http://www.barrywise.com NJ SEO, Web Design, Programming and Online Marketing Consultant Sat, 28 May 2011 14:15:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en USPTO Trademark Search and Registration service to KnowEm.com.  In our continuing hope to make KnowEm a one-stop-shop for all your business branding and marketing needs, we thought it was a natural extension of our service offerings to allow business and inidivuals the chance to trademark their brands.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2011/05/knowem-launches-uspto-trademark-search-and-registration-service/ http://www.barrywise.com/2011/02/microsoft-follows-googles-rules-of-trademark-use-in-ppc/ http://www.barrywise.com/2010/12/google-announces-social-media-to-influence-search-rankings/ http://www.barrywise.com/2010/09/if-a-country-can%e2%80%99t-reclaim-a-username-what-chance-do-you-have/ http://www.barrywise.com/2010/09/the-new-threat-of-typosquatting-misspelled-brands-in-social-media/ We're very pleased to announce today that we've added 20 new international TLDs (top-level domains) to our free service which checks domain name availability, bringing our total number of domain extensions searched to over 60. The new domains are a result of our continued commitment to provide marketers, trademark specialists, and branding managers a one-stop shop for everything related to branding.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2010/09/knowem-adds-20-more-domains-to-domain-name-checking-service/ http://www.barrywise.com/2010/01/social-media-management-firm-knowem-acquires-friendscall-me/ Sometimes it just seems easier to point out what your clients are doing wrong rather than work at explaining all the different ways to do it right. So here are six SEO Techniques I've noticed which will destroy your website, blog, or shopping cart site in search engine results. These are by no means the only things you can do wrong to hurt your website - I'm sure if you work hard you can find a few more - but these are some mistakes I've actually made so I've seen the sometimes disastrous results.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/07/six-seo-techniques-which-will-destroy-your-website/ KnowEm.com launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of popular websites for social media identity theft. By entering a username, which can be a brand name, internet identity, or vanity URL, KnowEm.com allows you to instantly monitor the availability of that username on over 120 popular social media websites such as Twitter, MySpace and Digg. ]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/new-website-protects-usernames-from-social-media-identity-theft/ Over the course of yesterday and today Google updated it's Toolbar PageRanks for websites. I would like to say that's awesome, because BarryWise.com is now a PageRank 5, but the truth is I really don't care. When I first started working on this blog in May of last year the PageRank was 0. That was a little less than a year ago; I said I would raise the PageRank and I did. But the truth is the traffic and exposure which this blog has gotten over the course of the past year has not correlated with the PageRank increases.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/the-april-google-pagerank-update-and-why-i-dont-care-but-you-do/