Welcome to another edition of Pierce Communications’ This Month in SEO and Social Media in which we’ll try to explain the latest developments in the fascinating world of SEO and Internet Marketing. It’ll make for good Friday reading! 
Google launches +1 button for websites [source]
As you may remember from the previous SEO update, Google has created a rival for the Facebook “Like” button which they called “Google +1”. Up to now this upvote button was only available on search engine results pages. But now Google has released code that allows people to implement the +1 button straight on their webpages, which makes +1 a must-have button to implement on blogs.