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Changes to Facebook Pages: The New Canvas for Mobile MarketingFirst the responsive newsfeed, then Facebook Home, and today there were changes to Facebook Pages. If it wasn't apparent that Facebook was serious about being "mobile first" before, it certainly is now.
Why change the Pages layout? Over 680 million people access Facebook via a mobile device every month, and people engage with brand pages than they ever did before…

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Getting Granular With User Generated ContentThe stock market had a flash crash today after someone hacked the AP account & made a fake announcement about bombs going off at the White House. Recently Twitter’s search functionality has grown so inundated with spam that I don’t even look at the brand related searches much anymore. While you can block individual users, it doesn’t block them from showing up in search results, so there are various affiliate bots that spam just about any semi-branded search…

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Machine Learning and Link Spam: My Brush With InsanityPosted by wrttnwrdThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.

Know someone who thinks they’re smart? Tell them to build a machine learning tool…

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Google’s singular innovation, the one that catapulted it to its dominating position as the world’s favorite search engine, was PageRank – looking at the links on the web and using them as “votes” to determine high-quality or popular content. Today, of course, Google…

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How are you adding genuine value to your audience? This is the question you must answer if you want to consistently and repeatedly create dynamite content. Spend more time up front brainstorming content, then keep tuning and refining those ideas.

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