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The Importance of Being Social for Website Promotion and Search Engine Optimisation

Some people think of search engine optimisation as being strictly building links and content, and that was very much the case before the advent of microblogging and social networking. Now being social is very important for search engine optimisation. Using social networking, social bookmarking and other such sites can really help boost your traffic, both
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Google making a bit of a Buzz on the Internet

Like my pun? I know, I know. It is ingenius. What is Google Buzz? Google Buzz is a new social networking venture from the almighty search engine. It is designed to integrate well with their webmail service Gmail. Google have dipped their toes in the social networking marketplace before with services like Orkut and Google Friend Connect. Orkut is
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vBulletin Fake User Plugin – Good or bad?

This article is pulled from a previous site of mine, and relates to the starting of a forum board and the negative cycle of not having enough users registered to entice new users to join. It primarily focuses around the idea of using a vBulletin plugin to artificially inflate the number of online users in
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A Social Media Overview – How are you feeling?

How are you feeling? View the day’s global mood swings with this fun, social media, Twitter-powered tool. Click here to choose a feeling and begin. ‘How are you feeling?’ is a quick social overview of the feelings that are appearing in the microblogging community. It pulls down hourly updates of today’s microblogs (or ‘Tweets’) based on specific emotional
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New Indicator Applet & Messaging Menu for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

I previously discussed some of the new social networking aspects coming in Ubuntu 10.04. These mainly focus on the brand new Me Menu which is a personalised menu that holds and controls all your social networking and assists with broadcasting to microblogging services. Some related changes are the new changes to the indicator applet and
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx’s Social Networking Features

Social media and social networking are huge now-a-days, with Twitter, Facebook and the like being hugely successful at keeping friends and family in touch. Now only that, but social networks are huge for charities, with many causes being supported and heavily promoted via social networking. Corporations and business use social networking too to promote their products and
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Twitter – Micro-blogging and the recent boost to Twitter traffic

Twitter is a a micro-blogging website. Micro-blogging, as described by Wikipedia is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micro-media such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These
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Facebook – Privacy changes (December 2009)

Facebook will soon be implementing privacy changes shortly will will involve the elimination of the current regional friend networks which exist. This change is being justified by the fact that most regional networks have become so large that privacy changes based upon restricting within these groups becomes meaningless or alternatively too restrictive. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,
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Tweets – Tweets from Twitter soon to be in the SERPs of Google and Bing

Twitter has signed deals with Microsoft and Google to put microblogging messages sent via the microblogging service (‘tweets’) into the Microsoft Bing and Google search engine indexes. This deal will mean tweets will appear from Twitter alongside normal Google and Bing search results. Without a doubt, this will make Twitter an even larger SEO tool than
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