"First, the advertiser is given a line of code from the Remarketing network to include into their website," he continues. "Once implemented, upon visiting the site, users are tagged anonymously and later recognized by banner ads spaces on other websites within the Remarketing network. Advertisers later follow-up with these users as they surf other websites with an advertising message." 
"It is important for both consumers and advertisers to understand that remarketing does not pull any other information from the visitor other than that he or she has viewed that particular site," he notes. "The visitor is ‘tagged’ anonymously and this allows advertisers to serve a relevant ad later in the visitor’s Internet surfing.
Social can be an important indicator of relevancy, and Google knows this, which is why the company recently released its own social-based recommendation engine to tie into local search.
It will be interesting to see if "like buying" becomes a prevalent activity. People will always look for ways to exploit any technology that gets their stuff in front of more people. 
"There’s gonna be new types of spam, like ‘how do I spam likes?’ People are going to start figuring out, ‘ok, I’m going to get a whole bunch of people and we’re going to fight our way into your community," says Clay. "We’re going to work our way in through the holes that are in Facebook, etc. We’re going to start biasing the system that way."
"I think that the PageRank algorithm actually supports testimonial grade links as a vote for you as being worthy," he says. "I think that a more significant signal is when people like you or share or link to you through a social network if they are your community. And I think a community with a matching persona of your user is going to carry a lot more weight in the future. We’re right at the early stage."
It remains to be seen just what Google will be able to do with Facebook data, however, because it just can’t get access to it. Meanwhile Bing has cracked the nut, at least to some extent, through a partnership.
"We’ve all heard how Facebook doesn’t like Google, and how Google’s coming back and talking to Facebook and how Facebook might be talking to Google…well, the thing is, if ‘like’ information (just on a voting system) were somehow integrated into the PageRank algorithm and half of links dropped and was replaced by likes, then I think we’d see that the value of the top sites will no longer be to whoever can buy the most links, but to whoever can earn the most links," says Clay.
"Now, in general, people won’t link to you unless you have quality content," he notes. "That means to me that the on-page SEO is gonna come back…it means that just having somebody write ten thousand articles and publishing them into the network where they’re average quality…isn’t necessarily going to help you, because nobody is particularly going to ‘like’ those kinds of things."
"It really becomes one of doing a few things right and not many things average," he adds. "So we’re going to see a re-focusing of the way search works in the future, and I think that’s a big item."
Clay concludes, "Likes are…one year from now, or six months even…I think that we’re going to see that likes and referrals and recommendations have started to be, if not already are a major, major part of all the ranking algorithms, and there’s going to be a general shift towards improving quality of sites, not improving size of sites."
What is the difference between a blogger and a journalist? Is the guy labeled a journalist automatically more credible because of that label? How can a blogger attain that kind of credibility? 
WebProNews recently sat down with freelance journalist Greg Ferenstein, probably best known for his articles at Mashable. He talked about how to stick out in the crowd of bloggers and the fine line between blogging and journalism.  
Coming Up With Original Content
As you know, if you want readers, you have to have good content, and if you don’t produce really original content, you may have a hard time finding that audience. 
"At least in my case, I found a lot more people read my stuff when I did original investigations, so I was conducting interviews, looking at academic research, talking to people late at night about their new projects, so I could be the source of information all the other bloggers were talking about," Ferenstein told us.
That’s not to say there isn’t such a problem in traditional media, despite the presence of editors. 
"I think bloggers are the future," said Ferenstein. "I don’t really like the distinction between a blogger and a journalist. There are some horrible journalists, and there are some great bloggers, and they could probably swap positions and we wouldn’t know much of a difference. Good writing is good writing, and as more people come into the space, there’s going to be more opportunity for people outside the people with journalism degrees or with the typical pedigree or connections that used to get them into the legacy media organizations."
Because the landscape is so much broader, there’s going to be a lot more noise, he notes, so "You’re going to have to do something really unique to distinguish yourself."
Today is an exciting day for me because it marks the first day of rebuilding a new empire of websites that will generate money. During and after the divorce, unfortunately, I left a lot of things behind. This includes my house, the car, some furniture, oh… and also a few hundred websites. But that’s okay,
"There’s a lot of other challenges with things like…with Google AdWords specifically or any search engine marketing, where you’re trying to target for your particular product, but you might have many different audiences who might search on the same term that need many different types or variations of your product," says Driscoll Miller. "I have a client, as an example, who serves home users as well as business users, but they’re two different products."
"So we use segmentation for that, where you have buttons on a page to try and segment those people down a path to get them to the right product very quickly," she adds. "And those types of things can really help your conversion rate."
"I think a lot of people put things below the fold, which is a mistake, and certainly not putting a form right there on your landing page is a problem," she says. "I’m seeing less people actually land people directly on their home page, which is good, because you know…a home page has a lot of stuff going on…I am seeing people try to create their own landing pages, which is a real positive."
"So the initial form can’t be intimidating," she adds. "It can’t be too many fields – everything but the kitchen sink. Try and make it as small as you can."
The same thing applies to the checkout process. 
Many are getting a substantial amount of their news today from Twitter, but Twitter appears to have higher aspirations for becoming an important news service. Note: this article has been updated following recent developments.
Co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters this week, "From the very beginning this has seemed almost as if it’s a news wire coming from everywhere around the world….I think a Twitter News Service would be something that would be very open and shared with many different news organizations around the world."
Twitter has obviously come a long way in two and a half years, and news organizations have of course latched on. A recent Fast Company article by Ellen McGirt says: 
The Good, the Bad, and the Reality of Twitter as a News Source
The reality is that news often breaks on Twitter before it breaks by a traditional publication or even a blog or news website. See Stone’s earthquake example. Twitter is immediate, and it’s right from the source, whether that be a person in power making an announcement or an eyewitness report from a citizen. 
Another advantage Twitter offers is the ability to reduce spin. Granted, any single Twitter user has their own biases, just like any single reporter, but if it’s coming directly from the source, the content is at its root – it’s purest possible form, before it makes its way into the newsroom to be curated or elaborated upon by a third party. There’s something to that. 
Of course, on the flipside of that you get a lot of noise and a lot of credibility questions, and that’s where that curation comes in. It’s up to the news consumer to establish sources they trust, and Twitter can actually be good for that too, thanks to search – the crowd. Different perspectives from different users.
However, there is a difference between a tweet from some random person and one from a well-known figure, in terms of credibility. For example, if John Doe tweets that Google is buying Yahoo, that’s going to require a higher level of scrutiny for accuracy than if Google CEO Eric Schmidt tweets the same thing. 
Hopefully any use of a Twitter-based newswire-type feed will be able to effectively filter through this kind of thing too.
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Creating a successful website is not easy, but if you’re going to do it, your best bet is to start a blog. The creation of a tightly-focused blog is the easiest way to get your work onto the internet. My own blog, The Chrome Source, has been out for only a year, but already it’s the most-read blog about the new Google Chrome operating system. Here are some of the things I’ve learned about how [...]
"These visitors are tagged when they leave the site then later are shown ads with specific discounts and specials on items previously browsed as they surf elsewhere on the web," explains Yomtobian.  
