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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A Robert Half Technology study announces 54% of companies blog social media sites. Study shares that 8% of US companies have fired an employee because of social media misuse. Social media use soars among b-to-b marketers. Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

Another excellent SEO post from Search Engine Land is The Evolving State Of Social Media & SEO. Eric Enge notes that “social media will be a major source of ranking signals for the search engines in the future,&# both due to its link-building potential and the emergence of real-time search. Social media works.

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