Google+ shows tremendous potential when compared to Facebook popularity. And, to all of our educated guesses, people are excited about this cold war.
Questions I am stuck with:
Who wins? Who looses? What is going to happen next? How this is going to influence our social media marketing plan? Is it good or bad for everyone related to internet world? How great and different it is from Facebook applications? Is it safe enough for users like Facebook is?
Looking for answers:
I am stuck with so many questions. While trying to find the root of these discussions I got a mixed bag response. Some are talking about identity issues, social security and some are discussing about Alexa rankings, popularity,...
If you are fairly new to world of online business and entrepreneurship, you may be confused by all of the terminology surrounding different business models. Affiliate Marketing, Network Marketing, MLM: what do these all mean? This article should help clear things up and give you a better understanding of each business model.
Affiliate Marketing: There is usually no cost to sign up as an affiliate; although it is assumed that you have purchased the...
Earlier today I had a friend of mine visit me at my pad and he looked quite worried . When inquired I realized that he was worried about his site not doing good enough in the search results and making even lesser money for him from even little traffic that he received. He was clueless about why a site wont rank in the search engines when the keyword research was done...
Local business keyword phrases, which always usually include the city and the service that the business is located in and provides, are worth an inordiante amount of money in terms of ranking for them as compared to other types of search terms with the same low number of search queiries per month. There seems to be a never-ending market for providing local business with Internet marketing services. Most people that run business in fields like...
What Are Discussion Forums?
Discussion forums are websites where individuals who share a common hobby, idea, or viewpoint, can gather to exchange ideas. There are numerous discussion forums in just about every topic under the sun. Normally, members of the forum can include various pieces of their contact information, including a website URL that they own. Most discussion forums allow members to have a "signature file." This is a snippet of code that is placed...
In the not so distant future, Generation Y will constitute a much greater buying power that was once dominated by the Baby Boomers. Generation Y (or Gen Y) will surpass any other generations before it. Gen Y will be the largest buyers of products, which power our economy. Gen Y values its empowerment as well as its community. Gen Y is self-reliant, skeptical at times but most importantly valuing its social connections. Growing up in...
As SEOs I think we can all agree that one of the most important things to do within our industry is to keep abreast of the latest developments and to modify our behaviour accordingly. We can learn from each other and a good SEO must accept that, on occasions, people might do something that he/she had never thought of or implemented before. This is why I like to read blog posts from other industry professionals...
In 2011 Google rolled out one of the biggest updates to its search engine, the Google Panda update, also referred to as the Farmer Update. The first tranche of the update was in February 2011 and affected all English language sites in America. The second tranche of the update was in April 2011 and affected all other English language sites.
There is a lot of conflicting opinion on whether this update was good or not. Many...
Search engine optimisation (SEO) has come a long way in the last decade.
When the phrase first appeared, SEO web design meant little more than stuffing your cool 90’s website with whatever terms you were optimising for, getting listed on DMOZ, and populating your metadata for the search engines to analyse. Search engine marketing and SEO optimisation were basically as primitive as the search engines themselves; before the first algorithm was written to spot keyword-stuffing, you...
Many offline businesses have taken off when the owners made full use of their existing contacts and continued to actively create new ones. Such business contacts are very useful in spreading the word about the business. The same principle applies in online business. By making contact with other site owners and bloggers covering topics closely related to yours, you will be able to generate more links pointed at your website. This will result in high...
