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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. SEO: social networks influence search rankings. What Marketers Need to Know about Google Search Plus (greatfinds.icrossing.com).

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. According to Jeremy Williams , social media director for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (and my boss when I do travel writing for IOTD), blog posts with photos get more traffic than blog posts without. If you can take your own photos (like this one of my dog), do so.

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Content Marketing Is More Than Just Writing

Firebelly

As an enthusiastic photographer, I’m always reminding people that when it comes to content marketing, it’s more than just writing. But there’s so much more to content than the written word that when people forget the other forms of content, they’re missing out on an important piece of the content marketing wheel.

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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. There is actually more than one reason. This ability will actually get better over time.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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Let's say that you are the Montreal café that earned the prestigious first position in the natural search results from Google, but everyone in that searcher's social graph is hanging out in another café (or making other recommendations), where do you think that leaves your business? digital marketing. online social networking.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

You can choose and customize between different layouts can be incorporated with other Google services like Feedburner, Picasa etc. It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. Yet, it is easy to use and you are allowed to change the html for free.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Kissing Cousins: Search and Social Media. Categorizing and cataloguing the vast World Wide Web has been the white whale of computer scientists for decades.

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