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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. The search engines did not look at the content of the entire web page. Let me explain. But now, in 2010, we are way past that.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document. quality content.

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How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

Bill Hartzer

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions.

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How Social Bookmarking Works [Plus 7 Tools To Help You Do It]

Hootsuite

That’s where social bookmarking comes in. Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media monitoring to boost sales and conversions today. What is social bookmarking? Social bookmarking is a way for users to search, manage, organize, and share web pages. How does social bookmarking work?

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity SMM

The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. Just as it takes time to build a following, it also takes a while to build credibility and authority with the search engines. Twitter is the most productive, driving more than half of all non-blog social media visits.

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Remember: Google+ is Google, which means great search engine results for your business! A huge factor to note with YouTube is that (1) it’s the second largest search engine after Google (not Yahoo or Bing!). This is only for a business that hav a brick and motar location – a restaurant, hair salon, spa – are good examples.