Archive for February, 2010

Google’s Real-Time Search Includes Facebook Fan Pages Now

Back in December Google announced their deal with Facebook to list feeds from Facebook in their real-time search results.   Although they reached a deal, the data wasn’t making it into the feeds until now.  Google tweeted that Facebook Fan Pages feed are not officially part of real-search results.
What you need to know:
The only updates that [...]

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2010, Facebook, Facebook Fan Page, Google, Interesting, News, Real-Time Search, Social Media

Yahoo! and Twitter Parnership

Twitter and Yahoo! announced a content sharing deal today!
In addition to real-time Twitter updates on Yahoo! Search, people will be able to access their Twitter feeds on Yahoo! verticals like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports and others.
Yahoo! is making it easy for people to tweet from Yahoo! sites and share content from Yahoo! in their tweets.
“Let [...]

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2010, Real-Time Search, Social Media, Twitter, Yahoo

More SEO Questions Answered

The following question was submitted by Keith Riddington:
What works the best out of all the options?
I think what Keith is asking is with so many online marketing strategies, what works best.
If we break it down, the most common strategies used are:

SEO
Blogging
Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Buzz etc)
Link Building
Article marketing/Syndication
Press Releases
PPC

(Note this isn’t meant to be a [...]

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Beginners SEO, Blogs, Link Building, Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, blogging

Fortune 500 Still Clueless About SEO, Study Says (From SearchEngineLand)

Great post at SearchEngineLand: http://searchengineland.com/fortune-500-still-clueless-about-seo-36420

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SEO

Anatomy Of A Successful Tweet

Check out my article on SearchEngineJournal: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/anatomy-of-a-successful-tweet/17810/

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Social Media, Twitter

SEO Questions Answered (part 2)

Carolyn Winslow asked “I would say my biggest question is how do all the pieces fit together? What would be the correct order in putting the strategies to work obviously one couldn’t do everything at once.”
Answer: Its true there is a lot to focus on and everything can’t be done at once.  You need to [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Blogs, Facebook, Link Building, SEO, Small Business, Twitter

SEO and Social Media Questions Answered

I’ve asked you to submit your top questions related to growing your business online.  I am working my way through answering the questions.  Here are a couple to get us started:

How do I get links into my site?
An age old question that has left many site owners confused and frustrated.  Google is pretty finicky about [...]

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Beginners SEO, Google, Link Building, Marketing, Real-Time Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter

Facebook Fan Page

Interested in Facebook Fan Pages?  They are a great tool to generate new leads and develop relationships with people to help grow your business.
There is some confusion about a Profile on Facebook, a Group and a Fan Page or Business Page.
Unlike groups in Facebook, Fan pages are visible to unregistered people and are indexed by [...]

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Facebook, SEO, Social Media

Want to get more sales online?

Tip of the day:  Reviews and recommendations play a big part in consumer decision making:

62% of shoppers read consumer-written product reviews online.
80%+ say their purchase decisions have been directly influenced by reviews.
70% of shoppers share product reviews with their friends, family and colleagues.
18% of consumers say they look for more product information online or in [...]

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Consumer Behavior, Marketing, Social Media

SEO Interview

Roger from SENinja.com and I had 2 great chats about SEO. He interviewed me on some hot topics in SEO. All the questions were submitted by people that follow his Blog and needed answers.
There are 2 ways you can access these interviews:
Listen on Roger’s Blog:
Interview 1: http://seninja.com/blog/jennifer-horowitz
Interview 2: http://seninja.com/blog/jennifer-horowitz/2
Download and listen on your iPod [...]

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2010, Beginners SEO, Bing, EcomBuffet News, Facebook, Google, Interesting, Microsoft, Personalization, Q&A, Questions, Real-Time Search, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Thoughts, Twitter, Website Content, Yahoo