Facebook, ABC News Partner On Political App
The concept of getting one’s news on Facebook sounds like a joke. It’s not, though, and following a partnership between them, both ABC News and the social networking site are hoping the idea will take off.
7 Steps to Get Your New Site Indexed in 24 hours
Most SEO’s will advise you to buy an existing site/domain (lots of age benefit), but there are times when you need to start from scratch with a fresh domain. It can sometimes take a couple of weeks to get a new domain indexed by Google (even longer to start ranking!). In order to speed up the process of getting your site indexed quickly, even in 24 hours, follow the steps outlined below: 1) Create 5 pages of content Skip the “under construction” page and write several pages of real content, at least a few paragraphs.
Black Friday Shoppers Spend $531 Million Online
A 22 percent increase in sales from last year’s day after Thanksgiving put more money in the pockets of online retailers this year.
How To Avoid Employee Disaster
Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure
"Even the iPhone’s browser can disappoint. It has a version of the Apple Safari browser that doesn’t support Flash, a programming language widely used on Web sites, so users are limited in what they can see on the Web.
Writing For Leads Is Bad Business
Recently I re-read a business book (written by some PhD’s who counsel people to improve their careers), and each chapter struck me as salesy — as if it were primarily crafted to speak to the 1% of readers who might be likely to follow up as consulting prospects.
Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation added).
Google Adds Products Link For Holidays
oogle has removed the Video link on its search results pages with one to Google Product Search, relegating the very useful Video link to the “More” menu. The Video link is fourteen items down the More menu, making it a lot of work to reach. Previously, on any Google search, you could hit Video to get results from dozens of popular and unpopular video sites, making it the easiest way to find video on the internet. Now? Not so much.
Search Frequency Is Meaningless
One of the big misconceptions I see on business forums is the idea:
“That the number of documents returned on a keyword search on Google, has a direct correlation with the competitiveness of the keyword.”
Once you see people posting examples of their “SEO successes” by use of this measurement, you can easily see that search frequency has little to do with competition – after all, it does exactly what it says on the tin – and simply returns a number based on frequency of the keyword appearing in documents.
The Web’s Biggest Impulse Shopping Day
The other day, we were talking about what makes us buy (an appropriate topic for today, the biggest shopping day in the US) and Barb Newman, our General Manager, wondered what made us impulse buy? She was trying to figure out why she had dropped way more money than she intended on a purse. Being […]