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JUNE 28, 2012

They’ve add an Events tab to the social network Google+. Again, that doesn’t sound like much, but this is a popular feature on Facebook and the fact that Google+ is adding the feature means that they are serious about competing in the social arena. That’s right, keep saying it.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

Businesses can opt to pay $15 month to have multiple users and access to advanced features. There is plenty of help available including videos, which make it a lot easier to visually gain an insight into all the features. Monitor the most popular social networks from one screen, engage prospects, and build deeper relationships.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2011

If you thought Google+ was just another social network, think again. But here’s the catch: You have to turn this feature on in Google AdWords account. Google calls this “social annotations” and they could become a key metric for your PPC advertising. It’s more than that.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Well, it seems Google+ didn’t want to be left out, so they decided to add an Embed Post feature too. This is actually a useful feature, no matter what social media site it’s on – even though I couldn’t get the Google+ embed code to work in WordPress (so I’ll just link to the Vic Gundotra announcement ).

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

An example is the relationship the social network has with Google competitor Bing in the search market. Actually, it’s Firefox that is helping Facebook compete with Google Chrome, and it effectively makes Firefox a round-the-clock social network. The implications for this new Firefox feature are tremendous.

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JULY 7, 2012

This is a search feature, so what does it have to do with marketing? If you’re looking for topics to blog about, the autocomplete feature can save you a lot of money. Here’s another new feature that Twitter offers. Here are 5 solid reasons to include Twitter in your online marketing efforts. Get to know them.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

Think of it as like the features section of your local newspaper. It could be a way to make social networking more humanly interesting. Write to Facebook Stories and tell how your employee has made your business more profitable, more customer-focused, or a bigger asset to your community.

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JUNE 17, 2013

If so, it’s time to get your head out of the cloud and start thinking about how you are going to preserve years of social data that you’ve been sharing on your favorite social networks. They apologized for limiting the features, not getting rid of the personal data. And that stings.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

However, that feature hasn’t been rolled out to everyone at this time. Would you change your content strategy to target Facebook’s search engine in hopes that more people would find your website through the largest social network online? But it is comforting to know it’s coming down the pike. Isn’t it?

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AUGUST 15, 2014

In the post-Pigeon era, search results that are authoritatively local will be more prominently featured on the SERP, and they will be enhanced with relevant content.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Click that link and it takes you to a page explaining Bing’s social search feature. On the search results page, it will tell you which of your Google+ friends have shared an item on Google+ or on any social network they’re a member of. This is just the tip of the iceberg on social signals.

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MAY 11, 2011

But you can drive traffic to your profile page from your active social networks, which makes it a worthwhile starting place if you are just getting involved in Internet marketing. is its robust analytics features. I wouldn’t expect a great deal of search engine traffic from About.Me.Me Another thing I like about About.Me

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JUNE 28, 2013

LinkedIn has become the social networking haven for business-to-business enterprises. You could say the business pages feature is growing so fast because LinkedIn itself is growing so fast. Social networking is not going to go away, and you can’t work every single network there is.

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