What do you do when you interview 2014’s Apprentice winner Mark Wright, who has built a profitable SEO company with Lord Sugar? Ask him to write your headline of course. After all, he’s supposed to be expert at getting websites up the search engine ranks or – as he puts it – “making people see thingsâ€. If you’re reading...Read More
Anyone who’s had to launch a WordPress-powered website in the past few years knows about the point where a choice has to be made of which commenting system to install. Should you stay with the built-in self-hosted comments, or maybe install a third-party system like Livefyre or Disqus, or maybe get Facebook comments because almost everyone...Read More
When it comes to new stuff, though, that’s about it. University of Maryland professor and Internet law expert James Grimmelmann, author of “The Google Dilemma,†found little surprising in the report: “It focused on exactly the same issues—search bias, vertical search, and ad campaign portability—that were widely debated in public during the investigation.†Broadly speaking,...Read More
Local results are nothing new in Google SERPs. Google has blended them with organic results so much that, often, the former prevails. Just look at the screenshot below (which doesn’t even show all local results, only what appeared above the fold): But what’s even more important, they seem to find them quite useful. According to this data...Read More
When a small business builds its website using WordPress, it doesn’t take long before frustration drives someone to ask, “How do I update WordPress Plugins automatically?!†Ah yes, WordPress updates. Thanks to its incredibly active developer and user communities, WordPress is constantly undergoing change. In addition to updates that fix bugs, users consistently suggest, cajole...Read More
WASHINGTON—As the federal government was wrapping up its antitrust investigation of Google Inc., company executives had a flurry of meetings with top officials at the White House and Federal Trade Commission, the agency running the probe. Google co-founder Larry Page met with FTC officials to discuss settlement talks, according to visitor logs and emails reviewed...Read More
Before you get too deep into an SEO campaign, it’s important to run a one-time audit of your site to proactively detect and correct any issues that could interfere with your domain authority. For example, a flaw in your site architecture or an improperly structured navigation could compromise the power or visibility of your site...Read More
It looks like Google wants to bring TV ads into the 21st century. The company has quietly announced a new local advertising service for Google Fiber that will make TV ads behave a lot more like internet ads. Using data from its set-top-boxes, Google (and advertisers) will know precisely how many times a particular local ad...Read More
According to multiple local outlets, WordPress blogs are currently not accessible in Pakistan and pointing the blockage at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). TechCrunch has not been able to confirm that yet. As it stands right now, WordPress.com and blogs hosted by WordPress cannot be reached. Self-hosted WordPress blogs still work. The error above is...Read More
Paul M. Stubenbordt focuses his blog on what steps a practice can take to optimize traditional and Internet marketing, public relations, social media as well as non-traditional marketing tactics that can help maximize your current practice development program.Read More
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