Most of us have been there and done that with social networking. To be honest, we’re using it for traffic because that’s how it’s done these days. It isn’t that we don’t care for the social networks for the most part, it’s that sites such as Twitter and others are beginning to wear a bit thin. The trite and trivial are essentially what you’re going to read when it comes to blogging in under 150 characters. We all know the value of social media. The [...]

There’s another engine out there, in the endless line of Google wannabe’s, but this one may be a little different. As many SEO providers and site owners or users are aware, Google recently unveiled a new algorithm, designed–so the Google misinformation network tells us– to broaden our horizons and give us a broader array of sites in our search engine returns. I don’t know about you, but I’m all for getting more sites back from which to choose when I search for a given topic, [...]

By Robbi Drake We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Mobile applications are getting bigger and bigger. Black Friday last year saw massive amounts of people shopping online instead of in stores. Cyber Monday was a huge hit as well, with about half of the people who shopped online shopping with mobile devices. Mobile and tablet devices are millions strong. If you want to get noticed, get a mobile application out there with your business name on it. With mobile computing, smart phones [...]

Color is ubiquitous. You can find it anywhere and everywhere and quite often we don’t consciously think about what it means, but we do “feel” color. Those feelings are an inherent part of us. They inspire feelings of relaxation, peace, or even, sometimes, caution or anger. Why do the stars relax in a “green” room? How does a red button or sign affect us?  Why do babies cry more in a yellow room? The answer is that color has different meanings to different cultures. The [...]

Google Author Profile Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about SOPA and PIPA, although realistically, the news media has fallen down quite well on reporting the controversial legislation and the fallout from it. Even though some of the most high-traffic websites across the board have promised to shut down in protest, and internet founders and giants have come out in protest, the mainstream media coverage has been scant, at best. While industry giants such as Reddit, WordPress.org, and Wikipedia proposed blacking their [...]

We are reading a great deal about Google 2012, the Google algorithm changes that are taking place and the various things that will happen this year. We’re seeing quite a lot about Google not requiring users to visit your sites, Google’s money making tactics and so many other doomsday predictions that it has to make you wonder. Google has always been trying to return the highest quality search results for its users. To that end they have implemented many changes in their search algorithm recently, [...]

Market research, especially local market research is ideal and very important for learning more about what your customers, or prospective customers, think, feel, and believe. Retail trends online in companies such as SEO companies or online article writing can help you to be better able to offer the kind of products that your customers want. It can also help you to learn more about how customers behave. For example, you can learn by viewing data from online market research how the people you want to [...]

SEO lately has me just annoyed. As an SEO worker and someone who does this part time for a living, that’s a big statement for me to make. Can’t we have ethical SEO? Maybe, but the fact is that I’m not seeing a lot of it lately. I know, I live, and I understand the reasons for the practice of search engine optimization. I accept that we must get the traffic in order to get our information out to the general public and that a [...]

Choosing An SEO Team For Your Website We’ve spoken our piece about who is and who isn’t an SEO company or specialist, as well as who may be taking advantage of you, or how you can do your own SEO. The question is, if you can’t, or don’t want to do your own SEO, how can you select a trustworthy person to do it for you? When you are selecting your SEO experts, just like choosing a doctor or a dentist, ask questions and make [...]

Computer jobs are taking the labor market by storm. More and more people are leaving school with fresh faces, a passion for computing, and a degree in Information Technology. Many of these are actually work from home jobs, where are you able to work about 2/3 of the time at home and then fly to an office once in a while, making them top computing jobs overall for desirability. There are many computing jobs that can be obtained, but there are a few top jobs [...]

With English still the number one language in the world, there is a tendency for website designers and owners to concentrate on that language alone. We see more than 500 million English-speaking internet users and forget there is anything else until we need it. The reality is that the internet is a global marketplace. We can not forget about website translation services so that we get our websites translated into languages that we may require to efficiently do business globally. Professional translation is important in [...]

I build about 6 new websites a week. I noticed recently, as a client asked for All in One SEO Pack, that there was now an ALL IN ONE SEO PACK PRO version. Well I thought, what a bonus. While I haven’t always used it for every site, depending on the clients wishes, here was something I hadn’t really explored. Since the basic All in One SEO Pack was totally impressive and has always been in my top ten list of WordPress plugins you can’t [...]

On the Internet, a smart and well- organized small business may get excellent results, often being able to readily compete against even some of the larger corporations. Internet advertising and sales is going up dramatically, with more than half of the world having purchased goods or services online in the past month according to surveys. As traditional media outlets still seek ways to cut their costs and to be more available and attractive for advertising, the internet offers a space for advertising that is attractive [...]

Of all of the industries that exist in the online marketing and web design world, SEO may just be the one with the most negative reputation. In part, that reputation may be deserved. About half of the things you read about SEO, or search engine optimization, are that some company or another has been slapped for gaming the search engines, or for practicing black hat or other methodology in SEO. A good case in point is the link building scam that was perpetrated by J.C. [...]

There’s a new “powerhouse” site on the block when it comes to writing articles. I’ve been asked, as someone who writes, or recommends writers, precisely what I know about iWriter. The answer to that question is, not all that much. It’s a brainchild of Brad Callen, the mind behind several SEO tools that used to be quite good prior to letting them slide into oblivion. That being said, I did a quick tour of iWriter in order to find out a bit more about it [...]