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Twitter Background Dimensions

Branding your company's Twitter page can easily be done by simply adding a background image to your Twitter Account in the Settings. However, getting the dimensions right so it displays nicely can be tricky, especially with all the different screen s ...

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Google Adsense In Your City: A Learning Experience

Last month, I traveled to Las Vegas to attend the Google Adsense In Your City. Since launching Vancouver Trails in 2007, the Google Adsense ads being run on the website have been the primary way of generating revenue from that site and this event ...

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Search Google Using an Image

Google Images now offers a feature where you can search the Internet for similar images. To do try an Image search: Go to: http://images.google.com/ Find a photo on your computer in your Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac). Drag that photo to ...

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Google+ Launches Business Pages

The Google+ social network has finally launched their Business Pages where companies can now create their own profiles, similar to Facebook pages. While still in its infancy, Google+ Pages allows a company to include a brief description of themselves ...

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Customizing A Shared Page On Facebook: Use Open Graph

Whenever you share a link on Facebook or you paste a link into your status update, you'll notice that it displays a title and sometimes a description and photo. To change what information is displayed when a page on your website is displayed involves ...

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Responding to Negative Online Feedback

Many major websites now provide areas for users to comment on products and services being sold. Added to this, Google allows users to comment on companies through their Places page and import comments from other popular sites, all of which end up sho ...

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What Is Google+ and Do I Need It?

A visual representation of Circles in Google+. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_M6PzXS9g&w=520

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Google+ Shows Promise but Where’s the Support for Businesses?

Google rolled out it's social networking equivalent to Facebook, called Google+, this summer and the initial features look promising. Google+ organizes your Friends into Circles, or custom named groups that you can add your contacts to. Many Facebook ...

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Customizing the Image for Facebook Shared Links

This post is outdated. Click here to view how to customize your Facebook content using Open Graph. Sharing tools and Like buttons have become common place on websites and blogs. When using these tools, Facebook and other services do their best to ...

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Including Youtube In Your Online Marketing Strategies

Often overlooked by many small to medium sized businesses is the important role that Youtube can play in developing your online marketing strategies. Numbers recently released by Comscore show that Google sites (which includes Youtube) had over 1 ...

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