Weekly Search & Social News: 03/09/2010

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – so, how are we now? Last week was a pretty busy one out in the trenches, especially considering that SMX was on (generally slows the blogging world).

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/09/2010

Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They’re not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/02/2010

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – Hey gang… I am going to keep this short and sweet today as it’s me B-day and I am trying to keep a low profile. Of note, it was on my birthday last year when I started this newsletter…So a happy anniversary to all those great writers out there that keep the SEO space vibrant.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 03/02/2010

The Basics of Web Video File Formats and Video Containers

Does all the technical jargon about digital video file formats drive you bonkers? Join the club! Confusion over video file formats is probably the single biggest hang-up for people wanting to upload video to the web

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Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates

Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that   status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up on Google search results today.

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Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates

Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed

Buzz is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly noisy social media world. Why do I think it’s superior to Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed

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How to Leverage Traffic Besides Using Organic Search

Too many SEO’s and marketers worry about getting that #1 ranking in Google for their primary keyword/phrase.  Of course, if that query is being highly searched and you rank first, you are going to receive some good traffic.   However, it may take an enormous amount of effort to achieve those rankings.  It may be worth your time to try and gain traffic from other sources.

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How to Leverage Traffic Besides Using Organic Search

Canadian Privacy Office Questions Google Buzz

As expected from a controversial web service that inflicts privacy invasion, Google Buzz  just received a new “friend” in the Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner.   A spokesperson for the said Canadian government office said that they are now investigating whether Google Buzz is indeed violating or may have violated Canadian privacy laws

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Google Integrates MySpace to Search, But Not Proud of it

Google seemed to have quietly implemented MySpace Real-Time Search API just now. The announcement was actually made by MySpace so I checked out the Official Google Blog if there was any update about this but didn’t find any

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Google Integrates MySpace to Search, But Not Proud of it

10 Questions to Learn Your Niche

If you truly understand your niche, you can better find relevant linking partners. If you don’t, you’re going to waste loads of time pursuing targets that don’t work out, and you’re going to end up with potential links that may give you better rankings, but don’t do a thing for traffic.

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