How Will Google's Social Search Affect Your SEO?
We’ve told you about Google’s shift to including Google+ results in its searches, and also the controversy that has come from it as other social media outlets fight back. But what will it mean for your company’s website, and your SEO? Already, sources are speculating that this social switch to search results could have a bigger impact on Google than even the infamous Panda update, which aimed to remove lower-quality content from search results. This is because not only will Goo...
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Julie Ruebush
1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM
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Twitter Speaks Out on Google Search and Google+ Integration
Fast on the heels of Google’s announcement it would be integrating Google+ results with its regular search results, Twitter released a statement opposing the new changes. Twitter spokesman Matt Graves said that people often rely on Google to deliver the most relevant results when they want to find something on the internet. Often, these results are coming from Twitter: As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often ...
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Julie Ruebush
1/17/2012 12:00:00 AM
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Google Intergrates Google+ into Google Search
In their ongoing climb up the proverbial social ladder Google has now merged Google + into its search results. What this means, moving forward any Google + member who is signed in will be able to search the entire web as well as their own Google + circles. This includes photos and content posts from the Google + circles of that user. Google is calling this search update Search, plus your World . Their goal here is to try to transform Google into a search engine that not only understands content,...
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Mary Brautigan
1/11/2012 12:00:00 AM
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Google + Expands to Include Business Pages
Just when you thought you were getting a handle on Social Media and managing your online reputation , Google has gone and changed the playing field again! Earlier this year Google decided to try again at creating a social network and launched Google +. They set this project up so you could sign in and then invite your friends and family to your circle in order to share with them things you like or found interesting. Unlike Facebook, Google + was built from the ground up around the idea of being ...
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Mary Brautigan
12/23/2011 12:00:00 AM
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Twitter Follows Suit with New Functionality
With Facebook’s recent changes to its personal page design, Twitter couldn’t be left behind in updates. Therefore, Twitter recently implemented significant redesign changes, with new tabs for browsing, embeddable tweets, and even new brand or business pages. Twitter’s new Discover tab runs an algorithm which finds relevant tweets to your interests from people that you do not follow. Otherwise, the new tabs are basically features that have been available on Twitter before, but h...
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Julie Ruebush
12/20/2011 12:00:00 AM
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