Archive for November, 2010

Developing Personas for Better Social Media Marketing

2010/11/26

Demystifying better social media marketing often starts with doing a better job of connecting with customers. But how can you connect with customers if you don’t know who they are?

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Google’s Bruce Lee Logo

2010/11/26

Tomorrow, November 27th, Google will show a special logo for Bruce Lee’s birthday. Bruce Lee is a well known karate actor, was in many movies and may have been known to popularize karate in America. November 27th is Bruce Lee’s..

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Google Changes AdWords Agency Service Model

2010/11/26

This week, Google AdWords sent out emails to some of their agency customers detailing a change that will be happening in their AdWords support model.

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How Did The Beatles Sell 2 Million Songs On iTunes? Mostly Facebook (Not Search)

2010/11/26

Although at least one recent study says search beats social media when it comes to product discovery, those rules don’t apply to The Beatles. When you’re known worldwide and have set the standard for commercial and critical musical success, social media is where it’s at in 2010…. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Has Google Missed Its Window For “ChromeBooks”?

2010/11/26

At the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed to suggest that Chrome-based netbooks wouldn’t be available for holiday shopping (or even before the end of the year). A year ago, however, Google said it was aiming for the “holiday season” with the..

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Google Releases Details On Controlling GoogleBot & Google’s Crawl

2010/11/26

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced Google has published a new set of documents in the Google Code section on how to control Google from crawling and indexing your site. You can read the set of documents over here. The technical documents are broken down into five section: Getting Started…

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Google Published Detailed Specifications on Robots.txt

2010/11/26

Webmasters and SEOs have new reading material for this weekend. Google has published a very comprehensive and detailed Robots.txt Specifications, Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications and how to control crawling and indexing by GoogleBot. There are two…

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Google Places Bulk Import Not Working

2010/11/26

There are a few threads in the Google Places Help forum with complaints that the bulk upload feature to add new businesses to Google Maps is not working.

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How to Number Google Results in FireFox and Google Chrome

2010/11/26

We scan through Google Results daily, sometimes even hourly.

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Updated: Google Dropping AdWords Agency Support

2010/11/26

AccuraCast reports receiving an email from the Google Dublin office that they are cutting all AdWords agency support. He wrote: Google AdWords’ Dublin support team sent out an email to their agency partners, yesterday, stating that dedicated account management support…

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