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1. Find the Face Behind the Result – This is a neat trick you can use on a Google Image search to filter the search results so that they include only images of people. How is this useful? Well, it could come in handy if you are looking for images of the prominent people behind popular products, companies, or geographic locations. You can perform this search by appending the code &imgtype=face to the end of the URL address after you perform a standard Google Image search.

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Social Media – Want to sell social media to the powers that be?

Summary: Having problems selling the benefits of social media to your bosses and don’t know how to do it. After reading this article you will be all clued up and ready to blow your boss away with your social media knowledge and the benefits of it.

Social MediaSocial media activities are happening all around, conversions on social networking all across the world and if you not involved, they’re taking part without you. Social media will continue to happening with or without you, so isn’t it better to take part and beware of what is being said?

Understanding Google PageRank: A Graphical Guide

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Use Buttons instead of Links and Increase Your Clicks

There has been some research around whether using "buttons" on your website and in your email marketing campaigns as a call-to-action instead of words with links drives more clicks.

8 Tools to Better Understand Your Target Audience

We read a lot in the SEO world about things like keyword research, analyzing your competitors, and other things to get traffic to your site. But I don’t see information very often about deciding who your target audience is and how to make sure your keyword choices will actually reach them.

This is one way to take your keyword research to the next level, and it’s well worth the effort.

Nofollow Links Affect Google Search Engine Ranking

What is PageRank and How is it Calculated?

Web designers can think of Google PageRank as a reputation system, commonly used in many forums to indicate how many useful posts a user has made. It's a value that the Google search engine uses to calculate the importance of any given web page found in its index. Though Google has not disclosed the exact calculations used to assign PageRank, they have given web masters enough information that a simple model can be used to describe PageRank calculation.

For this simplified example, Page A, B and C each have assigned 30 points of reputation.

100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The collections from 2007, 2008 and last year are still useful, but some of the themes are outdated or updated now.

Looking back over these previous theme articles, you can clearly see how and why WordPress has rapidly matured into the CMS powerhouse it is today.

In Defense Of A/B Testing

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is flawed. It seems to confuse the A/B testing methodology with a specific implementation of it (e.g. testing red vs. green buttons and other trivial tests). Let’s look at different criticisms that have surfaced on the Web recently and see why they are unfounded.

Arriva WordPress Seo Edition

WordPress Seo Edition è un progetto che doveva essere messo online da tempo, pronto ormai in prima versione già da qualche giorno.

Finalmente, con l’apertura ufficiale di SeoPoint, viene reso pubblico questo nuovo pacchetto di WordPress modificato che permetterà a tutti i WebMaster e Blogger di avere un sito o un blog ben ottimizzato per il posizionamento nei motori di ricerca.

Nel pacchetto, oltre alla versione 2.6.2 di WordPress sono compresi:

* Temi ottimizzati SEO da applicare al proprio blog o sito
* Plugins per l’ottimizzazione SEO del proprio blog o sito
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Google Increases Focus On Realtime With Realtime Search Page

Google has just announced what in my opinion is a pretty huge development in the search scene – a dedicated page to realtime search. Yes you can now access it on www.google.com/realtime (the page is stuck in a 404 loop as I am writing this, but you could try this url to see if you can get a glimpse).

The page, as it looks like at the moment, is the traditional Google search interface except that it doesn’t have the ubiquitous Google Adwords ads on the right. There are three columns with the middle one being updated in realtime from sources like Twitter, Buzz, Facebook and major news sites.