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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. Roughly half of businesses that buy search ads directly from Google and other Internet search companies don't come back the following year. Facebook beats Myspace traffic.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

Stoney deGuyter offers valuable insights on how search engines treat keywords, such as that capitalization (usually) doesn’t matter, keywords have more weight if they are used in a title or header tag or are bolded, and search engines are getting better at recognizing forms of a word (e.g.

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