What are sponsored map icons, who can get them, are they free — and what you can do today, right now, to make Google's local features work for you.

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A little over a year and a half ago I published a post proclaiming Google had legitimately cracked the local advertising market for the first time. It came on the back of Google releasing their iPhone application, which returned localised results to users based on GPS coordinates. At the time it seemed a revelation. However, [...]

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Popular SEO community voting site Sphinn solves problems by killing voting.

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While it seems as if Google Analytics has become the de facto installation for web analytics, giving Google your data may not always be a good thing. Piwik Web Analtyics does just about the same job but from the safety and privacy of your own server.

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"If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew."…Billy Graham

The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
My wife has a lot of kin that live in and around Oakland, Oregon and several times since we've been married, we've gone down to visit for Easter Sunday. [...]

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Google Realtime Search is a platform for users to monitor conversations about a particular subject on the web by sifting through blogs, social media posts, news sites, and much more, all in real time. Since its release in 2009, Google has made many small changes to the platform. Recently Google has announced 3 big new [...]

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Think back to why you originally started to blog. Although blogging once was more like sharing a journal with anyone and everyone, many are now snatching up blogging domains for business use. You hear many optimizers say you need content to do well and succeed online, so you join the cause.

Hide Your Sell?
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Twitter is a great communication tool, but it can also be used for research purposes. In today's post, we will look at how we can use Twitter's own search engine to find new customers, by using its advanced search options.

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Blekko is one of many new search engines. What does Blekko do that can turn it into a "Google killer"?

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Search Engine People catches Google doing live testing with some very interesting ways of folding Twitter results back in the main search results page.

What's going on there and how it matters to you.

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