How IT Consulting Can Help Leverage Your Social Media Presence
Social media promotion is fast becoming one of the most effective ways to improve sales and connect with customers. Using online services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Digg, companies are able to create buzz, boost customer traffic to their main corporate websites, generate leads for new customers, and build brand awareness. All of this increases [...]
Rakuten buys Buy.com – Can it compete with Amazon?
Why would an online shopping company trade a domain name as memorable as Buy.com for something as difficult to pronounce as Rakuten? In February American online shoppers will get the answer, as Japan’s largest online retailer completes its re-branding of the perennial e-commerce underachiever, which it purchased in 2010. Rakuten is often labelled an Amazon [...]
Cyber-Security against the vulnerabilities
In medium and large businesses across the country, CISOs (or chief information security officers) are under siege. The cyber-security landscape is more complex and threatening than it has ever been. They work on a tiny budget and are still expected to monitor, audit and provide for their company’s security needs. One slip-up and the company [...]
10 Sure-Shot Ways to Get Penalized and Lose Your Rankings in the Post EMD, Panda and Disavow Scenario
Internet marketing has turned into a fast-paced survival game where both newbies and gurus are dreading the scathing whims of Google alike. The search engine giant has made it clear with the recent Panda, EMD and Disavow updates that it will never rest till it destroys every single SEO shortcut that previously used to work. [...]
How to “Steal” Your Competitors’ Links Legally
Many SEO companies are nothing more than link building companies. While there’s nothing wrong with that, these link builders typically only have one way to build links: they buy them. Yes, you’re not supposed to do it, but many big names in the industry do it, and are getting pretty covert about it. Of course, [...]
Mobile Phones: More Important Than Ever in Landing Sales
As of 2012, more American adults use a Smartphone than a basic mobile phone. That wasn’t the case a year ago. In May 2011, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported the results from a survey, where 35 percent of adults said they owned a Smartphone. By February 2012, that number jumped to 46 [...]
Outranking Your Competitors
If you want to outrank your competitors and get that first spot in the Google search engine you need to investigate the websites that are ranking above you right now. You need to know what they are doing right so that you can copy their moves. But copying their moves will not be enough for [...]
5 Steps to Reduce Your Internet Footprint
In today’s technology age, it is virtually impossible to avoid creating a cyber-footprint. Whether you are checking emails, tweeting about your lunch, or making a video of your cat playing with a ball of yarn, you are allowing the entire world to access personal information about you. It is becoming easier and easier to register [...]
Is BitCoin an Invitation for Money Laundering?
Bitcoin is based on a concept introduced in 1998 by Wei Dai, called crypto-currency. This concept described currency or money as a record or object that is widely accepted in exchange for goods and services. Bitcoin works by using cryptology to manage the creation and transfer of money. This means that you no longer have to [...]
The Comments Game In Blogging
What The Numbers Really Mean? Whether it’s a social networking site post, a video-sharing network or a blog, the idea seems to be to get noticed. Hence, the words “trending”, “viral”, “likes” and “comments” have become buzzwords in the rather thickly populated worldwide web. You are hot and on the roll if you reap comments [...]