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Julio Fernandez has been a pioneer in online marketing for over a decade. He started his career in 1992 with The Miami Herald newspaper, served as a Director of Global Marketing for database leader Oracle Corporation, a Senior Partner with Ogilvy & Mather, a global advertising, marketing and public relations agency and has spent time on the Google Technology Council working directly with Google engineers.

Mr. Fernandez is founding partner of SocialShelfspace.com, a marketing agency that combines search engine optimization with influencer outreach and social technologies to deliver measurable effects. He brings together the latest knowledge, tools, and methods from the world of Search Engine Marketing and Social Media to help clients develop comprehensive programs and improve their Social Shelfspace. You can reach Julio Fernandez via Twitter @SocialJulio and SocialShelfspace.com.

Blog Entries by Julio Fernandez

Why Google Should Worry About the Facebook Phone

(3) Comments | Posted April 4, 2013 | 9:17 PM

Today Facebook announced "Home" a clever way to turn Android devices into what Facebook is calling "a great, living, social phone." I saw the announcement as "if you are on Facebook, you are not on Google, and we did not have to create a phone."

According...

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Google Reveals More Inside Search Result Information

(0) Comments | Posted March 6, 2013 | 5:40 PM

Web sites that dominate the search engine result pages understand that SEO is both an art and a science. And while Google and Bing provide resources and guidelines to webmasters, the lack of transparency to how these search engines work created an industry of snake oil salesmen that promise top...

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Marketing Lessons and Missed Opportunities From Super Bowl XLVII

(1) Comments | Posted February 5, 2013 | 10:51 AM

In many homes, the preparation for a big game is all about the food. However, food was not the only thing being prepped in homes across the country on Super Bowl Sunday 2013. Setting up laptops, tablets and charging mobile devices have now become a common occurrence when watching sports,...

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How to Prevent Facebook's Graph Search From Costing You Your Job

(1) Comments | Posted January 24, 2013 | 5:50 PM

Last week I shared recommendations to Help Facebook Graph Search Find Your Business Page. But businesses are not the only ones that should understand how Graph Search would affect them.

There is a flip side to Graph Search: Because Facebook is organizing your public data, it is possible...

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How to Help Facebook Graph Search Find Your Business Page

(3) Comments | Posted January 16, 2013 | 2:22 PM

With Facebook's announcement of their "Graph Search," small business owners need to take a serious look at the content of their Facebook Page, as well as other Facebook assets that have an opportunity to rank, like FB places, FB groups and FB pages from competitors.

During Facebook's press...

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Competitors Come Together to Create Authoritative Source for Web Developer Documentation

(2) Comments | Posted October 10, 2012 | 2:30 PM

Apple, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and others announced the alpha release of WebPlatform.org, a community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for Web developer documentation.

The free wiki-style site lets developers find best practices for proper cross-browsers and cross-device coding as well as contribute and...

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Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines, Follow Them!

(0) Comments | Posted October 4, 2012 | 9:51 AM

Google and other search engines continue to evolve as there are new pages and social channels providing the information users are looking for as well as spammers that constantly look for ways to impact the search results.

Recently, Google announced an updated version of their Webmaster Quality Guidelines....

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Five Tips for Athletes and Brands to Improve Their Online Profiles

(0) Comments | Posted August 27, 2012 | 7:05 PM

Gabby Douglas is the American gymnast that won gold medals in both the individual and team all-around competitions during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Many social media tracking companies are covering the explosion of followers to Gabby's social accounts. The problem is we need to be able to find the...

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Forget Keyword for SEO -- Concentrate on the Properties and Associations of "Things" to Improve Search Optimization

(1) Comments | Posted June 5, 2012 | 11:58 AM

With so much media coverage focused on Facebook's IPO last month, you might have missed important Tech announcements like Google's "next frontier in search," Knowledge Graph, a growing collection of 500 million people, places and things.

Today, Knowledge Graph is available on desktop search as well as mobile...

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Your Social Shelf Space Opportunity

(3) Comments | Posted April 11, 2012 | 11:11 AM

In 2005, an innovative eye tracking study found that the majority of visibility during a search query happened in a triangle at the top of the Google.com search result page.

Search experts called this area of concentrated interest the "golden triangle," since 100 percent of those searching Google...

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