Internet Giant Google has been the subject of a recent suit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as it alleges that Google’s recently launched Search Plus feature violates users’ privacy and unfairly favors Google products over competition. When Google launched the new “Search Plus” weeks ago, competing social networks Facebook and Twitter immediately claimed that it unfairly favored Google+ as it integrates photos and posts from Google+ into their search results while deliberately ignoring similar relevant posts from both Facebook and Twitter. According to Google CEO Larry Page, Google+, which is a rival social network of both Facebook and Twitter, has now reached 90 million users in a very short time which is enough to ring alarm bells for...
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, which is used by millions of users to read and send text-based messages of up to 140 characters, also known as ‘tweets’. It’s like steady flow of communication that is at our whim. It helps to gain knowledge and information and spread our ideas. For most of the people, it’s just another social networking site with different concept but they don’t realize it has far more benefits especially for...
Twitter can be a very powerful social media vehicle, but are you using the 140 character social network to it's fullest? It's a new year, and with a new Twitter interface, here are a few things to keep in mind when you're tweeting your way into the new year. Purge Your Follow/Followers Are all 3,000 of your followers people you actually want to share with? Or are the 5,000 people you follow people whose Twitters you care...
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In my 12+ years in the SEO industry, I have never seen a small company destroy its brand as effectively or as quickly as Ocean Marketing and founder Paul Christoforo managed to do a few weeks ago. Over the course of three days we watched this little PR firm be absolutely demolished by the collective force of the Internet (you know it’s bad when they make a YouTube video), and I highly doubt it...
The YouTube team recently unleashed the video-sharing site’s new look with its fresh coat of digital paint. With more than 3 billion videos viewed every day, and hundreds of new channels from known personalities and content providers coming soon, YouTube just wanted an easier way for users to locate and keep tabs of their desired videos. The good thing about this change is that YouTube provides a short video, giving its audience a tour...
Every business, big or small, may feel like they’re missing something if they don’t include social media as part of their marketing strategy. However, there are several aspects that a business should consider first before taking the leap. Below are three elements of social media campaigns that could help establish your online channel. Customer Interaction Social media promotes a two-way interaction between you and your customer. Therefore, doing it right will gain you a more engaged audience; while...
Twitter reportedly has over 100 million users. Even if 40% of those users have never sent a single tweet, there are still nearly 250 million tweets every day by the more active users to make up for their silence. How many tweets go out from your handle every day, adding to the noise? 1? 5? 20? Let’s assume the majority of your followers are following 99 other Twitter personalities (for a nice even 100)....
Social media marketing should be a part of your blogging activities, if you plan to see success in the long run. It doesn't take one arm of marketing to earn a living, but multiple arms can yield greater results. Majority of blogger are into social media marketing, but only a few are seeing the results. We often wonder what's going on around the blogosphere, when all efforts we put in proves abortive. I've been there before;...
Google Plus is the latest social network to really catch wind; it is progressing at an increasing rate and is at roughly 50 million users. Facebook is however, on over 800 million users. Googles’ 50 million is not something to be sniffed at, it IS expanding extremely fast and is a contender in the social media world. Taking into consideration it is a definite possibility that Google plus will dominate social networking, businesses need to think...
