SEO is a difficult code to crack, but there are ways–and it doesn’t have to be black or even grey hat. One white hat SEO strategy many don’t consider is coinciding their blogs with breaking news. If you can get something out within hours of the story breaking, then it’s possible to ride the news
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Case Study: How One New Blogger Increased Traffic 10-Fold in One Day
It has become popular for ecommerce merchants to start blogs to improve search engine ranking and for marketing purposes of engaging and updating customers. Everyone seems to initially believe: Hey I’ve got a great product, and once I start blogging everyone will tune in. Let’s do it! However the reality is blog after blog yields
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Mobile Ranks #2 on "Top 5 Web Design Trends For 2012"
Yesterday, Bit Rebels published an article titled, Top 5 Web Design Trends for 2012, which ranks mobile #2 on the list (Other items included User Experience (#1), Typography (#3), Rich Colors & Text (#4), and HTML5/CSS3 (#5)). Mobile commerce for Yahoo! Stores has only increased in popularity, and many Yahoo! merchants are using third party
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FastPivot Now Hiring For RTML "Rockstar" Yahoo! Store Programmer
FastPivot, a world class Yahoo! Store development agency, is now hiring for a Yahoo! Store programmer / developer. The candidate should be fanatical about using RTML, PHP (basic), Java Script, CSS, XHTML/HTML to create e-commerce stores and solutions (configurators, advanced search, complex third-party integrations,etc.) on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Platform. Not only should this Yahoo!
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Should ecommerce merchants trust cloud computing?
A Linkedin Poll, asking the question: “What’s your biggest concern with moving your applications to the cloud,” just closed, and populated the following results: More than half of the survey respondents reported that security was the main concern they have with cloud computing, while reliability came up as a far second, and performance and cost
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Facebook Stomps Out Sending Messages to "All" Fans
Until recently, internet retail marketers were discovering blogs like this, How To Send A Message To Facebook Fans and When To Use It . It’s always fun to learn new and useful Facebook tips, especially when it comes to how to send messages to all Fans on a Facebook page. What a great feature! That’s
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Yahoo! Stores Are Naked Sans Custom Product Images
A Yahoo! Store without dazzling and highly functional product images is like a bluejay without plumage. With all the innovative product image development out there, consumers expect a higher level of product image interfacing than ever before. Despite brilliant, and detailed, product copy, many ecommerce merchants fail to see the importance of high quality product
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New Trend: It's Cool to Quit Facebook, Are You Next?
According to a Dec. 13, 2011 NYTimes.com article, Shunning Facebook and Living to Tell About It ,there’s a Facebook fade happening out there that might just turn the tide on Facebook. After all, as the article reports, “The number of Americans who visited Facebook grew 10 percent in the year that ended in October —
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Why Develop Facebook Splash Pages
Splash pages for Facebook have been around for a while, but companies just building out their Facebook Pages might consider asking someone to develop Facebook Splash pages to support or promote a brand image. Since the Facebook Splash page is the first page fans come to (though you can set the wall as a default,
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Custom Single Product Ecommerce Website Stores Are Like One Shot Pistols
Single product websites are a rare find. In fact, they might be likened to a one shot pistol, when used in their purest form–aim and fire like 2010worldcupplate.com, a unique single product ecommerce website selling commemorative 2010 World Cup plates, did in order to hit a well-defined seminal sales season target. However, that’s not usually
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