Here’s a good article from Corporate Executive Board on the realities and best practices of executing a social media platform in your company … While many companies are enticed by social media, most struggle to sustain successful initiatives, particularly when it comes to utilizing new mediums to mobilize their workforce. Companies recognize social media’s potential [...]
How Search Engines Rank Web Pages
Search for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. Nearly instantly, the search engine will sort through the millions of pages it knows about and present you with ones that match your topic. The matches will even be ranked, so that the most relevant ones come first. Of course, the search engines don’t always get [...]
Emedding Youtube Video Options for Your Website
YouTube Videos The cleanest option is to create a video pop-up from within your text (click here) However, you may wish to create a pop-up from an image, such as this (click on the image) Creating a pop-up version of your YouTube video is a great option if you want a more streamlined look and [...]
Joomla 1.6 – a great CMS for building online communities
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Wordress, primarily due to its ease of use for those looking to blog, sell some stuff online, or build a loyal following of fans. Joomla on the other hand is considerably more complexm not only in it’s capabilities but ease of use as well. Once thing that [...]
Apple Mac App Store Screencast Walk Through and Review
The new Mac App Store is finally here … http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/ With the Mac App Store, getting the apps you want on your Mac has never been easier. No more boxes, no more disks, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac. The Mac App Store is now available [...]
Google Search Considerations When Optimizing Your Content for SEO
When people search on Google there are a variety of results shown, including Local, News, Images, Video, Blogs, and Real-Time social media content. To maximize your website’s exposure it’s important to understand the implications of optimizing your content for SEO to appear in several of these categories simultaneously. For example, instead of just showing up [...]
How search engine traffic stacks up and what this means for your internet marketing strategy
Much has been speculated about the future of search engine marketing, especially with the increased reliance on social media networks to find more relevant information from trusted sources. A review of the search engine landscape illustrates that the market for search is still tremendous on a global basis. Google search leads in total number of [...]
Use WebsiteGrader.com to check if your site is Optimized for Search Engines
To check if your site is optimized for search engines I recommend you start with a free service called WebsiteGrader.com This service uses the following criteria to grade your site based on millions of other sites previously reviewed: Content Blog Analysis Blog Grade Recent Blog Articles Google Indexed Pages Readability / Grade Level Optimization Metadata [...]
2-Minute Pro Blogging WordPress Tip: Use Press This to Quickly Quote 3rd Party Content
Listen or Download Press This is a great WordPress tool that allows you to easily capture content from a third party website and quote that content in your blog post. This greatly increases your efficiency if you regularly quote content from other sites on your blog. Press This comes loaded with every WordPress installation and [...]