Blog Posts to Read for April 28, 2011

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do!

3 tips on how to protect your business on social media
If used inappropriately, social media can hurt your business. This post includes tips on how to use social media wisely.
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Earth to startups: They won’t come just because you’re on social media
Many startups fail because they have a “build it and they will come” mentality. This blog post states that it’s for a similar reason that companies fail at social media.
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The SEO Trend Shifts Towards Localization
This post discusses local SEO and how to get started with it so you can drive more traffic from your local area.
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Vanilla Ice on social business
This humorous post states that Vanilla Ice was a social business visionary and analyzes what his “Ice Ice Baby” lyrics were really about.
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HOW TO: Launch a product using social media
This post includes 12 social media strategies to use when launching a product.
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Facebook and Google Getting In On Daily Deals
This post includes information about Facebook and Google’s plans to get involved in the daily deal trend.
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Why Background Music Makes Your Website Suck
This post includes four reasons why you should never, ever have background music playing on your website.
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Incorporating Social Media Networking Into SEO
Search is becoming more social. This post includes five ways to send search engines “social signals”.
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Pay Attention to Search Engine Rankings: Top 3 Spots on Google Get 58% of Clicks
This post includes information from a study that shows that websites at the top of Google get an average of 36.4% of clicks, those in second place 12.5% and those in third 9.5%.
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3 Tips to Double your Blog Traffic
This post includes three free or low cost methods for newbie bloggers to increase their blog traffic.
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These were our favorite SEO, SEM and Social Media blog posts this week. Check back next week for more top posts!