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Beyond Groupon: Localized Deal Sites If you're like thousands of Americans, you've discovered the magic of Groupon-- when Groupon held a 50% in GAP stores last week nationwide, they sold hundreds of thousands of them, crashing the system...

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Have You Been To LikeButton.Me Yet? The recently-launched website LikeButton.Me is a quick look at what Facebook is trying to accomplish with their new OpenGraph platform. If you are already logged into Facebook in your browser, you and...

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How Sharing Links With UTM Tags Can Produce Incorrect... Many in-house and agency search marketers use UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) tags to sort and filter their Google Analytics results for their website traffic. UTM tags are added to the end of a link and...

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3 Easy Things To Rank Higher on GoogleBy Eric ReaGoogle prides itself on finding the most relevant websites to place at the top of its results based on several factors. While search engine optimization is a continuous process, there...

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Facebook Facts, Figures, and Statistics: An Infographic

Posted by Kelsey | Posted in Reading List, social media | Posted on 27-08-2010

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I’m really a sucker for infographics and this one I found over at All Techno Blog is great.

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B-Sides: The Dilemma of Your Family on Facebook

Posted by bethaney | Posted in B-Sides | Posted on 28-07-2010

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In 2006, Mark Zuckerburg proved why he’s a billionaire by tapping into the “adult” market. Where previously only college and high school students could join Facebook, in September of 2006 Facebook became every teenager’s nightmare by becoming available to anyone 13 years or older, the only stipulation being a valid email.

An online outlet where parents can stalk their children while simultaneously embarrassing them? If anything is surprising, it’s that this market didn’t exist before.

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Have You Been To LikeButton.Me Yet?

Posted by kelsey | Posted in Extra, Reading List, social media | Posted on 11-05-2010

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The recently-launched website LikeButton.Me is a quick look at what Facebook is trying to accomplish with their new OpenGraph platform. If you are already logged into Facebook in your browser, you and your friend’s activity will already appear on the screen.

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How to Add Plugin-Free Twitter, Sphinn, and Facebook Buttons to Your WordPress Blog

Posted by kelsey | Posted in Extra, Freelance & Design, Search Engines, social media | Posted on 25-03-2010

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After coming across Jaspal’s brilliant blog post, How To Add Digg, Stumble, Twitter Share Buttons On Your WordPress Blog, I tried to add the buttons using the method he explained to The Social Robot. However, I decided that I didn’t really know how to host the javascript images that Jaspal suggests and I wanted to have Twitter, Sphinn, and Facebook buttons instead of Digg and StumbleUpon because my blog is mostly about social media and search engine marketing.

So, after several tries, I modified the code using javascript that is already hosted as sites like TweetMeme and Sphinn. That way you can just pop in the code and you’re ready to go!

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How to get your social media profiles crawled by search bots

Posted by kelsey | Posted in Featured, SEO, Search Engines, social media | Posted on 24-03-2010

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Social media profiles like those found on Twitter and Facebook are crawled by search engines and are indexed. In addition, user contributions on social media sites- notes that are posted, statuses, tweets, are also indexed, sometimes at an alarming rate.

Be sure to use clear, plain language cut to the chase. No one wants to read a tweet about what the intern is wearing or the color of the new carpet being laid in the office.

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