Social Media

Facebook Sets May Date for IPO

No Comments 28 March 2012

Facebook is about ready to release its initial public offering (IPO)  in May.  There is a lot of speculation about their pricing and volumes of stock, but overall we expect the Facebook release to be very hyped and amped up.  So be ready for Apple style prices and fast changes from investors responding to the release news. [...]

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News

“Do Not Track” and other FTC Privacy Rulings

No Comments 26 March 2012

The United States federal trade commission has called for  stronger regulation of the information, often “consumer data”, collected by major U.S. corporations that accumulate a diverse and massive amount of personal, financial information about millions of consumers. The FTC is pushing for a provision that would allow people access to the information being collected on them.   Helping [...]

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Google News

Google’s Future Defined by User Experience

No Comments 21 March 2012

Google wants to be the leader in _________ . a) Social Media b) Search Engines c) Free Email d) Business Support/Communications e) Smartphones f) pretty much everything.. There is no doubt that Google is excelling, if not leading, in most of these markets whether they offer products and/or services to those consumers.  Much of what [...]

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Blogging, Keyword Research

Keyword Targeting and You

1 Comment 15 January 2012

Blogging is all about writing.  Pretty obvious, but many bloggers only see that far, fail. You’ve got to be planning and researching your writing subjects for the end-users that you are trying to reach online.  If you are running an e-commerce or business website, than your customers are looking for specific articles that relate to your products [...]

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Blogging

Tips for Engaging Users

1 Comment 22 December 2011

Being good at search engine optimization doesn’t always have to do with link building and social media, the main focus is still on getting your content to engage and convert users.  Whether this is toward your product, services, or building subscribers, you need users to gain power and influence on the web.  That influence can [...]

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SEO

XML Sitemaps Explained

2 Comments 15 December 2011

XML = extensible markup language This specific purpose for XML and their developers was to design a new coding system that is easily read by humans and machines. With that accomplished, XML had to conform to all W3C and web standards to produce the current, highly effective XML code of today. XML Sitemaps are very [...]

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Blogging, SEO

5 Tips for SEO Friendly Blogging

9 Comments 14 December 2011

1. Content is king  Matt Cutt’s “content is more important than SEO” Look at your competition – how good are their posts? how often are they posting? what kind of social media is involved? The more content you have, the more search results you can pull organic traffic from Add keywords and be original (keyword [...]

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News

Mozilla Labs Apps – HTML 5

No Comments 13 December 2011

The Mozilla Labs Apps project allows the original creators, devs and coders, to design beautiful, complex HTML5 app experiences that can be used by any device:desktops, smartphones, tablets, and whatever else comes along.  Mozilla apps will be able to accomplish this universal application with the use of new web standards and open technologies such as [...]

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Google News

Google Public Data Explorer

No Comments 12 December 2011

Interested in world statistics? What is the average lifespan of an American citizen vs. other countries citizens?  Want to find out the current greenhouse emissions statistics?  Or maybe your interested in economics data for hundreds of countries throughout our globe, business statistics vary with GDP to entrepreneurs, small business owners to corporate energy users. Google’s [...]

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SEO

Search Engine Spiders and SEO

No Comments 10 December 2011

The web around us is being constantly scanned, crawled, and indexed by thousands of different robots each day.  Some of which are there to find new pages, content, and media while others are looking for more malicious things like emails, phone numbers, etc.  Either way, your websites are guaranteed to receive thousands of visits each [...]

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Google News

New Autofill Email on AdWords Ads

No Comments 09 December 2011

AdWords releases new pay-per-click ads that include an email sign-up box.  This lead generation form can be for offers, coupons, discounts, and a thousand more reasons, but its simply an easier way for companies to generate massive email lists to spam.  There are some perks to this setup helping some companies get leads quicker and [...]

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Video Marketing

RSAnimate: Creative WebVideo of the Week

No Comments 09 December 2011

Our video of the week comes from RSAnimate, www.theRSA.org.  It jumped out at us because of the overall experience when watching the video for the first time, it grabs hold of your senses, thoughts, and opinions quickly.  There aren’t a whole lot of people who are capable of drawing at this level, but that isn’t [...]

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Google News, Social Media

Google’s Schemer

No Comments 08 December 2011

Google has introduced us all to their new, Schemer platform.  A social media tool for people to go out and explore new cities, events, and locations through reviews, sharing, and blogging of sorts.  It works by users posting activities, reviews, blog posts, and more content when visiting locations, events, and more.  These user reviews and [...]

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SEO

How Can Bloggers Prepare for SEO in 2012?

5 Comments 07 December 2011

Bloggers are a select group that can reach massive visitors online.  Google has done a lot in 2011 to improve the indexing, ranking, and trust scale for blogs, especially the major platforms like WordPress and Joomla.  Authorship has become another major factor which has improved a lot of blogs authority and trust quickly, helping those [...]

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Google News

Google Timeline

No Comments 07 December 2011

Timeline is located at the bottom of = http://www.google.com/insidesearch/  This interactive timeline has been created at inside search and  shows some of the major stepping stones in the growth of their baby, the Google search engine.  Starting back in 1997, a couple of guys at Stanford took a big step in improving the online experience [...]

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SEO

Forums and Message Boards are Making a Comeback

No Comments 06 December 2011

Internet forums used to be considered a thing of the past, with all the new social media sites being the latest buzz and craze since the early 2000′s.  Most people thought those old BBCode ugly, square looking forums were dead, and they may be right. But new forums are back and taking control of almost [...]

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Social Media

Klout.com – Measure your Influence

1 Comment 06 December 2011

Klout has developed a new style of looking at social media and online publicity.  They are employing a continuously ran algorithm that is monitoring, scraping, and scanning the internet for newly created content, posts, and media.  The main foundation of their search is on social media domains like Youtube, Twitter, Google +, etc. In the [...]

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Google News

Google Can Do Your Calculus

1 Comment 05 December 2011

Google search can now display mathematical functions that are entered into the search field.  The functions are graphed out just like your Texas Instruments calculator used to do for you in college.  It seems to be very fast and efficient at solving complex functions and stacking them up, as many functions and algorithms as you [...]

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