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There is a new Twitter book out called All a Twitter. It was written by Tee Morris, author of Podcasting for Dummies. It comes with a foreword by social media guru Chris Brogan and a dedication to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show.
"Social Media has the potential of increasing your presence, both from a commercial and from a personal perspective, on the global stage," says Morris. "With All a Twitter, I bring several years of tweets and observations on Twitter’s growth, evolution, and reinvention."
Brett Tabke was among the speakers on the ‘Mega Panel’ at SMX Advanced this year. This session essentially consists of a panel of established industry experts fielding questions from the crowd of conference attendees. It never takes long in these type of sessions to get a feel for what’s on everybody’s mind. This year, to the surprise of exactly no one, it was all things social media and Twitter that dominating the Q & A.
So here’s the question; are behavioural metrics being used in modern search? You do remember them right? Those warm and fuzzy little signals such as bounce rates that there all the rage in late 2008 in the search engine optimization world? Sure you do… but let’s take one last look.
As an internet retailer, I have had to learn the hard way that our customers do not necessarily see our sites the way we see them. In fact, when we conduct usability studies, I am often shocked to find that what is very obvious to me escapes them completely. Does that make them stupid? Of course not. Their perspective is just different. In their eyes, the retailer is the one that is stupid.
It’s an unfortunate fact – no matter how good your search engine optimization company or in-house talent is, brand new websites have a more difficult time achieving search engine success for competitive phrases than their older counterparts, particularly on Google.
I’m sure most of you understand the concept of a Google bomb (it should be called a search bomb because these “campaigns” effect more than Google’s index) and how they can cause humorous search results. Sometimes however, these little contextual backlink pushes associate concepts with sites you and I may find disagreeable or downright pathetic. […]
Not long after “The World is Flat, A brief History of the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas L. Friedman came out, I read the book.
A comprehensive guide on linking strategies, focusing on search engine perspectives, best practices, and the future of SEO.
The rush to digitize the contents of five huge libraries could end up having a crushing impact on a small British publisher.
Companies are waking up to the fact that the days of early retirement incentives and lower salaries earned by younger workers will soon no longer serve their staffing needs.
