Twitter User Stats
Who exactly is “tweeting” ? It turns out that 75% of all tweets come from 5% of twitter users. And 32% of these users are bots – systems which use Twitter’s API to send automated tweets based upon certain activities.
Key Steps To Local Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization – the fuzzy art of ranking your website at the top of search engine queries – is the one of the most important elements of online marketing. I’ve often said that there are three levels of SEO practitioners; those that are novices, those that know enough to be dangerous, and experts. SEOMOZ…
Dissecting A Guerrilla Online Marketing Campaign
Facebook provides highly targeted advertising opportunities, allowing the advertisers to deliver ads specific to a web visitor”s demographics. This goes beyond geographic information, and includes the web visitor’s likes, dislikes, and interests.
I was recently shown a guerilla marketing campaign on Facebook, and thought that it was worthy of further discussion.
Online Influence
I recently saw this post from Internet Icon Justine Ezarik, which exemplifies the power of online influence. Justine reaches out to millions of fans through various online channels. Justine is a true online influencer. When she speaks, people listen. Which is why posts like this can be so damaging to a company’s online brand. Actively…
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Revealing Detailed Error Messages With GoDaddy Hosting
As a part of our effort to help the developer community with common “gotchas”, we like to openly share quick fixes to problems we’ve encountered. For security reasons, detailed error messages are disabled by default on Windows GoDaddy Hosting. Instead of a detailed error message, you would receive only an Error 500 message. Unfortunately, the…
Best Software For Windows
CNet just announced the best software programs for Windows operating systems … some good picks here ! Antivirus software: Avira Antivir Diagnostic software: CCleaner Encryption software: TrueCrypt FTP software: FileZilla Internet security suite: ESET Smart Security Media management: Picasa 3 Office suite: OpenOffice PDF reader: Foxit Reader Screen capture: SnagIt 9 Spyware removers: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware…
Keys To Success
In his latest video presentation listed on Ted.com, St. John talks about how once success is achieved, you must continually embrace the steps that initially brought you to success.
Blog Search Engines : Getting Visibility For Your Blog
There are many ways to drive traffic to your blog. One is to list your blog, and the RSS feed of your blog, with Blog Search Engines. Blog Search Engines are just like traditional search engines, except the specialize in blog content. Here is a list of tips to follow when submitting to Blog Search Engines, and where you should submit your blog.
Promoting Subscriber Count Positively Affects Opt-In Rates
According to a recent study by Aweber, simply adding a subscriber count to your website can increase your opt-in rates significantly (in some cases by 32.4%) . This increase in subscriptions is contributed to social proof. Social proof, also known as informational social influence, is the psychological phenomenon that happens when a decision is influenced…