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Do Google +1s and Shares Help Search Engine Rankings?

Bill Hartzer

My friend Eric Enge from Stone Temple Consulting took the time recently to put together a great study that focused on the Google+ social network. The whole idea of this study was to figure out whether or not Google +1s actually help search engine rankings. Google+ social shares and +1s *DO* count.

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The #1 Reason You’ll Want to Use Google+

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If you’re still wondering if you ought to bother spending time getting to know yet another social network, I’ve got one big reason you might want to give Google+ a try. I’ll be addressing those features and how to get started using Google+ in the next few posts. Google Search. I’m a huge Google fan.

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Meet Team Sprout: Shweta, Senior Software Engineer

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She has a knack for taking complicated data ideas and translating them in a way that her audience can understand, whether that is another engineer or a less tech-savvy person, such as myself. Name: Shweta Kapur Department: Engineering Started at Sprout: February 2017. I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Ingest squad.

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4 Reasons Google Bought Wildfire

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Wildfire , a pioneering social media management software application that specialized in contests and promotions, announced today that it has been bought by Google for a smooth $250 million. 4 Reasons Google Bought Wildfire. Google and Facebook aren’t exactly pals. But it’s brilliant. Access to Social Signal.

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We Need a Better Definition of "Native Advertising"

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Beyond best practices, research, education and advocacy, the IAB managed to achieve a common ground in the area of creative standards and measurement guidelines, but this could all go away if marketing professionals can't agree on a clear definition for "native advertising." " We do need a unified definition here.

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Search Engine Optimization: 5 Important SEO Ranking Factors

Bill Hartzer

Such web pages, with heavy advertisements on top of their page, are being hit hard by Google. It would appear that many search engines are trying to gauge the relative influence of Facebook and Twitter users, and as the report puts it: “These changes could lead to likes becoming as important as links in the algorithms.”

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How to Get Your Google+ Plus Posts Indexed in Google

Bill Hartzer

Google+ (also referred to as Google Plus), is the new social network by Google that is very similar to Facebook in its functionality. There are some major differences, and I definitely am liking this new social network so far. Let’s first examine how to NOT get your Google+ Plus post indexed: - Post set to Limited.

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