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Creating A Friendly URL For Your Google Plus Page

SocMed Sean

I finally got around to creating my Google+ page for SocMedSean. While I’m not really confident of the future of Google+, it doesn’t appear to be fading as fast as Google Wave did, so maybe Google is invested in the long-term search/social integration of the platform and is going to continue to shovel money into it.

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

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In my case, I wanted to make sure that folks who were already searching for my solution were able to read my post without having to resort to Google Translate. The problem is Google Translate isn’t always perfect. Here’s a link to 15 funny Google Translate fails. For anything complex or serious in nature, skip it.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

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My Related Posts widget now is just a custom HTML widget with the links to my most popular posts that I gather from Google Analytics. After doing an audit, I just decided that I could get that data from Google Analytics and then create a custom HTML widget and populate the content using HTML. Do you just want to include the post slug?

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Using SEO To Grow Traffic And Increase Enrollment In Your Massive Open Online Course Or MOOC

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Understanding The Essence Of SEO And How It Impacts Your ECourse Search engine optimization is just that…optimizing your content so the Google search algorithm places your pages at the top of the search engine results (also known as SERPs). Simply put, these titles tell google about your work and then Google tells about it to other people.

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Shhh…Don’t Tell. You Can Still Post Your Tweets To Other Platforms

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Twitter still provides access to their RSS feeds via the following URL: [link] Twitter allows you to customize your search queries by adding certain parameters. BTW…I also use nearly this same methodology to back up my tweets to a Google Drive spreadsheet and post my tweets to Google+ (which is a little more complicated).

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

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Use Google’s Webmaster tools to ensure that there aren’t any 404s occurring – If you aren’t familiar with Google’s Webmaster tools , now is the time to get familiar. The data provided to you by Google can be a goldmine in finding and fixing 404 errors.

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5 Easy Ways to Organically Increase Your App Downloads and Lift Rankings

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As an example, even corporate giants like Google have announced that their product offerings would be “Mobile First.” However, for those promoting apps, following a few fundamental basics and some additional efforts can have a positive impact on your mobile app ranking on Google. One other thing to mention.