So You Want To Be A Guest Blogger?

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The Search Engine Journal has put together a great article on being a guest blogger. Want to post your articles on other people’s blogs as part of your marketing? Check out their article here…

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Facebook Graph Search

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Facebook is adding a new feature called Graph Search. The short version is to make certain you have a business page or places listing. Get at least 20 likes and/or 500 checkins for a places page. Go activity? You’ll eventually be listed. Read more here.

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New Search Engine for Tablets izik

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Izik is a new search engine designed for tablets. Although it can be used on a standard computer, it is more appreciated on a touch screen. It does seem to provide more gems of information using less screen real estate while keeping a clean look. Nice job. Apps are available as well of course. Check [...]

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Google AdWords Express Free Advertising

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Well, it’s not really free when you get to the details. On Google’s Blog, they’ve announced that they will give you a credit in January based on what you spend on AdWords Express in December. It’s a promotion to get you to try AdWords Express and learn how simple it is.  In short, spend $125 [...]

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Bing Webmaster Guidelines Released

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Bing has released webmaster guidelines. Enjoy the how to.

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Google Shopping Is A Disaster

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Have you tried finding anything on Google Shopping? Depending upon what you are searching for, it’s still a disaster  This paid to be listed program just hasn’t improved quality as promised making more merchants wondering if they should follow Amazon’s lead to leave the program. There’s an excellent writeup at Search Engine Land on this topic. [...]

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Google Warns Against Automated Website Submission

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This is why we don’t offer an automated service for submission to search engines. Google Groups post about the dangers of automated submissions. What we do offer is a service to fix the damage from using such a service.

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You Are Being Switched. Google to Auto-Switch Users to “Optimize for Conversions”

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Do you have your AdWords campaign set to optimize for clicks? You may find that Google will automatically change you to optimize for conversions. Read their other changes on Google’s Inside AdWords.

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Google Disavow Links Tool Is Here… I’m Somebody Now

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The long awaited Google Disavow Links Tool is finally live and ready for use and abuse. Just log into your Google Webmaster Tools to start using it….unless of course you’ve hired us to do your search marketing for you. If you are on one of our new programs, you’ve nothing to worry about. (Our newsletter [...]

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Content Marketing Course for Free

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Scribe Content Library has some free content to help you become better at creating content that’s search friendly.  The course is about how to generate more traffic and leads for your website. If you happen to like their product as well, I can personally state I think it’s worth the price tag. The free course….well worth [...]

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