Posted by Ian Smith on August 11, 2010 ·
Twitter is a very useful tool to driving traffic to your web site, and in this article I discuss ways to get your Tweets Retweeted. I suspect that the top search engines are spidering peoples tweets, not necessarly to index or rank them, but using them to find content on the web very quickly. A popular post or article can be tweeted some several hours prior to it getting linked too. Search engines [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on August 5, 2010 ·
How will Social Networking websites look like in the future? Or more importantly, what functionality will sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide and how will we interact with friends, family and work colleagues 3 years from now.
In the coming years, Social Networking websites will more likely become the hub or portal to all our online activity:
1. email:
Most Social Networking already have [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on July 7, 2010 ·
A couple of years ago Social Media and Social Networking website where more commonly known as Web 2.0. Web 2.0 was associated with web applications the end user was able to customise and share information with one another. More commonly know these days as Social Media and the top players are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and long list of many others.
Social Media has rapidly expanded in the last [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on July 1, 2010 ·
Facebook is the most talked about web service, social media, and marketing tool around on the Internet. In Facebooks infancy, the social networking site is what the word described it as; a networking tool for friends to share information, photo and keep in touch with each other. As social networking has moved forward, Facebook has become a tool for marketing, branding, companies, products, and [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on May 30, 2010 ·
This article isn’t about telling you what foursquare is. If you’ve found this blog, you will probably already be an active user of foursquare. If you do need more information about foursquare, I suggest you head over to their website: http://foursquare.com.
This article is concentrates more on the practical application of this service for businesses:
1. Verify Your Location:
If your [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on February 17, 2010 ·
Geolocation is the identification of real world graphical location of computers, mobile devices and web site visitors connected to the Internet. Geolocation information can include Country, Region, City/Town, Postcode/Zipcode and latitude and longitute.
In the past couple of month two major players in the social networking arena have incorporating geolocation features and made this technology [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on January 12, 2010 ·
E-mail marketing is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to find and keep new customers. E-mail Marketing is the process of sending e-mails to acquire new customers and convince existing customers to make additional purchases. It can also be used to enhance the relationship of a business with its customers and prospects and encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.
By building [...]