5 Tips to Empower Your Email Marketing

Email is has proven to be a very effective way to drive engagement with consumers. Here are five things to ask yourself in order to create an email campaign that will drive maximum engagement. 1. Is it Easy on the Eyes? Make sure that you have less text that is spaced out and that your […]

How To Hide Your Personal Information On Facebook

In the age of the Internet, privacy is a luxury and you have to constantly be on your heels to maintain it. Facebook makes it particularly hard for users to guard their personal data. Despite many changes, Facebook privacy settings remain complicated. Moreover, past updates have unexpectedly made previously private information available to the public. […]

SEO Isn’t What You Think It Is

Updates to Google’s algorithms mean that social engagement, rather than search engine trickery, yields top results. Marketers are buzzing from the aftershocks of Google’s recent most updates, code-named Panda and Penguin. Panda, which launched around February of 2011, started using artificial intelligence in new ways to enforce the best practices guidelines Google had long provided […]

Facebook losing on customer satisfaction

It’s got rivals beat on market penetration, but Facebook is getting low marks for satisfaction in a new customer-satisfaction survey, and that has one analyst firm suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg and company better watch their backs. Facebook scored 61 out of 100 on a satisfaction scale released today as part of the American Customer Satisfaction […]

Can negative SEO really get your site penalized?

On April 24, Google introduced its Penguin update — a change to its algorithm that attempted to rectify issues associated with websites rich in low-quality links. These low-quality links include sponsored links, links referring back to unrelated websites, and those that refer back to sites whose anchor text repeat the same keywords, for example. In […]

More than half of senior citizens now use the Internet

More than half of Americans who are 65 or older now use the Internet or email. That’s the first time data have shown more than 50 percent of seniors going online. This study, by the Pew Research Center, found that 53 percent of older Americans use the Internet or email. And just over a third […]