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SEO-friendly website names get customers by accident while strong branding through social media can helps build repeat customers.

NB: This is a guest article by Martin MacDonald, director for inbound marketing at Expedia UK, covering SEO and social media. We are frequently told by leading industry thinkers that social convergence with search is the big thing to take care of in …

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