Moving away from mass marketing messages to distribute unique, personalized messages and a user experience designed to yield results would prove to be highly effective in the 2008 campaign, and subsequently adapted for the 2012 campaign.
LinkedIn search engine visibility is now crucial for a user's profile, so the profile must be developed in such a way to support an individual’s business and brand-driving keywords. But as a heavy LinkedIn community user myself, I can say with...
On monthly active user figures among competing social networks, Facebook reports 1.01 billion, Twitter has 200 million, and Google+ claims 135 million. As pointed out by Liz Gannes at AllThingsD, the figure LinkedIn is touting is the number of...
Google has slammed an upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), set for Dec.in Dubai, which the company says will give governments the chance to set new regulations without input from citizens and user advocacy groups.
A lot of key links are “placed” in a position so high up on the page that they are “invisible” to the normal user, often sat in the header in pixel position -9999px or similar. That way the user, and visual crawler, doesn’t see the link and so it...
And not surprisingly, some webmasters simply stopped responding due to the sheer number of requests, particularly for large sites that have had an active user base over the years. Not surprising, some webmasters found it nearly impossible to get a...
Essentially you can search for any registered users on your site by name, email, User ID and view the shared social data alongside the individual record. Also, should the update or delete their own Facebook accounts, that will update in your system...
The new scheme will display the user's name and a '+' sign directly behind the Google.com domain. For example, David Beckham has registered the +DavidBeckham address, changing the football star's Google+ URL to google.com/+DavidBeckham.
Although, dear reader, it may be a simple enough thing for you to do, the average web user is limited by the ability to understand how their own computer works, let alone the web. For visual search to be accurate, the user expects to find the image...
Although there are plenty of organic ways to increase your user base, there is no substitute for press and celebrity adoption to drive huge spikes in interest. While active users are the ultimate test, in the gold rush days of a new market it’s...
The act of forwarding another user's tweet to all of your followers; how you retweet is an important part of your Twitter strategy. Twopchart’s latest figures, and countdown chart, show Twitter growing at a rate of around 11 accounts per second and...
Once registered, the user sees two new Google+ notifications in their activity bar, both linking to Google+ help resources. Privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC...
Yandex already provides video search for their Russian user base. Yandex is providing this automatic notification service to site owners free of charge and regardless if the site is registered for Yandex.Webmaster.
Beyond standard de-indexing, this implies that social media sites will have to censor user-posted links. Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, believes the solution lies in new web technology, including ideas of expert search curation (as presented by...
On the other hand, language that looks natural and user-friendly is a great way to build search engine trust, and will be rewarded in those all-important results pages. A site that has existed for some time will have started to build a reputation...
Voting is worth a mention since brands can ask Weibo users to vote on the specific products they like and in Nike’s case, a user has created a question for people to vote whether they prefer Nike or Adidas.
The music locker would match uploaded songs with songs in Google's official store, allowing users to play back a higher quality version of said song than the version the user uploaded. Additionally, Facebook's ventures into music with Spotify have...
Facebook lists their primary objective as transparency, saying, “It is almost impossible for the user to really know what happens to his or her personal data when using facebook. Facebook recently got their hands on their complete Facebook user...
User reaction in comments on Google’s blog post was swift, with many Google Apps users frustrated that a public release moved forward without the long-awaited Google Apps support. While Google says they’re working hard to bring the features of...
Advertisers had access to custom analytics, but the average user was out of luck. Promoted Tweets are similar to PPC ads in that advertisers only pay when a user takes action, such as clicking through, replying, or retweeting an ad.
