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Facebook Edgerank - Removing The Shroud Of SecrecyHow the Facebook EdgeRank algorithm uses affinity, weight and time decay to rank posts, plus five tips to increase the reach of your Facebook Page posts.
- Facebook Games To Pep Up Your Facebook Page
Fan-gated Facebook game apps like Scratch and Win and Pick One bring fans back to your page with prizes. Custom games let you add your own branding.
- Facebook Passes News Feed Control to You
Facebook removes its news feed filter, so your posts reach all logged-in friends and fans. Internet businesses gain reach and data on what customers like.
- Facebook to Buy Instagram For $1 Billion
Mark Zuckerberg announces that Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram and plans to keep features like posting to other networks and separate followers.
- Facebook vs. Google Plus Engagement - You Had No Idea How Bad It Is For ... ! [infographic]
An infographic compares how fans of Mari Smith, Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki engage on Facebook and Google Plus. Engagement is far lower on Google Plus.
- Facebook, Twitter & Co
A reshared Google+ discussion on what social business means: a company that integrates social internally and externally, or one with a social objective.
- Finally (Sigh!) - Adobe Moving Away from Flash!
Adobe Edge creates web animations with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, after SEO, usability and security problems and the dispute with Apple hurt Flash.
- Five Artists That Got Famous Using Social Media
How Justin Bieber, the Gregory Brothers, Greyson Chance, Maria Aragon and Maria Black got famous through YouTube and Twitter, and what it means for you.
- Five Considerations For Enhancing SEO Of Videos
Five ways to improve the SEO of your videos: keyword-rich file names, good tags, a video sitemap, accurate captions or transcripts, and shares and likes.
- Five Free Video Editing Tools
Five free video editing tools compared, from Windows Movie Maker and VSDC Video Editor to Wax for special effects, Freemake Video Converter and Lightworks.
- Five Reasons To Professionalize Your Business’ Facebook Page
Five reasons to professionalize your business Facebook page, from SEO-friendly About text and reputation management to engagement and local reviews.
- Five Tips For Home Service Businesses To Effectively Content Market
Five content marketing tips for home service businesses like landscaping: start a blog, add videos, offer value, be realistic and entertain.
- Follow Me At Google+ Buttons, Add Me To Your Circles Buttons!
A free set of image buttons that invite visitors to follow your Google+ profile, labeled Follow Me At Google+ or Add Me To Your Circles, ready to download.
- Free Article Rewriter - Rewrite Your Articles Quickly And With High Quality
Article marketing needs good articles. The Free Article Rewriter splits your article into sentences, so you rewrite each one into a text that reads well.
- Free Article Rewriter Tool Released
A short note on the Free Article Rewriter, a tool at Internet Business Mastermind that helps you create high-quality articles in a shorter amount of time.
- Free Downloads Working Beautifully Again
Long story short: W3 Total Cache is gone for now, performance is back to its much slower state, you can now easily unlock your free downloads again.
- Free Online Marketing Methods That Have Nothing To Do With Social Media
Free ways to market your business online without social media: article marketing, guest blogging, directories, forum and blog comments and classifieds.
- Freelance Writers - How To Earn More
Freelance writers who accept every gig right away leave money on the table. A link to 12 negotiation tips that help you earn more from your writing work.
- G+ News - Changes to a Flexible Sidebar Navigation [Video]
A short post on a change in Google+, which moved its navigation to a flexible sidebar, together with the original Google+ post.
- Gamer or Not, You’re Going to Love Google+
Google+ added a games tab with titles like Angry Birds and Zynga Poker. It keeps game notifications in one place, so your main stream stays free of them.
- Generating Website Traffic W Automated Video Submissions P1
What is the secret in getting to that prized first page ranking in Google or Yahoo? Have you tried anything and everything just for a chance at that top spot? Are you still baffled as to what you really need to do to have a higher page rank? Well, look no further because Willie Crawford is here to lend you a hand. There is something that always works out for him. Now, he wants to share it with you. All he ask is for you to listen for a bit and use what he will reveal for your own success.
- Generating Website Traffic With Automated Video Submissions (Part 2)
Do you need more traffic to your site? Article marketing, blogs, forums, classified ads…..the list goes on and on and on. There are so many strategies you can utilize to gain traffic but not all will work. Sadly, that’s a truth we can’t ignore. But in this article, Willie Crawford shares his secret to help you gain the amount of traffic you want and you need. There are keys to achieving success, and now, you’ll know one of them.
- German Data Protection Commissioner Bans Facebook Fan Pages And Like Buttons
The data protection office of Schleswig-Holstein asks websites to remove Facebook Like buttons and fan pages and threatens fines of 50,000 euros.
- Get Mobile With Your Marketing - Using QR Codes On Cars
QR codes on cars are a marketing idea few competitors use. They raise exposure, hold more data than a business card and reach drivers stuck in traffic.
- Getting More Fans By Promoting Your Facebook Page
Free ways to promote your Facebook page: cross promotion, your email signature, website buttons, @mentions, your online bio and sharing quality content.
- Google Authorship is an exciting development
A short comment on Google Authorship and a reshared post on author rank. Showing your face in search results is a promising idea, though it can be misused.
- Google Buys Social Sharing Company Meebo
Google buys Meebo, the company behind the Meebo Bar for publishers, and plans to add its team to Google+. With statements from Google and Meebo and links.
- Google Drive is live - and here's another example for fast-food-journalism
On launch day, a tech blog judged Google Drive no Dropbox killer. A critique of hasty news, and why Google will tie cloud storage to its services.
- Google Page Speed Service Launches Today
Google launched Page Speed Service to help sites load faster. An overview of the Page Speed family, from browser extension and online tool to the service.
- Google Places Cuts Third-Party Reviews
Google Places removed third-party reviews from sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. What changed on the pages and why, including the FTC investigation.
- Google Places pages have been entirely replaced by new Google+ Local pages
Google Places pages were replaced by Google+ Local pages, which should help Google Plus grow. A short note with a link to the Search Engine Land report.
- Google Plus Feed Broken, Again
Another service offering RSS feeds from Google Plus streams went offline and left the sidebar widget empty. A short note on waiting for a better g+ API.
- Google plus profiles enhancing Google News I knew they showed up in search results,...
Google Plus profiles already showed up in search results. This short note records seeing them in Google News for the first time, with a link to the post.
- Google plus will be integrated big time into Google news
Google makes Google+ more prominent in Google News, while engagement on Google+ still lags far behind Facebook, as numbers for Guy Kawasaki's posts show.
- Google's Vision for Google Plus
A CNET interview with Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz on what Google Plus is meant to be, with comments on g+ as a user, marketer and from Google's side.
- Google+ is actually sixth on the list of most-popular social networks for March...
Google+ ranked sixth among social networks by visits in March, behind Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Tagged, without counting mobile users.
- Great info for any internet marketer or business with online marketing
A recommendation to download the 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, with a link to an analysis of the three points that stood out most.
- Great step-by-step strategy for content marketing
A reshared link to the 10-step content marketing checklist by Copyblogger, for anyone who knows content marketing matters but is unsure what it is.
- Grow Your Business with Triberr: #1 Networking
Part 1 of the Triberr series shows how a tribe in your niche brings support, confidence, connections and new opportunities to your online business.
- Grow Your Business with Triberr: #2 Massive Reach
Part 2 of the Triberr series explains reach. When your tribe shares your posts, your Twitter reach multiplies and brings exposure, followers and offers.