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JC Penney Puts On Its Party Dress: Google Time-Out is Over

MJ — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:52:39 +0000

Sometimes when you’re bad and you get caught, you’re punished. JC Penney experienced this with Google back in February, when the retailer’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices were deemed questionable. Google investigated a claim in The New York Times and decided that the nationwide department store had misbehaved. As a result, JC Penney was manually removed from Google’s search engine results pages. In other words, it was given a time-out by Google. The company could not compete online in the free, organic listings except through...

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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 Helps ForKids Spread Holiday Cheer

Jessica — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:42:34 +0000

In November, Customer Magnetism joined the ForKids Thanksgiving Dinner Drive, where Customer Magnetism and its employees donated over 1,150 items for 50 families in the Hampton Roads area. We not only participated in the Thanksgiving Dinner Drive, but a few of us volunteered at the ForKids Holiday Shop in Norfolk. During our time volunteering, we did a couple of different things, including coloring angels for the Christmas Toy Drive and checking food expiration dates. We also purchased more food and made some home deliveries. Personally,...

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Google Instant – A Second Look

MJ — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:54:57 +0000

Change is good, right? Last week’s rollout of Google Instant was a big one. For those who might have missed it, Google Instant shows suggestions and a list of results as you type letter by letter on the Google search engine. You don’t even have to hit enter. As with most new features in the world of SEO, less than a week into it we have already seen some more changes and some unexpected impacts after the fact. Here are 5 that have caught our...

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Google Instant: Because Real-Time Wasn’t Fast Enough

Liz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:49:46 +0000

Now Google can be your new best friend and finish your sentences for you! If you’ve been looking up anything online in the past two days, you’ve probably noticed the new phenomena called “Google Instant.” It’s kind of like the “Google suggest” list that pops up underneath your search bar while you type, trying to predict what you’re searching for; however, with Google Instant, instead of just a changing lists of suggestions, you’ve got an entire changing page of results as you type. According to...

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Check Out Customer Magnetism at the Local Marketing Expo

MJ — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:56:12 +0000

Local Marketing Expo (LMX) is fast approaching. The one-day conference for business owners and marketing professionals will be held at the Virginia Beach Convention Center from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2010. It will focus on different strategies to help businesses increase their effective marketing efforts. LMX will have 15 panel discussions on topics such as search engine marketing, outdoor advertising, integrating radio and TV with multi-media, direct mail and email marketing, among others. Customer Magnetism is partnering with several other local...

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Customer Magnetism Review: Paul the Octopus

MJ — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:51:03 +0000

Customer Magnetism is starting a new blog feature called Customer Magnetism Review. We have put together a series for you this week reviewing various events, websites and products that you might want to check out – or not. After this week, it will become a monthly feature. Yesterday’s final game between Spain and the Netherlands brought the FIFA World Cup 2010 to a dramatic close, with Spain winning it all. One of the most entertaining side stories that stemmed from this World Cup is the...

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Why SEO Sucks: Myth versus Reality

Liz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:16 +0000

This blog is the third in a week long experimental blog series. Enjoy. After all is said and done, we’ll let you know how it went. While our lives and businesses both continue to revolve more heavily around the web as time and technology allow, there are still a surprising few skeptics out there afraid of search engine optimization. If you have a business, and you have a website, why wouldn’t you want to optimize your position on the web to allow your clients to...

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