Using Twitter to Promote Your Brand
Although it has been popular as a micro-blogging site, Twitter has also proved itself as an effective marketing tool. However, some businesses make the mistake...
Oops! Social Media Faux Pas and How to Avoid Them
No way. What were they thinking?! Indeed, nothing can raise our eyebrows higher than some cringe-worthy social blunders, especially when performed on social networks. Now...
Engagement – The Secret To Your Success
Image Credit / Mamapop As someone interested in SEO you’ve almost certainly, at one point or another, become victim to a drug that plagues the...
How Is Your Social Style Helping Or Hindering You?
Whether you know it or not, you have your own social style of interaction that just may dictate how successful you are in a number...
Twitter Censorship: Journalist’s Twitter Account Suspended
Guy Adams, an LA-based writer for Great Britain’s national newspaper The Independent, had his Twitter account suspended on Sunday after tweeting out the e-mail address...
Open Graph App Love Growing Still Stronger
It’s no news that apps able to operate across a variety of platforms, or Open Graph apps, offer superb and diverse sharing possibilities. Just the...
YouTube Hits Another Milestone
YouTube notched another mark in its belt, as the video-sharing giant sets the record with four million videos under Creative Commons license. Even though it...
Common Mistakes to Avoid in Facebook Marketing
When it comes to social media marketing, Facebook is one of the largest platforms that businesses use. Unfortunately, there are companies who still struggle to...
4 Qualities to Look for in a Good Guest Blogger
I like to compare blogging and guest blogging to news segments. Bear with me here. For the sake of keeping things light-hearted, we’ll use The...
Broken Promise: Google Retained Street View Data
On Friday, Google sent a letter to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) admitting that they had broken their 2010 promise to delete certain Street View...
Using Facebook to Keep Your Audience
With the popularity of using Facebook as a tool to promote a business, a website or a public figure, it only shows that social media...
Matt Cutts Discusses 301 Redirect Limits on Websites
Matt Cutts explains that Google Webmaster Help has created 375 videos (at the time) to answer questions users have asked, and they have decided to do...
YouTube Bids Users to Post Real Names to Clean Up Comments
In an attempt to clean up comments on YouTube, Google is encouraging all its users to post their real names. It was announced last June,...
Sensible Social Media Checklist for Businesses v2.0 [Infographic]
Once in a while, I come across a company that has yet to embrace social media. They get the same scolding that companies who did...
Google Webmaster Tools Add Advanced Site Indexation Information
Recently, Google announced the addition of indexation data within Webmaster Tools. To see the newly revealed indexation information, simply log in to your Google Webmaster...
How Businesses Could Use Facebook Timeline
After Facebook rolled out Timeline to all its users, businesses took the changes as an opportunity to learn how they could talk advantage of it....
After Six Years, USPTO Approves Zuckerberg’s First Patent Application
Mark Zuckerberg’s first patent application from six years ago has been approved by the US Patent Trademark Office last Tuesday. Called as “Dynamically Generating a...
How to Properly Optimize Image or Video Sites
So you have a photoblog or videos embedded within your site that has great information and superb content, but there’s a catch. Search engines can’t...
Facebook Refuses to Remove Fan Pages for Colorado Killer
In the days following the tragic Aurora, Colorado killings, approximately 30 Facebook pages that pay tribute to the killer have appeared. One of the pages,...
Using App Discovery to Fend Off Malware? Quixey Takes a Step to Make the App Ecosystem a Safer Place
As the popularity of apps and mobile devices grows at a rapid pace, mobile platforms have become a target for malware. Both Google’s Android platform...
Timing Your Tweets: What You Need to Know
Most online marketers who use Twitter for their campaign usually time their tweets. That’s because it could be a great way to increase their user...
Twitter Partners with NBC for Olympics Hub
In partnership with NBC, Twitter will reportedly work as a narrator for the Olympics by providing a hub that will cover the event. Under the...
Global Social Media
The rise of social media shows no sign of slowing. In fact eMarketer predicts that there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 7/25/2012
Some interesting webinars are coming up. I hope you get to catch one if you’re not already off to one of the numerous industry conferences...
Google Presents Strong Case for Online Political Advertisements [Infographic]
Although the 2012 presidential candidates are spending unprecedented amounts on television advertisements, the vast majority of voters can now be reached through other more effective...
The Who, What, When, and Why of Top Social Media Sites
Nothing has revolutionized the Web (and business) more than the emergence of social media sites. They fulfill what the simple ‘net search has failed to...
7 Ways to Drive Audience Engagement with Facebook Posts
Are you wondering how you would expand your Facebook community organically? Think outside the box and make your Facebook posts pop. Facebook evolved to accommodate...
Aligning Cross-Functional Marketing Teams
Do you work on the account management or the creative side? It’s a common question I’m asked when I go to networking events, expos, or...
Chrome for iOS Grabs 1.5% Share of iOS Browser Market
Looking for new tools that will help you monitor the presence of Google’s Chrome browser on iOS? Well, look no further. Chitika Insights has just...
7 Ways to Spice Up Your Email Marketing
My friend Andreas over on the product team at WordStream is fond of saying, “Make it spicy,” as in, “Here’s some dry, descriptive copy of...