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Ways to Improve Your Internet Presence

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:32:04 EST

Let's face it, creating a presence on the Internet can tough at times. And it's not that people don't know about you, sometimes it's more like they are unable to find you thru a Google search. As if that's not enough, people want to be able to find your website quickly and easily, that means that if your website is not on the first page of a Google search it's like you're not even there. All that time spent on fixing and designing your website doesn't have to go to waste.

As you may know, website traffic is the key to the success of any site. In order to create traffic, you must use every possible resource that is available. Since today's job market is so competitive, you must dedicate time for this to be effective. In other words, this will be your full-time job. Here are some tips for creating an internet presence I think you should take into consideration.

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Social Media Marketing- More Effective than Super Bowl Ads?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:19:41 EST

We all know that social media sites have been changing the way the world works, but Pepsi is proving that by choosing not to advertise during this year's highly acclaimed Super Bowl. Pepsi has advertised during this popular sporting event for the past 23 years, but this year, they are saying no to super bowl commercials.
Pepsi has, instead, decided to use a different advertising route- a full blown social media campaign. Pepsi's marketing department has decided to go online in order to reach their target audience- the younger generation. Pepsi is going to spend 60% more this year on online ads than they did in 2009 because,
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Top Video Websites

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:12:07 EST

Today, video marketing outshines article marketing for several reasons, including originality, effectiveness of link building, and website traffic generated or produced.
Want to know the reasons why you should take advantage of video marketing? Well here is it...
Video marketing is a very important aspect of any online marketing strategy. Through the use of video marketing you can strengthen the online reputation of your business. Video marketing is perfect as far as website traffic is concerned. Best of all, it is a cost effective way to promote your website and your business. In addition, it serves as an excellent means of formal introduction for both your business and yourself.
Researching which v
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SEO tips for optimizing your keyword use

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:58:52 EST

From time to time, every business and business website can use SEO tips for attracting free search engine traffic. If you are trying to promote your business online, free online traffic sounds like something you should definitely be interested in. Want to know how? Well here it is...
Developing a good list of keywords and placing them within the content of your website is an excellent way to get ample search engine traffic. This tactic is not complicated in any way, but at times, it is often overlooked.
In order to increase the amount of free online traffic search engines send your way, here are some SEO tips to help your keyword use.

Headings- after coming up wit
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Blogging News: Wordpress Now Available with Google Android App

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:05:33 EST

Android announced the latest launch of the Wordpress app for Google Android phones, which will allow bloggers to manage their blogs directly from their Android mobile phones. Wordpress is an Open Source app that will enable bloggers on the go to:

Configure and manage multiple blogs
Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
Create and Edit Pages
Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar
Users of the popular wpToGo for Android will find the new Wordpress app somewhat similar, as wpToGo was the foundation for the new Wordpress app. wpToGo will be discontinued soon as development and upgrades for Android's Wordpress progresses.

The launch of Wordpress for Android phones will appease those who hav
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What is an RSS Feed?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:50:59 EST

I constantly hear about RSS feeds and see RSS links all over the internet, but up until recently, I had no idea what any of it meant, and I realized that maybe some of you don't know either. RSS feeds are valuable to anyone who spends time online. Subscribing is an easy way to keep up with the news and information that's important to you. The number of websites that offer RSS feeds is continuously growing and includes huge websites like Google and Yahoo News.
What does RSS stand for?
RSS most commonly stands for Real Simple Syndication, but can also mean Rich Site Summary.
What is an RSS feed?
An RSS feed is a simple way to view the latest news and articles of your choice in one central location. In technical terms, an RSS feed is an XML based format that provides an open method of aggrega
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Is Press Release Distribution Effective Method of Online Marketing?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:03:45 EST

We always discuss the importance of Search Engine Optimization; today however, we will be discussing how press releases are one of the most favorable ways to attract media attention to your website and provide you with exposure for products and current events marketed by your website.
In the past few years, more and more companies have adopted online marketing like websites, blogs, social media marketing and press releases. Press releases are the most effective public relations method used on the internet or on the media due its efficiency in reaching a far larger group of readers while being the most resourceful means for delivering messages to both the media and the public.
A press release that has been optimized can yield high results from websites such as Yahoo!
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Top 10 Social Bookmarking Websites

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:53:04 EST

What is social bookmarking you ask yourself? Well here it is. Social bookmarking (sometimes referred to as social tagging) websites allow you to bookmark a link of interest to a website and later retrieve if from any computer. Remember when you would have to write down websites you liked or could not access or recall a website because you were nowhere near your computer. Well not any more, now you have access to improve you internet experience through the use of these social bookmarking websites.
I have compiled a list of my top 10 social bookmarking websites. Some of the criteria I used to come up with this list include:

• Easy for first time users to understand, user friendly
• Simpl
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New Facebook Application is Dedicated to Cleaning up Your Life

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:12:45 EST

Wisk-It, a recently launched Facebook application, aims to help people get rid of pictures they don't really want the world to see. Remember that funky haircut you thought was so cool, that crazy drunken night in the city, or how about the millions of pictures of you and your ex? Popular detergent company, Wisk, has created a Facebook application that can bury those not so pleasant photos. The application allows user's to find tagged and untagged photos in friends' albums and ask them to be ‘washed away'. Wisk-It claims that everyone has a photo that needs to be removed, and that's what this application attempts to do. The three easy steps include finding the ‘dirty' photo, asking for it to be removed, and then ‘wisking' it away.
This is a really great marketing strategy for Wisk. When marketing a product, it's so import
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How to Get Noticed on Twitter

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:44:24 EST

If you're anything like me, you're always trying to come up with a way to get people to notice you on social networking website,Twitter. Here are a few simple ways to help ensure that people won't be ignoring you from this day forward!
Set up a nice profile page
Fill out your fill out your whole profile. Write something interesting or informative in your bio. Include a link back to your company website. The more information you include on your page, the easier it will be for people to find you while searching Twitter.
Post a picture!
I can't even stress how important a picture is. Your main profile picture is kind of like an introduction to who you are, so make sure it's appropriate. A logo is fine if the page is for your business. If not, though, being able to put a face to a name is such a great thing. Whenever I get a message from someone whose main photo is of a dog or a cartoon, I immedia
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Twitter Can’t Handle All Those Tweets

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:37:27 EST

Social networking site, Twitter, really needs to step up their game. I've only been a Twitter user for a short period of time, but I've already learned that they can't keep up with the amount of user's on the site.

Within the first few days of making a Twitter page, I got an over-capacity error message multiple times. I was trying to send out a tweet when Twitter froze, and then re-directed my page to a picture of a whale, stating, "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again."

At least Twitter is being creative with their error messages, but they really need to fix their issues. Anyone who visits their main home page sees the "sign up now" button in big green letters, but they need to be able to back up their request with a site that actually works.
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Top 5 Press Release Websites

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:12:59 EST

Professional Press Release websites offer your company the opportunity to generate new business and promote your company brand name on the Internet. The following five press release websites offer your business many benefits when submissions are on a regular basis. Press Release websites can help increase site traffic by generating content on other websites and driving readers back to your website. Other benefits include the increase in backlinks and a broader reach of your brand awareness. My top 5 press release websites are:

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Top 5 Article Websites

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:04:17 EST

For those of you who are bloggers or enjoy writing for the public, I have put together a list of my top five favorite articles website. After spending days researching websites individually, I have come up with the following:
1) Gather.com - Aside from being extremely user friendly, gather.com allows you to post your articles very easily. As a registered user you have benefits that include creating a user profile where you can market your post along with yourself and have the readers follow your writing and add you as a friend. Thru this website you are also able to include links within the body of your text, which can be used to link the user back to your website. In other words, it also helps as a great promotional means for a business or website. What I personally enjoyed the most, as a registered user, you can "spotlight" your own ar
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How Google Rates Links From Social Networking Sites

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:34:01 EST

Relevant backlinks have been a great SEO tool to boost SERP (search engine results) ranking. And, the question on everyone's mind regarding SEO and social media sites is whether the links from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites are weighted the same as other links in the pagerank formula?
In a new post by WebProNews, Matt Cutts of Google addresses specifically how Google rates links from social media pages like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.
Cutts says, "At least in our web search (our organic rankings), we treat links the same from Twitter or Facebook or, you know, pick your favorite platform or website, just like we'd treat links from Wordpress or .edu's or .gov's or anything like that."
So now you've heard it straight from the horse's [Google's] mouth
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Essential SEO Tips and Techniques

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:54:35 EST

Small and midsized businesses are now catching on to the extreme importance of SEO and Internet marketing and its profound impact on the success of websites. While there is an enormous amount of SEO techniques that are best left to professional companies, the follow SEO tips and techniques are simple enough for a small or midsized business to manage on their own.
Backlinks to Website - Backlinks are an important aspect of SEO, as Google and other search engines give much weight to backlinks in their algorithm formulas that rank websites. Google and other search engines perceive backlinks as citations of sorts. If your page is important enough for other sites to link to it, you content is pr
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Will Social Media and Text Message Campaigns Become the New Trend?

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:01:01 EST

The recent disaster in Haiti has started something that I'm sure will quickly become a new trend- social media and text messaging campaigns.
Officials at the U.S. Department of State have been using Twitter to send out information regarding the Haitian earthquake and to encourage people to send donations. One of their tweets told followers to "text HAITI to 90999" to donate ten dollars to the Red Cross.
The Red Cross started this worldwide text messaging campaign to raise money for Haitian victims. In order to spread the word quickly, they used social media websites, Facebook and Twitter, to tell the world to text and donate.
Their plea for help was heard by hundreds of thousands of people. This morning, the Red Cross announced si
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Top Five Reasons Your Company Should Be Using Google Shopping

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:49 EST

Google Shopping is an online database of products; it's kind of like a search engine for shoppers. If you're not already listing your products through Google Shopping, you need to read this list of reasons why you should be.
1) It's Easy- First of all, listing products with Google Shopping is easy. They even offer step by step guides to show you exactly what to do. Or, if you don't have the time to list products yourself, you could hire an SEO company to list and manage products for you.
2) It's Free- Unlike many other websites, listing products onto Google Shopping is completely free. So you, literally, have nothing to lose.
3) It's Convenient- Shoppers don't want to spend the day going through hundreds of websites in order to find the one item they are looking for. And with Google Shopping, they don't have to. They can simply type in whateve
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Five Great Ways to Improve Business Online

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:42:58 EST

Marketing your company online is a great way to drive traffic straight to your website (and away from competitors). Here are a few tips on how to market your company using the internet.
Create a website- This is first on the list because it is, hands down, the most important. Having a good website is vital to the success of your company. Make sure you clearly describe your business, services, products, goals, and anything else you want the world to know.
Take it a step further- Make sure your website is search engine optimized. Having an SEO friendly website makes such a difference when your aim is to attract more potential customers to your website.
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Google Goggles – Search the Web with Pictures

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:51:00 EST

Google recently launched an application called Google Goggles. Using this, Android users can search the internet using pictures, instead of text. Most search engines require text to be typed into the search box in order to yield results. However, with the new Google Goggles, users can now perform searches simply by taking a picture of whatever it is that they want to search for.
Works best with:
Landmarks
Books
Artwork
Places
Products
Logos
Doesn't work so well with:
Food
Animals
Plants
Cars
Furniture
Apparel
Google says that since, "This is just the beginning- it's not quite perfect yet", which a lot of user's have
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Search Engine Giant Baidu Announces New Online Video Venture

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:09:50 EST

Baidu, the Chinese search engine mogul, announced in a press release this morning that it plans to arrange a new independent provider of licensed online video content to its users in China, which will be supported by advertising.
Similar to Hulu, there have been reports by Reuters that Providence Equity Parnters, Hulu's investor, will claim a considerable stake in the Chinese video venture. The new site will provide copyrighted video content, including television series, movies, cartoons, sporting events, and other content through an ad-supported medium.
It seems Baidu is follow in the footsteps of Google, and rightly so. Google acquired YouTube in 2006 in order to amass a
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Is Virtual Suicide Quickly Dying or Slowly Coming to Life?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:02:02 EST

We all know that social media sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, and Twitter have become a huge part of how the world spends their days. And we all know that spending too much time on these sites can become an issue. Parents have to monitor the amount of time their children spend online. Companies have to block these sites so that employees actually get their work done. Even I have days where I don't allow myself to go on FaceBook because I know I won't be able to get much work done if I sign in.
For those that think the amount of time spent on social networking websites is harming your life- you can now consider committing virtual suicide.

Two websites
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Top Ten Twitter Tweet’s of 2009

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:09:22 EST

Below is a list of the top ten most amazing, inspiring, or just odd tweet's of the year.
1. Barack Obama- "We just made history. All of this happened because you gave your time, talent and passion. All of this happened because of you. Thanks"
United Stated President, Barack Obama, announced winning the election to the world, using Twitter. His amazing tweet really shows how the world is changing because he can announce something so monumental by using social networking site, Twitter.
2. Mike Massimino- "From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!
Mike Massimino, NASA astronaut and mission specialist, sent a tweet from SPACE. How is that even possible?! That's just incredibl
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Top Ten Social Media Websites of 2009

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:00:30 EST

Now more than ever, social media sites seem to be taking over the world. People spend an insane amount of time surfing through different social sites. I've composed a list of the most popular social media websites of the year, based on rankings.
Let's count it down:
10. Digg- This is a really fun technology focused site that allows community members to choose the content. You can submit and vote on articles, videos, and pictures. Since anyone can submit to Digg, there is always something new to look at every time you log in.
8. Linked In- This is a business-oriented networking site. LinkedIn is extremely useful for professionals. It allows users to stay in contact with people that they know and trust in the bus
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AT&T Says New Yorkers Can't Handle the iPhone

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:01:49 EST

But I think it's AT&T's iPhone that can't handle New York City.
I previously wrote about how AT&T planned to regulate iPhone usage because the network could not keep up with the growing number of iPhone customers. In a recent attempt to solve this problem, AT&T secretly stopped selling iPhones online to those in the NYC area.
Oddly enough, it's still available practically everywhere else including large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia- even New Jersey-but people all over New York can no longer order iPhones via phone or through the AT&T website.
According to Consumerist, an AT&T Sales Representative stated, "th
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The Must Read Guide to Internet Slang

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:12 EST

So, last night I was online browsing through friends' facebook statuses while also checking tweets on Twitter when I received a notification that someone commented my last blog (the NBA fining a player $7,500 for sending a tweet). All they responded with was "SMH". Now, I'm pretty good with the whole internet lingo thing and I've heard this term many times before. However, I just always assumed it was one of those noises people make. Kind of like how ‘haha' means you're laughing and ‘shhh' means be quiet. I honestly thought ‘smh' was just a sound that voiced some kind of disapproval.

And then I googled.

Turns out, smh, actually stands for ‘shaking my head'. I couldn
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