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How To Recover From Your Facebook Addiction

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Do you find yourself checking Facebook five, ten, twenty times daily? Do you ignore calls and avoid visits from your family and friends in favor of keeping tabs on status updates? If so, you may have an addiction to Facebook, but don't worry. Here are some tips for keeping social media time in check.It is very easy Things You'll Need Willpower 1 Assess your addiction. Socializing online can be addicting - but if you're doing it to the exclusion of face-to-face time in your important relationships, it could be a problem. If you answer yes to these questions, you may need a Facebook intervention: Do you lose time at work due to Facebook abuse? Does your spouse or significant other complain about the amount of time you spend on Facebook? Do you use Facebook because you feel shy with people? Do you feel out of control of your time when using Facebook? Does using Facebook decrease your overall ambition? Do you have to check Facebook a certain number of times daily? Keep reading

Google Plus +1 Social Button for Websites Now Live

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Google has just introduced a new social button called Google Plus One . It is basically a button similar to the Facebook “like” button which is shorthand for “You should check this out”.You click this +1 button to give a web page your recommendation to your friends and the searchers which will really help people find relevant results  more quickly and easily.   The plus one button can be found in two places on the web, the Google search listings (currently available only when you’re logged into your Google account. After log in you’ll be able to see the plus one button next to search results) and individual web pages. You can access code for adding Google Plus +1 to individual web pages from http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button .In order to use the plus one button you’ll need a Google account. If you use Gmail then you already have a Google account.  While you’re logged into your Google account you’ll be able to see the plus one button next to search results. Simply clic

Google Place Optimization – Search Visibility Factor

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Google Place optimization is one of the recent most important SEO factor to increase the visibility of a business or company in the web search result. Generally, if you are searching something with a location (city name) related keyword, Google will show the place listing along with the web results. What can be enlisted in Google Place? •    Business or company name •    Brief  business description •    Business address spotted in Google Map •    Title with keyword to get SEO value •    Business category •    Contact details (Phone, fax, email) •    Website •    Images and videos •    Business related other details in limited space. •    Latest events announcement for limited time period •    Tags etc. In organic search result, generally we get highlighted keywords with two lines description and the relevant URLs. But if you can optimize the Google Place efficiently then the map results will appear along with the web results. And this is only visible (maximum seven top place listing) i