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Free eBooks on SEO and Social Media

We always loved reading free eBooks when we were learning the trade, and this year we made it a point to start releasing our own. We did the research, pulled from our own experience, grabbed  a designer, and put together some eBooks we're really proud of. We never released them in a single place before though, so here is the list of free eBooks from Wikimotive,…

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Added by Timothy Martell on March 6, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Google Snippet Changes

Are you familiar with Google snippets? Basically, they are the chunk of information you see under the title of search results. They usually include the URL, a date, history, and most important, a description. In the past, you've been able to define your own description in the metadata of your site, so you had control over what was displayed under your page in results. Now though,…

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Added by Timothy Martell on March 4, 2013 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Long Tail Infographic

Long tail keywords are becoming a very integral part of small business SEO. Essentially, long tail keywords are longer (duh!) and more specific keywords. These keywords are less common than short keywords individually, but when taken as a whole, they account for…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 25, 2013 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Pinterest Ranks Above Google+

Everyone acknowledges that Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media sites, but just how relevant it is still seems to be up in the air. According to recent studies, Pinterest was behind Marketing with Twitter and Facebook as well as Google+, but a new survey is offering a different opinion on the matter.

The Survey in question is the "Pew…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 18, 2013 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Google Webmaster Messaging Stats

You know who just won't stop bothering Webmasters? Google. Those guys are always updating things and sending out alerts. In fact, the sultans of search send out hundreds of thousands of messages to Webmasters every single month. Until recently, we weren't sure how these messages related to Business SEO, but Matt Cutts just released a new video dropping some knowledge on us. 

In the video, Matt answers a Webmaster-submitted question about the content of all those messages that are…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 15, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Google Location Monitoring for Spam

Google's newest patent will prove to be both beneficial and terrifying to users, which is just about par for the course for the search engine juggernaut. It involves tracking you wherever you go and then collating and analyzing that data for personal identification trends. Creepy? For sure. Useful for …

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 12, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Some Novel Tips (Blogging Advice)



Blogging is the new writing medium for the masses. Some people lament the fact that anyone can go about publishing content for the world to see, but those people are probably the great-great-grandchildren of the guys who threw rocks at Gutenberg. I honestly believe that the more people…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 8, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Super Bowl Mobile Use Stats

There are many lessons we can take from this Super Bowl this year. Important, crucial information like Beyonce has still got it, always pay your electricity bill before you have company over, and murderers can go on to do great things in life. Even more important though, are the lessons we can learn about Marketing with Twitter and Facebook. Let  us here at Wikimotive share some of these with…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 5, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments

You're Nobody Until Somebody Ranks You

We know everyone in this community loves Business SEO. We work at it all day, poring over analytics data and tweaking this or that to stay in Google's good graces. Honestly, it never gets old. Just between you and me, when we lay our heads down at night, we have beautiful dreams of Matt Cutts.

Still though, we're not going to argue that it's the most exciting subject in the world. It has…

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Added by Timothy Martell on February 4, 2013 at 11:40am — No Comments

Do you Stumble Yet?

Stumbleupon is one of the most interesting social media sites around, and by interesting, I mean it is a complete and total time-sink. Essentially, it's a toolbar that has a "Stumble" button you can press that will bring you to a random page on the web based on your interests. You can also upvote and downvote pages, which is how Stumbleupon gets better at finding stuff that you'll like. If something isn't already ON Stumbleupon when you vote on it, you'll be given the option to add it. This…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 31, 2013 at 5:20pm — No Comments

The Half-Life of Most Educational Content

The great part about digital marketing is that there is no shortage of advice to be found. No matter what corner of the web you land on, people are telling you how they have cracked the Google algorithm or how they can read pagerank in their Starbucks tea leaves. The only problem is that digital marketing advice, by its very nature, has a short half-life. It doesn't…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 29, 2013 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Google+ Surpasses Twitter

For years, the social media landscape has remained largely unchanged. Sure, you have things like Pinterest and Instagram popping up, but the big things for business have consistently been Marketing with Twitter and Facebook. Google+ was designed to be the…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 28, 2013 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Bing Ads Potentially on Facebook?

Currently, the biggest problem with using Bing for SEM and Business SEO is the lack of search volume. Sure, they came in with roughly 20 percent of the total U.S. searches by the end of last year, but Google is still dominating them, essentially getting the rest of the market share (ignoring the pittance of Yahoo, AOL, and ASK.com). Optimizing for Bing hasn't been on the top of many to do lists, it has simply made more…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 24, 2013 at 2:09pm — No Comments

An Infographic on Marketing Using Facebook

How many of you have tried out the paid Facebook ads? Whether you’re looking to grow your audience, promote your posts, or just spread your brand awareness, Facebook ads can be a great tool. Obviously it’s always better to advertise organically, but that’s not always necessarily possible or effective. For instance, when you’re starting out with a brand new page, getting those first couple hundred likes for momentum can be absolutely crucial. Nothing tells a story like the numbers…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 23, 2013 at 9:38am — No Comments

Content is King, Keep it Near Your Kingdom

We’ve been writing a lot about writing lately, and for a good reason. In the brave new world of content-first SEO, the ability to reliably and effectively produce unique, quality copy is becoming a valuable commodity. This can be dangerous for many marketers though, because “quality” is a subjective thing…or at least in was in the past. Today, every smart …

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 22, 2013 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Three Simple SEO Problems (You Can Fix Today)

We’ve covered a lot of the bigger issues surrounding social media marketing and Business SEO, but it’s not always the bigger things that hurt you the most. Sometimes, it’s the simple stuff that comes back to bite you. Here are three things you can fix in…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 18, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Facebook's New Graph Search Tool, Google Competition?

When it comes to Marketing with Twitter and Facebook, nothing is more important than the knowledge of how users interact with those services. Twitter hasn’t been making many major changes, but Facebook is constantly implementing new things and letting…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 17, 2013 at 11:41am — No Comments

Rudiments from Pinterest

We haven’t talked about Pinterest on the blog for awhile, so we wanted to revisit the budding social network. Recently they’ve made some pretty major moves by cutting out fake users and allowing business accounts to authenticate themselves, and they just keep progressing into “necessary for …

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 15, 2013 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Early Reporting on the New Myspace

The new MySpace is in the testing phases as we speak. People are exploring in the wilderness of Beta-version social media, but are they liking what they find? It it something your dealership or your Digital Marketing Company should be paying much attention to?

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 11, 2013 at 10:38am — No Comments

To Instagram or Not to Instagram...

Is your business on Instagram yet? We aren’t going to say it’s a must, but it’s a pretty simple thing that can add some value to your businesses efforts when Marketing Using Facebook or Twitter. The artsy little photos are still really popular, especially…

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Added by Timothy Martell on January 9, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

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