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The Difference Between Direct and Organic Website Traffic Sources

SmartBug Media

Paid search: Traffic from search engine results that is the result of paid advertising via Google AdWords or another paid search platform. Social: Traffic from a social network, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Instagram.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. In the very first release, Plus has a killer integration with Picasa (Google’s photo service), and its live video chat feature (called Hangout) could very easily become a Skype killer.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

chiefmartech

This is the largest acqusition in Microsoft’s history — over three times the size of its acqusition of Skype for $8.5 These include social media giants such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, but also sites like Amazon, Google Search, Skype, and YouTube. They had no dominant exchange social media property.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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58 Best Marketing Tools to Build Your Strategy in 2017

Hubspot

Like posting your Instagram photos to all your social networks or linking your app reminders together. Not only is YouTube great for hosting your videos and getting them shared across social networks, it's also important to optimize your videos for search to get found on Youtube as well. Google Adwords. Skillshare.

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How to court Google with chivalry and courtly love

Biznology

Follow people who are relevant; unfollow people who aren’t Growing and pruning your social networks is as important as anything else. The best case is you’ll end up in Google’s quarantine: the Google Search Sandbox; the worse case is you’ll be banished! Make it so! Frustrated, confused, overwhelmed? No worries!

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