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Visibility is More About Social Than Search

Proactive Report

Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Influencer Outreach: Google wants to know that you, the site owners and employees, and your community, your prospects, current, and past customers, are engaged in the success of the business. PS: this is the year of the message board !

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

To find out where your audience is hiding, I recommend searching: Google : Try keyphrases such as “top blogs on [niche],&# “[niche] forum,&# “[niche] community&# Facebook : Search using the form on the top right of the site for keywords relating to your market. Here’s what I do to keep the blog up: 1).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). The genius of this plug-in (and the reason it’s named after Seth Godin) is that you can set one message for first-time visitors, and a second message for repeat visitors.

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The Internet Could Be Closed For Business

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Back then, the majority of people still used one of the major ISPs and portals as their destination (think AOL , Yahoo or whatever). When people got more comfortable with the Web and browsing on their own, the beginning of blogs and message boards (which happened in parallel) were an indie-like fairground for independence.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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