What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Teach You About Using WordPress Plugins + MORE
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Google Newbie and from other places across the web.
Hidden Secrets of World Class Communicators – By Kyle Whitford
– FeedFront.com
Your podcast introduction is an attention killer.
Let’s fix it.
Wrong way- “Hi, and welcome to today’s podcast about internet marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This show will delve into the who, what, where, when, and how of all things IM. Our special guest today is John Q Expert…
Let’s fix it.
Wrong way- “Hi, and welcome to today’s podcast about internet marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This show will delve into the who, what, where, when, and how of all things IM. Our special guest today is John Q Expert…
Google Webmaster Tools Security [Status Update]
– SearchEngineJournal.com
Status Update: Our Bob Jones reported yesterday on a furvor over Google Webmaster Tools having had serious security issues. Having contacted Google myself, the company’s official response to the situation was forthcoming today. Google insists the “access granted” problem was highly localized, and that the problem has since been resolved…
10 Things We Didn’t Know A Week Ago [Week 47]
– SearchEnginePeople.com
20%-25% Of All New Websites Published Are Using WordPress. (via: Morgan Linton)
UK Companies have to give customers their customer data under the "Midata!" plan.
Companies will have to release data about a person's consumption or transactions in an electronic machine-readable standard format upon request…
Hemishare wants to help Brazilian startups recruit top US university talent with RecruitLab
– TheNextWeb.com
There’s no doubt about it: a growing number of US students would consider job opportunities in emerging countries such as Brazil. On the other hand, Brazilian tech companies and startups are having difficulties hiring top talent.This is where Hemishare comes into play, with the launch of its RecruitLab accelerator program…
Top Usability Mistakes: Lessons Learned From More Than 100,000 Usability Tests #ConvCon
– StateOfSearch.com
Dr. Karl Blanks of ConversionRateExperts is one of the leading names in the field of usability testing and conversion rate optimisation (CRO). This talk was focused on preaching the absolute importance of usability testing and understanding common issues frustrating web users. Karl is wholly passionate about user testing in this talk he aimed to walk the audience through each stages of user testing that you should consider when approaching it, and also a variety of free and mostly low-cost tools to help you do so…Don’t Accept Sweeties (or Cookies) From Strangers…
– business2community.com/
I was fortunate enough to contribute to a few joint public/private sector discussions and consultations on cybercrime and information security… As you may well expect, the themes are not new:
Increase in cybercrime… (RSA report here)
Not enough security skills to fulfil the demand… (reports/ articles here, here and here)
Lack of general awareness and education… (E&Y report here and article here)
Should we regulate more or should we regulate less?… (article here)
Should suppliers be more responsible?… (here, web development company purchases security firm)
Sounds familiar? Let’s explore this further…
Don’t Accept Sweeties From Strangers…
When I was five or six, I used to walk to school on my own, three miles down the road…
Bing Takes Swipe at Google With Scroogled
– SiteProNews.com
Microsoft has launched Scroogled to condemn Google’s “pay-to-rank” system and convert Google users to Bing users.
Google’s new initiative for its shopping section turns all results into paid ads, instead of actual search results. The search engine moved to the new model in May in which merchants pay either per-click or per-transaction to be listed in Google Shopping results…
Google’s new initiative for its shopping section turns all results into paid ads, instead of actual search results. The search engine moved to the new model in May in which merchants pay either per-click or per-transaction to be listed in Google Shopping results…
What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Teach You About Using WordPress Plugins
– CopyBlogger.com
“Our greatest strengths can also be our greatest weaknesses.”
Have you heard/read this quote?
Curious about it, I spent some time searching online for its author. After painstakingly sifting through a morass of websites — and remembering that the web’s greatest strength (so much information!) can also be its greatest weakness (so much information!) — I finally settled on a surprising answer:
No one said it…
Have you heard/read this quote?
Curious about it, I spent some time searching online for its author. After painstakingly sifting through a morass of websites — and remembering that the web’s greatest strength (so much information!) can also be its greatest weakness (so much information!) — I finally settled on a surprising answer:
No one said it…
How to Set Your Social Media Strategy and Measure It
– SocialMediaExaminer.com
In this video I interview Dave Fleet, vice president of Digital at Edelman in Toronto.Dave shares how social media measurement impacts businesses today. You’ll learn what strategies businesses are using to measure their social media marketing efforts.Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video…
Why Cath Kidston needs a mobile website for Christmas
– EConsultancy.com
With predictions of futher growth for mobile commerce this Christmas, it’s more important than ever that retailers tailor the user experience for smartphones. IMRG predicts that UK consumers will spend about £4.6bn online in the two weeks up to December 17, and that £920m of that is expected to go through smartphones and tablets…
