With social networks driving traffic the way they do and the sheer amount of content that is being linked to and shared through Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis, the ability to search those networks in real-time is valuable. Google indexes and crawls fast, but it can’t keep up with the daily deluge of…
So you want to know, how many people actually see your tweets? How many people do those things actually make their way to through your network? You know that social media is playing a role in SEO and you want to be influential, so let’s start with Twitter and see just how many people you’re…
Men! What’s going on? More than 80% of the Pinterest user base is made up of women! We all better catch up on this whole Pinterest thing. Why you ask? Well, the numbers are insane, historic actually. Pinterest is the fastest website to reach 10 million unique visitors. Ever. Ever. Think of sites like Etsy…
Have you been wondering if there’s a way to customize your Google+ URL? Wonder no more my friends, your answer is here. There’s a free service called gplus.to that shortens your Google+ URL into a nice, easy to remember link. Plug in your G+ profile ID number on gplus.to and a customized URL will be…
A term web people might use to describe a site is sticky. It sounds a little strange, but it’s actually a huge measure of a website’s success. The stickier the better. The measure of a websites ‘stickiness’ can be found in the page views per visitor; the more pages a person goes to on the site, the…
The number of people who access the web on a smartphone is rapidly increasing. Mobile users want content at their fingertips, that they can access anytime, anywhere. Developing a mobile friendly site means creating a site that’s elastic enough to display nicely on whatever device your end user is viewing it on. Website owners are…
Tom over at Odd Dog Media put up a great breakdown of how to decide which is better for you, AdWords or Organic SEO and since…you know, we’re kinda into that sorta thing, we thought it would be helpful for all of you to take a look at as well. Which path are you taking?…
It’s no secret that search is going is social. Influence in social media is already a part of what drives page ranking at Google and Bing. We’ve written about different ways to measure your own influence in social media on a few occasions, but things change fast. There are more great tools out there than…
We live in a world surrounded by ads, that’s clear. With more methods of advertising, come more ways we learn to block them out. We are numb to many types of push marketing techniques, those types of ads and campaigns that saturate and annoy. Thankfully, we also live in a world where social media offers…
When it comes to having a great blog, WordPress may just be the best place to start, especially if you aren’t the most technically savvy person (and even if you are!). When you start off fresh with a brand new WordPress install, it is nice to throw a few great plugins on it to increase functionality right…