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Customer Magnetism 2012 Internet Forecast

Liz — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:03:49 +0000

We did it! 2012 is just a day away and the end of the world is nowhere in sight! If you’re as excited as we are for the possibilities to come in 2012, check out our year-end/new year coverage from the December issue of our newsletter: 5 Tech-Related Changes You Should Have Made in 2011, But Didn’t We get it. Keeping up is pretty hard to do. As we roll into 2012, many of us begin to reflect on what we might have done differently...

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Fresh from Google: The Freshness Update

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:35:59 +0000

“Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh.” – Amit Singhal, Google Fellow The folks over at Google make around five hundred changes to their algorithm every year. A lot of those changes go unnoticed by most, as they’re intended to just keep search as simple and quick as possible. However, every now and then Google makes a major change, and two of the past major updates are coming...

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Changing Places: Google Filters Out 3rd-Party Reviews

admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:27:03 +0000

Google Places has been making some changes. The complexion of the site has been altered, impacting what people see when they do a local search. The most obvious change is that the number of reviews for the average Google Places business listing has dropped significantly. Why? Because business reviews from third-party sources are no longer included in the results. Reviews from sites like Yelp, Urban Spoon and Trip Advisor have been dropped from Google Places listings. When people pull up your business through Google Places,...

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Mostly Common Sense: Looking at Elements of the 2011 Local Search Marketing Factors Report

Mary Elizabeth Allen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:28:57 +0000

Every year since 2008, David Mihm has released a comprehensive annual assessment of local search marketing factors: what’s gotten more important, what’s waning, what’s new. He works with major players in the search industry to assess key local search aspects and their importance, then compiles the results together with comments from the report contributors. The 2011 report was just released and contains a lot of data, so much so that I could go on for hours about the findings in a very SEO-geek sort of...

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2011: Ringing in the New Year

MJ — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:54:03 +0000

In the past year, we at Customer Magnetism have had a lot of fun exploring the ins and outs of search engine optimization, social media and other Internet news on our weekly blog. As the new year rolls in, we have many things to look forward to at CM. There are sure to be new twists and turns in search marketing, mobile media marketing and social media. On behalf of the CM family, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers,...

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Customer Magnetism Review: A Year in Review (Part 3)

MJ — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:39:17 +0000

Customer Magnetism Review is a monthly blog feature. We review various events, websites and products that you might want to check out – or not. It’s our way of keeping you up to date on the Internet’s latest. This is the last in our series of a look at the changes we have seen in the world of the Internet in the past year. Today, let’s take a look at some of the changes in social media. Twitter Twitter has made a number of changes...

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Customer Magnetism Review: A Year in Review (Part 2)

MJ — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:06:55 +0000

Customer Magnetism Review is a monthly blog feature. We review various events, websites and products that you might want to check out – or not. It’s our way of keeping you up to date on the Internet’s latest. There were a lot of changes in Internet marketing, search engines and websites in the past year. In the second part of our 3-part series, here are some of the more noteworthy changes by Google in 2010. Google has made so many changes this year, we have...

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Customer Magnetism Review: A Year in Review (Part 1)

MJ — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:06:27 +0000

Customer Magnetism Review is a monthly blog feature. We review various events, websites and products that you might want to check out – or not. It’s our way of keeping you up to date on the Internet’s latest. 2010 brought forth a lot of changes. Some of them were forgettable, but there were a handful that caused substantial changes to life as we know it on the Internet. In fact, there were so many, we’re bringing it to you in three parts! Today, let’s take...

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Customer Magnetism Review: Small Business Saturday

MJ — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:14:40 +0000

Customer Magnetism Review is a monthly blog feature. We review various events, websites and products that you might want to check out – or not. It’s our way of keeping you up to date on the Internet’s latest. Nestled between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday was a new innovation set in motion this past weekend to help boost the expected sagging seasonal sales of small merchants. With national attention from its creator, American Express, the idea was for people to shop at...

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CM Joins the ForKids Thanksgiving Dinner Drive

Jessica — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:42:36 +0000

Customer Magnetism has announced today that we will be participating in this year’s ForKids Thanksgiving Dinner Drive. ForKids is a local organization in Hampton Roads, Virginia founded 20 years ago which is committed to “breaking the cycle of homelessness and poverty for families and children.” ForKids not only provides shelter for homeless families with kids, but has many valuable programs, such as “Hot Meals & Homework,” where volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring to ForKids children and a hot meal for their families. For more information about...

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