Google has once again furthered its core competitive strategy of simplifying things for its users! It has made Google+ hangout an easy and fun way to start a new hangout or connect with the virtual hangouts available. A hangout makes it convenient to ‘hang out’ with friends and acquaintances in real time and do some real exciting things online. It enables you to create your own space where you can invite like-minded people to ‘hang out’ with you.

Google Plus Hangouts

Simple Steps to Start an Existing Google+ Hangout

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Wish to increase your traffic 100 times? All you need to do is to get your ranking from page 2 of the SERP (search engine results page) to page 1. Now, that is easier said than done. It can take you hours and hours of effort to accomplish this.

The most common (and indeed most powerful) ways to improve your ranking include, listing on various search engines (like Google Places and Yahoo Local) and on smaller local search engines, creating blogs, listing in hundreds of directories and writing articles for article directories.

While these are powerful ways to improve ranking, you are not the only one undertaking these activities. As the competition gets stiffer, having a presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has become even more important to improve ranking. In fact, Twitter marketing has gained importance over the years. Let’s have a look at how the bird can fly you to the first page of the SERP.
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Did you know that students receiving education online tend to outperform those receiving face-to-face instructions? This has been proven by a study conducted by the US Department of Education in 2009. Let’s delve into some more interesting facts. Approximately 80% of companies use social media for recruitment and out of this almost 95% of them use LinkedIn. Furthermore, Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S. To honor the evolution of virtual social web Mashable organized the World Social Media Day on June 30.

The 2011 World Social Media Day

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