CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-24 18:19:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Here's a TON of screenshots and explanations of how local search works on Google Glass. :-) Congrats to all local businesses that rank #1 in the Google 3-pack or 7-pack. You're in luck.

2013-05-24 09:56:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Permission-Based Email Marketing Done Right

http://sharexy.com/social-media/permission-based-email-marketing-done-right.html

This is the age of information overload – we often find ourselves faced with companies who try and shove their products down our throats through TV commercials, online videos, viral campaigns and even with leaflets distributed on the street. Perhaps the worst form of marketing is email spamming as it hits people when they are busy or waiting for some important news, and only irritates them.

Both people and computer software have gotten very adept at ignoring and deleting spam messages, and if what you are doing mimics classic spam messages closely you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting through to your intended audience.

Don’t get me wrong, there are some pretty good email marketing solutions that give solidresult,... more »

2013-05-24 09:51:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

The Dos and Don’ts of Email Marketing

http://lerablog.org/internet/the-dos-and-donts-of-email-marketing/

Permission-based email marketing is an important aspect of promoting your business, driving more traffic to your website and developing a network of regular clients. This marketing tool should not be overlooked as a good, cultivated mailing list allows a company to reach out to the right people with the right offer.

You get a steady online market for your products and services and the people get timely information on offers they are interested about, without having to lift a finger – everybody wins.

However, there are some rules to the online email marketing game, and following them is what will set you apart from desperate small business owners, Taiwanese factories and Nigerian Princes that rarely get past the spam filters.

2013-05-24 08:55:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Google’s Conversational Voice Search Activated on Chrome

http://www.australianscience.com.au/technology/googles-conversational-voice-search-activated-on-chrome/

2013-05-24 08:41:12 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Matt Cutts wasn’t wrong, the latest algorithm change was major. 

http://dejanseo.com.au/omg-algorithm-update-is-off-the-scale/

Even though the estimated percentage of affected queries was apparently quite low, we’re still seeing major fluctuations (both ups and downs) in the 10,000 tracked keywords.

2013-05-23 19:48:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Tips for Maximizing the Impact of International SEO and Content Marketing

Ten years ago, the situation was quite different from the one we are witnessing today. SEOs were supposed to deal with keywords and links mostly and there was a clear-cut work to be done.

Nowadays, SEO has gone social, while still retaining some of its older characteristics, which resulted in a nearly impossible position that SEOs have found themselves in – they are supposed to do way too many different tasks in order to really gain exposure for the website they are working on.

As if that was not enough, the increased use of languages other than English (like Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese) on the Internet made things even more complicated. Buckle your seat-belts, we need to optimize for foreign markets in foreign languages!
more »

2013-05-23 18:02:46 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The Ultimate Guide to Google Plus Posts. (NEW)
Here is a comprehensive posts on just about everything you need to know about Google Posts. A load of hints and tips as well!
#googleplustips  

2013-05-23 17:48:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Post-Penguin Web Spam In Google Results? Let Google Know

Google’s head of search spam tweeted, asking that if you still see spammy websites coming up in the Google search results, to let Google know. Matt posted an online Google doc form over here where you can specify the URL of the spam site, the search query you saw it for and any additional comments.

2013-05-23 10:13:31 (0 comments, 16 reshares, 13 +1s)

Matt Cutts Talks about Penguin 2.0

2013-05-23 10:07:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Architects – Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Running an architectural firm now, in the second decade of the twentieth century, is very difficult. This is because, well, frankly speaking, there are many architects all over the world and each one has his or her ideas that can be better than yours, from a non-architectural point of view. This is the competition that exists in any business. The only way to beat it is to be the best and in order to be the best, you need to be creative.

Now, creativity is something that comes and goes and sometimes you need a push. Well, this article is meant to do just that. In the following text, you will be able to see some the most famous buildings ever constructed. You have most certainly come across all of them, and if this is the case, then this article will serve as a reminder. Hell, there’s nothing wrong with using some ideas in order tocre... more »

2013-05-22 17:42:55 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

This is a really big, impressive change from Google, "conversational search" that's now live for those with Chrome.

2013-05-21 13:32:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Online Promotional Marketing Methods

Promotional marketing is evolving with the ever-growing internet network which now counts over 35% of the world’s population.

A great number of promotional marketing experts are aware of this and are constantly learning how to seize the promotional opportunities they are given.

With the appearance of new software for search engine optimization (SEO), promotional marketing has made great progress on the web.

http://www.technshare.com/online-promotional-marketing-methods/

2013-05-20 20:10:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Did you know that there’s no browser in Google Glass, so there’s nothing to navigate to? #googleglass  

2013-05-18 13:27:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The Houses of Our Future

All over the world, architects are mapping their newest designs as we speak. The need for a smart, or a “green” solution, if I may, is ever-growing on the market, because of the global economic recession, and the whole low-resource thing going on, in general.

I’ll try to explain the significance of these solutions through some examples....

2013-05-17 09:27:16 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

4 Reasons Why You Must Use Social Media

We have long reached a point where no one can say they do not need social media and get away with it. However, it can still be extremely hard to convince a client he needs Social Media or else the campaign he is planning will be incomplete as well as the effects of it.

Why is this so? Because most of the clients fail to familiarize with what is going on in SEO and Internet Marketing world, or they are falling behind current trends.

2013-05-15 13:10:15 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google Zaps Another Link Network, ‘Several Thousand’ Link Sellers Hit
http://selnd.com/18KI8xB

2013-05-14 12:28:16 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

iMapper - Wordpress Image Mapper / Pinner

iMapper – WordPress Image Mapper is a simple, yet powerful plugin that lets you select an image of your choice and pin stuff on it. It offers several embedded pins which offer special functionality, as well as the ability to import your own pins with the basic functionality. It is very intuitive and easy to use, and it will take but moments to set up your image with pins and customize the content connected to each of these pins. 

iMapper is a perfect solution if you want to make your contact page a bit more dynamic. It will fit perfectly no matter what your profession is. It can easily be adapted to a health image mapper, product image mapper, contact image mapper etc. 

2013-05-14 10:48:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

How to Measure Social Media Success

How do you measure the value of intangible assets? And if you choose not to measure this value because measuring it proves difficult over and over again, is it really the right choice to only measure what’s tangible?

Many business owners have asked themselves and others these same questions. What is to be measured and how?

How do you determine the amount of money that is supposed to be invested into social media when you cannot accurately calculate the ROI?

2013-05-14 06:45:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

SEO: Penguin 2.0 Algorithm Update and Matt’s Overview

Called Penguin 2.0 internally at Google, the latest updates to roll out in the next week or so aim to have a significant impact on webspam tactics and the value these methodologies impart to SERPs and a sites authority, even more so than the last major update. 

Will this mean a rise of authentic business as a result? Here’s hoping!

In response to the question posed “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?”  Matt Cutts from the Google Webspam Team responds in the following video.

What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?

2013-05-12 07:58:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

SEO & Social Media – What Website Owners Should Know

Today’s first and foremost information source is the Internet. Owning a website and optimizing it will make your business bloom and be noticed among the abundance of information present today. In such circumstances, you would want to make your customers notice your website and start trusting your judgment and techniques. That is why it’s always good to have someone by your side who knows his way around SEO and Social Media.

The success of your website depend on both on-page and off-page factors (including Social Media). We will try to help you gain a better understanding of these factors and assist you and your team.

2013-05-12 07:56:02 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

How to Get Ahead of Your Competition Using Social Media Marketing

The significance of online communities and social media for businesses can only grow and develop with time. Currently, online communities serve many purposes, from social media marketing to online reputation management. The only problem with the entire notion of social media marketing is the difficulty to measure the tangible ROI.

This difficulty should not be an impediment for companies to use the potential of social media to the fullest, simply because the value that the online communities provide is not measured only in direct income from social media marketing, but in the direct communication with the costumers, which allows the companies to work on the flaws of their campaigns way before it all blows up in their faces.

2013-05-11 09:34:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Penguin 4 is coming in a few weeks, and it will be a big change in Google's efforts to fight web spam. It might also get called Penguin 2.0, just for fun. Sigh.

2013-05-09 12:36:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Blogging Tips and Rolemodels – Bring Your Blogging to Perfection

The first thing any potential writer or blogger should know about writing is: “Practice makes perfect”, so if this is your ambition then start writing immediately! No craft is honed by just sitting down and thinking about it.

Of course, it is important to know about the people who made it in this field before you so checking out the top notch bloggers who actually made it and created a name for themselves is very much advisable. But thinking that these people actually have some ace up their sleeve and by having this secret knowledge they just pull people into their blogs is very wrong thinking. It is all about the effort and the passion put into your work.

2013-05-09 12:35:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

[Infographic] Post-Penguin Google Analysis

SEO Study: Penguin One Year Anniversary

2013-05-09 12:26:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Alias Domains, Rel=”Canonical” and 301 Redirect – Which One Should You Use for Best Results?

As we all know by now, the factors affecting SEO are so numerous that it is nearly impossible to be informed of every detail. Nevertheless, we must stay on top of everything that could be important for our optimization efforts.

This is why I decided to provide you with the information about alias domains, 301 redirect and rel=”canonical” tags and help you decide which solution is the best one for you.

2013-05-03 06:31:12 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Future of SEO - An Interview with Rand Fishkin

How can we help our clients & move forward as an industry?

Whilst presenting at SMX Sydney last month, +Dan Petrovic /  
+Dejan SEO had the opportunity to speak with +Rand Fishkin and ask him just that. Rand also gave us a brief overview on +SEOmoz’s new(ish) tool, Fresh Web Explorer.

You can watch the video, or read some the highlights from their conversation, below.

2013-04-29 09:02:34 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Mobile Marketing in 2013 – Tips and Tricks for Revenue Increase

Just look around you – smart-phones and tablets are virtually everywhere, used by everyone, from those aged 5 to those aged 70. Ignoring m-commerce is not an option. Since mobile search has changed the way people search for websites, a mobile website, responsive design, a cool app, or a combination of all these is necessary for a chance at success.

However, it is often not enough just to go mobile – you have to think mobile and create campaigns which support the idea that the world has gone, well, mobile.

2013-04-27 22:35:02 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

5 Basic Ways of Online Marketing

The key to any successful business lies in good advertising. By getting as much attention as you can get, you will have a greater deal of potential customers for your products and services. Nowadays, a great deal of business is conducted online. It is much easier for companies to broaden their market without having to depend of their location.

Setting up a website isn't such a difficult job as you may think. It is the easiest step of starting online marketing. Difficulties come after its launch. Keeping your company’s website isn't an easy job at all. 

2013-04-27 06:48:43 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.
I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours).
I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass.
I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.

Here's my review after having Google Glass for two weeks:

1. I will never live a day of my life from now on without it (or a competitor). It's that significant. 
2. The success of this totally depends on price. Each audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would buy this?" As the price got down to $200 literally every hand went up. At $500 a few hands went up. This was consistent, whether talking with students, or more mainstream, older audiences.
3. Nearly everyone had an emotional outburst of "wow" or... more »

2013-04-26 08:26:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Shortest Possible Novice Guide to SEO and Social Media World

The first impression your clients get about your company often comes from your website. The type and the quality of textual and visual materials your website contains, its information architecture, link structure, as well as search engine and social media positioning, usually determine this first impression by making it easier or harder for a customer to find your business, find their way through the website itself and trust your business. The same goes for blogs.

Ask yourself this: “Would I trust a business whose website doesn't appear on the first page of SERPs, which is hard to browse once I have found it and which has no social media presence?” Would you? Of course not.

2013-04-25 21:10:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

uSquare Joomla Component - responsive squared grid

uSquare is a responsive squared grid that can display your content in a unique and interesting way. You can use it for displaying team members, products, services, designs, blog posts or anything else that comes to your mind.

Features: Responsive design, Fully customizable, Scrollable content, Easing effects included, Intuitive design,Fully flexible, 
Custom width and height of items, Custom colors and backgrounds, Custom fonts, Custom social icons, You can add unlimited number of items...

2013-04-25 17:14:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Email Marketing Tips

Email is a tool that has become very much used all over the world. Everyone is using emails and, aside from social networks, it is one of the most important means of communication in the world. All businesses are using this way of communication, because it is much more secure than using other types. Ordinary people have also started to use emails widely, both in personal and business affairs. 

However, there are a few things that you need to be careful about, or you may end up in the spam folder of your customers. This is something that is highly unwanted, because spam emails are not read and are very bad for reputation. So, to avoid having troubles with this, here are a few tips.

http://www.business2community.com/email-marketing/email-marketing-tips-0476800

2013-04-25 15:35:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Promoting Your Business – A Few Helpful Ideas

If you are starting a new business, or you just want to attract new customers with your already existing one, the most important thing that you have to think about is how you should promote your business. Business promotion is something that is a very important part of any company’s success.

Through promotion, your business can see new horizons and open up new possibilities. No company has prospered without advertising  There are many ways in which you can advertise yourself and your business. Here, I will present a few of them.

http://www.business2community.com/marketing/promoting-your-business-a-few-helpful-ideas-0476688

2013-04-25 10:10:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

One Year Later: Post Penguin and Google Analysis

2013-04-24 23:14:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Want to understand all the ways that Google Analytics can help you learn how people are interacting with your site? A new “periodic table” may prove useful. See the full infographic here: http://mklnd.com/12iYv0d #googleanalytics  

2013-04-18 19:25:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Social Media Crisis Management #Infographic

Can you take advantage of the opportunities social media brings but avoid the risks?

The easy answer is no.

But, as recent social media crises have shown, if you manage a crisis well you can avoid long term damage and, sometimes, even enhance your reputation.

2013-04-18 09:57:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Social Media Marketing Tips For Online Stores In 2013

Social media marketing is evolving constantly, as fast as technology is. The first question you need to ask yourself is whether your company’s strategy evolves at the same rate. When was the last time you changed something in the marketing strategy for your online store?

I still come across executives who think keywords are the most important thing they should pay attention to concerning the SEO of their online store, and who focus only on technical aspects of SEO, completely neglecting any social component.

http://www.webrevenue.co/social-media/social-media-marketing-tips-for-online-stores/

2013-04-17 14:20:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-04-16 19:02:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Google announced a new field trial experiment for a feature named Quick View. http://selnd.com/XEGSYf

2013-04-16 18:53:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Most Underrated Cities in Europe

When talking about tourist destinations in Europe, the cities we have in mind are usually Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Dublin, Monte Carlo, Nice and other well known cities famous for their architecture, cultural and historical significance.

But there are also cities that are not mentioned very often in the tourists’ brochures. These cities are definitely underrated, but nevertheless they should be visited because they have a lot to offer.

2013-04-16 18:49:58 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

When in Belgrade

Serbia was affected by many influences, especially Roman and Turkish. That’s why the architecture is so fascinating. The old facades, houses and streets are revealing history influences. Serbia suffered the First and the Second World War and was many times destroyed and rebuilt. Because of that in Belgrade, and generally in Serbia, you can see diverse architecture. Not only did historical events influence the architecture, but also painting, theater and cinematography.

The life in Serbia at one point was very tough because of poverty that came as a consequence of so many wars. At theater, plays that were performed were criticizing society and the life in Serbia, and films were representing the lives of people during the war.

2013-04-16 18:31:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

A study finds a change to how Google Images displays content seems to drive far less traffic to sites that have their images displayed in the service.

2013-04-16 14:28:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Bistro MD Weight Loss Program Review – All You Need To Know

I've spent a good deal of my life fluctuating from skinny to fat, and have devoted a good deal of time and money on workouts, diets, equipment and have even signed up to some of the popular weight loss programs. Through the years I've seen what works and what doesn't work for me personally, and have had a chance to see what worked for others as well, so I have a pretty good idea about what an effective and healthy weight loss program should look like.

The major problem I had with most diets, even the meal replacement programs, where they cook the food for you and do all the calculations, was that the food is pretty boring, bland, not very tasty and often lacking in nutrients.

2013-04-12 17:31:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Bing Integrates Pinterest Sharing Into Its Image Search

Bing users can now easily share the images they find with their friends on Pinterest. Starting today, Bing’s image search will feature the standard Pinterest ‘Pinit’ button on every photo details page, so the integration isn’t all that deep, but according to Microsoft, this will save avid Pinterest users “some of the hassles they face” when they try to “hunt down original, high-resolution images.”

2013-04-07 20:37:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Rumble - Responsive Multi-purpose HTML5/CSS3 theme

Rumble html5/css3 template is a well thought-out, responsive, multipurpose HTML template. The elements that dominate the template are the images and the content of the website. There are no heavy images and predefined content, it is all left to you to use it the way you think it should be used. There are no limitations to the purpose of this html5/css3 template. It can easily be modified to suit your needs.

It can be a health based website, small business template, shop based theme, portfolio/artist/photographer website. The style that we have used in the preview of the template is dark gray/red. The colors can easily be changed to the ones of your choice. 

2013-04-04 14:28:45 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

uSquare - responsive squared grid - Joomla 2.5+

In the following piece of text, I will present to you a responsive grid for Joomla  which is, in my opinion excellent for whatever it is that you are “selling”. It is called uSquare Component for Joomla 2.5+ CMS , and you should definitely check it out.

First of all, when I said that it is responsive, to those of you who are not acquainted with the term, it means that it will fit every screen resolution, which means that it can easily be accessible via loads of devices. 

2013-04-03 19:44:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

+Matt Cutts explains that if a site sells links, and Google knows about it, Google won’t pass value from that link seller's web site.  Read the story here: http://selnd.com/14EM4zj

2013-03-31 15:17:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Here's the recording of the Hangout I did yesterday with +martin shervington. We get into understanding Google Authorship (what does it do, how does it work, how do you get it?) and then some of the recent discoveries we've been making about how Google+ affects Google search way beyond just personalized search.

The page also has a large number of related resources liste.

2013-03-31 15:15:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-03-30 13:40:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Everything You Need to Know about Construction Site Inspections

Construction site inspection plays a very significant role in the construction industry world. There are different types of inspection that are conducted on a construction site. Construction inspectors are there to ensure that all the regularity and conditions are fulfilled. 

Plumbing and electrical installation, drainage system, sewerage location, necessary qualifications for sub-contractors and workers on the construction site, regularity of mechanics workers use at the construction site, use of the safety equipment such as helmets, safety glasses, ear plugs and safety boots, safety of both workers and public and many other issues must be addressed and inspected for a successful construction project.