Where Social Media Fits Into the SEO Equation

Where Social Media Fits Into the SEO Equation We hear a whole lot of talk about social media marketing these days. There is plenty of evidence that there are great benefits to this medium, but there are still many questions about it as well. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/25/where-social-media-fits-into-the-seo-equation

Shocker: Facebookers Not Happy With Redesign

CEO fixes unbroken social network Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad…

Viable Alternatives To Google Analytics

Microsoft shut the doors on its analytics offering recently. While not too many Web professionals are scurrying around looking for an alternative yet, there are certainly plenty out there. Google Analytics is a fine solution for those looking to gather some insights from the consumer traffic moving through their websites, but with so many other…

IE8: The focus is on usability

The ultimate improvement in browser performance is not making a page load faster but making it unnecessary to load the page at all. That’s the guiding principle behind some of the most interesting interface changes in Internet Explorer 8 — officially launched during this morning’s Mix ’09 keynote. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=731&tag=nl.e539

Top 10 Converting Retailers, What We Can Learn

Nielsen Online and Marketing Charts released a report of the top 10 converting online retailers. Clearly, they are hitting the mark with consumers. Let’s look at their Web pages and learn some valuable lessons. http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/website_magazine_consumer_corner/archive/2009/03/18/top-10-converting-retailers-what-we-can-learn.aspx

The Ins And Outs Of Tweeting

A Twitter How-To Guide Though the initial, pressing Twitter question a while back wasn’t “what are you doing?” but “what’s the point?” people are finding lots of uses for it. In this installment of the ongoing what-Twitter-is-good-for news brigade, we’ll focus on how people are tweeting their way out of some things and into others.…

IE 8 final bits ready for download on March 19

Microsoft is proclaiming Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) finished and will be releasing the final bits for download on March 19. Microsoft plans to make the bits available as of 9 a.m. PT on Thursday. Interested parties will be able to grab them from the Internet Explorer 8 Web site, officials said. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2318&tag=nl.e589