How Good is Google’s Image Search Traffic? (weekly Q&A)
There are three main things you need to remember about ranking in image search: Google Image search is harder to predict now: With infamous Google image search, it’s harder to tell now how Google ranks images and which of those criteria are under our control. There are some interesting experiments to check though. That traffic […]
How to Curate Content With Twitter Favorites
Why aren’t more people using Twitter favorites? No, I really mean it, why isn’t every tweet obsessed Twitter junkie nuts for this feature? It is arguably one of their most helpful, and yet most overlooked, tool on the site. You can use it to curate content on a massive scale, bookmark links for later, or […]
Scary Robot Ninja Office Prank
This Monday someone in our programming/IT department decided to scare Jim when he first got to his office with a robot, and naturally recorded it and made a video. So here is your Friday moment of zen:
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOW TO Plan and Collaborate On A Winning SEO redesign
It is an all too common tragedy, a website is designed and deployed and search traffic tanks. Once search traffic drops, frustrated marketers have to spend untold amounts of time grudgingly auditing and trying to recover old traffic, amid revenue losses from their most efficient traffic source. Here are some tips for planning and collaborating […]
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 […]