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Why Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy Must Now Include Social Validation

Bill Hartzer

You probably have heard me preach it before: if at all possible, for search engine optimization purposes, your web site should include a blog or other section of your web site that includes articles. To rank well in the search engines, your web site needs new, fresh, topical content added on a regular basis.

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How To: Make Your Links Do Follow Links in Google Plus

Bill Hartzer

Here is a nifty, simple search engine optimization trick that I bet you didn’t know. I am not sure if Google has done this on purpose, but some links that are posted in Google Plus are automatically tagged with a nofollow link attribute, meaning that there is not any search engine optimization value added to the link.

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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. It’s important to claim your brand name across all the major social media platforms.

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Getting Started with Integrating Search and Social Media

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials It’s Time to Think about Integrating Search & Social Media Google and Microsoft’s Bing recently struck deals to incorporate social media into their real-time search results. But don’t stop there.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document. quality content.

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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

You immediately go to all your social media profiles and share about it with a link. Over the next few days, you share the post again on social media, and continue to get shares from others as well. Must be all those “social signals” you got, right? You just hit hit publish on that great new blog post.

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How Social Media Can Increase Your New Site’s Search Visibility

Socialmedia.biz

Content is still incredibly important, but there’s a not-so-new beast called social media that many business are still neglecting and missing out on entirely. Search engines are placing higher importance on what’s coming from social media. What else ranks directly from social? Need proof? Your profile.