Published On: Jul 10, 2011 12:09 am
Google Analytics (our favorite website stats program) has a cool feature that you can opt-in to for sharing data. Google Analytics (or GA as we like to so frequently use acronyms) anonymously captures stats from your website and runs analysis to get an overall feel (or pulse) for the web. The folks at Google do… read more
Published On: Jun 13, 2011 5:14 pm
Well Facebook has updated their privacy settings again. And added new features all in the best interest of their users. It is not uncommon for Facebook to make drastic changes to their interface, platform and policies, they have been at it since the company was founded. (for those of you who use Facebook for business…… read more
Published On: May 18, 2011 9:55 am
2nd Annual Regional Small Business Conference & Bootcamp Don’t miss out this Thursday, May 19, 2011 at the Anne Kolb Nature Center in Hollywood Florida. From 8:00am – 2:30pm. Registration is FREE The Cities of Hollywood, Dania Beach, Miramar, Hallandale Beach and Pembroke Pines along with Broward County’s Office of Economic and Small Business Development,… read more
Published On: Apr 28, 2011 5:05 pm
In this new age of social media, consolidation has become a very popular tactic to streamline workflow. With so much information to create and so many channels to promote on, we are all looking for ways to automate our tasks and make our work day more efficient. Adding your blog posts to Facebook is a… read more
Published On: Apr 19, 2011 11:41 pm
Well it happened this morning. One of our favorite webhosts had a nameserver issue that was intermittently affecting many of their client (yours truly included). Unfortunately for us, this issue was taking place just as I was on the phone with a potential new client discussing hosting. Can you guess when the issue took place…. read more
Published On: Apr 15, 2011 12:29 pm
A recent Small Business Search Marketing Survey by American Express OPEN and Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) shows that more small businesses are using Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc…) to attract new business than Mass Email Marketing, Organic SEO and Pay-Per-Click Advertising. Fortunately (for all of us web designer and web developers anyways), Company… read more
Published On: Mar 31, 2011 3:30 pm
Google is getting into the social game again. Why should Mario (and Facebook) have all the fun. Hopefully the big G will play it right this time it won’t be a sleeper like Google Buzz. Google’s social strategy seems to be looking much more like Facebook’s social strategy. Facebook launched its Open Graph and social… read more
Published On: Mar 18, 2011 11:36 am
At the March 2011 Chamber Breakfast, Steven Alig unveiled the new website for the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Speaking in front of a crowd of 120 local business professionals and Chamber members, Steven outlined the specifics of the web re-design and the benefits of the website for the Chamber membership. Starting with a brief… read more
Published On: Mar 1, 2011 10:59 pm
What happens when your website gets caught up in a new Google algorithm update and all of the sudden your coveted top Search Engine Ranking Positions (SERP’s) disappear? Apparently you complain as loud as you can to any and all media sources. (since complaining to Google apparently falls on deaf ears) And then you build… read more
Published On: Feb 26, 2011 2:57 pm
A recent blog post over at Mashable discusses what Marketers need to know about the new switch to Facebook iframes. There is a new way to present custom content on Facebook pages, using iframes instead of the current tabs and FBML (Facebook Mark up Language). FBML is a subset of HTML (the languge to present… read more
Published On: Jan 26, 2011 6:22 pm
If Adwords has not worked for you, don’t fret, you are not alone. Apparently not even Google can promote enough business through Adwords to salvage certain projects. Google announced today that they will no longer be supporting real estate listings on their Google maps. Google states the reasons for this are: In part due to… read more
Published On: Dec 21, 2010 2:26 pm
It is official, Google has confirmed what was suspected for sometime now; Links from social networks like Facebook and Twitter do act as one of the many signals used in ranking pages within their search engine. A recent video over at Google Webmaster Central Channel shows Matt Cutts from Google explaining the reason for using… read more