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The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On

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Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. Then Facebook announced that Bing will exclusively power Web search on Facebook and serve up search ads.

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2 Social SEO Stories You Need To Read This Week

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10 Steps for Optimizing the Brand for Social Search By Brian Solis Facebook recently overtook Yahoo as the second most visited site in the United States. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. 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.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They are interested in this new “social media” thing but haven’t actually dipped their proverbial toes in the social waters yet. However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. I understand that some people may have other responsibilities on top of social media. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And that differentiates StumbleUpon from the other social “news&# networks. As I pointed out in a recent Problogger post , Digg is not so much of a “social bookmarking&# site, but StumbleUpon certainly is. Digg is social news; Diigo is social bookmarking (which is lumped in with delicious).