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DECEMBER 5, 2012

The best way to do that is to subscribe to their RSS feeds, or you can subscribe by e-mail. It’s best to create a folder in your news feed reader and put all competitor blogs in that folder. Subscribe to blogs - You should read your competitors’ blogs every day. Read through the posts every day.

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MARCH 9, 2012

Server side SEO can affect page loading times, compatibility issues (particularly with shopping cart software), and even with issues such as importing feeds, or having your feeds exported to other sites. If you have a dedicated server, then your issues are generally short lived.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Add Product Pins to your Pins so details like price or description appear — there are a whole bunch of these Rich Pins and one of them will fit your business offerings and be another way to draw the customer into the sales funnel.

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MARCH 17, 2012

It does, however, provide several different feeds to your main website and may encourage visitors to stay a little longer. You can also summarize the latest review or testimonial as a feed to other areas of your website, particularly your home page. This does take a little extra work, particularly when it comes to navigation.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

According to Wittman’s study, Facebook’s algorithm specifically targets posts where engagement was requested, and those posts are now being shown less often in users’ news feeds. That’s important to know, especially if you share a lot of posts with strong calls to action.

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JUNE 29, 2011

The idea is that you don’t just count people who show up on your site, in your Twitter feed, or who subscribed to your newsletter. While clickthroughs can tell a lot about your content and your visitors, I like the idea of counting “heads that performed a specific action.&#. It’s called Qualified Reach.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The reason social media advertising is increasing by leaps and bounds, however, has something to do with advertising that is called ‘native advertising’ This is advertising that appears in the news feed of Twitter and Facebook users.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Which means a good idea is still sitting on the park bench feeding the pigeons. If you know what a QR code is, kudos to you. Many people still don’t know. Many business owners, the people who should know, still don’t know. Many of the people who do know what a QR code is find them unattractive, or downright ugly.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Run a live feed of your office staff throughout the day. Here are a few of the more interesting ideas on content that he shares: Get your staff to interact with customers through social media. Hold meetups with members of the community to share your ideas on niche topics in your industry and to showcase your employees’ knowledge.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Today, people read their e-mail, RSS feeds, and social media posts when it’s convenient for them. It’s a hold over from the old days when it was deemed that Thursday was the best day for your newsletters and sales specials to land in consumers’ mail boxes on Thursday. We don’t live in that world any more.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results. Such as: Click on hashtags, even if they originate on other services, such as Twitter. Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. It’s not really a big surprise to those of us who keep an eye on social media developments.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Write to your blog often, but don’t just write shallow posts designed to feed the search engines. Write authoritative blog posts – There’s no substitute for sharing your knowledge. Write in-depth posts that prove the breadth of your knowledge.

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JULY 1, 2013

If it really concerns you, send a letter our to your list or write a blog post that educates your readers on RSS news aggregators and suggest a few alternatives to Google Reader. One I recommend is Feedly. The death of Google Reader is not the end of the world, but it will be missed by those of us who know what it is.

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JULY 29, 2012

With blogging you are feeding the search engines every time you create a new blog post. Blogging has often been called the bridge between social media and search engine optimization. Once you understand it you’ll know why. If you blog once a day, that’s a new web page on your website.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

For Eric, it was a beloved daughter’s death and her photo surrounded by happy icons in his feed with no clear way to make it stop. The problem? Some things with the most comments and interaction are not good memories. For many others, it was pictures of an ex, or just situations they really wanted to forget.

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JUNE 20, 2014

They are still doing the paid tests of Promoted Pins for search and category feeds, but now there’s a possible do-it-yourself Promoted Pins tool, letting you reach more people and get visits back to your site. What is really nice is the way it works – Pick a pin, one that you want to promote.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

A recent poll shows that 84% of Facebook users don’t like the recent changes they’ve seen in their news feeds. Is anyone surprised ? Just so you know, Facebook didn’t make the changes for users, who use the site for free. They did it for advertisers who are hoping to get their messages in front of your eyeballs.

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

However, if you’re going to get it wrong, you are much better off tilting toward making your human readers happy than trying to feed the algorithm. The best way to optimize a web page is simultaneously for the robots and your human readers. That’s because of one thing called over-optimization.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s what TechCrunch says: Similar to how it ranks stories in the news feed, Nearby looks at a ton of signals to determine what to show you first, including friends who’ve Liked a business, checked in, left a short text recommendation, or given the Place a star rating. And what a service!

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Google still likes fresh, original content, and writing a blog is the best way to feed solid meat to the most popular search engines on the planet. It’s safe to say that business blogging isn’t going anywhere. While blogging isn’t going away any time soon, it is constantly being changed in its total form.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Spend more time listening – You don’t have to sit and watch your Twitter feed, but do pay attention to what other people are saying. With tools like Buffer and Hootsuite, you can preschedule to your posts to hit any time you want. You can often get ideas for blog posts by listening to the noise.

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APRIL 16, 2012

Facebook Offers now allow all businesses the option to place special offers in the feeds of customers who have previously “Liked” them. If so, and you have a reasonable following on Facebook, then you may be able to make use to Facebook’s latest service to businesses. Offers are, essentially, coupons under another name.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Spend more time listening – You don’t have to sit and watch your Twitter feed, but do pay attention to what other people are saying. With tools like Buffer and Hootsuite, you can preschedule to your posts to hit any time you want. You can often get ideas for blog posts by listening to the noise.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Michael Cottam recently took us on a journey in his Moz Blog post, “ Leveraging Panda to Get Out of Product Feed Jail.” ” His journey was one of being a customer instead of the SEO expert, searching for the right replacement stopper to fix his bathroom sink.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Create a master feed of your contributions. The end result could be far more exposure in the search results than you currently see. Ann suggests three must do actions: Verify the authorship of your articles. Claim your brand (or name) in the major social networks.

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APRIL 20, 2011

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Who Profits From Social Media?&# GrassRoots says: April 20, 2011 at 6:28 pm #dm2 Who Profits From Social Media?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

By default, the definition sho… [link] Log in to Reply Recliner Income Feed says: February 6, 2011 at 2:33 am When Should An Online Business Begin Marketing? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. – How do you define online marketing?

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MAY 31, 2012

People would leave comments or sign up for RSS feeds or newsletters. Once you have your idea, it’s simply a matter of using social media as the contest’s destination. In the past, almost every online contest involved a blog. They are all well and good, however, they are not very engaging, and there’s little to share.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Your Interests List is similar to an RSS feed as it takes stories related to your topic and publishes them to your wall. It’s hidden away in the new version of Facebook, for some reason, under the Messages tab that’s located just below your main image.

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MAY 10, 2011

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Why Quora Is The New Twitter&# GrassRoots says: May 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm #grassroots #dm2 Why Quora Is The New Twitter – Quora has become quite popular lately in the Q&A arena.

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MAY 3, 2011

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APRIL 19, 2011

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. 3 Responses to “The Changing Face Of Article Marketing&# GrassRoots says: April 19, 2011 at 6:28 pm #dm2 The Changing Face Of Article Marketing – Article marketing is a mainstay of Internet marketing.

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APRIL 12, 2011

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MAY 5, 2011

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APRIL 28, 2011

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APRIL 22, 2011

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MAY 7, 2011

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Types Of HTML 5 Content&# Caroline Melberg says: May 7, 2011 at 12:29 pm Types Of HTML 5 Content – Since 1998, the widely accepted generation of HTML in use has been HTML 4.

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