Long blog post short: please be as descriptive as possible when titling your blog posts. In today’s decontextualized world of walls, feeds, RSS, e-mail, diggs, reddits, Stumbles, tweets, and retweets, you need to attract your potential reader based only on the appeal of your title and nothing else, especially if you’re new to blogging and […]
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How to become a super-node in the attention era
Every search you make on Google returns results that are weighted heavily to favor people in your social networks. Getting people to like your brand on Facebook or follow your brand on Twitter has become an essential secret weapon for search engine ranking.
Google wants me to put Google +1 buttons on my blogs
I just popped into AdSense, as I do as obsessively as anyone online, and something new popped up: Recommendations Add the +1 button to your pages Adding the +1 button to your pages allows users to recommend your content to friends and contacts on Google search. As a result, you could get more and better […]
Google vs Facebook – the search is on!
Once upon a Myspace time, I tried searching for a few band profiles inside the Myspace network. I didn’t get the exact spelling and spacing right, and ended up on a total search maze. What a disaster! From there on out, I would actually leave Myspace, go back to Google and search there for a […]