How to Avoid Hiring a Bad SEM Vendor

The search engine marketing (SEM) space is hot and growing hotter every day. The massive migration of advertising budgets from traditional channels to online marketing has brought many new players, and hoards of salespeople too. Buying SEM services can be tricky in the best of circumstances, given how new and complicated the industry is. To make matters worse, guarantees are prohibited (to various degrees) by Google, Facebook, and Twitter. So how does a small business owner know a good SEM...

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The New iPad : Everything You Need To Know About

The latest to join the queue of the cool tablets flying on the market shelves is the new iPad that Apple rolled out a few months back. The new iPad, iPad3 or third generation iPad…call it by whichever name you wish to, it is undoubtedly one of the coolest gadgets that has become the choice of millions. This new tablet is an amazing and useful gadget for bloggers & we have already covered some of the best Blogging apps for iPad. Now, here is my hands on review of the New iPad after using it...

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FIVE SIMPLE STEPS FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO FIND NEW CLIENTS

FIVE SIMPLE STEPS FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO FIND NEW CLIENTS Have you met any business people lately who weren’t interested in finding new clients? I certainly haven’t. But I have met more than a few people who don’t actually get how social media can help them with this challenge. And often enough, even among those who do have a sense of the potential of social media for lead generation, there is lack of understanding about just how to go about tapping into this opportunity. These five simple...

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Thoughts: Don’t forget content, but context is king.

Thoughts: Don’t forget content, but context is king. Following on from my earlier post ”mobile” is now really about the blend of online and offline; enhancing one with the other – social + sensors. Google are ahead of Apple at present as they have implemented this at the OS level with Google Now. Google has the advantage of holding its own data whereas Apple is in partnership with various data providers (and will rely on opening up for other areas such as transit information) but that will...

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Tourism Tweetup: Connecting Locals & Visitors

Tourism Tweetup: Connecting Locals & Visitors Ask any traveler: would you rather stay in a tourist compound (aka tourist ghetto) or get out and meet the locals? Overwhelmingly, travelers want to meet the locals! Social media can facilitate this in so many ways. Today I am promoting the idea of connecting guest travel bloggers with local bloggers, to enhance the coverage of the destination and to build a deeper, more personal community online among the many voices in travel. You are invited...

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Southwest Offering 50% Off Flights on Facebook

Facebook News  To celebrate the growth of its Facebook fanbase to 3 million, Southwest Airlines is offering half-off fall flights through the end of the day. The offer applies to select roundtrip flights (they’re labelled “Wanna Get Away”) that fall on Sept. 5, Sept. 11, Sept. 18, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, Oct. 31 and Nov. 6. Fans are asked to use the promo code “LUV2LIKE” when booking on southwest.com to take advantage of the offer, which expires at midnight PT on Friday. Southwest wasn’t able...

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Microsoft Ditches Metro Name

Microsoft Metro Microsoft Metro is no more; at least as a brand name for the design style found in Windows 8, Windows Phone and other Microsoft products. That colorful, boxy and built for touch-interfaces style will remain, but, for now, without a specific name. Here’s Microsoft’s official statement: “We have used Metro style as a code name during the product development cycle across many of our product lines. As we get closer to launch and transition from industry dialog to a broad consumer...

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How to Build a Company Culture of Experimentation

How to Build a Company Culture of Experimentation If you are a consumer internet company you should constantly be experimenting with changes to your site or product. That’s because no matter how smart or experienced you are at building things, not all of your ideas will be successful. The benefits of A/B testing — testing two or more variations in a controlled random setting — are well documented, with numerous websites devoted to A/B testing case studies. Still, many companies only briefly...

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Male Advertising Stereotypes are Backfiring

Online Advertisers News Advertisers may want to rethink how they depict men in their advertisements. New research has found that typical depictions of men using overexaggerated male stereotypes actually has a negative impact on men’s willingness to buy a product. “While partying and promiscuity are often depicted in advertising, some men find these images to be negative portrayals of their gender and are, in fact, turned off by them,” said Cele Otnes, lead researcher and the Investors in Business...

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5 Things Your Digital Agency Isn’t Telling You

Digital-Marketing Chances are your digital firm is a passionate bunch, devoted 100% to delivering sound, successful communications strategies to its clients. However, as part of any valued relationship, they should be providing you — the client — with counsel that may not always be easy to swallow. Below are five things you may never hear from your digital half. It’s the kind of stuff guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers and rate high on the squirm-factor scale. But that’s not always a bad thing....

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Meet The One Your Friends Forgot to Introduce You to with Circl.es

Social Media News Genius Idea: Help people find romance by connecting them to their friends’ friends. The world of dating has changed a lot in the past few years. It’s been just over a decade since online dating hit the mainstream, and only the past five years for it to become part of our collective online culture. However, the idea of meeting a stranger in person for the first time still leaves a lot of people feeling uneasy. Justin Krause, the creator of Circl.es found the solution — friends...

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Court Rules Embedding Video Is Not Copyright Infringement

Court Rules Embedding Video Is Not Copyright Infringement The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a site that embeds copyrighted videos from another site is not committing copyright infringement. Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter came to a close after the ruling was passed in favor of the defendant, Marques Gunter, the sole proprietor of myVidster.com. The court also ruled that watching an infringing video does not constitute copyright infringement. The case began in 2010 when the...

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How the Social Web Is Talking About the Summer Olympics [CHARTS]

We’re about halfway through the 2012 Summer Olympics, and social media has played a bigger role for fans than ever before. But who and what have gotten the most buzz? To find out, we got a slew of information from social media monitoring platform Salesforce Radian6. Its data takes into account a total of more than 150 million sources including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube and message boards. Below are some of Radian6′s more interesting findings from the July 27 opening ceremony through midday...

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How Does Your Internet Service Stack up to Google Fiber?

Google recently announced a supercharged fiber-optic   Google recently announced a supercharged fiber-optic Internet and TV service that it’s testing in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. Google Gigabit + Fiber TV will offer both insane Internet speeds and a souped-up TV package. It could be the future of broadband in the United States — someday. Internet bandwidth will be 1 gigabit per second for downloads and uploads, with no data caps. That’s about 100 times faster than typical...

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Bon Iver Wants You to Remix His Songs for Spotify Album

American folk band American folk band Bon Iver, winner’s of Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in February, wants people to remix the songs from its album Bon Iver, Bon Iver. The 10 best recreations will be featured on Bon Iver’s remix-only album exclusively on music-streaming service Spotify. The top music makers will receive $1,000 each if their versions make it onto the 10-track album. Dubbed Bon Iver, Bon Iver: Stems Project, the contest on partnering social network Indaba Music provides...

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Is This App the Next Siri — or the New Big Brother?

Saga observes your real-world  Quick Pitch: Saga observes your real-world activity through the eyes of your mobile phone. Genius Idea: After Saga has become familiar with your patterns of activity, it starts making personal recommendations. We all have our daily routines — bus route, favorite coffee shop, the corner deli. Once habits are formed, they are difficult to break, even if there are better options out there. With Saga, a new app from Seattle startup A.R.O., users are given a...

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Video Says iPhone 5 Will Be Larger and Thinner Than iPhone 4S

Social Media News 2012 All signs are pointing to a larger, thinner iPhone 5. A video released Friday by iPhone5Parts.net supposedly compares the display for the iPhone 4 with what is thought to be the display for the next-generation of the phone. Obtained by “reliable sources,” the first thing you’ll notice in this video is the purported iPhone 5 screen is much taller than the iPhone 4S version. The upcoming iPhone’s screen measures in at 4.065-inches, compared to the 3.61-inch screen found...

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Important Site lists for all Seo Lovers.

                             Link Juice Definition I am Aslam a Seo Lover. Computer and Internet technologies is my second love. I had tried to gather the internet marketing professional on one platform to perform well and contribute best to internet technology. These sites will will help you while working with search engine optimization. I had posted Free Press release sites, article sites, blog posting sites, bookmarking...

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How To Get Adsense Approval Without Website : Indyarocks

Google Adsense is the best Pay Per Click ad network for the webmasters and the only revenue stream for some bloggers . Although , there are some alternatives but they can’t compete with Google Adsense because Google Adsense have higher Click Through Rates [ CTR ] with a lot of advertisers . But getting approved by Google Adsense is almost an impossible task for some bloggers . And when, you don’t have a Website of your own, it’s like impossible in most common scenerio.Basic Adsense approval requirement:A...

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Why ‘The Atlantic’ No Longer Cares About SEO

SEO News The number of online news consumers has grown consistently over the past half-decade, yet not every publication has gotten the same lift as The Atlantic, whose web audience has catapulted from approximately 500,000 to 13.4 million monthly visitors since taking down its paywall in early 2008. As we’ve explored previously, there are many factors that have contributed to The Atlantic‘s online success: assigning a number of well-known columnists, like James Fallows and Andrew Sullivan...

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