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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. Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content.

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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. Google+ has an awesome video chat feature called Hangouts.

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Is Google Losing Focus?

Firebelly

When the search giant revealed its attempt at social networking, the news spread through the internet like wildfire. The most obvious evidence being the upcoming changes to Picasa and Blogger: both will soon be re-branded, likely as Google Photos and Google Blogs respectively. Everyone has heard about Google+ already.

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Klout Now Measures 10 Social Media Websites For Influence

Small Business Mavericks

Foursquare – The local networking website. In all, Klout is now measuring your influence across ten different social networks. It will soon add Google+, Facebook pages, Yelp, Posterous, WordPress.com, and Quora as networks that it tracks for its users. YouTube – The video sharing monolith owned by Google.

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Apple is Creating a “Social Network” the Right Way

Stay N' Alive

Today Apple launched, quite simply , a “Social Network for Music&#. What’s so powerful is that they’re not really trying to create a social network at all. Apple realizes the Social Graph is just a complement to something bigger. The age of “Social Networks&# is gone.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. Put these on YouTube and/or Vimeo, embed them in your blog posts, and share them on your social networks as well.

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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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