Archive for June, 2012

Google Search "Lionel Richie" for New Knowledge Graph Easter Egg

2012/06/04

Google has a new Easter Egg, this time for searches on musician Lionel Richie. Google’s latest surprise in the search results showcases one of the new features of their Knowledge Graph, says “hello” and asks searchers if they’re looking for Richie.

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WSJ: Google Prepares “Business Builder” For Small Business Marketers

2012/06/04

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that Google is planning to combine a number of its products (internally developed and acquired) into a suite of tools and services aimed at small business marketers: Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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WSJ: Google Prepares “Business Builder” For Small Business Marketers

2012/06/04

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that Google is planning to combine a number of its products (internally developed and acquired) into a suite of tools and services aimed at small business marketers: Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google to Push Local Advertising for Small Businesses

2012/06/04

With local businesses spending over $20 billion on marketing each year, Google is hopeful that the recently announced small-business services will help them capture some of the highly-profitable market share.  As early as next month, Google is expected to begin promoting new services that will help local businesses make better marketing decisions. Google is expected

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Google News Deprecated Syndication Tags

2012/06/04

Back in November 2010, Google News launched a new set of tags to let publishers say if they are syndicating other’s content. In a sense…

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Google Business Builder: Google’s New Local Business Efforts

2012/06/04

Google Readies New Local-Ad Assault via the Wall Street Journal talks about a new effort Google is going to take to target local businesses with local ads. This is not new…

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10 Types of Unnatural Link Building Tactics + 10 Quality Alternatives

2012/06/04

With all of the recent news of companies being called out for paid links, Google sending warnings about unnatural links, over optimization penalties, and blog networks getting shut down, it seems link building is becoming more and more difficult. The real challenge is when you are working with a new client or website. Typically the

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How to Mimic Enterprise SEO Tools & Gain Actionable Insights

2012/06/04

Enterprise SEO tools provide comprehensive site and competitor analysis – but some that provide incredible insight are also amazingly expensive. With a little manual effort and time you can create actionable reports at a fraction of the cost

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A Recipe for Better Blogging: Optimize & Socialize #bweny

2012/06/04

On Saturday I participated on a SEO panel at the first Minneapolis TECHmunch food blogger conference put on by Babette Pepaj with the help of local foodies like Stephanie A. Meyer . As prep for the event, I outlined a few things that I thought food bloggers might find useful for helping to improve organic search traffic to their content.

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A Recipe for Better Blogging: Optimize & Socialize #bweny

2012/06/04

On Saturday I participated on a SEO panel at the first Minneapolis TECHmunch food blogger conference put on by Babette Pepaj with the help of local foodies like Stephanie A. Meyer .

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