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GOP Goes Google for 2012 Republican National Convention

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google-elections-logoWhen the Republican National Convention (RNC) convenes in Tampa, Florida, from Aug. 27-30, Google will be its “official social platform and live stream provider,” presenting coverage of RNC events, programs, and interviews via Google+ and YouTube.

The coverage won’t be limited to the happenings on the main stage. Google promises a convention “without walls” where conversations will be brought directly to voters ahead of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, which will take place Nov. ...

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Timing Your SEO Efforts to Rank During Traffic Peaks & Spikes

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acquisition-timingSome keywords have seasonal trending, search volume life-cycles, and hype spikes. When you need to rank during the peak of these trends, organic ranking requires you to do most of your work before the peak.

Riding the waves of search volume hype is hard, but it can also be very rewarding. Knowing when to exactly time your search engine optimization (SEO) effort provides a huge lead over your competitors, so how is it done ...

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adCenter to Add Broad Match Modifier

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Yahoo Search Bing PPCAs they promised they would, the adCenter product team continues to deliver important improvements at an impressive pace. People are beginning to be given the heads up on the imminent release for the U.S. market of another feature that brings adCenter even closer to Google AdWords parity: Broad Match Modifier.

Not only does this feature provide advertisers with much better control over the sometimes erratic behavior of the broad matching ...

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4 Reasons Your Search Team Should Manage DSP Campaigns

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blue-pin-gray-pins-crowdIf you’ve been around digital marketing long enough you have probably witnessed the “display versus search” argument multiple times. The display team likes to call out search’s focus on brand terms, while the search team likes to bring up “post-impression” as the savior to all things display.

Moving forward into the 2010’s, we now know these two tactics work best in tandem, and we have done much to make sure the two teams work together on ...

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Worldwide Social Media Usage Trends in 2012

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globe-purpleThere's absolutely no doubt that social networks continue to play an increasingly important part in many people's lives. EMarketer predicts there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, representing a 19.2 percent increase over 2011 figures.

At some point we're bound to reach a social media saturation point, but it doesn't look like that point will arrive any time soon.

Social media usage varies from place to place and from one demographic to ...

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Top 10 PPC Campaign Mistakes

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PPC advertising is a powerful mechanism for creating new customers. It is; however, one that is ripe with trip wires, snares, and third rails. Below lists the top 10 most common PPC campaign mistakes that prevent companies from finding a pot of gold.

10. Not Using Geographical Targeting

Whether you’re an international conglomerate or a localized small business, geographical targeting is tremendously important. Avoid wasted spend by only targeting the areas that offer maximum ROI. For small businesses, maximum return might only occur ...

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Domain Names With Geo Specific Keywords Offer Local Ranking Opportunities [Study]

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Most local search professionals will tell you that citations and site relevance to the target geo are the keys to ranking in local search engine results pages (SERPs).

Testing and retesting old methods is part of maintaining SEO strategies so it seemed a smart choice to take a closer look at one of these key onsite factors and conduct a small study on the weight of domain names in rankings. The goal was to evaluate the performance of a related ...

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SES New York 2012 – Day 2 Coverage #SESNY

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ses-new-york-2012-hiltonFollowing up Day 1, SES New York attendees learned more of the latest tools, trends, and strategies in sessions covering search engine optimization (SEO), paid search, landing page optimization, mobile, social, local, and more.

Here's a roundup of Day 2 live blogging and coverage of SES New York 2012.

Search Marketing and Social Media in Regulated Industries

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pharmaAs more companies in heavily regulated industries search for cost savings, greater efficiencies for dollars spent, and better matches with modern sources of information, they are aggressively shifting dollars from traditional advertising to digital and social media. These industries - which include pharmaceuticals and healthcare, financial services and insurance, alcohol and tobacco, and those that service government entities - have regulations that govern their marketing and communications, especially ones aimed at ...

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SEO & Google: The Ugly Truth

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He walked down the quiet street, a leopard in the concrete jungle. Eyes down, but watching the angles. Hands in his coat pocket concealing but preoccupied. It was then from the shadows a figure emerged, unwanted but unrelenting.

“Hey buddy, you lookin'?” , poured forth with a cloud of smoke.

“Naw, I don't do that crap.” he blew back. “Don't ya know that stuff will get you messed up? Just look, right up there” as he pointed to the surveillance camera across ...

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