Hello, I’m Jacob Stoops, an SEO expert and blogger in Columbus, Ohio working for Rosetta Marketing. I have an extreme passion for content creation, design, and social media. Also, I have an unhealthy obsession with Mafia movies. Learn more about my Search Engine Optimization skills.

I discuss the inherent benefits of establishing a business blog for corporate brands, and how blogging can lead to business impact through SEO and Social. As of 2012, over 50% of large corporations still aren’t blogging about their brand. My goal is to change this so that large corporations understand the impact that their blog may have on a personal consumer level.

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I discuss the SEO impact of Google’s Search Plus Your World which places heavy emphasis on Google+ and personalization of search results. There will be many far-reaching effects on both the Social and SEO games. I cover the top 5 things you will need to watch out for with Search Plus Your World in relation to SEO.

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Yesterday, Google launched Search Plus Your World, an update to their personalized search algorithm which will impact how personalized results are displayed to users, and will put a greater emphasis on security, Google+, and results coming from users within their own social circles.

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Guest poster Jesse Langley discusses the potential for social media to either fragment or streamline, resulting in either one big streamlined social media site or a variety of niche and specialty social media websites. Thanks to Jesse for writing an interesting and thought-provoking post!

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Based on a request I received earlier this week, I’ve decided to outline some tips and strategies for link building for Flash-based websites as well as some of the complexities involved in doing SEO for Flash sites. Flash websites can be very tough to optimize, but these link building tactics should go a long way in helping you as an SEO.

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For my first post of the year, I’m going to show you a little trick I learned using PHP post-count functions to style my Wordpress posts differently based on the post count – i.e. where that post falls in the numbered order (in relation to the other posts).

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A brief look back on the odyssey that was my 2011. This past year was probably one of the longest and most rewarding years of my life. I had many great experiences that I’ll never forget, and many forgettable experiences. All-in-all, I came out of it in one piece, and I am definitely the better for it.

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Ever wonder if you’re following Search Engine Optimization Best Practices when building out that nifty new landing page? I’ve created some guidelines to help you along when you’re building out a new page on your website or tweaking an existing page on your current website and you really, really want to make sure that you’ve optimized that particular page for a specific keyword.

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In today’s article, we’ll be reviewing Joost de Valk‘s awesome plugin, WordPress SEO by Yoast. I decided to give it a try about a month ago when building a small website for one of my clients. I had previously been using the All-In-One SEO Pack which is a fine WordPress plugin, but I must tell you that WordPress SEO by Yoast really impressed me quite a bit with it’s capabilities.

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In the first edition of “10 Questions With,” I got to talk with the great Nate Riggs of Social Business Strategies and NateRiggs.com about all things tech-related and even manage to get a question in there about good-old Columbus.

I must say, it was a …

So for the last three months or so, I’ve clearly had my head in the sand when it comes to technology goings on (or life goings on for that matter). A lot has happened since I’ve been in the proverbial new job, wedding planning, full-time …