by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
This is a Guest Post written by Justin Germino a technology blogger who works with WordPress and helps others with blogging tips.
Google has finally kept up to their promise of making images available to Google Drive users. They have added a free stock photo library to the documents portion of Google Drive when you create a new document. There are over 5,000 new images from Thinkstock in the stock photo library and you can search by subject to find the free images that you need, without exiting Google Drive. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
Facebook notified media around the world they had a big announcement to make yesterday. Like many others, I was on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what new feature was going to be introduced yesterday to boost Facebook’s stock price and confidence on Wall Street. Speculation was rampant with thoughts of mobile advertising networks, a gaming platform, its own smartphone, a Facebook OS, a total site redesign, real privacy features and other brilliant ideas. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media |
In 2010, the Library of Congress used its Facebook page to announce it was acquiring the entire Twitter archive - all public tweets - back to March 2006. And it has been archiving public tweets ever since. Think about that. In the few minutes it will take you to read this, over three million new tweets will have flooded the Internet and been added to what Twitter estimates is some 400 million new tweets sent every day. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
The FTC closed its 19 month antitrust investigation of Google and Google came out of this largely unscathed. The FTC reports that Google agreed to change some of its business practices to resolve Federal Trade Commission concerns that “those practices could stifle competition in the markets for popular devices such as smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles, as well as the markets for online search advertising.” (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media |
This Guest Post is written by Berrie Pelser of Ber | Art Visual Design
Search engine optimization SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. (more…)
