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Track Tsunami Warnings Online with NOAA, Twitter & Search

February 27, 2010 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

Earlier in the morning a major 8.8 earthquake hit Concepcion, Chile (a major university city) which has set off a Tsunami warning in the Pacific which reaches from California to Hawaii. According to MSNBC news, at 11 am EST, Hawaiians will wake up to an early morning Tsunami warning and evacuations of seaside areas. The major news networks are all covering the disaster in Chile, and Pacific … [Read more...]

Earlier in the morning a major 8.8 earthquake hit Concepcion, Chile (a major university city) which has set off a Tsunami warning in the Pacific which reaches from California to Hawaii. According to MSNBC news, at 11 am EST, Hawaiians will wake up to an early morning Tsunami warning and evacuations of seaside areas. The [...]

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February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment | Read Story

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3 Quick Ways to Test Your Website Design in FireFox

February 26, 2010 By

I am no web designer (I have neither time nor talent to learn web design), however for SEOs it is essential to know some basic tools and tips to test a website design when it is delivered. Thus this post is not intended to share some advanced tips for web developers: instead it lists three [...]

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February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment | Read Story

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5 Ways to Maximize Social Media Marketing Productivity in the Workplace

February 26, 2010 By +Megan Leap, see all posts by

As social media continues to grow at an exhilarating pace, it can become challenging for marketers to balance the time-consuming demands of today’s social media marketing landscape with their career’s core focus. Whether you’re a full-time social media marketer whose main responsibility is to manage social media campaigns, a brand-side marketer who dabbles in social media throughout the day, or a consultant who networks with other’s in the industry, it’s important to streamline your social media initiatives as much as possible, in order to save time & stay focused. Here are 5 musts for boosting the efficiency of social media marketing in the workplace.

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February 26, 2010 | 7 Comments | Read Story

Filed Under: Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

3 Ways to Blog from Your Email

February 25, 2010 By

If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to post to your blogs from email (and thus from your mobile phone). Of course, you won’t be able to apply those to all types of blogs but generally this is [...]

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February 25, 2010 | 5 Comments | Read Story

Filed Under: Blogs and Blog Search

SEO Priorities – Task ROI

February 25, 2010 By +David Harry, see all posts by

I was going to sit down and write a post with my usual brand of geekiness. You know, some more eye-watering patent or IR paper analysis that the search world uses to get to sleep at night?  Then I thought of something worth getting off my chest that seems not to get enough attention out [...]

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February 25, 2010 | 17 Comments | Read Story

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5 Steps to Launching a Mobile Search Campaign

February 25, 2010 By +Megan Leap, see all posts by

Mobile search continues to explode. According to eMarketer, mobile search spending will grow 81% over the next two years. So there’s no better time to get a jump start on your mobile search campaigns. Here are 5 key steps to launching a mobile search campaign in AdWords.

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February 25, 2010 | 6 Comments | Read Story

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Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates

February 24, 2010 By +Arnold Zafra, see all posts by

Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that  status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up on Google search results today. Of course, this comes hot on the heels of Yahoo’s announcement of their content-sharing deal with Twittter. And so the race to become a real-time [...]

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February 24, 2010 | 9 Comments | Read Story

Filed Under: News, Social Networking

How to Use Google Analytics on Your Facebook Fan Page

February 24, 2010 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

Looking to integrate your analytical data and tracking across your site, blog and now even your Facebook Fanpages? It appears that the UK’s WebDigi Dev team has figured out a pretty easy way to use Google Analytics on your Facebook Fan Page. With SEJ’s Facebook Page having over 4,000 users and lots of cool comments [...]

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February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments | Read Story

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6 Ways to Extract All Links from the Current Page

February 24, 2010 By

Seeing what a web page links out to is one of the major steps of SEO diagnostics process. This way you can see which internal pages are given more emphasis to, which anchor texts are used for both internal and external links; you can identify some red flags of possibly paid links, research the site [...]

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February 24, 2010 | Comments Off | Read Story

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Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed

February 24, 2010 By +Brian Carter, see all posts by

UPDATE 10/06/2010: In retrospect, I was completely wrong. It had to happen sooner or later. Read the rest at your own risk. —————– Buzz is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly noisy social media world. Why do I think it’s superior to Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed? Let’s take the easiest comparison first: Buzz [...]

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February 24, 2010 | 27 Comments | Read Story

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