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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In addition, some search engines retain a history of your web searches. Once they find out which sites you visit, these companies can target you with relevant advertising and spam. Lastly, don’t conduct internet searches while logged into an account on the search engine. WIFI Security. Social Networks. Mobile Devices.

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MAY 12, 2010

account, and a full, multi-channel viral contest supported by both offline and online media assets, to drive awareness and potential consumers to a fully socialized micro site. That resulted in a lot of potential customers leaving the site and never getting around to taking a tour of the spa facilities.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

It took eight months and hundreds of pages of documentation to get us back on both sites. Google has integrated star ratings from consumer review sites like Epinions or Biz Rate – but only sites with four out of five stars or greater results get an extra line in AdWords with their star ratings. Let’s start with Yelp.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. That doesn’t mean they can’t be search engine friendly too. A peppering of keywords here and there will help your blog be more visible to search engines. And some of the images just don’t do other sites justice.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Apart from a great how-to on starting up a site, it highlights the growing trend to buying websites rather than starting from scratch. Like Patrick, anyone who’s tried starting a site from scratch will know first-hand how much work it can be to attract and retain an audience. It’s a sign of the times! Work out a Valuation.

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APRIL 22, 2010

A real time search engine allows you to scour all of this data to see what’s being said right now about any given topic. A real time search engine should not be used for the majority of your searches. Also, if you want to find a new website – for shopping or to play video games – a traditional search engine is the way to go.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular? In any case, I can’t see any obvious lessons.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 15, 2008

Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM has compiled his own list of the “best posts of 2007″ in a site with a brilliantly and cleverly chosen title, the SEMMYS (Search Marketing Emmys). Well, unfortunately, your reading list has just lengthened. robots.txt, IP questions for hosting, etc.), Seriously, it rocks.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

web sites, images, videos, etc.) When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites. A site that wants to educate the folks who land on it.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? And as most would have guessed, the mighty engines prevailed as the superior source of traffic.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Be sure to ask the candidate if they have these accounts, and then check to see if they have these accounts by logging into the sites and searching for their names. If they can manage their personal sites, they have a much better chance of managing your company’s sites. According to Internet World Stats , 77.3% of the U.S.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Even though this may speak to underlying customer service issues that have nothing to do with social media,it is easy to assign the blame for any damage caused to the social sites that provide exposure for negative comments.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

And while I am not a consultant with the company, we have a partnership agreement that makes them a preferred vendor for Social Media Explorer and our companion learning site, Exploring Social Media. It also tells me how much traffic is being driven to my site from each platform. Pretty nifty. David Armano. Chris Winfield.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

These people may blog about your company for example and give you a relevant link back to your site. This is gold for SEO (read: better positions in the search engines and more relevant traffic) and may have come about directly because of your campaign – great wins for when you’re pitching for renewal!

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JANUARY 26, 2011

The background of their site indicates that their Twitter presence alone is being manned by 5 employees (more seem to be active on their Twitter account, so their background may need to be updated), but they’re lost about how to really reply at all. Again, this is a big brand.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When searching for new and interesting websites, it is much preferable to visit a website on a friend’s recommendation than it is to use classic search engines. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North, a search engine marketing firm in Chicago. The agency works with small and midsized firms in a wide variety of businesses, including a site for booking online tee times and a distributor of electrical gloves. [ What drives you away from brands on social media?

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JUNE 19, 2012

Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. Autodesk WikiHelp : Another software behemoth, Autodesk’s engineering niche introduces a decidedly heavier technical element than previous examples. Community building isn’t easy.

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JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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MARCH 4, 2008

That means actually using the site for my homework and being very candid on the Quizlet blog about direction and ideas. I think people really feel a connection when the site’s owner is also one of its biggest users. We see sites become successful all the time. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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MARCH 16, 2008

Where : Black Finn NY, 218 East 53rd Street Who : Yours truly and a bunch of awesome people who are flying in to NY to attend the Search Engine Strategies conference Why : Because you know you want to support a charity and hang out with some of the biggest search industry leaders Will I see you there?? I hope so!? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. The story announcing Heath Ledger’s death was made popular with 13 minutes of submission to the social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It makes me wonder if I’m sending my requests to a wall (or for your tech geeks, /dev/null) or if people really work for Apple (outside their marketing and engineering departments). In fact, of the many issues I’ve submitted over the years (and I know countless others have had problems with as well), nothing has been addressed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? Are you the same?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

He told me that my site was committing 3 Cardinal Sins and it was holding my ranking back and he could help me. On further investigation this guy had an Alexa ranking of a tad over 25 million for his site whereas mine at the time was about 80,000. great site! I was contacted my a “Social Media Expert&# about 6 months ago.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Shelby really liked the TV show Jericho , and at the age of 9, started a site called Jericho4Kids. I was 9 years old when my web site went up, and it was my dream, but a lot of people helped me to make that dream come true, so as kids we might need a little help but we can still go after our dreams.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. Hard Knox January 1, 2010 at 1:25 am FHK SitRep 11.29.07: Mixx, the Latest Social News Site : Ft. We wake up and go to the same sites each day and fall into patterns. Can’t hurt to find more social bookmarking sites!

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JUNE 11, 2010

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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MARCH 31, 2008

I went to the West Coast for the first time to attend search engine conferences, with trips to Seattle, San Jose (twice!), I dabble in social media sites, particularly Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. The other site? Here’s why: Just over three years ago, I got married to a wonderful guy named Brian. and Las Vegas.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Earlier this year, Epic Change also utilized business/entrepreneur social media site Ideablob to help raise money to build a technology lab at a Tanzanian school. Gratitude is an emotion that also lends itself well to other media like video, images, music, and blogging, and we saw some of that as well. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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APRIL 20, 2010

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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MARCH 12, 2015

We had THREE people join our site because we bribed them with a $100 gift card to a fabric store. While we did get people to join our site in order to enter that giveaway, they wound up hating our app. I started to embark on a multi-day project of sifting through blogrolls and aggregation sites like Bloglovin. Surprise surprise!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to grab the code you need for your post or site. There are many goals you can achieve with the site. She has some great comparisons.

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JULY 15, 2009

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. Beyond learning about your users, FriendFeed allows users to comment on content within the site itself. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way. It’s also a conversation medium.

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