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Why Search Engines Should Use Social Signals as Ranking Factors

Social signals - from author authority to number of re-tweets to number of "likes" - should (if not now, then very soon) be some component of Google's algorithm.

By Nichola Stott · 10 May 2011

Social

Mother’s Day in 2011: Give Some Thought To Baby-boomers Divided by Digital

One day where the digital divide is felt most in the 'socio', rather than 'economic' sense of 'socio-economic' issues, is Mother's day.

By Jonathan Allen · 08 May 2011

Industry

5 Ways Google Could Break into Social

We've seen some spectacular social failures from Google. Here are five elevator pitches to help Google to get social right.

By Greg Habermann · 04 May 2011

Social

Bin Laden’s Death Shatters Super Bowl Record on Twitter

Twitter has reported a new record for the highest sustained rate of tweets between 10:45 p.m. Sunday and 2:20 a.m. Monday. The…

By Danny Goodwin · 03 May 2011

SEO

How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic

Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic.

By Kristi Hines · 03 May 2011

Social

5 Tips on Building Brand Loyalty via Twitter

Twitter has immense value, even if it's hard to measure. It's superb for building brand loyalty, as long as you approach it…

By Kevin Gibbons · 03 May 2011

Social

Oh Happy Day! YouTube Founders Takeover Delicious

Forget the Royal Wedding, the surprise piece of news that came out this week was that AVOS, a new company formed by…

By Jonathan Allen · 29 Apr 2011

Industry

Royal Wedding: Searching for Insights on Google, Bing, Yahoo

The overhyped Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton is tomorrow, with an expected viewing audience of up to 2…

By Danny Goodwin · 28 Apr 2011

Social

No Tweets At #RoyalWedding

Tomorrow is the big day for the British royal couple, William and Kate, but don’t expect to see anyone tweeting live from…

By Jonathan Allen · 28 Apr 2011

Content

Buy Cycle Link Building: A Content Marketing Guide for Link Strategists

How content marketers and link builders can play nicely together to build referral traffic by creating informative, high quality, or purchase-inducing content.

By Garrett French · 26 Apr 2011

Local

Google Offers Accepting Business Sign-ups in Portland

Google promises businesses that the Groupon-style program, which went live last week, will help bring in new customers, with Google handling all…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Apr 2011

Industry

The Social Connection between Google Panda and Google +1

Google's Panda update represents more than just an algorithm change to weed out content farms; it represents (perhaps) a first step in…

By Garry Przyklenk · 25 Apr 2011

Industry

Attention Walmart Shoppers: Social Media Is In Aisle K

Walmart have announced the purchase of Kosmix, “a social media filter aggregating information by topic from Web sites, Twitter messages and other…

By Frank Watson · 20 Apr 2011

Mobile

Is Best Price Always the Best Offer? iPhone App Finds In-Store Deals Nearby You

SaleLocator.com a site which aggregates local information about shopping sales in your local area have launched an iPhone app that automatically searches…

By Jonathan Allen · 18 Apr 2011

Social

Social Media Marketing Basics: Think First

Don't treat social media marketing as if it's a completely new ballgame. While there are new elements to social, you'll find many…

By Bas Van Den Beld · 18 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Trends Extinguishes Hot Topics

Hot Topics on Google Trends are history. Google now is simply showing the top 10 Hot Searches — what Google users are…

By Danny Goodwin · 13 Apr 2011

PPC

How Social Media Affects Paid Search

As AdWords and +1 evolves, Google will monetize not just what you do, but who you are. We've only seen the tip…

By Alex Cohen · 12 Apr 2011

Mobile

Tablet Device Usage Overtaking Print, Radio & TV [Infographic]

Admob (the mobile ad network owned by Google) recently surveyed 1431 tablet device owners to learn more about their usage habits. The…

By Jonathan Allen · 12 Apr 2011

Analytics

Hitwise Reports Paywall Causes Decrease in Overall Visits to NYTimes.com

According to data from Experian Hitwise, The New York Times paywall has caused a decrease in the overall visits to NYTimes.com of…

By Greg Jarboe · 12 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Buys PushLife for $25 Million

Google has acquired Toronto startup PushLife for a reported $25 million, potentially another piece of the rumored Google Android Music service and…

By Danny Goodwin · 11 Apr 2011

Industry

Google Industrial Espionage: They Have A Mole At Twitter!

Seems Google is getting information about senior employees being recruited by Twitter, in order to make counter offers, TechCrunch reported. Google offered…

By Frank Watson · 08 Apr 2011

Industry

Google News Layout Testing A More Social Layout

A new look for Google News is appearing in the wild. The new layout still uses three columns for categories, top stories…

By Thom Craver · 08 Apr 2011

Industry

Google +1: Death of Facebook Like?

Has Google learned from the Buzz disaster and found something that can seriously rival the Facebook Like button? A look at some…

By Kaila Strong · 07 Apr 2011

Social

Twitter Muscles Tax Break From San Francisco To Keep HQ Local

Wanting to keep the tech industry in town, the city of San Francisco Board of Supervisors with an 8-3 vote approved a…

By Frank Watson · 07 Apr 2011

Social

Twitter’s Improved Who To Follow Page Disappoints

Far behind third-party tools, like Mr. Tweet, Twitter finally launches a user directory. The Twitter blog posted an announcement of the new…

By Brent Rangen · 06 Apr 2011

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