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This Week’s Lessons in Social Media: Old Spice Man & Facebook

Barry — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:47:03 +0000

Think social media is a bust? If your boss thinks radio and newsprint are the way to go then you either have a very tiny and late adopting niche market, or your boss is a nut job. This week we've been delivered two astounding pieces of info that solidify social media as THE marketing vehicle [...]

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The Latest on How Google Searches

Barry — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:19:12 +0000

Great post at Endgadget with Google engineer Amit Singh that provides some delightful insight with how Google searches that accentuates the search engine's continued innovation. Of particular interest in Engadget's summary include: 1. Image optimization. Before you had to ensure you placed alt tags with images so the search engines could understand what the image [...]

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On Twitter Yet? Blue Bird Hits #2 in Search Traffic

Barry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:47:33 +0000

Venture Beat is reporting new numbers for Twitter that solidify its position as the #2 'search engine' behind Google. Over 800 million searches a day, or 24 billion in a month, for Twitter. That puts it at a search traffic level that's 25% of Google and more than Bing and Yahoo! combined. Implications? Are you [...]

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One SiteMap to Rule Them All

Barry — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:52 +0000

Google is now thinking about evolving beyond sitemaps.org protocol in favour of an all encompassing format that can contain videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information. For full details visit the Google webmasters blog. One SiteMap to Rule Them All is a post from: Distinct SEO Calgary

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Does Google Use LSI? LSI Services and Their Relevance to SEO

Barry — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:20:31 +0000

An interesting discussion is heating up over at SEO Chat where I am one of the moderators. The conversation is about LSI, or latent semantic indexing. That's a fancy way to describe how search engines may deliver synonymous results for a query that doesn't contain particular keywords. The relevancy to SEO directly is almost zero. [...]

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Ranking #1 Yields Only 20% of Potential Traffic?!

Barry — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:04:23 +0000

Google Webmaster Tool's has a feature that permits users to see approximately how many clicks they get versus total searches made for a particular keyword.For example, keyword 'blue widgets' may have 10 000 impressions a month. The question I post to you is: What percentage of traffic do you think the top organic rank gets? [...]

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TAOM Comes and Goes – Why Social Media Triumphs

Barry — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:25:45 +0000

The Art of Marketing came to Calgary June 14th, 2010, for a full day of special guests who shared very similar messages. In fact, the marketing visionaries and bestselling authors should NOT have shared ground-breaking concepts for the marketing attendees because what they were sharing should be evident. The 'advent' of social media, and the [...]

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We’re Rebuilding

Barry — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:22:47 +0000

Distinct SEO is currently in the process of rebranding and revamping the web site. You may discover some dead ends, but mostly it will be business as usual. We're also going to post up some thoughts on the recent Art of Marketing conference that took place in Calgary tomorrow so stay tuned for that! We’re [...]

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The Art of Marketing is Coming to Calgary

Barry — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:40:15 +0000

**updated June 6th** You still have a few days to get tickets to TAOM which arrives in Calgary this coming Monday. Watch out for tweetups and meetups. Be sure to bring many business cards and say hi to me since I'll be there (along with 4 new friends who WON free tickets from Distinct SEO [...]

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Congrats! Distinct SEO Twitter Giveaway Winners!

Barry — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:11:48 +0000

Distinct SEO is happy to announce our spring Twitter contest giveaway winners. To celebrate our new @distinctseo Twitter account and Facebook Page, we were giving away THREE prizes. All new followers in either the Twitter or Facebook page were entered into our contest that closed May 15th. The first prize was a $100 Adwords coupon [...]

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