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One popular link building tactic is blog commenting. Leaving a thoughtful and insightful comment on a blog post along with a name, email address, and link is not only a great way to get an inbound link but it can also improve your company/brand visibility and establish your place as a thought leader in a particular industry.

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# Mobile searches increased by 400% in 2011. # 70% of all social networkers are also online shoppers. # Over 50% of ecommerce store visits occur when consumers are logged onto Facebook. # 68% of businesses plan to integrate social media marketing with their e-mail marketing. # Conversion rates are 105% higher for consumers that interact with ratings and reviews.

despite the rapid increase in smartphone usage, only around 25 percent of companies have bothered to create a mobile smartphone version of their sites and only 13 percent have created sites specifically for tablets.

Currently, over 90 percent of people in the U.S. have mobile phones and estimates of smartphone users generally run between 70 and 80 million people in the U.S. It's even more important if you're trying to reach those oh-so-valuable 18 to 34 year olds: 42 percent of smartphone owners fit this age bracket. Looking at it another way, fully 62 percent of mobile users aged 25 to 34 own a smartphone. And, as I reported in my last column, 40 percent of smartphone and tablet users break them out when they're watching TV.

According to a survey by DDB Worldwide, 27% of people who have liked a brand on Facebook say they often click that little thumbs-up button, and an additional 49% do it occasionally.

Consumers are more willing to interact with branded pages.

Interactions with branded pages will be a key metric to watch in 2011.

iOS and Android are neck and neck when you look at web usage on cellular networks. So the question becomes not why do Android users not browse the web as much as iOS users do, but why don’t they browse the web on Wi-Fi connections?

AR focuses on superimposing information on a still or moving image. The possibilities are virtually limitless.

At one point, QR codes were just looked at as cool and fun.  But now, they are proving to be reliable way to share information. 

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