Your Google Profile is your next Google Ranking Signal

Yes ! You heard it right. If you’re looking to help your search engine rankings, you might need a Google Profile which is the backbone of Google+. Google wants to use authorship markup as ranking signal, requires Google Profile. Google announced this back in June saying it is “experimenting ” with using the data to help people find content from authors in search results.

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Twitter’s New Ad Product

Twitter recently rolled out its latest step toward making money called Promoted Tweets to Followers. The new ad venture allows brands to place special announcements, offers, and other content near the top of users’ timelines that follow them.

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StumbleUpon Can Drive Traffic to Your Website..

StumbleUpon can be a tremendous source of traffic for a site. The content has to be there, of course, but the nature of StumbleUpon enables that content to spread pretty quickly and pretty far.

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Use of Internet affecting our memory, reports New York Times

Does use of Internet affects our memory? If you are in a dilemma about how, then let me tell you that researchers have found that the widespread use of search engines and online databases is affecting the way people remember information.

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Google Will Delete Private Google+ Profiles on July 31st

If you currently have a private profile on Facebook and was hoping to have the same on Google+, you can… until July 31, 2011 that is. Google lays out the details on the social services help section.

New feather in Google's cap: Google+

Welcome the new & talk of the town Google+, a social network & serious Facebook competitor by Google which was launched this week.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html