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Ever wonder why SEO isn't for the lazy? First of all, the search engine results pages (SERPS) would be a pretty horrible collection if any lazy Tom, Dick or Harry could come along and get a place with the minimum amount of effort. It takes time, discipline, and know-how to get good results.[read more]

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Graph Search and growing numbers on Google+ are clearly leading us to a social search, a search that yields results our friends would recommend. With the blurring lines between traditional SEO and social media, the future of search is directly related to what it should have targeted all along: you.[read more]

Google Plus overtakes Twitter?

Google Plus recently overtook Twitter in terms of the number of active users. How? Google Plus has a number of killer features which are driving its growth and helping it steal precious attention away from the established social networks. Here's a look at several of them.[read more]

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Google will be preparing the launch of its online shopping service “Google Shopping Express” as a means to compete against Amazon Prime. The question is: will Google ever stop? What industry will Google find their way into only to come up on top?[read more]

Do you know what co-citations are, and how to earn them? If not, you may be hurting your SEO. Find out how to get around Google's new search algorithms by using co-citation to ensure that your page comes out on top.[read more]

Google is easy to search: just type in a word and hit search. But what if you want to look for something in detail, such as an exact phrase within a Word document? Recently I stumbled upon this infographic; I'd like to encourage you to share it with friends and leave a comment about what your favourite tip is.[read more]

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A series of Google algorithm updates has changed the way SEOs worked towards link building, content marketing, and traffic conversion. The Penguin update by Google has changed the link building process completely. Inserting bulk keywords in anchor text, or creating low-quality content with the wrong placement of keywords are the tricks of yesteryear.[read more]

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You may have heard rumors about Google AuthorRank, and wondered how that is going to affect search engine rankings. Google has long denied that authorship credit will affect result rankings in search engines, leading many to wonder if it was even real. It turns out that Google AuthorRank is very real.[read more]

I have always told my clients that every blog post needs to have at least one image, and I stick to that rule myself. Here are ten benefits to making sure that every time you write a blog post, you include at least one great image.[read more]

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With the announcement of BlackBerry 10, many are wondering if the company can, once again, offer businesses something that no other phone can. BlackBerry has always offered a level of security that many businesses felt was worth investing in. Even if the phones were annoying and cumbersome, the fact that BlackBerry encrypted e-mails meant that company secrets were less likely to leak out.[read more]

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The much anticipated release of RiM’s Blackberry 10 will not generate the wave of cash that the folks in Waterloo are looking for. Why? Because the Google/Apple juggernaut has become too powerful since the last time Research in Motion led the pack.[read more]

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A Russian study exposes surprising facts about Google's accuracy -- or lack thereof -- at detecting duplicate content over original content. And they're the number one search engine in the world![read more]

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The FTC closed its 19 month antitrust investigation of Google and Google came out of this largely unscathed.[read more]

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You may be worried about all the talk of the new “negative SEO” from the standpoint that it could be used as an attack weapon against your site. In this video, Google’s SEO Pro, Matt Cutts, answers a lot of the questions and addresses concerns about negative SEO.[read more]

Although remarketing might have a bad reputation amongst users, all online marketers know it can be quite affective if done correctly. In fact, many searches don’t even realize that they are in the midst of a remarketing campaign, and so they move along and find the resources they need and everyone wins. However, the benefits of remarketing haven’t always been transferred over when it comes to a SERP—at least not until now.[read more]

So in the end, what may seem like a PR nightmare for the company may actually result in them receiving a small image change in the eyes of those who were set that Apple was nothing but an evil entity who would never admit they have flaws, regardless of how small they are.[read more]

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Google+ is where your online persona and authorship resides, not your instagram pictures from your Friday night blackout session. Stop comparing it to Facebook.[read more]

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Today, Facebook announced the release of its carbon footprint metrics in a special Facebook app, dedicated to the reporting. And as Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOM notes, the carbon footprint you leave from drinking your morning latte is about the same as using Facebook for a year. "Yeah, that’s nothing, and shouldn’t scare off green-leaning, guilt-susceptible Facebookers (but maybe latte drinkers should think twice — the milk is the energy suck)," she writes.[read more]

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Yahoo's surprise selection of a prominent Google exec as CEO sends shock waves around the tech world, but also draws strong reviews.[read more]

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By tagging your content, you do get found by those who have not circled you – but are looking for the tag(s) you use.[read more]