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99% Blog - 4 Creative Ways to Attract More Visitors to Your Website

"How can I get more website visitors?" This is one of the most common questions I hear from clients, frustrated at the lack of business their website brings them. Often, there isn't much wrong with the site iteslf -- it's professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored. Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it's eminently doable -- as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
"The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it." read full article...

TechFlash - Why you Should NOT Check Personal Email at Work

With technology and social networking playing an increasing role in the workplace, various legal cases are popping up regarding trade secret violations, privacy and social media as a whole. Michael Droke, co-department head of the Labor and Employment Group at Seattle law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, talks about how companies can protect themselves from these investigations, before and after they happen. read full article...

Search Engine Land - SEO Tips: Optimizing For Multiple Keywords On One Page

When you began learning SEO, someone probably told you not to optimize a webpage for more than two or three queries. At the 101 level, treating each keyword with the same reverence makes a lot of sense. It is easier to teach and execute. Now, at the 303 level, we want to wring out every last drop of SEO copy goodness we can get. In this article you will find out several steps on how to do this. read full article...

Mashable - What Can Social Media Tell Us About American Society?

America is obsessed with its social media tools - more than half of all Americans have a social networking profile. But what does social media tell us about American society? Is our use of social tools a reflection of our interests and behaviors?

Apparently we Americans have a lot to say (48% of all bloggers are U.S.-based), love talking about television (77% have used social media to share their love of a show) and love video games (10% of all US-based web activity involves video games).

Oh, and apparently North Dakota and New Jersey are among the most social states in the union. Go figure. read full article...

SearchEngineLand - ISPs Caught Hijacking & Redirecting Search Results

Careful who you're hiring to handle your Internet service: The New Scientist reports that several ISPs are allegedly hijacking searches conducted on search engines and redirecting in order to make a quick profit. A searcher would search for a keyword such as [apple] and the ISP may take that user through a redirect via an affiliate program to earn potential commissions on a merchant’s web site. read full article...

Mashable - 5 Free Tools for Recording Google+ Hangouts

Google+ Hangouts are proving one of the most popular features of the new social networking service, but there’s no built-in option to record them. Until Google adds such functionality, we’ve found five workarounds to help you record your next Hangout - free. read full article...

Technorati - Clicks That Cost: How Google Made Over $32 Billion Last Year

In the past four quarters, Google made a whopping $32.2 billion in advertising revenues. Today, WordStream, a provider of search marketing software, published a nice infographic showing the twenty most expensive keyword categories in AdWords. At the top of the list is "insurance", with a top CPC (cost per click) of almost $55. There are other expensive keyword categories related to finance, including "loans" ($44 CPC), "mortgage" ($47 CPC), and "credit" ($36 CPC). read full article...

CBS Interactive Network - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Emailers

How often does this happen? You start the day with great intentions for barreling through a list of priorities. But at quitting time, you’ve only accomplished one: getting (most of) your email answered and filed. You congratulate yourself on having done that, though a nagging voice in the back of your head whispers that, really, you haven’t done anything at all. read full article...

TechSpot - Google search blocks 11 million websites to fight malware

Google has blocked all .co.cc websites from its search results because the domain has been found to be too "spammy." The .cc top-level domain, which belongs to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and regular .cc websites are unaffected by Google's changes, according to The Register. read full article...

Daily Real Estate News - Why search still trumps social

There's a growing tendency to judge a website's performance not just on the number of visitors it generates, but the amount of time people spend on a site. The question is what are people doing and why are they doing it? Don't just fish where the fish are -- fish where the fish are hungry. read full article...

MakeUseOf.com - 107 Best Websites On The Web

Here you go, the best 107 websites for all your needs. Our friends at MakeUseOf.com have taken the effort to categorize the websites and picked only those they believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you. A lot of great information and Web resources for everyone. Spread the word! read full article...

The Economic Times - New Web address boom could be search engine boon

The decision to open the Internet to a flood of Web addresses ending in anything from company names to social movements could prove a boon to search engines. The Internet's global coordinator on Monday approved the creation of website addresses ending in just about any word, triggering one of the biggest ever shake-ups in how the web operates. read full article...

Business Journal - Symantec: Spammers now offer fake URL shorteners

Spammers for the first time are now establishing their own fake URL-shortening services, according to a report from Symantec Corp. In the scheme, shortened links created on these fake URL-shortening sites are not included directly in spam messages. Instead, the spam emails contain shortened URLs created on legitimate URL-shortening sites. These shortened URLs lead to a shortened-URL on the spammer's fake URL-shortening website, which in turn redirects to the spammer's own website. read full article...

RIS Media - 8 Things Every Internet Advertiser Should Know

Media buyers follow the masses, who are migrating away from traditional print and TV mediums in massive numbers. More people now get their news online than in newspapers. Nielsen found one million fewer U.S. households watching prime time over last year, while the online audience has almost doubled. Then there’s Facebook, where over 550 million users are attracting an overwhelming majority of today’s marketers. read full article...

Real Estate Insights - REALTORS® and Technology - Embracing the New

Technology has changed dramatically over the last 10 years and had a strong impact on the REALTOR® business. New forms of technology have enhanced mobility and improved efficiency, but they have also eliminated a level of control from the average real estate agent. An overview of how tech impacted the real estate market and industry. read full article...

Mashable - How HTML5 Is Influencing Web App Development

Over the last 12 months, the momentum behind HTML5 has continued to build, with application developers, browser makers and hardware vendors fully embracing and supporting the web of the future. Consumers have started to embrace HTML5 as well, especially as more users understand the benefits and potential that HTML5 can mean for the future. With Firefox 4, Google Chrome, IE 9, Safari 5 and Opera all offering better, more robust support for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, we’re already seeing glimpses of what is possible and what the web of the future may look like. read full article...

EntireWeb Newsletter - Google's New Search Algorithm and Social Signals

There has also been a lot of talk about social rank signals. In this article, we'll talk about recent Google algorithm changes as of January 2011 and discuss social rank signals. If you have a high PageRank Twitter profile, the links you tweet will have an effect on the search activity related to that link; it could potentially help you to rank higher. What does this mean to web entrepreneurs and SEOs? To me, this means that we must be more social. It means that if you're not being an actual person on Twitter, you should start. read full article...

Social Media Explorer - Branded content: Shoveling sh*t or fostering solutions?

The concept of branded content isn’t new; even as the pervasiveness of the digital lifestyle has given rise to the social consumer to provide brands with new channels of access, delivery formats, and greater self-initiated reach. The underlying premise is that brands using these social media tactics are an authority in their space. Yet, there’s so much poorly disguised “help” being thrown at us consumers that branded content is really starting to sound like noise. read full article...

B2C Marketing Insider - Secrets to Building a Good Website

Your website is no Starbucks—that is, you don’t have the surefire benefit of a habit-forming chemical additive to keep readers elbowing their way on to your homepage as if you were giving away, say, Iced Grande Skinny Mocha Lattes (one cream, two sugars, please). But it doesn’t mean your content can’t be equally addictive. Want to build brand loyalty through your website and keep readers coming back? Here’s hoping these tips from my fellow editors will enable your online home to channel its inner Howard Schultz—and, with some luck, your next eureka moment. read full article...

ICSB Exchange - Egypt - Pressures for Change & the Social Media Impact

What is happening in Egypt is not just a revolution. It is the result of socio-cultural change that has been in motion for longer than the 30 years reign of Mobarak. This change has been amplified by the development of social media like twitter, facebook, and blogs. The Jasmin Revolution in Tunisia, an apparently uncoordinated and unanticipated mass action, represents the first explosion of change, sending a wave of hope throughout the Arab nations and a corresponding wave of fear among the rulers of those nations. read full article...

Business Journal - Report: Facebook 'friends' cause stress, anxiety

The more 'friends' people have on Facebook the more likely they are to be stressed out and anxious, according to a new study. Psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland studied students' use of the Palo Alto-based social media Web site and concluded that for a significant number of Facebook users the negative effects of using the site outweighed the benefits it offers in terms of staying in touch with friends and family. read full article...

MakeUseOf.com - How To Check If Someone Else Is Accessing Your FB Account

What’s the number one issue people have with Facebook? That’s right, privacy. Ever since there’s been a Facebook, people have been voicing their privacy concerns about it. So what’s the problem now? Nothing, technically. In fact, Facebook has recently given us a way to see if someone else has been accessing our Facebook accounts (without our permission). Is that something you’d be interested in? read full article...

B2C Marketing Insider - 5 Reasons Why Content Marketing IS The New SEO

Given Google and Bing's recent revelation that social media is now a factor in determining website rankings, content marketing should be considered the number one search engine optimization strategy. For inbound marketers this totally makes sense, because frequently publishing high quality content and distributing it via social media is the best way to take advantage of this new algorithm. read full article...

RIS Media - The Truth about QR Codes

You’ve probably noticed already some small, square codes popping up in places like print ads, magazines, billboards and trade-show booths. These useful, efficient little marvels are QR codes, also known as Quick Response codes. Although virtually ubiquitous in Europe and Japan, they’re just starting to gain popularity in the States. QR codes are readable by almost all smartphones and, with a simple scan, can drive a mobile phone user to any type of content - a website, someone’s contact information, or even a simple message. read full article...

Portfolio.com - Fresh Out of Web Addresses

Just as there is a limit on the number of telephone numbers, there is also a finite number of Internet (IP) addresses. Every device, such as mobile phones and laptops, and every Web site gets its own unique number. What happens when the current IP addresses run out? That’s where the new Internet addressing system, dubbed IPv6 - those crazy computer engineers at it again - comes in. The system would greatly expand the number of addresses and it is ready to go, but there’s a glitch. read full article...

Business Journal - 26X Jump in Mobile Web Use Coming

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday predicted that smartphones and tablet computers will bring a 26-fold increase in traffic over the mobile web by 2015. Mobile traffic originating from tablet devices alone will grow 205-fold from 2010 to 2015, the highest growth rate of any device category tracked, the company projects. read full article...

B2C Marketing Insider - The Ultimate Resource For Successful Small Business Websites

There are a number of reasons that businesses don’t create a professional online presence. Most of the time the culprits are budget, time, human resources, and just general lack of knowledge. The problem is that when businesses decide against creating an online presence, they miss out on a huge opportunity. Forget about trying to be super advanced – let’s start with the very basics, the foundation to online marketing. Businesses need to make sure their websites are their storefront; that it invites consumers to become paying customers. In this digital age, there’s no excuse for not having a business website. Having a website means businesses can capture leads, sell product, and increase their reach. read full article...

Portfolio.com - How to leverage Blogs, Twitter & Facebook for Corporate Success

By now virtually every company, big or small, hyper-local, global, and everything in between, knows that having an online presence is vital to its success. And with so many companies and startups resorting to doing their own marketing, PR, and social media strategies, the question turns to how they can do it best in a quick way that doesn’t take too much time away from customers and innovation. Experts have tons of advice on how to stand out—and most of it starts with taking a look at those doing it right, learning what works for them, and then adjusting and personalizing that strategy to work for you. read full article...

Portfolio.com - The Internet Has Challenges: Five of Them

The top five challenges for the Internet on its 20th anniversary should come as no great surprise to anyone who follows the industry, or rather, industries. But now they’re at least semi-official - The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the prestigious Webby Awards, has come out with its top five list of challenges for the Web in the next decade. read full article...

Tech News World - Use With Caution: Defamation in 140 Characters or Less

Twitter has the capacity for providing an easy outlet for individuals to vent about their daily travails and perceived insults. However, users should exercise caution. Indeed, they need to be cognizant that despite the ease with which the need for their emotional catharsis can be satiated, there is an audience, and there is an ever-looming possibility of causing someone serious harm. read full article...

RIS Media - Web Video: Creating a Positive First Impression

When was the last time you did business with someone you didn’t like? The truth is, when we have a choice, we deal with people we like. For that very reason, video provides the power and persuasion to drive clients to your door like nothing else. read full article...

Tech News World - A LinkedIn IPO?

LinkedIn appears to be gearing up for an IPO in the near future, while Facebook appears to be trying hard to avoid one. LinkedIn doesn't have the massive infusions of private investments that Facebook has attracted, though, and so an IPO makes perfect sense. read full article...

EntireWeb News - Let's Talk ABCs of SEO

Q: "What exactly is SEO, why do I need it and how does it work. More importantly, what specifically do I need to do about SEO?"
A: Simply put, SEO is the process of optimizing your website by improving the internal (behind-the-scenes web techy stuff) and the external (web content, pages, images, etc.) setup in order to increase traffic to your site from search engines like Google. read full article...

Search Engine Land - Is A Facebook Search Engine Inevitable?

The news broke yesterday that Facebook was getting a whopping $500 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investor Digital Sky Technologies at a valuation of $50 billion. On to the fun stuff: what might Facebook do, beyond making more people rich, with all the money? More headcount and more acquisitions are obvious moves. read full article...

MakeUseOf.com - 18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet

Well, it’s official. Pretty much everyone now has broadband and the majority us of use the Internet more than we watch TV. Everyone and their grandmother is on Facebook, and many of us have some kind of embarrassing moment enshrined on YouTube. But how much do you really know about the Internet revolution? read full article...

eWeek.com - Microsoft Bing Beat Google in Social in 2010

Bing may be well behind Google in the search market, but it has trumped Google in social software tools, thanks to its Liked Results deal with Facebook. Microsoft recently began indexing Facebook user profiles to surface contacts that are relevant to the searcher. The company also added Liked Results, displaying the Websites and links "liked" by a Facebook user's friends. read full article...

San Francisco Chronicle - Transformation of e-mail is under way

The rapid rise of other forms of electronic communication are transforming e-mail from a stand-alone application into one that incorporates mobile text, chat, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter and online document sharing. One measure of that transformation is Facebook's move last month to roll out a "modern messaging system" built atop the company's wildly popular social-networking platform. Analysts say that may prove to be a major catalyst for that evolution, both for consumers and for businesses. read full article...

B2C Marketing Insider - 4 Internet Marketing Trends For 2011

Online communities are now everywhere there is access and common objectives. Even social networks are interconnected themselves pushing and pulling content across various channels. For business owners, bloggers and marketers, we have to realize that the landscape is changing and will continue to shift towards attentive reach, not frequency. Instead of trying to reach broad targets of demographic groups, investing in paid media we find valuable organic content becoming more powerful, ranking higher by search engines and shared by passionate communities. read full article...

MakeUseOf - Top 5 Current Facebook Scams

Even though you believe you got the Facebook "thing" under control you might be aware that a number of Facebook scams exist, some being more obvious to spot than others. A simple lapse in concentration or placing trust in the recommendation of a friend could compromise your account, and any websites that share your Facebook login information. read full article...

Entire Web - SEO Trends - What 2011 Holds for Us?

The most interesting area to look forward to is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), without which no website under the sun passes the fitness test. The SEO domain has got a tremendous boost owing to the growing popularity of social networking sites and various improvements in search technology. Social Media Optimization activities may include back links from individual social media sites, development of a credible profile on these sites, and targeting towards real time searching. read full article...

Wall Street Journal - EU Chews on Web Cookies

Seeking to be a leader in protecting online privacy, the European Union last year passed a law requiring companies to obtain consent from Web users when tracking files such as cookies are placed on users' computers. Europe's effort to regulate online "cookies" is crumbling, exposing how tough it is to curb the practice of tracking Internet users' movements on the Web. Now, Internet companies, advertisers, lawmakers, privacy advocates and EU member nations can't agree on the law's meaning. Is it sufficient if users agree to cookies when setting up Web browsers? read full article...

i-Newswire - Google Updates SEO Techniques with Home Page Screenshot Previews

The game’s over for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialists. The game’s begun for SEO experts! Google has tweaked the rules of the game with home page screen shots in its search results. Next time you search for something in Google, expect more – not just a list of ranking websites, but a screen shot of their home page. This will significantly impact internet marketing and the way online businesses see and approach page rankings of their website. While content is king, design will now be the king maker! The battle for eyeballs is easier when compared to the battle for the mind space, and that’s exactly how Google has altered the dynamics of search engine optimization, internet marketing and social media optimization. read full article...

CNBC - How Facebook's New Platform Changes Users' Email

Today, Facebook unveiled what it's calling a "modern messaging system" which aims to make digital communication "seamless, informal, immediate, personal." Facebook will give its users Facebook.com email addresses, but that's not what makes this a big deal—what makes this really different is the fact that it brings together all users' communications across e-mail, Instant Messaging, SMS, and Facebook messages. read full article...

Wall Street Journal - Websites Rein In Tracking Tools

Major websites are moving to limit the number of tracking technologies like "cookies" spreading on their sites, hoping to keep lucrative data about visitors for themselves—and avoid privacy risks. More sites are counting the number of tracking tools—software that can clandestinely monitor people's activities online—that are being installed on the computers of people who visit the sites. A few sites have dropped companies that install tracking tools, due to practices they consider intrusive. read full article...

Wall Street Journal - Facebook Pledges Steps on User Data

Facebook Inc. told lawmakers it had taken steps to prevent the sharing of personal information about users, including temporarily suspending certain applications from its site. That came after The Wall Street Journal reported recently that certain applications on Facebook were sending users' ID numbers to marketers, in violation of Facebook's policies. The lawmakers sought details about Facebook's oversight of the 550,000 applications on its site. The news comes amid increasing government scrutiny of Internet privacy. read full article...

Business Journals - Buyers Beware! Facebook User IDs were sold to broker.

Some developers at Facebook Inc. were placed on a six-month suspension because they sold identifying user information to a broker, according to a post on the company's blog. Palo Alto-based Facebook said on its developers' blog that it discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for user IDs. read full article...

CNN - Could Facebook be bluffing on search-engine plans?

Facebook this week announced a major partnership with Bing. Your Facebook connections now affect the search results delivered by Microsoft's search engine. The update means that a box will be added to Bing search results showing relevant Web links that have been "liked" by your Facebook friends. What's more, when you search for a name, Bing will mine your social network to show people you might know. read full article...

Wall Street Journal - Branch Network

The phenomenal growth of Facebook and other social media has been seen by many companies as a great marketing tool. But could their impact be even more profound, shifting for ever the traditional hierarchical organization of business? A partner in Deloitte's technology integration practice, says: "There are now many companies that are looking at taking the social media model and seeing how they can apply it both internally. . . and across their client and customer base. In many organizations, this is being driven by staff and teams working together and taking the initiative themselves." read full article...

Wall Street Journal - The Makings Of A ‘National Cyber Leap’

America’s chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, vowed last year that the country would experience a “national cyber leap-year,” where new technologies would be applied to many of the country’s toughest challenges. While the country may not have leapt away from its problems, it has made significant jumps forward, Chopra said Wednesday to a group of investors and entrepreneurs at a health-care information-technology summit in San Francisco hosted by venture firms Morgenthaler Ventures and Venrock and financial services firm Silicon Valley Bank. read full article...

RIS Media - New Internet SEO Technology Changing the Face of Real Estate

Agents spend thousands of dollars and more to pay for SEO work and marketing to get first page rankings for a few major keywords in Google, Yahoo and other major search engines. Pay per click offers some traffic, but the costs can get expensive and many agents are not happy with the results they get. All of that will be changing very soon as a new IDX/MLS search engine marketing system begins to hit the real estate industry over the next 12 months. read full article...

Twitter Blog - A Better Twitter

Twitter is the best way to discover what’s new in your world. From football to film to philanthropy, people are using Twitter to discover what’s new about what they find interesting. There is now a new, re-engineered Twitter.com that provides an easier, faster, and richer experience. read full article...

Yahoo News - Twitter revamps website as usage soars

Twitter executives unveiled a dramatic redesign of its website Tuesday to simplify use and add major new functions, including the ability to embed videos and music into the short messages, or "tweets," that the service allows people to broadcast across the Internet. read full article...

Portfolio.com - A Labor Day Gift: Unplug!

There’s been a huge shift in the sheer volume of information consumed (an increase of 350% in the amount of information consumed daily between 1980 and 2008), and then a shift to pervasive interfaces (cell phones, smartphones, remote working, social networks, etc.) All this makes us all too available, all the time. That's why disciplined unplugging can be key to sanity, creativity, and productivity. read full article...

RIS Media - Older Adults’ Use of Social Networks Growing Fast

A growing number of adults are logging onto social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to stay connected, according to a study released recently by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and America Life Project. In fact, for adults 50-64 years old, the use of social networking sites have jumped by 88% in the past year, the study found. For those 65 and older, it has doubled. read full article...

Tech News World - Bogus 'DISLIKE' Button Plagues Facebook

Facebook users are on the horns of a dilemma: Blindly give away their personal information to any third-party app that interests them, or hoard their personal information and steer clear of all third-party apps. Facebook either can't or won't tell users which apps are safe and which are scams, so it's apparently a case of Networker Beware. read full article...

New York Times - Small Business Options... Credit & Microlending

Before the economic collapse, microfinance - the granting of very small loans, mostly to poor people - was a concept most closely associated with the developing world. Now increased demand for smaller loans in the United States, gives microlending a higher profile and broadens its appeal. read full article...

Portfolio.com - Feeling a Bit Overconnected? Join the Crowd...

Young people have done a good job of integrating technology into their lives, but they are also the ones who are most concerned about being overconnected. This finding is part a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, The Mobile Difference, which discusses how different groups of American adults treat the latest trend in connectivity. read full article...

2010 ICSB - Cat Creatives, Silver Sponsor for the World Conference

Cat Creatives was Silver Level Sponsor for this year's International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference. ICSB is bridging global boundaries to promote the growth and development of small businesses worldwide. The 55th World Conference was June 24 - 27th in Cincinnati. read full article...

RIS Media - New SEO Technology to Revolutionize Real Estate Industry Online

New IDX/MLS search engine marketing system will hit the real estate industry over the next 12 months. It is a technology that breaks down an agents IDX feed and creates thousands of Web pages all targeting long tail keywords and adds them to their website. It first grabs up hundreds of long tailed keywords and then begins to also pull short tailed keywords over time from all Real Estate Listings. read full article...

Cincinnati.com - In Making Business Plan, Strategy's Crucial

In this day and age, do you really need a business plan? After all, everyone's in a hurry. In a world of 140-character tweets, can you really expect anyone to read a 30-page written business plan? Even if you're courting investors, couldn't you just to send them a few slides and financial projections? The concept of developing a business plan has come under fire in recent years. People have challenged the necessity of creating one, even for the most complex businesses. read full article...

Tech World News - Facebook's Open Graph Now Everyone's the Center of Attention

For website masters, visibility in Facebook pages about the declared subject is one inherent advantage of Open Graph, as is the ability to communicate with users, via Facebook, who have declared they like the site's subject matter. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents his vision of a cross-site social platform whose developmental state may already be quite far along. read full article...

Search Engine Land - Google Now Counts Site Speed As Ranking Factor

Google has kept a promise it made last year Site speed is now a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and is already in place for U.S. searchers. But Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few queries. read full article...

Small Business Trends - 5 Quick Ways To Improve Your Facebook SEO

With reports that Facebook sees more traffic than Google, it makes sense that many SMB owners are getting serious about setting up shop on the hip social networking site. Take the proper steps to increase your SEO efforts on your Facebook site. read full article...

New York Times - Google Calls for Action on Web Limits

The director of public policy for Google, told a joint Congressional panel that the US should consider withholding development aid for countries that restrict certain Web sites. He said censorship had become more than a human rights issue... read full article...

MSNBC Business - 10 of The Most Brilliant Marketing Ideas

Every now and then, an idea comes along that changes the marketing game for good. Yes, the campaign generates huge, instantaneous buzz and moves plenty of product -- but it also stands the test of time, infiltrating the culture in subtle ways for decades to come. read full article...

Advertising Age - What 'ThugLife' Can Teach Us About Twitter

This ignored demographic shows what you can learn when you look beyond social-media elites. It leads us to another valuable lesson, this one for marketers People like to have fun and be entertained wherever they are -- even Twitter. read full article...

Articlesbase - What To Include In Your Social Media Marketing Strategy?

Creating a “buzz” around products, services, businesses or events is a requirement from all clients. The process of creating buzz doesn’t start from creating a Blog or creating a video, it’s a social media strategy that encompasses social media and word-of-mouth marketing. read full article...

REALTOR® Magazine - 6 Weeks to Better Search Engine Optimization

One of the best ways to see results quickly, experts say, is to optimize your site for search engines. Even if you did this when you developed your site, there may be room for improvement. read full article...

The Online Marketing Blog - Facebook Marketing Tips Make the Most of Your Fan Page

If you haven’t already integrated Facebook into your online marketing mix by creating a fan page, you better do so... Take the guesswork of Facebook marketing, and follow these 5 tips for making the most of your fan page. read full article...

EntireWEB - Developing Your Online Business Brand

Developing a business brand online is an important strategic maneuver to help customers identify you or your products and what they stand for. Online branding not only helps to identify you with a particular niche but also helps building your reputation as well. read full article...

RIS Media - Strategies to Keep Your Website in Tip-Top Shape - Part II

As the Internet continues to evolve and more prospective buyers begin their home search on the Web, it is crucial that real estate professionals (and not only...) keep their website in tip-top shape. read full article...

EntireWeb - Link Building Best Practices - Guide to Effective Link Building Methods

Link building is the process of building backlinks to your site. More backlinks (link form other sites to your site) a site has, higher it ranks on the search engines. Link building therefore is a mission of all webmasters. read full article...

SitePro News - 7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results

A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well. An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to people, however fleeting. read full article...

SitePro News - How a Domain Name Redirect Can Forfeit Your Top Rankings.

Can my site rank better with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure. Can my site rank better without a keyword in the domain name at all? Absolutely. read full article...

RIS Media - Strategies to Keep Your Website in Tip-Top Shape - Part I

As the Internet continues to evolve and more prospective buyers begin their home search on the Web, it is crucial that real estate professionals (and not only...) keep their website in tip-top shape. read full article...

E-Zine Articles - The Tricky Issue of Duplicate Content

Being a full-time online marketer means you have to keep a close watch on how Google is ranking pages on the web... one very serious concern is the whole issue of duplicate content. More importantly, how does having duplicate content on your own site and on other people's sites, affect your keyword rankings in Google and the other search engines? read full article...

GO Articles - Social Networking for Business Guide

It seems like there's an over-abundance of social sites nowadays. For a newbie, it can be quite intimidating when first joining a network or two and building a community. A handful of questions may run through your head Which networks to join? How to participate? What's enough, or too much? How will it help my business? read full article...

SitePro News - 7 Basics of Good Web Design

Whether you are just starting a web design project, looking at revamping an existing site, or just wanting to double check the usability of your current web site you should consider these 7 Basics of Good Web Design. read full article...