How to Edit Twitter Tweets (Weekly QA)
Not everything we post is going to be gold, no matter how much we wish it was. Just spelling or grammar errors can plague us when we are quickly updating, especially from mobile devices – which doesn’t even cover tweets done out of anger, thoughts we thought were profound but weren’t, accidental retweets, drunken tweets, […]
- 02-27-2013
- Social Media
4 Awesome Usability-Testing Bookmarklets
Usability has always been an important part of any website design. Now that we have so many features, platforms and tools, especially mobile web design and those built with Flash or HTML5, it is more important than ever to do thorough testing – both for catching potential bugs, and in ensuring that all users (handicapped, […]
- 02-25-2013
- Website Usability
Digg vs Reddit: Who Succeeded and Why
Let’s get this out of the way right away: when looking at Reddit versus Digg, Reddit clearly won. If you need proof of that, just look at the sale of the site in July 2012. If it had not ultimately failed, it wouldn’t have ended up having to be sold in the first place. Not […]
- 02-20-2013
- Social Media
One Thing to Remember When You Market a Hashtag
The hashtag has become the symbol of a generation, and the face of the changing internet and social scene. Once nothing more than a means of putting tweets into groups while maintaining the unique (at the time) live update format, it has become something so much more. Including a means of adding context, emotion or […]
- 02-18-2013
- Social Media
How Do We Define Content Curation? (Weekly Q&A)
The social web has long since been a primary focus of the savvy marketer. Over the years, the type of widely available and popular platform for social interaction has expanded to include some newcomers. For example, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn and Delicious have all reached a level of significance many of us did not expect in […]
- 02-13-2013
- Content
6 Hacks to Copy Links in FireFox and Google Chrome
It is always nice to have a couple of ways to more efficiently use your computer. Shortcuts are placed into everything from your desktop to applications, and using them can save you both time and energy. It is all about being able to better operate your own computer, and to get the most out of […]
- 02-11-2013
- SEO Tools
Should I Use Canonical to Solve Blog Tag Duplicate Issue? (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting discussion over at SEO chat forum about how to solve the inherent WordPress-run blog duplicate content issue. If you are blogging, you know that these pages are likely to cause partial duplicate content issue: blog.com/post-name blog.com//tag/tag-name blog.com/category/category-name This is because the category and tag pages usually consist of the post excerpts. In […]
- 02-06-2013
- Search Engine Optimization
3 Free Tools to Get Link Building Search Query Inspired
Have you been a little lax on your link building lately? Uninspired over search queries, or maybe feeling discouraged thanks to a lack of results from the ones you have previously employed? It can be easy to feel this way, or just let your link building fall to the wayside in favor of other marketing […]
- 02-04-2013
- Link Building
Am I Being Blocked from Twitter *Search*? (Weekly Q&A)
I see it almost weekly: A person is trying to tweet to a hashtag; yet his/ her tweets are not visible in search results? It may be Twitter ghost ban or a temporal flag; Twitter won’t tell you. Once in awhile, a legitimate account will end up being thrown onto a black list. This leads […]
- 01-30-2013
- Social Media
Interesting Creative Commons Projects
We live in a world obsessed with profit. Buying, selling, acquiring, spending money in the guise of saving money, manufacturing cheaper products, switching to the cash cow of the digital realm…this is all a part of life. Even when you don’t wish to be part of it, you can’t help it. Our society is just […]
- 01-28-2013
- Content
