February 13, 2012

If you’re an SEO who’s still fumbling with the latest version of Google Analytics (version 5), fumble no more.  Here is a quick overview of 3 features you should know to help make your job easier.  These tips will also help you keep demonstrating the importance of your laborious SEO efforts and make you look [...]

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Googleplex Project X: Google’s New Secret Hardware Testing Lab

Reportedly, Google is in the process of completing over $120 million worth of renovations and projects for its Mountain View headquarters. The latest project, which includes building a “secret lab” to test new hardware and devices, is being headed up by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and has been named “Project X.” According to news reports, [...]

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Why Yellow Pages Will Be Dead in Five Years

Let me start of by saying that I do have a Yellow Pages listing for my SEO company, Brick Marketing. It costs me about $50 a month for the profile on the Yellow Pages website. It’s a good way to help with my local link building, get a FEW additional local visitors and YP.com is [...]

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13 Ways to Get More Pinterest Followers

Pinterest – the web’s latest social media craze, is a great way to build awareness for your blog or website.  But as with most social media promotion techniques, your ability to influence others through your Pinterest presence is limited if you don’t have that many people following you in the first place. So today, we’ll [...]

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Most Popular Jan. 2012 Articles on SEJ

We have a lot of very talented people writing for SEJ. As a thank you to them I want to highlight their January articles. The articles below are the top 15 most visited posts that were not news related. I want to present them one more time in case you missed them. Also, keep tabs [...]

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The Ability to Search by Location in Google+ and its Benefits to Marketers

The social media space is one of the most competitive industries in today’s digital world. This became clearer than ever in 2011, a year when we saw social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn evolve, and the birth of new players like Google+. Despite having an uphill climb ahead of it, Google knows that [...]

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10 Companies Using Facebook To Grow Their Likes

Growing the number of “Likes” on your company’s Facebook page isn’t just a matter of pride. In fact, the social proof generated by an active fan page can be incredibly powerful in building your brand’s authority and engagement. However, earning these votes of confidence isn’t as simple as just asking people to click “Like” on [...]

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See Social Media Job Salaries in Top 20 U.S. Markets

Onward Search created this infographic – Social Media Jobs Salary Guide. You can click on it to expand its size. Everyone is talking about how important great content is lately and I personally know how long it takes to plan things out, research and write. This IG shows that bloggers and copywriters are getting the [...]

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Law Enforcement Turns to Social Media to Collar More Criminals

While the goal of criminals is always to stay one step ahead of law enforcement, some of them inevitably end up leading authorities in their direction by not being able to keep their mouths shut. In a day and age when social media is all the rage, it seems more and more criminals are tripping [...]

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Google Developing Branded Home Entertainment System

Several days ago, Google filed FCC paperwork to test a prototype of a new Google device. According to filing, the test will take place in the homes of 252 employees and take approximately six months. The official FCC filing said the following: “Google is developing an entertainment device that requires testing outside the laboratory environment. [...]

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