Archive for January, 2012

Traffic for Google+ Goes Positive Along with User Count

2012/01/05

Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town. Initially, traffic on Google+ saw a rapid rate of growth, Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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[POLL] Have you ever unfriended a family member on Facebook? Have advice?

2012/01/05

I know many people have at least one family member they would like to unfriend, but how does one do this without causing problems?

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Blend of Online & Offline Tactics Inspire Toy Shopping [STUDY]

2012/01/05

Digital media continued to grow in importance for shoppers researching toys this holiday season, but advertisers could do much more to help them out, according to a study from Google. Google’s Toy Shopper’s Journey Study was conducted by Compete..

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Poll Results – Do you like the new version of Google Analytics?

2012/01/05

Well, the results of our poll, “Do you like the new version of Google Analytics?”, are pretty interesting.

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January 2012 Google Webmaster Report

2012/01/05

December is normally a slow month for Google updates and SEO discussions and this December was fairly slow. Google promised not to do any major Panda updates and for the most part, it seems they did not…

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Interim Linkscape Update for January

2012/01/05

Posted by randfish If you've been following my posts on Linkscape's index, you know that we've been trying to aim for fresher, better and larger indices over the past few months, but have been finding some very tough challenges. It turns out that indexing the web, canonicalizing millions of pages and calculating a link graph with quality metrics is super-hard; who knew? :-) As part of those efforts, we've been working toward an experimental index that leverages a more search-engine style crawler that crawls fresher pages/sites more often and less fresh stuff less frequently.

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Report: Social Media Spending Threatens To Overtake Paid Search Among SMBs

2012/01/05

Borrell Associates has come out with an extensive new report about small business (“SMBs”) and social media adoption. It contains forecasts and spending estimates as well as other data about SMB usage of social media as a marketing tool. There’s a great deal of data already in the…

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IBM Assigns Over 200 Patents to Google

2012/01/05

IBM has agreed to a deal that will see the company assign more than 200 patents to Google.

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What Comes Before The Landing Page – The Crucial Role Of Psychology-Driven SEO

2012/01/05

Your ‘landing page’ is the first step a visitor takes into your online universe. But that page is actually the last step in your strategic plan to attract those visitors.

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Interview with Scott Cowley on SEO, Company Support and More

2012/01/05

Scott Cowley is the in-house, SEO ninja at ZAGG. He is very smart, very funny and a real genuine person. I asked on Twitter what Internet marketing wishes people had for 2012 and his response was: “My wish for 2012 is for SEO world peace.

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