SEMPO Boston – Evolution of Search

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SEMPO Boston’s “Evolution of Search” event this week had us geared up and ready to question how search has changed, and where it will lead us marketers in the future. Adria Kyne, Director of User Experience and Search Marketing at Valassis Communications, explored with our panel of search engine marketing experts the growing value of social media and link building, as well as the powerful impact mobile has started to play …

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Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 1:02 pm by Sabrina

Social Media vs. SEO

Over the past 6-12 months or so, there has been some serious rivalries between the marketers who believe SEO is dead and those that do not.   Obviously, social media is exploding and turning the web into a very different place than it was 3 or 4 years ago.  Static web content is like newpaper, day old news, or even worse year old news.  Whenever the SEO vs Social debate …

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Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 6:26 am by Tim

Is Social Media Changing Your Search Habits?

Do you find yourself using traditional search engines less and less?  Are you using the Bing search functionality in Facebook?  How often do you find yourself using Twitter Search? The answers to these questions may surprise you, as users continue to flock to major social networks as their main information portal.  Everything from news to comments, IM to email, videos to pictures, the web is a very different place than …

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Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 8:48 am by Tim

Blog SEO Strategy Using Google Keyword Tool

Using Google Keyword Tool for Blogging: Have you ever had a bloggers block?  Or maybe you get stumped on what to title your blog or how to slug your urls.  By using the Google Keyword Tool, you can easily enter whatever subject your writing about and instantly receive the associated long tail keywords and search volumes. By using these long tail keywords as the title and/or url slugs of your …

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Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 8:06 am by Tim

Social Shopping: The New Era of Social Networks

For those of us who are close to the evolving trends of digital media, it was tough to miss how the convergence of real-time mediums influenced consumer behavior this holiday season. Amazon sold more kindle books than physical books on Christmas day iPod touch app downloads grew 1000% on Christmas Day, surpassing the iPhone It was a Facebook Christmas; site hits #1 in US for first time Leading up to …

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Monday, January 4, 2010 @ 4:57 am by Tim

A VC/Visionary's Recap of 2009

Forget the boring “Top 10 Lists,” listen to Rich Wong, investor in some of the hottest companies in mobile (Admob, Getjar) and social (Facebook, Groupon).  Below is a great interview via @scobleizer of Rich recapping 2009 and giving his predictions of 2010; covering topics such as the unexpected growth of social e-commerce, how apps vs mobile web is a non-argument, and the convergence of SEO/SEM and Social Media Optimization.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 @ 6:55 am by Tim

Google Goggles Review

Officially, I found out about the Google Goggles release on the MSNBC report last week along with the rest of the world.  Unofficially, I’ve known Google has been investing heavily in their image search technology for about 18 months.  In August of 2006

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 8:14 am by Tim