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If you look at any major search engine, you see two different types of results displayed on search engine result pages for any popular keyword – paid results and organic results. Organic results are generated based on complex ranking algorithms which differ from search engine to search engine. Rankings for any particular site could be improved through thoughtful and skillful SEO campaigns. Paid Search Marketing (or Paid Search Optimization) is responsible for the placement and optimization of paid results. Paid results could be displayed not only on SERPs (search engine results pages), but also on any other site that agrees to be a part of search network and displays relevant advertisement. The task for paid search marketing expert is to figure out how to use company’s budget to get higher conversions and ultimately higher ROI by optimizing ads and landing pages and testing ad placement on all those properties. The Difference between SEO and SEM (full post): http://bit.ly/n9DRly http://amplify.com/u/a1dbc6

Google+ skyrocketed quickly but now it seems to lose momentum. You have to manually go to Google+ in order to share your posts or the posts of your friends. There is no way to post from some other social network and get it automatically distributed to Google+ (or at least I haven’t found one). I don’t see any option to embed custom RSS feeds in the Google + either, hence no luck with distributing content directly from your blogs through RSS. In comparison, I can post to blogs and get the content automatically distributed to Twitter, Facebook and hundreds of other social networks in a matter of seconds but Google+ demands a lot of extra time. And if you jump to Google+, you probably won’t have as much time to stay on Facebook either. I seriously doubt that inability to embed custom RSS feeds in G+ sream is just Google’s oversight. More likely it’s a crucial part of Google strategy to get most tech-savvy social networkers from Facebook into G+. Read more here: http://t.co/uHbpTOK http://amplify.com/u/a1d5e4

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There is a plethora of social media monitoring tools for every taste and flavor. They can be used to listen to social conversations and to identify important social reactions that require immediate response. Such tools vary in price and target market. They range from free tools suitable for small businesses to very expensive paid monitoring tools developed for Fortune 500 companies.

One or a few responses could be enough to address initial questions. Yet it’s certainly not enough to convert your prospect into customer. So the next step in social media marketing is to initiate a prolonged and hopefully uninterrupted conversation with your prospects.

There are only a couple options on how to do it. You can either send your prospects directly to a sales page or you can convert them into leads.

New Effective Ninja-style option has just been discovered!

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GooglePageRank parameter is dedicated to the calculation of different factors related to the authority of your site. In basic terms, it estimates the quantity, quality and relevance of incoming links for your webpages. The higher the PageRank the higher is a probability that the site has some quality backlinks.

The last Google PageRank update was in January 2011, so it’s been almost 6 months between updates. Until this year pagerank updates were pretty stable – usually you could see a new update every 3-4 months.

That pagerank update was related to the introduction of the new parameter in Google SERP placement algorithm known as Google Panda. January Google Panda update hit hard content farms, and it also affected many established article directories.

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