Twitter launches official Tweet Button

RSpears @ August 13, 2010 # One Comment

In today’s online marketing landscape, social media has become deeply ingrained into search engine optimization. And quite logically so since the entire idea behind both involve linking, content optimization and cultivating all that on a socially vibrant platform to drive traffic while developing your brand’s online reputation. Twitter remains to be one of the most [...]

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How Tos and YouTube’s 15-minute upload limit

RSpears @ August 9, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Image by thaithinhmusiz We’ve often highlighted the importance of producing original content (or at least reinvigorated ones) when enhancing your site or blog’s search engine optimization efforts. Written content allows a lot of flexibility with context, and can be littered with actual keywords you can liberally slather some SEO elements onto. It’s also free to produce [...]

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A farewell wave to Google Wave

RSpears @ August 6, 2010 # 4 Comments

Image by rickhanger Earlier this week, Google announced that they have decided to discontinue the development of Google Wave, the company’s attempt at cross-platform, real-time platform that aims to fuse together different iterations of online communications. This, the search engine giant announced through Senior VP of Operations Urs Hölzle on their official blog.

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Ways to find images for your blog
(and none of them are called Flickr)

RSpears @ August 4, 2010 # 2 Comments

Image by poppet with a camera The use of images on Web sites and blogs varies and they logically range from visually illustrating the point the accompanying text is delivering, to simply balancing a page’s layout to make the text easy for reader consumption. A Web site with nothing but text is completely unheard of; [...]

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Producing video content: A primer

RSpears @ August 2, 2010 # One Comment

Image by Andy Pierson Providing videos is a good way of breathing new life into your site or blog and engaging with your audience on a different platform. It’s a viable approach to content production as it makes your posts valuable, serve as a way to repurpose content, bring more followers into your fold and beef [...]

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