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LinkedIn Recommendations: Why Less is More

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What is the right number of LinkedIn recommendations on your profile? I curate my LinkedIn recommendations so it doesn’t dilute my reputation. I do believe that when it comes to LinkedIn recommendations, less is more. Having reciprocal recommendations is similar to reciprocal links that Google used to favor for SEO rankings.

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4 Reasons to Get Recommendations on LinkedIn First

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Ask your customers for testimonials and recommendations on LinkedIn first. In my opinion there is little reason to ask for testimonials outside of LinkedIn. I recommend that all my clients get recommendations on LinkedIn first. You need at least three recommendations to have a Linkedin profile that is 100% complete.

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Social Media Marketing: Where Do I Start?

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Business to Business marketers should start with LinkedIn. For B2B marketers (consultants, business lawyers, accounting firms, technology and manufacturing companies), LinkedIn is the number one social media platform with 200 million users. Over 90 percent of corporations use LinkedIn to search for skilled workers.

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Why I Hope the IPO Doesn’t Ruin Twitter

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For a long time, Tweets that contained certain keywords displayed on Google and other search engine search results. But then Google went into social media with Google+. So Google doesn’t recognize Tweets. It is more interested in pushing Google+. That’s LinkedIn. It did an IPO.

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Case Study: Getting Results with Social Media Marketing

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The announcement from Google that sites need to be responsive was done in February of 2015. Web developers and SEO providers took note of this, because it is rare for Google to announce algorithm changes in advance. The client’s Google+ page existed, but it wasn’t branded, and no one was posting information there.

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4 Winning Tactics to Put in Your Marketing Plan

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Google’s algorithmic changes in 2012 and 2013 have been a big nod to substance. Create your Google+ Company Page. Google+ gained critical mass in 2012, and now has over 540 million users (as Kim Garst wrote in the Huffington Post , “Google+ FINALLY Hits the Tipping Point.”) Plus, it’s Google!

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Is Your Social Media Consultant an Expert or a Wannabe?

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Your consultant should blog, tweet, and participate on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, maybe even Instagram and Pinterest as well. For example, when marketers were asked to choose their top platform for social media, 49% chose Facebook and only 16% chose LinkedIn. Plus, social media is kid stuff, right? But, I digress.