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Introducing Blekko, the Self-curated Search Engine

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It’s the search engine that prides itself on human curation. After all, “human curation” sounds kind of hard. Human curation has already helped Blekko completely block out the top 20 sites voted as spam by human users— these are all mainly content farms (sorry eHow). Have you used Blekko yet?

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Connecting the Bridge Between Social Media And SEO

Your Escape From 9 to 5

Google, the world’s top search engine, is instrumental—if not the instrument—to the rapid flow of information. How can you maximize social media and SEO (search engine optimization) to turn clicks into profits? For neophytes, the concept of search engine algorithms can be overwhelming. How can you boost your bottom line?

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Why Should You Invest in SEO?

Social Media Marketing

We all wanted to see the website we worked hard for with our blood, sweat, and tears to be on the first page of Google or Yahoo or even Bing. But it is not easy to show up in search engine results pages, especially on the first! Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a marketing strategy to improve search engine rankings.

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8 Black Marketers Who Are Making Their Mark on the Industry

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Prior to that, she led social marketing at both MGM Resorts and Yahoo! An engineer by training, Susan Somersille Johnson enjoys marrying the science of technology with the art of marketing to break the mold of what a brand should be. Johnson says , “As an engineer, you’re used to the bits and bytes, the numbers.

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Do You Need A Degree In Digital Marketing And Social Media?

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Universities and colleges now offer courses in the area of digital media, online strategy, social media, web analytics, search engine marketing and more. If you can't find out information in a general search (on Google , Bing , Yahoo or whatever), leverage your online social networks ( Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , tumblr , etc.)

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17 Content Marketing Trends to Keep an Eye On

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The rest of it is either curated (24.0%) or syndicated (12.6%). Whereas only outputting original content can be resource-intensive, curation and syndication are comparably less burdensome and easier to deal with. 16% of Marketers Curate Content Daily. 16% of Marketers Curate Content Daily. After Yahoo!

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Demand Better Content

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They meticulously curate and edit this content so that it fits within the allotted pages. Through studying Web analytics and niche topics that are getting search engine traffic online, Demand Media uses the information to create content (mostly text articles and videos). Some of it is local, some national and some global.

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