By TWMG
One of the things that people love about Facebook is that it’s easy to share with your friends, and now they’ve made sharing even better. With Composer, Facebook has made it easier to share different kinds of posts with different groups of people, like your friends, family, close buddies and co-workers.
By TWMG
Groupon Inc., LivingSocial and other daily-deal websites will generate $4.17 billion in U.S. sales in 2015, more than double the amount this year, research firm BIA/Kelsey estimates.
The market will be worth $1.97 billion in 2011, according to Chantilly, Virginia-based BIA/Kelsey. The company has revised its projections since March, when it predicted smaller sales this year but … Continue reading “U.S. Daily Internet Deals to Reach $4.17 Billion by 2015”
By TWMG
Google introduced flight search on Tuesday, competing head-to-head with travel search engines like Kayak, Orbitz and Microsoft’s Bing.
Flight Search on Google
The service has been expected since Google announced last year its intention to buy ITA Software, which makes the flight search software used by many airlines and travel search engines like Orbitz and Bing. The deal … Continue reading “Google Introduces Long-Awaited Flight Search”
By TWMG
Below is a list of search engine optimization and marketing industry related keywords with their definitions.
Algorithm
Algorithmic Results
Alt Tag/Alt Text
Analytics
Anchor Text
Backlinks
Banned
Banner Ad
Black Hat SEO
Blacklisted
Broken Link
Click Fraud
Click-Through
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Cloaking
Contextual Link Inventory (CLI)
Conversion
Conversion Analytics
Conversion Rate
Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA)
Cost-Per-Action (CPA)
Cost-Per-Click (CPC)
Cost-Per-Thousand (CPM)
Crawler
Delisted
Description Tag
Directory
Doorway Page
Dynamic Content
Flash Optimization
Gateway Page
Geographical Targeting
Geographic Segmentation
Google AdSense
Google AdWords
Graphical Search Inventory (GSI)
Gray Hat SEO
Hidden Text
Hit
HTML
Hyperlink
Index
Inbound Links
Impression
Internet Marketing Consultant
Internet Promotion
Keyword
Keyword … Continue reading “SEO & SEM Keywords (Definitions in Search Engine Optimization)”
By TWMG
Android 2.2
1. Swype – Technically, this isn’t a business app, but if you frequently enter text on your Android, you’ll quickly consider it essential. One of the big drawbacks of smartphones as a computing platform is entering data. Typing on those cramped touch screens is cumbersome and inaccurate. Personally, I’ll wait until I’m near a … Continue reading “Application Apps Development”
By TWMG
It was recently announced that social networking leader Facebook has purchased Push Pop Press, a digital book software company founded by Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, two veterans of Apple. Moreover, Matas is the primary designer of many of the key interfaces on the iPhone, iPad, and Macs that most people who use these devices … Continue reading “Facebook Going E-Book?”
By TWMG
If only the rest of the world could be this peaceful.
Late last week the news broke that the developers at Mozilla and Google were going to work together on a framework called Web Intents, which is designed to allow Web apps to easily become compatible with both Firefox and Chrome, each company’s respective brower. Web … Continue reading “Firefox and Chrome Team Up for Web App Compatibility”
By TWMG
An objective opinion is one of the most valuable, easily obtainable yet underutilized commodities in business. It is especially important for e-commerce professionals to receive outside feedback on their websites, as they are often so close to the process that they lack the most important perspective of all — that of the consumer.
Third-party user testing … Continue reading “Six Ways to Test Your E-commerce Site”
By TWMG
We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience, information architecture, content management systems, coding, metadata, visual design, user research, and all the other disciplines that facilitate our users’ abilities to find and consume content.
Weirdly, though, we haven’t been talking about the meat of the matter. We haven’t been … Continue reading “The Discipline of Content Strategy”
By TWMG
Google dropped a relative whopper on the search engine community today, launching several “improvements” to the way Sitelinks are organized/presented in search results.
Sitelinks were first launched on Google five years ago as a single row of just four links. Sitelinks have been useful to Google users as they are able to navigate more quickly to … Continue reading “Google Sitelinks Expanded, But Improved?”
