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Real time search is one vital aspect to social media marketing giant Twitter’s current success, but do you currently get the most out of it? While we might not think much of Twitter’s search capabilities beyond real-time results, their search does offer the same advanced functions mainstream search engines use. These functions will be crucial…
Universal log-in tools are becoming increasingly popular with users who want to avoid creating new accounts for each site they go to. Tools like OpenID, Facebook Connect, and Twitter’s OAuth are becoming more popular since they allow users to sign into other sites with a universal log-in. However, Facebook has continued being the pioneer for…
Here’s an interesting tip you might take to your advantage. If you think location is important to your online success, then GeoTags will be an extra search engine optimization (SEO) perk for your website. With GeoTags, you can improve your rankings in search engine results for searches that are specific to your area, which will help increase…
Twitter released their “Lists” feature site-wide last week and we received ours on Thursday. The lists feature allows for a user to bundle like-minded Twitter users together and view their latest tweets in one stream. You can create a list for any reason and filter out their tweets from the your main Twitter stream, which…
Many of us working with search engine optimization (SEO) are familiar with the Google PageRank tool. A few weeks ago, there was some internet buzz about PageRank being removed from the list of Google Webmaster Tools. There was talk about Google changing their algorithm to see what determined a website’s worth. Basically, any change in…
Without a question, most of us engage in internet research when we’ve got questions about a product or service. The internet is an ubiquitous force in our daily lives now—we use it to learn and to connect. It’s evident that in our technological age, we’re shifting away from traditional means of information to the web….
Matthew Trewhella from Google gave some insight into the “Vince/brand update.” There have been times when we’ve “googled” and then “re-googled” a search because we couldn’t find what we were looking for. Is this search engine optimization (SEO) failure from the brands we’re trying to seek out? Well, it seems Google regards your repeated search…
We haven’t completely forgotten about MySpace, but the social media king of years past is now a pauper compared to Twitter and Facebook. It’s been noted that MySpace’s traffic has “fallen off a cliff,” even despite their partnership with Twitter. Even with their mild Twitter success, MySpace is still strategizing on how to move back…
Spiders are an integral part of your search engine optimization (SEO) success. Search engines use spiders/crawlers to examine the material on each page of your website. The spider enters your homepage and observes links to other pages so it can collect the HTML on those pages later. Crawling is simply the process of finding the…
It’s official. Bing and Google have each announced a partnership with social media marketing platform Twitter. Bing was the first to announce their partnership with Twitter and has already rolled out a beta feature for users to try out, here. In terms of deciding which tweets are worthy enough to show up on SERPs (search…
