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Using Data to Rank 2011′s Top 20 Internet, Social Media and SEO blogs
For three years now, the folks at Cision have ranked the Top 100 blogs in our category by looking at specific data points. These data points are designed to reward actual site performance versus popularity or “Internet fame.” Last year, Ignite Social Media was ranked second, only to the blog powerhouse Mashable. This year, Cision [...]
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2011 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed
2010 was a rocky year in the social network space and many sites closed their doors including Propeller.com and Team Sugar, to name a few. Quite a few others continued their decline into yesterday’s news as we see more social network users consolidating their social profiles. Undoubtedly, Facebook’s continued growth worldwide has led to this [...]
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Ignite Social Media named one of “World’s Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011″
The International Business Times came out with their list of 5 agencies they describe as “The World’s Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011” and Ignite Social Media is one of the five selected. We’re honestly not sure of the criteria, but we’re flattered to be included in such a small group of firms on [...]
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26 Facebook Fan Page Examples in Detail
Since the conclusion of our previous series “26 Social Media Marketing Examples in Detail” and with the start of the new year, I have been inspired yet again to evaluate what other brands are doing in the space. However, instead of covering what a brand is doing across multiple platforms, in this series we will uncover specifically what the top brands on Facebook are doing on their pages to engage with their fans.
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Google Marketing
Google isn’t just a search engine. The word itself is synchronous with both an act and a destination. Google is a tool to harness the expanse of the web, and with an ever-growing number of users, it is important for marketers to understand how to reach the right audiences.
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How To Control Your Social Search Results In Google
Brian Chappell | October 26, 2011 | View Comments
Google is big on personalization nowadays. If you are like me and have ever wondered, why is Google showing me this result near the top of my SERPs (search engine results page), and how exactly is Google attributing this social connection to me, then this post should give you some insight. I actually found it [...]
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Google Plus Games and Facebook Privacy Comparison
Lisa Braziel | August 11, 2011 | View Comments
For those of us eagerly waiting brand pages, Google Plus has recently thrown us a bone in our wait by adding a new “Games” offering to its social network. These games are reminiscent of the current games that are available on Facebook, however they provide a user another area to engage on Google Plus and could encourage [...]
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Google Tells Brands To Wait For G+ [Comic]
Craig Carter | July 11, 2011 | View Comments
Google+ has created quite a lot of buzz (again) and businesses have been trying to get into the mix. However, Google’s message to brands has been to remain calm whilst the Googlers work on some snazzy new business pages. We thought it would be fun to illustrate the situation. Enjoy! Sit, Stay, Good Brands Artwork [...]
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Talking Babies Decoded: Google +1
Kailee Brown | March 31, 2011 | View Comments
We put our best lingual experts on translating the now famous talking babies. Apparently they’re up on the latest Internet news. As it turns out, the debate surrounding adding Google’s +1 to your site is confusing even to children.
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Google’s Rick Klau on Blogger today and Google Wave tomorrow
Jim Tobin | January 18, 2010 | View Comments
I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ’09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google.
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Google Knol Review – Has Wikipedia seen its last day?
Brian Chappell | July 23, 2008 | View Comments
Google Knol just launched. If you have not been keeping up with this, Knol is Google’s user generated content competitor to Wikipedia. Here is a quote I pulled from technologyreview explaining it in more detail:
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FriendRank – In Soviet Russia Google ranks YOU
Brian Chappell | July 10, 2008 | View Comments
If Google can have its say, advertising inside Social Networks is about to change. Google has put off the social advertising realm for long enough. You have heard of PageRank, well now there is Google FriendRank.
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Is Google AppEngine Worth Checking Out?
Gene Smith | April 09, 2008 | View Comments
In short, yes it is. It isn’t for everyone, though. AppEngine is in the same space as that of Amazon’s EC2 service. Both offer virtual hosting services that can seamlessly scale up to meet demand. Unlike EC2, Google’s service is free and includes 500MBs of storage and ample bandwidth to boot (sounds good to me). AppEngine is a developer’s environment, which means you’ll need to have a working knowledge of programming languages. For the time being, this means knowing Python.
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Keeping up with Google OpenSocial
Gene Smith | November 01, 2007 | View Comments
Ok, maybe you’ve heard rumblings of Google’s wanting to “out open” Facebook? Well, today, Google announced the release of a set of tools (APIs) that will enable developers to easily create applications (widgets) that will work on any participating network. As of this writing, the list of social network partners include Orkut (of course), Hi5, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Plaxo, Friendster, Oracle and, just announced, MySpace (wow!).
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Google Acquires Feedburner: More Services for Free
Lisa Braziel | July 13, 2007 | View Comments
Google is at it again — another acquisition that leads to free tools and services. The latest? News feed management service FeedBurner.