July 11th, 2008

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Reader Poll: How Do You Interact With Social Boomarks?

You don’t have to look too far online to see more and more people using social bookmarking services and news sites. Content publishers from blogs to mainstream publications like the New York Times and Minneapolis Star Tribune are always looking for ways to make it easier for readers to save and share content.
There are a variety of tactics including social bookmark links, icons, multi-purpose buttons, browser add-ons, bookmarklets and other tools and scripts that can be added to a website to encourage visitors to promote content. The question is, how are people using them?
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
Are content owners adding in social buttons because they provide value to their users? Or are they just taking up space and virtually ignored?
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Are You Too Googlecentric?

So… are you?
According to Urban Dictionary Googlecentric means having a view of the world centered around Google and Googling. In the example given it said that “My wife doesn’t belief that ____ exists because it wasn’t available on Google. She is Googlecentric.”
Of course so far I haven’t really searched for something that existed that I haven’t found on Google. I do believe though that if I sit down to think about it I WILL find something not on Google…or rather I will not find that something in Google.
Anyway the question came to my mind without really knowing that there was already a definition of the term. I was just thinking about how most SEOs are too focused on Google. I have posted the importance of not neglecting to optimise for other search engines before (back when Ask hadn’t changed their strategy yet) and I though that I should reiterate the […]

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