Category: General

The Emanuel Update on Google

This is a guest post by Abhishek Khandelwal.
Never heard of Emanuel? Neither have most people. But Google’s latest update, unofficially dubbed “Emanuel” by Search Engine Land after Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood talent agent and William Morris Endeavour co-CEO, who first came up with the suggestion that Google should perhaps look into penalising pirated content. While the process is not as stringent as the updates we’ve seen with the Penguin and Panda algorithms, Google has revealed that any website with a number of valid “takedown requests” for copyright infringement (more…)

November 12, 2012
Four Practices of Some of the Top Search Engine Optimization Firms

If you are looking for ‘top SEO vendors,’ would you get the very best out there? Let’s face it. That word ‘top’ is pretty subjective. It’s in the interest of every provider to attach that adjective to their brand and have such adjectives leveraged by others. It’s hard to identify the best. It depends. As an example, one firm could do a superb job creating establishing quality links, while another is phenomenal at social media. Both help search optimization. Who wins out, both parties? Perhaps it’s better to focus on some things quality providers have in common. Consider these details during your quest to find the ‘top’ SEO agencies.

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August 21, 2012
Fun Ways to Make Sure Your Copywriting Services Stand Out

If you want to be a copywriter, you need to find a way to make sure that you stand out from the thousands of other copywriters that are out there. The reality is that there are many – seriously bad – copywriters out there, but until you manage to get your foot in the door, nobody is going to notice how good you really are. So, what you need to do is find a great way to stand out from the crowd: come up with a slogan, volunteer, make friends, and facilitate mutual benefits. Now let me cover it in more great detail, so to put it.

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August 2, 2012
5 Reasons Why People Don’t Want to Buy from You

Not all people want to buy from you. Yes, people have their reasons not to buy from you. And as an internet marketer or online businessman, you have to know the reasons why people don’t want to buy from you. This is important, because once you know their reasons, you can change the way you sell products to them. Here are 5 reasons why people don’t want to buy from you: your price is too high, they are not ready to buy, they doubt your reputation, they don’t want or need your product, your product is not popular enough. And now I’m going to dwell on each of the reasons in more detail.

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July 31, 2012
Work Smarter – Not Harder

You like to work more? Today’s post is a very helpful one just because of that simple fact that we all work (at offices or whatever) and – sooner or later – we ask questions about our work performance and if we can change something in it in order to make it more enjoyable both for us and our bosses (coz they pay us money for what we are doing or at least what we are supposed to do). It starts off innocently. You can easily defend a few extra hours added to a work week as a good investment in your career… (more…)

July 23, 2012
Reasons Why You Should Avoid Backlink Networks

Blogging is one good way to generate money online. However, when backlink networks come in, everything seemed to turn upside down and the best method bloggers can do to quickly earn money online was soon vanished along with their websites. This post is about what exactly backlink networks to avoid, reasons to avoid them, and how to get rid of bad links once you got them. So, you definitely need to read the post if you don’t want to land in hot water down the road. There are examples when sites were totally de-indexed because of bad links. And you definitely don’t want that, right?

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July 19, 2012
What You Need To Know About Cybersecurity for Your Business

Businesses in this hyper-competitive, high-tech world rely on the operations of computer systems to run successfully. Unfortunately, as sophisticated as data systems and operating software have become, so too have hackers and corporate spies evolved to stay one step ahead. Cybersecurity has become such a pressing issue in this environment that the SEC itself has made it a number two priority in its latest Corporation Disclosure Guidelines, insisting that corporations disclose all cybersecurity risks or incidents, and that investors educate themselves on any company’s security record and policies before investing their money.

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July 9, 2012
Just How Big Is Apple?

With $128 billion of sales in 2011, Apple gets more profits than the entire economies of some countries. Apple certainly is an unrivaled tech giant, bringing out more products than competitors like Intel, HP and Microsoft.While Apple is a tech giant, it is not the most profitable business in the entire world or even the entire United States. Wal-Mart sells about $417 billion in products each year and employs 2.1 million people. Apple employs 34,000 individuals. In the stock market, Apple generates more profits per share than Wal-Mart for its stockholders. It is the most popular company for investors in the United States stock market, seconded by Exxon.

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July 2, 2012
The Anatomy of a Boss from Hell

Every Sunday night the slow plunging feeling starts in the pit of your stomach. You know that the weekend is drawing to an end and your recurring weekly nightmare will be starting soon. By the time the alarm goes off Monday morning your body will be bracing for the full mental assault from the Boss From Hell.
Everyone’s had a less than stellar manager throughout their career path, but the Boss From Hell is different. He or she may even be psychotic. This boss can actually be packaged several ways and can actually fool others into thinking they are solid leaders and fair taskmasters. If they only knew the truth! (more…)

June 25, 2012
Orders of Geeks (infographic)

Plenty of people think they know what a geek is but most don’t realize that there is more than one type of geek. Geeks are as diverse as those around them. For instance, there are geeks who can build computers and code in different languages as if it is no problem at all. Some geeks are actually up to speed with current fashions and trends and some spend their time cosplaying. There are those geeks who are loyal to their favorite brands, such as Apple. Some are devoted to their favorite fandoms, from Star Wars to Star Trek. Some geeks can tell somebody every little fact about their favorite celebrities, films or sports teams. (more…)

June 11, 2012
Free WordPress installation (plus widgets and SEO consulting)

You’ve read the title of the post and now you’re most likely sceptical about this offer because why would someone do stuff like that, right? But let me explain why we do it so that it makes more sense to you. We provide some services for free in order to build our reputation, both online and offline. We consider it a really great way to do so. Sure thing, this offer is limited (we’ll provide it to up to 12 customers only) because you can’t run an online business if you do free stuff all the time. 🙂 So, you should contact us quick if you need our free services. (more…)

May 28, 2012
Top 10 Entrepreneurs Under 30

This is a guestpost by Business MBA. What do you think about Top 10 Entrepreneurs Under 30?

Andrew Mason, who is aged 29 years old, has a net worth of about $600 million. He is the founder and CEO of Groupon, an on line business that offers daily deals to people the world over through online coupons. Mason founded the website in 2008 and it is still continuing to increase its daily traffic as more people discover that they can save on almost anything in the world of commerce (more…)

May 12, 2012
The Anatomy of a Horrible Web Design Client

If you’ve ever performed a job for a web design client, you may have run into one guy that just made you want to pull your hair out due to the frustration he caused you in the process of communicating how to design his picture perfect business website. Sounds familiar? If you haven’t run into the type of guy that constantly gives you the runaround, you may just be lucky. Even if you haven’t run into the troublesome guy, you probably have run into the type of client that doesn’t really know what they want in a website. It’s like a complex game of “guess and check” decoding just what it is that they want. (more…)

May 8, 2012