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Facebook Brings Ads To Your Timeline – Whether You Like It Or Not

SocMed Sean

think about it…when was the last time you actually looked at anything in that annoying ticker widget? Not surprising, since just about every Web UX professional will tell you that most web surfers have developed a blindness for content that lives in the right-rail. Do you care if Facebook targets ads to you? Email this to a friend?

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

7 Tips For Cleaning Up Your Blog And Improving Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Clean up those plugins – If you have been trying out new plugins or widgets for your blog, be sure to delete them if you’re not using them. Do you have too many widgets? Are those widgets slowing down your blog?

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8 Basic Yet Necessary Tools or Plugins for your Site

Idaconcpts

First, let’s see how effective a good widget or app can be. If you’re looking for a way to have added functionality or control over your site, consider these: PayPal Donations Button : Mighty Widgets created this great little tool to make including a donation option on your website or social media page easy. Tools in Action.

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How to View Google Offers Near You

Idaconcpts

It’s also possible to add a Google Offers widget to iGoogle. Using the exact search term, “coupons site:maps.google.com intitle:Google Offers&# will let you see the coupons, which you can then sort by location. Check out some screen shots of current offers in Hawaii (click for larger images): View more Google Offers in your area.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites.

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Search Engine Optimization: 5 Keyword Research Tips

Bill Hartzer

For example, lets say the phrase ‘widget’ has 10,000 searches and searches for ‘blue widget’, ‘red widget’, ‘green widget’ each have 2,000 searches. Once you have a keyword list, you want to check and see which terms have the least competition. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Add a Breadcrumb Trail

Bill Hartzer

To put it another way, if you are wanting to get a web page on your site to rank well for ‘red widgets’ then a breadcrumb trail will allow you to add another text link on your site that says ‘red widgets’ that points to your ‘red widgets’ category page. Red Widgets. Red Widget Wheels.