:: Google Now Reporting 100% of Penalized Sites via Direct Manual Actions ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy “Wondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google’s search results? Google’s now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time.”   Robin Good: Danny Sullivan reports on Search Engine Land from the Pubcon conference where Matt Cutts [...]

Dominate Your Personal Brand On Google With This 14 Point Checklist

Google yourself. See that? It’s your personal brand. Unless you love everything about each listing on the first page, us this 14-point personal branding SEO checklist.   Google yourself. See that? It’s your personal brand. Unless you love everything about each listing on the first page, it’s time for some personal branding SEO. There are [...]

Newsjacking: Real-Time Content Marketing Tactics For Your Blog and Social Media Campaigns

As a content strategist and inbound marketer, at some point you may need to find new audiences, topics, or a fresh angle for your content strategy and community…   As a content strategist and inbound marketer, at some point you may need to find new audiences, topics, or a fresh angle for your content strategy [...]

Google+ Local Replaces Google Places: What Local Businesses Should Know

See on Scoop.it – Digital Marketing and Social Business Learn about the death of Google Places for local businesses, and how Google+ is being used to replace it. See on blog.hubspot.com

10 Productive Tasks You Should Be Doing On Google+ Right Now

Via Scoop.it – All things Google+ This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Google+ had a hot start, but has since cooled down. For … Via www.problogger.net

16 Insights into Google’s Rating Guidelines

Via Scoop.it – “#Google+, +1, Facebook, Twitter, Scoop, Foursquare, Empire Avenue, Klout” Last week, when the SEO world was distracted by revelations that Google was blocking keyword referral data and nostalgic mania over MC Hammer’s search engine, Search Engine Land released a leaked Google document outlining Google’s official guidelines for quality raters. I read the [...]

StumbleUpon’s social makeover makes a splash

Via Scoop.it – Networking Ideas StumbleUpon is riding the explosion in popularity of mobile devices and Facebook. SAN FRANCISCO—StumbleUpon is emerging as a TV Guide to the Facebook masses. The Web discovery destination has garnered gobs of traffic for its service that helps people zero in on Internet interests and share them across mobile devices [...]

Microsoft Accidentally Reveals Secret Social Project ‘Tulalip’

    Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Is Microsoft working on launching a social networking service to compete with Facebook and Google Plus? Writers for Fusible, who were the first to report it, seem to think so after a team from Microsoft accidentally published the splash page shown below to the doman name Socl.com. Members of [...]