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SEO is the way to go if you want your business to boom on the internet. However, Google dropped JCPenney on its search engine results due to practicing black hat SEO techniques, which wasn’t entirely JCPenney’s fault as it was its SEO firm, SearchDex. To be fair, BMW has been dropped from Google’s search engine…

Yesterday, Facebook released a new version of its Questions feature after close to a year of beta testing. The updated Questions feature will take the focus off of public questioning and instead concentrate on soliciting friends recommendations. Adrian Graham, a manager for Questions said, “There are a lot of places you can go on the…

Lady Gaga was interviewed recently about the newest viral popstar sensation, Rebecca Black. Although Rebecca black has received over 38 million views compared to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” which “only” received about 22 million views, Black has received only 48,834 likes compared to 417,946 dislikes. While the 13-year-old aspiring singer is being criticized over…

Yes, nearly all companies engage in search engine optimization practices. They may be doing SEO themselves or have a professional internet marketing company to do it for them. Either way, it is important to have clear understanding of the most commonly used search engine optimization terms in order to avoid confusion and to better understand…

Many companies’ social media marketing strategies have been limited to social media sites such as Facebook, but now many are beginning to build these capabilities into other areas of their marketing efforts. An effective way businesses are doing this is through adding Facebook social plugins to their website. Provided below are the top 3 plugins and…

Video marketing has proven to become a positive trend in internet marketing. May ecommerce website designers have caught up with using web videos as tools to create eye-catching and engaging video clips to grab a viewer’s attention. With well-crafted and distributed videos on the internet, businesses can reach specific audiences while simultaneously having a tremendous…

Pay-per-click advertising may seem complicated for beginners, but in reality, it’s not. It works by companies paying certain websites each time their banner ad is clicked by users. PPC ads are often displayed on search engine result pages which increases a company’s visibility, driving more traffic to their site, consequently improving conversion rates. With proper…

Facebook seems to be the hottest trend since sliced bread with nearly every business hoping that the the social media giant with help their business thrive. Home Depot is no different. Home Depot is offering consumers who “Like” the retailer on Facebook special offers every Friday throughout the Spring. The promotion ends May 27. Discounts…

It has often been said that “Bad publicity is better than no publicity.” This seems to prove true for Rebecca Black, who has received over 26 million views for her new  music video titled “Friday.” To bring perspective into the picture, this is approximately 4 million more views than Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” which received about…

Groupon is in the process of creating a new application that it hopes will change when and how society chooses to eat, shop, and play. The new application, Groupon Now, will stray away from its current deal-a-day business model and adopt a quicker, more “Now” strategy. When the Groupon Now app is opened, two buttons…