Digital Brand Marketing is about taking traditional concepts and rethinking how those practices can be streamlined and transformed into digital practices. I have repeatedly published on how so many businesses have taken the extreme approach to digital and social marketing. This has resulted in lost opportunities and negative impact on their brand. If you do […]
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Is Google Plus (G+) the key in the transition to Web 3.0
A Google account has become the most powerful tool that any entrepreneur or small business owner could ever hope for. While Google’s general public brand has been tied to Search, Google has been building a monopoly that can and will change the shape of business, politics, and education forever. In fact, Google is Web 3.0! […]
Google Throws Down the Gauntlet at Facebook in Social Network Struggle
Google’s last two shots at storming the social networks, Google Buzz and Google Wave, met an early, and not entirely unexpected, demise. However, +1 may contain a few vital elements that make it far less likely to go unnoticed. Custom Filtering Being able to filter your contacts into groups and determine who can and cannot […]
Google +1 Goes Live with Adwords
Google Experimental Labs has been testing its +1 feature, similar to a Facebook “Like” for a few months now. For those participating in the experiment, a +1 box at the end of each website’s title on a search engine query display allowed them to give their digital stamp of approval to sites they enjoy. So […]
The Pros and Cons of Article Base Sites
The Pros and Cons of Article Base Sites Although many small business and subsequently website owners may have their content creation options well in hand, others can struggle when it comes to supplying their websites or blogs with fresh topics and themes. Though the concept of article bases are far from new, they are certainly […]
Yext: Pay Per Action Advertising
Combining Internet advertising and local businesses is what Yext is all about. The company, founded in 2006 and operating out of New York City, offers local advertising technology to local businesses in the form of Pay-Per-Action phone calls, Yext Rep, and Yext Tags – a way to highlight listing on local sites. With a seed […]
Main Stream Social Media: Foursquare, Twitter and the NYC Mayor
If you needed proof to how much social media is becoming the mainstream media, here’s a little tale: Mayor Bloomberg, of New York City, made April 16 the official “Foursquare Day” in the city of New York. Foursquare.com, a location based application that offers its subscribers the ability to “check in” through their smartphones and […]
Small Business Solutions: Sponsored Reviews
Statistic shows that the first page on Google search results brings about 40% click through rate. The sponsored links bring about 50% of the remaining clicks. It is said that most people will change their keyword search rather than go to the second page of the search results. So, it is very important to try […]
Demand Studios and the Impact from Google’s Algorithm Change
There seems to be some serious back-and-forth about the state of Demand Studios since the Google algorithm alteration. Initial impact indicated that they may have lost ground on the search driven traffic of some of their sites. Citing eHow.com as one of the locations where the change may have triggered a down-turn, Demand Studios initial […]
Did Google Panda Change the Playing Field?
From time to time, when Google identifies a ‘gaming’ of their search engine results, its engineers open up the algorithms and tweak them, sending shudders in the world of e commerce and Internet advertising. Speculations run rampart until Google launches it to the world. One such tweak happened lately; in February 2011, Google launched such […]