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SEO News Search Home A-Z About Forums Jobs Newsletters Newswall Stats Training Tools Webinars Whitepapers You are here : Home Industry Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology Blekko Gets Foodily to Help Eat Away at Recipe Spam by Rob D . Young June 30, 2011 Comments Each of the search sites is making it easier to browse through recipes . Blekko's big pitch is that they involve human curation . Now that curation has become more powerful , with established recipe sharing site Foodily taking the role of editor-in-chief for recipe-related . slashtags Blekko's Curation Network The concept of slashtags lies at the heart of Blekko , and not just because it makes it easy to throw that snazzy tag line slashing out spam around . Slashtags let users specify what they
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Just like brick and mortar stores see a drastic increase in traffic and sales during the holidays, so do websites with holiday products. In order to take advantage of this holiday traffic though, you’ll need to know how to properly optimize your website for the search engines. It takes more than just supplying the hottest products on your website, you’ll need to do your research along with some special holiday marketing. Let’s take a look at 4 tips to keep in mind for attracting holiday traffic.
You find it easy to search the web using Google or Bing, but what do you do to search your own information, the data stored in on your company web site, intranet, document management system, emails, in house databases and other types of content?