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Gaining Top Keyword Prominence & Dominance in Foreign Languages

The English language Internet is a crowded place these days – online consensus puts the total percentage of online content that’s in English between 50 and 80 percent.

Competition for keywords and domain names is at an all-time high …

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Relationship Link Building: An Interview with Paul May of BuzzStream

Paul May is the CEO and a co-founder of BuzzStream. He has spent most of the last 15 years either starting or working on early stage startups. You can follow May on Twitter @paulmay.

May agreed to answer a few of my questions about relation…

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Google Flight Search Takes Off

The search industry has been watching and waiting to see what Google will do in the flight search vertical since Google’s acquisition of ITA, which was given the ‘all-clear’ by the Department of Justice five months ago. Google has now launched Goo…

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August 2011 Search Engine Share from comScore, Hitwise

Google’s U.S. search engine market share dipped below 65 percent for the first time since September 2009, according to comScore. Hitwise still shows Google’s market share at just over 65 percent. Meanwhile, Bing continues to make tiny …

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Facebook Best Social Media Network for Brand Interaction [Study]

The majority of Internet users don’t use any of the popular social media networks at all to interact with their favorite brands; so says a CBM Consumer Pulse study supported by Constant Contact. Of those who do, however, 34 percent prefer to…

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Bing for Mobile Adds Movies, Videos, Facebook Likes

Bing has rolled out several new features to Bing for Mobile Browse (m.bing.com), Bing’s version for smartphone and tablet browsers. The features include information about movies, a new video section, and the addition of Facebook “likes…

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Almost 75% of Active American Social Networkers Shop Online [Study]

Nielsen’s third quarter study, “State of the Media: The Social Media Report,” examines the increasing influence of social networking on consumers and points to trends that bode well for businesses active in the social media space…

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Why Would Google Become A Bank?

What might motivate Google to become a bank down the road? As bank robber Willie Sutton is famously misquoted as saying, “Because that’s where the money is.”

While officially Google has been a bank since 2007 (holding a De Nederlands…

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5 Filters Everybody Should Use In Their AdWords Account

It’s the dream. To be able to log into AdWords and instantly find the changes you need to make. Well that’s the trick that long-time paid search managers have been using to allow them to keep an eye on so much material so easily.

If you save the…

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Google Offers: Falling to Groupon Already?

As industry-leading Groupon continues to pick up steam, Google Offers, the company’s attempt to enter the daily deals scene, is already seeing a decline in revenues. This despite 9 percent revenue growth in the North American daily deal…

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