7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 4 of 4

Share I’m back for my fourth and final guest blog post.  By the way; if you’d like to apply to get me to be a guest writer on your blog or Facebook page, then send an email right now to jv@smallbusinessblackbelts.com and put “Guest Writer” in the subject line.  You need to let me know [...]

The Buzz About Google Buzz

Zack | February 18, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Share Well hello everyone! For those of you who missed me, I apologize for the delay between blog posts. To those of you who did not miss me.. was it something I said? Anyway, in the month it has been since my last blog post, a lot has been going on in the Social Media [...]

Twitter and Facebook Updates Now Indexed By Google

Zack | December 10, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share Google is at it again. No Google has not bought any new companies, but they have found a way to stay in the loop on what is going on Facebook and Twitter. Google now has a section in their search results that feeds in real time status updates from Facebook and Twitter (and a [...]

Learn as You Go With Google Sidewiki

Zack | October 20, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share I was reading the official Google blog the other day and I came across an article that highlighted another great step forward on improving the search engine: Google sidewiki. The sidewiki is a sidebar feature that allows people to comment and leave notes on various web pages. This allows you to contribute to other [...]

Being Popular Removes Your NoFollow Tag on Digg

Zack | September 17, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share NoFollow links have seem to become all the craze lately, much to the dismay of Social Media Marketers and SEO specialists. Many sites are making links NoFollow as webmasters and site administrators are trying to encourage people to provide better content in their posts. A lot of these sites, also provide ample room for [...]

Will Google Caffeine deal well with Social Media Marketing search results?

Share The other day, Zack, my director of operations sent me an article that he found from PC World talking about Google’s new search technology, codenamed “Caffeine”.  The article talks about how this secret project was put together with the interest of creating even better and more accurate search results than the current algorithm.  The [...]

How Important are Social Bookmarking sites in Content Syndication for Social Media Marketing?

Share Many people have heard of things like “The Digg Effect”, where a link to a blog post gets pushed to the top of Digg.com (one of the biggest social bookmarking sites out there for those of your just getting acquainted with the term) and the server crashing as a result of having hundreds of [...]

Social Media Marketing and Its Connection to SEO

Share As you may or may not know, I have a background in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and would say that I understand how to work with the search engine algorithms to influence them in one way or another.  But less about me, and more about what this has to do with social media marketing. [...]

Is Twitter about to be Googlized?

Share Twitter has been one of the most interesting Social Media tools to have come out in the past few years, and now the rumor mill has it that Google is the late stage deals to purchase Twitter. For those who don’t know about twitter, it is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to submit [...]