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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

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

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

Important Info on Twitter and Real Time Search

Everyone is trying to understand more about Real Time Search and how they can get their tweets ranked.  Here are a couple bits of useful information to help you better understand.
Statement from Bing: “If someone has a lot of followers, his/her Tweet may get ranked higher. If a tweet is exactly the same as other [...]

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Bing, Google, Microsoft, Real-Time Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter

Google Personalization: Tips For Site Owners and Searchers

Google personalization of search results continues to be a hot topic of conversation and most people aren’t happy about it.  There are privacy concerns, some people have concerns about getting sites ranked, some people feel it doesn’t actually help improve their results.
Regardless of how you feel about it, it’s here (at least for now).  So [...]

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Beginners SEO, Google, Personalization, SEO

Search Engine Optimization Simplified

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is complex, confusing and often frustrating.  It also means a lot of different things to different people.  Are you a site owner trying to figure it all out?  I am going to simplify it for you.
When someone searches Google, they are looking for the quickest path to the most relevant results.
So [...]

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Beginners SEO, Google, Interesting, Microsoft, SEO, Small Business, Yahoo

2010 Success: SEO, Social Media and More

We’ve all read the predictions for 2010, we’ve read recaps of 2009 ad nauseum, and we’ve read articles about resolutions and we’ve also probably spent time thinking about our goals for the year.  I wanted to add my two cents and give you some advice for success in 2010.
1.     Write your goals down. [...]

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2010, Articles, Beginners SEO, Google, Marketing, Recommendations, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Thoughts, Twitter, Yahoo

Google Personalization

For a while now, Google has been offering personalized search results when you are logged into your Google account.
They have now extended personalized search functionality to users who are not signed in.
This applies to Google users around the world, in over 40 languages.
“This addition enables us to customize search results for you based upon 180 [...]

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Beginners SEO, Google, Interesting, Personalization, SEO

Danny Sullivan Says It Best

Like most people in the search industry, I’ve been thinking a lot about real-time search and playing around with it.  I’ve been compiling some notes for a Blog post I wanted to write and then I came across a post Danny Sullivan wrote – and as always – his post was concise, informative and very interesting.  [...]

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Facebook, Google, Real-Time Search, Social Media, Twitter

Real-Time Search

We knew it was coming and now it’s here!
A few days ago Google launched real-time search.
Real-time search is the catch phrase used to describe indexing what’s happening on the web, in real time. They will pull in Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, Blog posts, Google News Feeds, Yahoo! Answers and even MySpace feeds.
Back in October Google [...]

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Beginners SEO, Bing, Blogs, Facebook, Google, Interesting, Microsoft, News, Real-Time Search, Recommendations, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Thoughts, Twitter, Yahoo