Captchas: The Anti-User Experience? Gripes and Alternatives. A story on hatred for your users and fans The other day I decided that I needed to invest (for free) in a good note-taking program for my Blackberry.
After surfing the internet and reading reviews for the pathetic amount of choices available I settled on Evernote. After installing the program I was prompted to register. This makes sense since Evernote backs up your notes to a web server and makes them available anywhere, however there was one big flaw. There was a captcha. Google Instant: how blacklisting could damage your SEO. Making sure a small business gets exposure when it comes to Google search is big business in itself.
Why You Need Multiple Domain Names. How would you feel if you walked into work one day and another company had set up shop right there--in the middle of your office space?
If yo April 18, 2011 How would you feel if you walked into work one day and another company had set up shop right there—in the middle of your office space? If you don’t own a series of domain names that represent your product or service, this is exactly the risk you are taking. While this is technically a search engine optimization and search engine marketing issue, I’d like to focus more on how important this is to your brand position, brand value and competitive advantage. 5 Ways Twitter Can Be Leveraged for B2B Search Engine Marketing - Search Engine Watch (SEW) While there are plenty of resources online for leveraging Twitter, many focus somewhere between individual and consumer-oriented material.
B2B marketers have a different perspective. It's difficult to relate to those types of Twitter resources when faced with more complex buying cycles and the demand for marketing initiatives emphasizing lead generation as the top priority. We've seen skepticism in our clients' eyes when it comes to Twitter. This can be overcome by demonstrating how Twitter can assist B2B organizations with their priority initiatives. Instead of focusing on using Twitter only as a promotional mouthpiece, consider how this communication tool provides support for one of the primary sources of high quality leads for the B2B organization: organic search engine traffic. Here are five ways we've seen and assisted B2B organizations in leveraging Twitter as a tool for the search engine marketing (SEM) initiatives.
The Foundation: Twitter Lists Link Building Initiatives. 7 tragic SEO oversights. By now, people know that their sites need to be optimized to rank well in organic listings.
This awareness has been compounded by Google's recent algorithmic updates that are slowly eating away at organic real estate in favor of paid and local listings. This means that marketers must continue to advance their search engine optimization efforts to ensure that their revenue-driving pages earn and maintain high rankings. With every company vying for the same top rankings and competing against paid listings, every aspect of an SEO campaign must be close to flawless. Tap into new digital knowledge. Want to stay on top of the latest developments in digital marketing? There are typical places were SEO initiatives begin. Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week. So this service Quora, it’s getting pretty hot.
But up until now, we’ve only be able to guestimate how hot it actually is. But today they’ve finally shared some actual information — on Quora, naturally. Specifically, Quora engineer Albert Sheu has put up a long answer to the question: Why did the Quora website get so slow at the end of December 2010? The reason Sheu gives includes a brief explanation of how the service works.
When someone adds an answer or updates one, everyone else on that page sees the new information in realtime. Spencer Fry — Down With Social. Social is immeasurable and a waste of time.
I admit to having ridden the social media bandwagon from the start — mainly because I had to see how things would play out — but I've always been skeptical about its impact. Is anyone reading what you have to say? Do they even care? With so much information flowing, how can anything be absorbed? The same goes for social features accompanying products. Why Follower Count is a Lousy Metric: It's Nearly Meaningless.
7 More B2B Social Media Tools You Haven't Heard Of. Based on the positive feedback from the first 7 B2B Social Media Tools You Haven’t Heard Of article, we felt we’d highlight several more tools that may be helpful for B2B social media marketers. 1.
Cost: Free trial, $50/month for Standard plan, $100 for Enterprise. SEO agency questions - Questions to ask a potential SEO provider. I recently came across an interesting online conversation in which someone asked what I believe to be a very valid question: What are the right questions to ask during an interview of a potential SEO specialist candidate?
Unfortunately, this question was immediately met with a bit of a rude response. Why Facebook Can't Genuinely Connect People. Ori Brafman is the co-author of Click: The Magic of Instant Connections, published by Random House this week.
With all the news about Facebook’s never-ending privacy problems and the exodus of angry users, has the real story been overlooked? Specifically, is Facebook limiting people’s ability to actually, well, connect? Along with my brother Rom, who is a psychologist, I’ve been researching what makes people form instant connections. From meeting someone at a work party to that special spark on a first date, instant connections aren’t just intense; they can have a substantial effect on the overall tenor of the ensuing relationship. Research has shown that teams that click tend to work more effectively together and couples that had love at first sight are more passionate with each other even after twenty years. Facebook indeed fosters some of these connections, and we all know of stories of people who met online, chatted, and subsequently got married. John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not)
John Gruber of Daring Fireball. CC-licensed photo by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid via Flickr John Gruber of Daring Fireball is the most influential Apple pundit on the web, but readers often complain about the lack of comments on his website. In fact, Gruber’s site is famous for not having comments. In an age when every website falls over itself to accommodate reader interactivity, Gruber stands alone. Depends How You Define Value. Cooking a Website « Usability Post.
How to design tweets that are loved by all & re-tweeted around - Daily SEO blog. Web Design Trends for 2010. With a new year on the horizon, it’s time to pack away the old, worn web designs and prepare for the brave, new face of tomorrow. Although trends don’t start and stop on January 1st, there is a definite shift from what we craved at the beginning of the year to what we are seeking tutorials for at the end of the year.
30 Bad Practices of Web Designers. Every once in a while you will come across a page that just doesn’t seem ‘right’. There are three elements of a website that can be harmed by bad practice: The website lacks something in its design.The content is written badly.The search engines don’t like something about the site. Considering the three points above, this article will explains the do’s and dont’s of certain design habits. 1. 10 Twitter Tips for the Workplace - Business Center - PC World. Having trouble convincing your boss that Twitter isn't a waste of time? Then you might find it interesting to learn that social media evangelists across the U.S. federal government are blasting out Tweets several times a day to their constituents. Here are their suggestions for how to integrate new media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into a large, old-fashioned bureaucracy: 1. Identify a business problem you are trying to solve. Don't deploy social media tools just to appear cool.
"You really want to focus on the business problem you are trying to solve and the communities you need to engage to help you solve that problem," advises Lena Trudeau, program area director for the National Academy of Public Administration. The Defense Information Systems Agency, for example, is using a commercial mash-up tool from JackBe to allow military commanders to create real-time feeds using information from many disparate sources, says DISA CTO Dave Mihelcic. 2.
Similarly, when the U.S. 3. Is Your Online Marketing Strategy All Tweet and No Meat?