Have you been wondering if there’s a way to customize your Google+ URL? Wonder no more my friends, your answer is here. There’s a free service called gplus.to that shortens your Google+ URL into a nice, easy to remember link. Plug in your G+ profile ID number on gplus.to and a customized URL will be…
A term web people might use to describe a site is sticky. It sounds a little strange, but it’s actually a huge measure of a website’s success. The stickier the better. The measure of a websites ‘stickiness’ can be found in the page views per visitor; the more pages a person goes to on the site, the…
The number of people who access the web on a smartphone is rapidly increasing. Mobile users want content at their fingertips, that they can access anytime, anywhere. Developing a mobile friendly site means creating a site that’s elastic enough to display nicely on whatever device your end user is viewing it on. Website owners are…
Tom over at Odd Dog Media put up a great breakdown of how to decide which is better for you, AdWords or Organic SEO and since…you know, we’re kinda into that sorta thing, we thought it would be helpful for all of you to take a look at as well. Which path are you taking?…
It’s no secret that search is going is social. Influence in social media is already a part of what drives page ranking at Google and Bing. We’ve written about different ways to measure your own influence in social media on a few occasions, but things change fast. There are more great tools out there than…
We live in a world surrounded by ads, that’s clear. With more methods of advertising, come more ways we learn to block them out. We are numb to many types of push marketing techniques, those types of ads and campaigns that saturate and annoy. Thankfully, we also live in a world where social media offers…
When it comes to having a great blog, WordPress may just be the best place to start, especially if you aren’t the most technically savvy person (and even if you are!). When you start off fresh with a brand new WordPress install, it is nice to throw a few great plugins on it to increase functionality right…
The hottest social media players on deck have moved into the batter’s box and are coming out swinging in 2012! Over the next twelve months, keep your eyes open for this year’s Hottest Social Media Trends: 1. New Buzz Words – as the ever-expanding online community grows, so does the vocabulary! Put down “Social Media…
When Google made social network influence important to SEO a while back, they kicked off a trend of making your own relative influence online and in social media sites like Facebook and Twitter more important. Thankfully there are some great services out there for measuring influence and we’re going to look at 3 that measure the influence of your Twitter handle,…
You have a website, maybe even some decent traffic. You don’t necessarily sell a physical product, but people visit you for information or entertainment and you want to turn that into a little bit of cash money. Well, luckily there are a couple great programs for doing just that. Not everyone can work out a…