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How Consumers Use Social Networking Sites

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A study carried out by Sensis shows how consumers are using social networks. Of course, most people are using the social networks for personal reasons, but you should pay attention to these numbers. Of course, most people are using the social networks for personal reasons, but you should pay attention to these numbers.

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Will Amazon Improve Social Networking?

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Amazon recently announced the company has acquired social networking site Goodreads , a site for readers and book lovers. The folks at Goodreads are excited about the idea.

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How To Get Your Site Indexed In Google

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There are some very important details you need to take care to pay attention to if you want your site to get crawled by the search bots. Here’s the short list: Make sure your site’s architecture is sound. Hopefully, your web development team built you a site with a solid architecture. Get a sitemap.

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Why You Should Restrict Your Own Activity Online

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The next thing you know you’re spending half your day on social networking websites. Just about every social networking site you’d think about joining has its benefits. But you know you should have a social media presence. But which sites should you be on, and how long should you spend on them?

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LinkedIn Goes Pretty

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Users can move elements around on the page, a feature that I wish other social networks (like Facebook, for instance) had because what’s important to you may not be important to me. This is the kind of the improvement that could move LinkedIn up in the social networking category. Here’s what I like about it.

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What Social Media Users Are The Happiest?

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According to a recent survey , Facebook has more users than any other social network but those users don’t necessarily like Facebook. Other social media sites scored on customer satisfaction including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. These social networks all scored 64, 63, and 69, respectively.

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5 Google Algorithm Changes You Should Know

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It did this and took out some non-spam sites as well. These improvements saw some of those sites that didn’t deserve to drop in rankings come back up. Google’s social network is more than a social network. The purpose was to target web spam and send it reeling to the search engine pit.

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