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55 SEO Productivity Tools We Use at Single Grain

Looking for a new tool that will help you get the most out of your SEO campaigns?  Consider any of the following programs that we use at Single Grain in order to maximize the efficiency of our SEO activities and our general productivity: Tool #1 – Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool Although the free Keyword...
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Head to Head Over Mobile Maps

For many people, phones have become an important way to navigate the world, and mobile maps are at the core of the journey. They are often the critical element in commerce, socializing and search. So far, Google has reigned supreme in the mobile map world, with its maps on every iPhone sold so far —...
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Apple’s New Maps App: Why It Arrived So Late and Faces …

Apple unveils its new Maps app at the WWDC 2012 keynote. Photo: Jon Phillips/Wired Apple’s iOS Maps app is woefully behind the times. In fact, plenty of third-party iOS apps offer features you won’t find in the Maps app built into iPhones and iPads. Even more damaging for Apple: The Maps app built into Android...
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SEO Effect Keyword Research Tool [Review]

The last year or two has seen a big shift in the infrastructure that SEO agencies and in-house teams have had at their fingertips, as full campaign platforms have finally come of age. Search engine optimization (SEO) has always been a data heavy enterprise, and any team with any coding ability at all pretty quickly...
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Google Ignores Flag Day, while rival Microsoft celebrates

June 14 is Flag Day, a national holiday celebrating the Stars and Stripes since 1949. But don’t ask Google about it. The search giant is known for its colorful, interactive logos for everything from the 78th birthday of the inventor of the Moog synthesizer to Earth Day to the anniversary of Pac-Man. But for Flag...
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WordPress 3.4 Offers No Hassle Theme Testing

Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform. Those who upgrade to the new edition will enjoy such features as the ability to test themes before applying them to the entire blog site and the ability to add...
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UK to reopen probe of Google Street View data collection

This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com’s sister site, CNET.com. Google is facing renewed privacy scrutiny in Britain, as a U.K. regulator reopens its investigation into how the Web giant’s Street View program gathered personal data. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office announced today that it was motivated to reopen its probe, after information provided in an...
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How to perform an SEO health check on your small business website

You want to get a clean view of how your website displays to most people searching online, and because Google personalizes (based on things like your browsing history) and blends search results, you want to strip out those customizations. Most browsers today have an “incognito” (Chrome) or “private browsing” (Firefox) setting. Use these options and...
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Facebook Turns Like Buttons, Comments, Auto-Sharing Into WordPress Widgets For …

Facebook continues its march across the Internet with the release of its Like button, recommendation feed, comments box and other social plugins as WordPress.org and WordPress VIP widgets. There’s also new one-click WordPress admin options like auto-sharing what users read and auto-publishing blog posts as links from Facebook Pages and author accounts. This is big since...
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Are Apple and Google 3D Maps Gimmicks?

Flyover view from Apple looks impressive, but is it useful? (Credit: Apple, Inc.) I attended Google‘s mapping press conference last week and, today, attended Apple‘s World Wide Developer’s Conference, where I witnessed a demo of Apple’s new map app for the iPhone and iPad. Although I haven’t looked at them side-by-side, the demos were pretty similar....
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