In 1990, the Gartner Group coined the acronym, ERP, for Enterprise Resource Planning – which essentially became the umbrella term for big-business software platforms that automated efficiencies in areas of supply chain and vendor management...
The thing about Hurts Enough Yet (for kicks, let's make up an acronym: HEY) keywords is that the searcher has actually been hurting for quite a while. An old joke that I first heard from my friend and colleague Ann Convery:
Shifting focus to reactive SEO tactics, Boggs offered the following advice when things don’t exactly go as planned in his PREPARE acronym: You can’t truly have a successful search engine optimization (SEO) program without evaluating your...
Just because you refer to products in acronym or slang in-house, this may not be how it is searched or understood by your potential site visitors. As SEO professionals or webmasters, we have built or maintained a website molded to our perception of...
You're going to need to decide what common logo to use on these sites, as well as a short but concise brand name representation if you're sporting a long alphabet soup acronym. Setting yourself up for success will make all the difference.
High quality feedback has three essential qualities, summarized in the acronym RAT: it’s relevant to the goal, it’s actionable, and it’s timely. During the energy crisis of the 1970s, governments scrambled desperately to promote conservation as a...
Without a good TLA (three-letter acronym), it's not as cool sounding as SEO or PPC. Analytics typically doesn't get its fair share of attention in the online marketing world. And let's be honest, you never hear of a digital analyst referred to as a...
Ten years after coining the acronym, Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill stated recently that the development of the BRIC economies had exceeded his expectations. This follows from the last acronym of emerging economies the BRIC group, which...
Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz said the acronym SEO isn't going anywhere. No, for real this time, I swear. Maybe. Well, you see, now it’s like.zombie SEO. It’s rumored to have died a few horrible deaths over a few years.
Bernoff has a handy acronym to help marketers remember just what it is they’re supposed to be doing about those loud, popular, influential people who are going to be talking about your company, whether you like it or not.
Whether it’s called SOPA, PIPA, OPEN Act, or some other acronym, the U.S.government, driven by pressure largely out of Hollywood, is determined to put piracy safeguards in place. SOPA is proving to be more resilient than many had hoped, with Rep.
This isn’t an acronym, but a shortened form of the word SPEEDY. I just re-emerged to the world of the living from a week of sessions at Black Hat and DEFCON conferences here in Las Vegas. Between sessions on how to make your own UAVs, hack a home’s...
Kawasaki adds, “One way to remember these four categories is that they form the acronym ‘IEEE,’ which is funny in a nerd humor way. Back on August 7, 2006, Robin Antonick, The Christian Science Monitor’s chief web officer, asked my company to...
While I sadly won't be able to provide you with what the acronym actually stands for (unless I made a wild guess, like "direct dialogue processing" or "deadly diligent phalanx"), there are some details from Google insiders on what DDP is.
The AIS acronym stands for Avatar Inventory System and it is a newer, presumably better, way of handling your virtual inventory. So, hi gang! Before I get started I want to thank all those people who sent concerned messages while I was gone the...
Scammers and spammers have helped turn SEO from a three-letter acronym into a four-letter word. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of April 3 to 9, as reported by Search Engine Watch.
In January of 2009, after buying out the popular web based SL marketplace OnRez, Linden Lab closed it, merging it with its already existing SL Exchange (SLX, which so help me, is still the acronym I use in my head to this day) and changing the...
Simply type "define:" followed by the word/acronym into Google to find definitions from multiple sources -- for example [define:ROI”.and Know When to Forget it Starting out in paid search is like sitting at the bottom of a mountain as an avalanche...
In general, when one is talking about access to records containing data, the four basic functions are: create, read, update, and delete (often remembered through the simple but unfortunate acronym, CRUD).
According to Wikipedia, it's an acronym for quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation. Oldham, Software Engineer at Google, posted "Brits search for a leader" last night -- about three hours after Dan Hoffman, Director of Real Estate and...
