If you use social media to promote your site and advertise, you need to use the right tools. With so many new apps to help you organize your social media campaign, it's confusing to know which apps will help you and which apps waste your time. Use the SMO Periodic Table and App Map from InMotion Hosting to help you discover new apps to help you run a successful social media campaign. SMO Periodic Table The...
Ok, I've promised to myself to stop writing about Twitter-stuff: the Internet is full of it already. But I stumble across so many Twitter apps, Twitter tips and Twitter tricks that I can't help blogging about it. So while the world is going crazy about Twitter, we learn to drive benefit from that: Participate in multiple Twitter-related projects and Twitter memes, example: HistoricalTweets.com is a fun site that "proves" it that Twitter has...
When Google launched Local Search, it introduced personalization, the art of guessing where you are and what you wanted to find, and presenting search results to suit. Since its debut in 2009, the local map feature has been ever-present, highlighting locations that are in the geographical area indicated by your IP address, or, if you dare provide it, by your recorded location. People were already uneasy about Google’s data-collecting activities. As early as December...
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Do you guest blog or plan to? Then you are likely to be in constant search for new tips and ideas to learn from and get inspired. Guest Blogging Master is a new eBook that outlines the whole process clearly and walks you through all the steps. The eBook provides clear guidelines on how to search for guest blogging opportunities (providing some cool search tips as well as offering you to join MyBlogGuest), how...
For those not in the know, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently announced a new domain naming convention for domain name endings, also known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In the past, there were 22 gTLD endings including .com, .net, .gov and .org. But the new domain naming convention brings the .brand in the spotlight, and you soon may see gTLDs like...
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) recently voted and subsequently agreed that companies can create new Top Level Domains for their websites. Similar to most changes and innovations on the Web, this has sent ripples through the digital marketing world already, enflaming imaginations as to what this may mean in terms of Search Engine Optimisation possibilities. However, before we all get too excited, it is important to consider a few very important factors. Obviously...
Last year I gave a very favorable review of SEO Smart Links, the blog content interlinking plugin. The plugin does an impressive job making sure your blog posts, tags and categories are linked from within your post content. This year I am happy to announce the new, improved version of the plugin. It has got even smarter and covers some essential features you'll appreciate. First, the plugin has become faster: the new parsing algorithm...
Most of the time, we strive to deliver you most useful, most serious SEO tips on a weekly basis. But this time, we just want to have fun! There are quite a few in-depth SEO quizzes to test your knowledge (I for one never had the time and patience to take any), but this post focuses on funny SEO quizzes only - can you link to more? 1. Which Stage of SEO Career Are You at? This...
Broadly, Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is an effective method of promoting your business online to a targeted audience. But more specifically, the great benefit of PPC is that it allows you to advertise in a market where people are already searching for what you are offering, and you only pay when visitors actually click on your URL. Although the setup of a PPC campaign may seem simple, there are key elements that can greatly...
