1. Momaboard.com launched on January 18th and with already over 1,000 facebook friends in tow, it is an online community for parents traveling with young children, founded and managed by a voyaging mom. They offer city guides, travel tips, product reviews, and exclusive discounts. They also offer an opportunity to share your experiences and learn from other globetrotting parents.
2. Launched just recently with already more than 300 users myvoternation.com is a social commentary network that allows users to vote on current issues in the news, debate, and match with people who feel the same way.
3. Typetrigger.com gives writers a prompt every six hours. They have up to 300 words to respond in any genre. Readers can follow writers they like, Twitter style. Since public launch in January, writers from around the world have joined, writing fiction, poetry and memoir. Goodbye writers block, hello workplace distraction.
4. Publishedin helps businesses and publishers connect and benefit each other. Their patent-pending technology makes it simple for businesses to increase quality traffic from online publishers, and publishers to earn cash rewards from their online content.
5. Life is Balance is a new line of inspirational t-shirts celebrating activities that balance our lives. Yin and yang, is an ancient Chinese symbol, representing two opposing yet complementary forces in nature. Their designs, based on this symbol, are each geared to a different sport or activity. Read More »
American Idol is a sensation and this year it is no different, yet with new judges SocialTechPop is excited for the season. Tonight it was all about the boys and with 12 guys performing we were excited to report the following. We have decided to keep it short and sweet with just the simple statements from the judges as follows: Read More »
Every so often, you meet someone with a job title that makes you go, "Huh?" Either it's too technical to understand, too hard to describe or in some cases, people just may not have heard of it. But, why would someone not have heard about a job's existence? Read More »
Movies. Fashion. Villainy. They are all one in the same. Or not. But let's face it, not all killers are Early Grayce, exuding a dirty confidence soiled in grime. Some are stellar not only in their malevolence, but also in their fashion. Read More »
Everyone likes to look at technology in terms of how it will change the future. But I want to go one step further and ask, "how would it change the past?" Even more, how would some of our favorite fairy tales be different had they been written during the golden age of technology? Would Sleeping Beauty really lay in wait? or would the prince simply have seen that her status had gone to 'sleep'? I do wonder.... Read More »
Social media is continuing to grow, and new options are readily available to advertise both yourself, and your business. But, not all social media outlets are created equally. What we have in front of us is an unfolding landscape of possibilities. The forefront of these possibilities is the ability to recognize what each outlet can offer to you, and what you can offer to it (the latter being more beneficial for the companies reaping financial gain from the network). Read More »
Ok, ok, we've all seen the new Facebook profile slowly rolling out in our news feeds anytime a friend adopts the new "social standard". I must admit, anytime Facebook brings out a new profile layout, I get sort of peeved. But, like everyone else, over time I get used to everything being in a different place (for no apparent reason). Read More »
“Be careful where you click†is the warning PC Tools issued throughout 2010 to drive consumers’ online safety and protection. This message is more important than ever following Google’s recent study of the year’s top searches in their “Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched†report.
PC Tools has identified the 7 most memorable cybercrime incidents associated with them, as we look back on how these top searched terms made cyber security headlines. Listed below are the highlights from PC Tools of this year’s most astonishing cybercrime activities; ranging from small-scale pranks to security breaches of global impact: Read More »
Twitter and Facebook continue to offer film studios cheap and easy ways to increase the brand awareness of their films. As media continues to stabilize itself through digital integration, film studios have to rely on clever ways to get the word about their movies to the ears of audiences before movie-goers get bored and decide to just pirate it online. Read More »
1. If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.
2. Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.
3. If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.
4. Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.
5. Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.
6. Fresh content can help improve your rankings. Add new, useful content to your pages on a regular basis. Content freshness adds relevancy to your site in the eyes of the search engines.
7. Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets†then link to “blue widgets†instead of a “Click here†link.
8. Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store†not “our storeâ€) to help you get found in local searches.
9. Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.
10. Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.
11. Check for canonicalization issues – www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com is your preference, then http://domain.com should redirect to it. Read More »
