing almost eight years of content. Neil has numbers to prove it, like 37.5%

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