Optimize Email Marketing for Gmail’s Priority Inbox

On August 30, 2010, Google started rolling out Priority Inbox for Gmail. Priority Inbox, in its simplest form, is an algorithm that sifts through massive amounts of email and sends emails that users are likely to read and respond to to their Priority Inbox. Priority Inbox is able to do this because its algorithm analyzes…

Research Your Competitors on Twitter

In the first installment of this blog post, we discussed how to research your business competitors on the largest social networking site, Facebook. Keep in mind though that Facebook is just one avenue that businesses and brands use to keep their social media presence competitive. Another is Twitter, with over 190 million active users and over 60 million…

Mobile Shopping With Augmented Reality Applications

Augmented reality applications are mobile applications that utilize a device’s computer-generated sensory, such as GPS and live camera. Many users are familiar with augmented reality check-in applications, such as Yelp and Foursquare. Other augmented reality applications include bar code scanning, product shape scan, and audio input recognition. As 2011 continues to be the year of…

Productive Troubleshooting Tips for Search Engine Optimization Problems

SEOmoz CEO and co-founder Rand Fishkin graciously welcomed SEO questions and realized that a major dilemma common among internet marketers is that these search engine practitioners focus only on the most common internet marketing strategies, while not venturing enough in creative means of internet advertising. He then suggested creative means of solving difficult search engine…

Is Your Internet Marketing Expert Really an Expert?

Anybody can call themselves an expert but in reality, only a few are really worthy of being called one. This holds true even in the field of Internet marketing. Because there is no college degree that makes someone a certified Internet marketing expert, most Internet marketing veterans take the liberty of calling themselves expert. And…

10 Twitter SEO Tips

If you run a search on a topic followed by the word ‘Twitter’ or ‘tweet,’ search engines such as Google are beginning to incorporate results from one of the largest social networking sites, Twitter. With 65 millions tweets per day, it’s essential to take advantage of Twitter in your arsenal of internet marketing strategies. Here…