It’s been a long time coming. But through its partnership with Federated Media, popular blogging platform WordPress has launched an AdSense alternative dubbed WordAds. While the name is confusingly similar (at least to me) to Google’s search-based advertising product Adwords, expect the millions of WordPress users to sign up in droves. WordPress has never supported the inclusion … Continue reading “BREAKING: WordAds from WordPress Launched”
Day: December 12, 2011
Drive Higher Engagement with These Content Types
| 0 Comments |A Web marketer’s job can be made much easier when meaningful and valuable content is available to promote.
There is no shortage of platforms on which to promote content, or channels through which to promote your content, or ways to construct messages about your content.
But where many Web professionals fall short is in the assembling of … Continue reading “Drive Higher Engagement with These Content Types”
Pre-Search Marketing Campaigns
| 0 Comments |It might sound crazy, but driving increased traffic to your website through SEO and paid search may be damaging your brand, rather than helping it. SEO and paid search efforts can be valuable ways to increase site traffic, but launching these efforts without first developing a solid business and marketing strategy is risky. If done … Continue reading “Pre-Search Marketing Campaigns”
Weekend Warrior: The Impact of Social Media
| 0 Comments |Democracy reigns supreme for companies that use social networking to market themselves and their products. A new study by Performics reveals that most users agree that the voicing of opinions on social networking sites can influence the business decisions of a company or brand.
Called S-Net, The Impact of Social Media, the study found that 52 percent … Continue reading “Weekend Warrior: The Impact of Social Media”
Impact of Google Search’s SSL Change
| 0 Comments |The encryption standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) should be familiar to digital workers, particularly Internet retailers. Whenever private data is in play – whether via banking, shopping, or even sharing information – SSL will make an appearance.
SSL in fact has become a core encryption technology on the Web in the past five years. Google … Continue reading “Impact of Google Search’s SSL Change”
Top Five Sites for Source Code Hosting
| 0 Comments |Code sharing and hosting platforms, which enable designers and developers to share (and reuse_ code with team members or the wider web community, have exploded in use the past several years – hat tip to the cloud. Let’s take a look at some popular source code hosting sites. Did we miss one? Let us know – … Continue reading “Top Five Sites for Source Code Hosting”
PageRank Update the Most Important Ever?
| 0 Comments |After nearly six months of waiting, word is out that Google has just pushed out new PageRank values. This is the first update since January 2011 and the first since the now infamous Panda update clawed through a long list of sites. While many have questioned the value of PageRank in the past … Continue reading “PageRank Update the Most Important Ever?”
Personalisation – Web Marketing’s Holy Grail
| 0 Comments |What does “personalisation” really mean? You’ll be forgiven if you have absolutely no idea. As trendy catchwords go, “personalisation” has become a go-to term for websites and online marketers, laden with all the possibilities of connecting with individual consumers and a departure from the limitations of one-size-fits-all.
Nearly every online marketing vendor touts some form of … Continue reading “Personalisation – Web Marketing’s Holy Grail”
WordPress Membership Plugins for Affiliates
| 0 Comments |The wildly popular blogging platform and CMS WordPress is the host to dozens of affiliate marketing sites and blogs, but for some marketers, there is a desire to take their business to the next level by making it membership or subscription based, which means finding the WordPress membership plugin that is right for them.
While there … Continue reading “WordPress Membership Plugins for Affiliates”
Social Media Failures of the Fortune 500
| 0 Comments |According to a new study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the adoption of the most popular social media tools by the Fortune 500 appears to be leveling off, with little or no change in the past year.
Close to one third of these corporate giants are without either a … Continue reading “Social Media Failures of the Fortune 500”