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PUBLIC MARKS from bhartzer with tags what & tech

May 2011

Google Places Listings in Search Results

If you search at Google for a keyword phrase that includes a city name, most likely Google will show Google Places listings as part of the Google search results. But optimizing for this has become increasingly difficult, since what Google shows and when they show it is so inconsistent. Here is how Google Places is different than the Google web resu

December 2010

Problems with Google Places Uncovered

Google’s recent search update where they have pulled places listings into the organic results is generating some errors in accuracy. Rob over at Standing Dog has uncovered some pretty interesting issues regarding Google Places and their integrated search results. Read the Google Places blog post to earn exactly what the problems that have been unco

November 2010

How To Download And Use Your Facebook Information

Facebook has recently been under fire (a lot, I might add) for privacy issues and privacy concerns. I have even written about Facebook email privacy that has gone awry. Many people (not me) are concerned about what they share amongst their friends on Facebook. Some of my family members are concerned about other people (mainly the public) learning a

October 2010

Facebook Chat Client Launches Today

As a self confessed laptop or computer nerd, what particularly impresses me about this Facebook client is both its reliability when related to Facebook chat along with the ease with which you ll be able to customize the shopper. As an example, the Facebook chat client’s intuitive interface makes customizing shortcuts a breeze; I like that I can hot

April 2010

Search Engine Optimization in 2010: What You Need to Know

If you are confused already about search engine optimization, here are my expert thoughts about search engine optimization in 2010, based on my experience.

Search Engine Optimization in 2010: What You Need to Know

If you want to use search engine optimization best practices or want to get updated on the latest search engine optimization techniques, then there are a lot of good SEO resources to keep you up to date. Here is what you really need to know.

March 2010

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

So, what can you do if you are a network marketer and want to bring in more network marketing leads? What if you have already spent money on a multi level marketing œprogram and want to get more people in your network?

Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card, an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations.

February 2010

Offerpal to Host Forum on Future of Social and Mobile Gaming

Offerpal will be posing hard questions about the state of the industry and what it will take take to reach the lofty projections that many experts have estimated. As proof that Offerpal is serious, Offerpal is bringing in hardnosed blogger, Michael Arrington as one of the key moderators.

Monetize More Users with Offerpal Tasks

Today Offerpal unveiled its latest product to help social game developers monetize their users - Offerpal Tasks. Built by leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk, Offerpal Tasks allows gamers and social networkers to earn virtual currency for free by completing what Mechanical Turk calls Human Intelligence Tasks, small online tasks.