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Car Spying – This company is looking to sell your real-time Car Location to US Military

Tweaklibrary

While some of the recent cars have a GPS built-in which rules out the HOW factor, certain companies can still access your location in real-time without a GPS. To begin with, the thought that Companies around the world have so much of my information, now including my vehicle’s real-time location, is very unsettling.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

I’ve primarily stuck to aggregated trend/topic lists to keep the list manageable. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends.

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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

Going back to the LiveScience.com example, a search today in Google using the exact headline “Amazon River Dated to 11 Million Years Old” brings up these top results: Another site becomes the de facto #1 through an embedded Google News result, followed by the Yahoo News syndicated article and then the LiveScience.com original.

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Monetizing Your Blog with a Clean Design, Tribal Headhunter Warriors, and Fine Art Nudes

ProBlogger

My website has an embedded ecommerce feature using a Photoshelter platform to market my travel stock photos. Now I’ve changed all those links to have my affiliate code embedded. Why three blogs? My goal was to build website traffic as fast as possible in an effort to increase my Google search rankings.

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How to make your brand customer-centric [+ Examples]

Sprout Social

Here are four brands embedding social into their customer-centric strategy–and takeaways for how you can do it yourself. Social listening tools like Sprout’s can help you aggregate the voice of your customer so you can make crowd-pleasing decisions and bring the best possible product to your customers. Engaging in empathy with ban.do

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How to Create Awesome Content From Your Next Event Experience

ProBlogger

Over the last few years, content marketing has grown from a marketing tactic used to generate publicity and inform customers, into an essential strategy for promoting any startup, SME or large company online. From startups to small businesses, many companies’ content marketing campaigns burn out due to a lack of ideas.

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Report recommending 'Google Tax' seems rather confused

The Way of the Web

It says four publishers control 70 percent of the local and regional press, three companies – BBC, ITN and BSkyB – produce national television news and just four companies have nearly 80 percent of the commercial radio market. And evidence of that?

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