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Social Media and SEO BootCamp – Friday, October 21

October 12, 2011 No Comments

I hope you can join us Friday, October 21 for another Social Media and SEO BootCamp. Bill Seaver and I are once again partnering to do this one day event to give you the tools to be able to use social media well, establish a strong SEO strategy, and develop a social media marketing plan [...]

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Social Signals in Search – Author Highlighting

October 3, 2011 No Comments

As part of my series on the integration social signals in search, it’s time to discuss author highlighting in Google. Last week, we started with the timeline of how social media became integrated with search engines. It’s an ever-changing set of events. In the summer of 2011, Google announced the highlighting of the authorship of [...]

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Social Signals in Search – Timeline

September 25, 2011 1 Comment

Over the next few weeks, I will be writing about “Social Signals in Search”. The fact is, what you do in Facebook, Twitter and Google+ directly affects search. How your site is found, indexed, and displayed is connected to social. I will dive into some of these specific areas moving forward. For now, I am [...]

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Trey Pennington

September 9, 2011 4 Comments

My friend Trey Pennington died of apparent suicide on September 4. That’s the headline, but that’s not the story. That’s right; this is another post about Trey. That shows you the impact he had on people. This post is a bit of a ramble and I do not apologize for that. My thoughts are scattered. [...]

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Get More Facebook Likes

September 3, 2011 1 Comment

No doubt Facebook is a huge part of our culture these days. Over 10% of all US web traffic is going to Facebook (Source:HitWise). Of course, there are many that are not participating in Facebook. I certainly understand the need to stay away. There are plenty of negative drawbacks. The Toyota Venza commercial (see below) [...]

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