I'm a stats junkie. I just love surveys, research papers and opinion polls, so its no accident that I enjoy sharing my finds with the our readers. I look for ways to use the information in order to assist our clients by incorporating relevant trends into our their online marketing initiatives. This is [...]

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When you say "Local Market Strategy", most people think of local as at the city level. In search that means Google Local, using Geographic delimiters in keywords, Local Directories, etc.
But for large enterprise sized clients, a local strategy is one for a particular country. Multi nationals typically are faced with the [...]

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At the brink of an economic recession which will forever change the way we live, how secure is your job?
OK, you know this one:

It's a familiar graph.
But for most of us that extreme upward trend has never applied to these:
Corn

Soy

Wheat

The price of food is rising at an incredible rate.

The managing [...]

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I came across Martin Hardee's post on Sun's Customer Experience Blog, where he's posted a collection of Web 2.0 logos.
Here's my list of the Top 5.

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

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For more than 7 years now, I've been working with websites based on popular applications such as WordPress, Vbulletin and PHPnuke. When dealing with such popular applications, words like 'hacking' or 'security hole' will become something that you'll get use to either dealing with or worrying about.
In the last 2 years, there have been [...]

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So I don't know if you recall in the past when I mentioned that I believed Live to be the branding where Microsoft planned on competing with Google.  (See Virtual Reality – Microsoft Office Live).  Well, we should look at some of the things that they are doing from the User perspective.

Nice and clean, free [...]

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If its in fact true that "actions speak louder than words", and "problems are merely opportunities in disguise", we should be able to read a lot into the personality and philosophy or various social communities by looking at how they behave when confronted with adversity (read scheduled maintenance).
Therefore below, find a number of 'scheduled maintenance' [...]

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Warning! Reality Check in progress..you will be returned to regular programming shortly.
Ok, so you say you know what PageRank is and how it applies to search optimization, but do you really? One thing is for certain…. A great many SEO's, site owners and webmasters don’t seem to truly grasp the concept…so lets take a look [...]

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It was an interesting week in the business of online video with news coming from both major search engines.
Google announced that you can now embed YouTube videos in business profile pages in Google Maps. Videos are displayed in the “Photos & Videos” tab in the extended listing tab that appears when you click on [...]

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Your client is thrilled with the new blog. It provides a SEO friendly CMS, it's Social Media friendly, your client loves the opportunity to participate in the conversation, etc, etc.
but
despite how cool their new blog is…. despite the increase in readers, traffic, comments, etc.
at some point,
your client is ultimately going to turn to you [...]

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