Archive for November, 2008
Ambitious Facebook Aims to Expand its Web Operations
Social network leader Facebook has several ambitious plans to make its users’ experience even more delightful. However, the past year’s privacy concerns have forced it to be careful with its plans to innovate its social network operations.
How Social Media Stood Alive During Mumbai Terror
The terrifying and horrendous terror attacks in Mumbai were not only covered by the press media, but also by social media throughout the world. Social media sites like Twitter, Dailymotion, Flickr and several blogs included information and messages pertaining to the attacks to inform readers about the latest happenings taking place in the financial capital [...]
How Headlines Make or Break a Copy
If you ask professional copywriters how to attract eyeballs to your copy, one certain answer would be ‘Work on the headline and make it effective.’ Its amazing to know how a powerful headline can make your job easier by more than 50 percent to sell a copy. Alternatively, a poor headline can destroy your copy [...]
Celebrities Target Blogs to Manage Public Image
Who says blogs are meant for businesses only? With the growing visibility of blogs each day, even celebrities are forced to use them to control their public image by talking about themselves in a direct manner with their fans.
Will Microsoft’s Live Search Turn Into Kumo?
Try and try till you succeed! Well, this is the mantra Microsoft Inc. seems to be chanting since a very long time to have a formidable position in the search market. As ‘Google’ sits comfortable on the throne ruling the Web territory, Microsoft is finding out ways to dethrone it through various strategies, the latest [...]
How do blogs boost your online business activity?
There are several ways in which regular blog postings greatly boost your online business activity. So, you need to look at them as an investment, which will reap huge benefits for you in the long run.
First and foremost, blogs serve an educating purpose. They keep your website visitors informed of the latest developments in the [...]
Be sincere when you write to build a loyal reader base online
You plan to launch a new blog and want to push it, or maybe you already have one, but are not really satisfied with the response to your existing blog. I shall offer you some handy tips from my experience so that you can start collating compelling content for your blog not only from your [...]
Grow the ‘organic’ way when it comes to SEO
I refer to the two distinct approaches as ‘organic SEO’, on one hand, and ‘artificial SEO’ (inorganic or ‘Black Hat’), for the sake of clarity.
A ‘Black Hat’ SEO firm will employ a largely technology-driven approach. It often ignores the terms of service. I may underline that the approach is not invalid, and can achieve for [...]
Google Betters its US Search Share in October
According to Hitwise, the popular market analysis company, Google Inc. continued to boost its share in the US Web search market with 71.7 percent in October. This is quite an impressive increase compared to September this year, where it had 71.16% of the search share. Moreover, the current year’s economic slump does not seem to [...]
Microsoft Partners with Sun for Web Search
Enough is enough! That’s what Microsoft’s latest move seems to suggest in reply to Google’s dominance over the search industry since several years. The software giant has struck a Web search deal with Sun Microsystems Inc. in an attempt to thump Google in the online search competition.
