In addition to recently winning the Crunchie for Best New Startup of 2011, a new study by shareaholic is now indicating that Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than Google Plus, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. The study, which examined aggregated data for over 200,000 web publishers with a reach of over 260 million unique monthly Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up . Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features–a fairly important thing if the service is to become something parents encourage their children to use

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Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up

A few months ago we brought you a 9-part series on social video marketing called The Social Video Blueprint. It was intended to serve as an outline of sorts, for companies and brands (and individual creators) seeking to ignite their video marketing with a social kick

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FREE Social Video E-Book: The Social Video Blueprint

Danny Sullivan is a pretty smart dude. If you’re not familiar with him, it probably means you haven’t dabbled much in SEO. And when he wrote yesterday about paying Rupert Murdoch three times for the same piece of content , it really got me fired up

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Greed & The Crumbling Dream Of A Video Promised Land

If you were sick last week or on vacation or in a coma you missed A LOT of Google news. Here is a must read recap of articles on Google, Google changes and Google news

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Important Google News: Recap for Last Week