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Link Building: Four Types of Backlinks to Pursue (And Three to Avoid)

Webbiquity SMM

Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, You can often find the most authoritative (in the eyes of the search engines) directories specific to your type of business simply by searching for them. Four Worthwhile Link Sources.

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How To Engage On Sites Using Facebook’s New Commenting Plugin

Dave Fleet

Today, let’s take a look at what the implications are for companies running engagement programs. Have company employees log in and comment using their own Facebook profiles. Avoids potentially negative comment streams being pushed to the company’s Facebook page. Option 2: Comment as company-owned Facebook page.

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Your Media Is Controlled By A Handful Of Companies (Yes, Even The Internet)

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Digital Marketing professional and venture capitalist, Darren Herman , ran some quick numbers and here's what he uncovered: " the digital media ad spend (search, display, mobile, etc) is controlled by Google , Yahoo , AOL , Facebook , and Microsoft. The type of stuff that was trending was from a different type of culture.

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The Future of Digital Marketing According to the Giants

Webbiquity SMM

Google, Yahoo! These companies have also made purchases that many people didn’t quite think were obvious, but perfectly made sense in hindsight. Virtual reality seems to be one of the hottest trends: Google has Google Glass , Facebook bought Oculus VR (which makes the virtual reality gaming headset Oculus Rift), and Yahoo!

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers. Facebook is not like the tech companies that crashed in the 90s, and anyone who stops for two seconds to think about that knows it. If Facebook is the next Yahoo!,

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Tools for Monitoring Online Conversations: Part 2 of Monitor Your Brand Online

Harp Interactive

You can hire a Social Media Monitoring company who will not only use syndicated or subscription tools like Radian6 and employ a combination of techniques and report on what’s being said but will also formulate effective response strategies and implement reputation management techniques. Yahoo News. Yahoo Pipes. Blogdigger.

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What Do You Know? Examining the Big 4 Online Answer Sites

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Arnie Kuenn is the president of Vertical Measures, a search, social & content marketing company . This gives your content the greatest chance to be discovered when someone types that inquiry directly into a Google search. We have found that a rising number of people use that type of search method (question format).

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