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Your Google Search Engine Rankings Are An Illusion (live tonight)

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Your Google rankings might very well be an illusion! I’m not kidding. Tonight I’ll be showing you what I mean. Tune in LIVE and find out how you can see through Google’s fancy illusion…

The show starts TONIGHT at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/forum/forum/addonchat.php
(If you’re not a member yet, just click the link & sign up… it only takes a minute)

This is a preview of Your Google Search Engine Rankings Are An Illusion (live tonight). Click here to read Your Google Search Engine Rankings Are An Illusion (live tonight) in full (95 words, estimated 23 secs reading time)

Is Keyword Research Really That Important?

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Google's New Search Based Keyword Tool
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I was asked a live question during my show about keyword research recently, specifically if it’s the best way to find a good niche, and if I use the keywords in articles. And it was a good question, so I wanted to put the clip of my reply on here for you.

Also in the video, I discussed using Google’s free search-based keyword tool when brainstorming niches. This tool can be found at google.com/sktool.

This is a preview of Is Keyword Research Really That Important?. Click here to read Is Keyword Research Really That Important? in full (144 words, 2 images, estimated 35 secs reading time)

Mobile Marketing: Yelp, Foursquare and Other Awesome Things

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I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it many more times: Local, mobile and social are the future of advertising and marketing.

What does this mean? People search for local businesses all the time. Where’s a good thai restaurant nearby? Where’s the closest place to get my oil changed? These searches are being done at home, on laptops in coffee shops, from people’s iPhones. And as a business owner it’s important that you know what’s happening and adjust your marketing strategy accordingly.

This is a preview of Mobile Marketing: Yelp, Foursquare and Other Awesome Things. Click here to read Mobile Marketing: Yelp, Foursquare and Other Awesome Things in full (252 words, 2 images, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

Mobile Marketing Q and A

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There were a TON of great questions from the members-only chat and the public chat on this week’s live show! It started with questions about mobile marketing, then branched out to all kinds of interesting topics. Here are some of the answers you’ll get in this newest Q and A clip:

1. Should I focus on Yelp and Foursquare for local marketing?
2. What kind of smartphone should I get for mobile marketing?
3. Will Flash be a thing of the past since mobile phones can’t handle it?

This is a preview of Mobile Marketing Q and A. Click here to read Mobile Marketing Q and A in full (128 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

The Solution to Duplicate Content

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Noone likes searching for something on the internet and seeing multiple sites with the same information on them. So to improve the users’ experience, Google is very hard on those who post duplicate content, their own or stolen from others.

So how do you find out if your content is unique? How do you know if your writers are writing original articles or just copying and pasting someone else’s? You now have a tool to find this out for you. It’s called Plagium. Plagium.com is a very simple tool. You enter a paragraph into the field, and it finds out if it’s unique or not, shows you how many times it’s been used, and where it’s located.

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Affiliate Marketing Automated

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I recently showed the viewers of my live Tuesday night show a tool called VigLink that I stumbled across. It seemed pretty awesome to me. So I wanted to share it with you here.

VigLink is an affiliate link automator tool, basically. To see what they potentially can help you earn, they do a scan of the pages of your website for terms which relate to already-existing affiliate products. They will then give you an estimate of how much money you’re potentially missing out on.

This is a preview of Affiliate Marketing Automated. Click here to read Affiliate Marketing Automated in full (162 words, estimated 39 secs reading time)

Mobile Marketing & Advertising LIVE on Tonight’s Show

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Tonight I’m LIVE at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. I’ll be covering some recent developments in mobile marketing. This impacts ALL businesses! No matter what size your business is or even if it’s an offline business. You’ll want to tune In LIVE tonight & find out about this…

Stop by early & say hi:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/forum/forum/addonchat.php
(If you’re not a member yet, just click the link & sign up… it only takes a minute)

This is a preview of Mobile Marketing & Advertising LIVE on Tonight’s Show. Click here to read Mobile Marketing & Advertising LIVE on Tonight’s Show in full (99 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Do We Care About Our Online Privacy?

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When you join social networks, add services and applications, use Google services, etc. you give certain personal information up. But do you know what that means or how it affects you? Do you care? The CEO of Facebook thinks you don’t!

Find out what was said specifically in my online show last Tuesday, including live questions, answers and opinions, as well as all kinds of info and tips about privacy, tools that use your personal data, and how to be in control of it all. And of course, stay tuned for more TONIGHT at 6:30 pm! See you then.

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Google’s Conscience

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It’s not news that Google is a gigantic conglomerate, whose decisions are financial first and foremost. However, this week marks a big change and a decision which was based on what’s right for mankind, and not money.

This week Google decided they will no longer censor their searches in China.  This decision was made as a result of the extremely invasive hacks they were subjected to this past December. At first, they thought it was one of the more common and annoying hackers just causing trouble. But after thorough investigation it was found that the Chinese government themselves was the culprit. They were secretly and illegally reading gmails of human rights activists in China to get information.

This is a preview of Google’s Conscience. Click here to read Google’s Conscience in full (206 words, estimated 49 secs reading time)