Marketing News & Consulting
Technology news was a real mixed bag this morning. Google’s official move to HTTPS forced searches was front page for the last few days, but is it news? I can’t mention Ion Cannons without including this pic. Sorry. No. Not really. We mentioned the Google HTTPS move with a heap of sarcasm back in October […]
How do you feel about the US ‘owning’ .COM (and .cc, .net, .name, .org, and .tv) regardless of the international needs of the internet? Well the U.S. government feels pretty good about it and is exercising a controversial level of control over these TLDs by squeezing the US based VeriSign. The logic is: if the […]
Today I saw the start of a graphical ad campaign by DuckDuckGo aimed at explaining how search personalization creates a ‘bubble’ that traps your search ability. Here is the link to the ad-site if you want to give your brain a wash. Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying, “a squirrel dying in your front […]
Recently Google+ made it a lot easier for content authors to indicate the sites they publish to. Here’s a short clip showing that new easier process: [jwplayer mediaid=”3346″] So that’s now told Google+ that you are an author for the sites you’ve listed. It also adds a backlink on your Google+ Profile page back to […]
A new study posted on the Medical Daily website, reveals that the need to check social accounts such as Twitter, Facebook or even email for updates may be even more tempting than using alcohol or cigarettes. In a study led by Asst. Prof. Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of the Chicago Booth School of Business, […]
This is the last in our series of "Which Social Sites Do I Use?" In Part 3, we discussed how to link your social sites together to maximize their effectiveness. In this last installment we will cover some commonly used terminology to help get started in the world of social media. Twitter Tweets/RT & Mentions: […]
Yesterday we covered the hot topic of Google’s social search from a very ‘news’ perspective. If you haven’t watched the tour video take a minute and hit play on the video below. The truth is that Google is rolling this new search functionality piecemeal just in the same way as most of the recent features. […]
Beanstalk’s Heather Jennings published an very helpful article today on the Beanstalk site offering tips on how to best utilize your business blog in 2012. From whitepapers to eBook creation … video to just plain posting – Heather outlines some simple and actionable items to help stay directed to making the most of your online […]
I’ve seen a few SEO blog posts recently on post-panda content concerns that unsurprisingly contradict each other. The “popular” camp seem to feel the following is true: – Don’t post anything off topic – Don’t post anything that won’t be a hit – If you post something that fails, pull it – If you can’t […]