News,Press Releases,Social Media
Social Media Management Firm KnowEm Acquires FriendsCall.Me
KnowEm, the company working to help brands manage their identity across the social web, launched a new family of premier services designed to further help Fortune 500 corporations and small businesses alike stake their claim in the ever-changing social media landscape. Additionally, the company announced that it has recently acquired FriendsCall.Me, a service that enables companies to manage their personal brands on the web, for an undisclosed amount.
Six SEO Techniques Which Will Destroy Your Website
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.
barry wise, google, marketing, Search Engine Optimization, search engines, seo, website, yahoo
New Website Protects Usernames From Social Media Identity Theft
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.
automatic username signup, checkusernames, identity theft, knowem, social media
News,Search Engine Optimization
The April Google PageRank Update and Why I Don’t Care (But You Do)
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.
google, google pagerank, optimization, pagerank, Search Engine Optimization, seo
Completed Another Social Networking Tool: CheckUserNames.com
This one is (a little) more useful than TweetWasters. My new site, CheckUserNames.com, allows you to check the availability of your potential new username across dozens of popular social networking sites (MySpace, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.). Due to the increasing demand for staking your claim on your brand name across the interwebz, this little tool should come in handy for some of you.
brand name, check usernames, social networking, user name tool, user names, usernamecheck
ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for WordPress
Today ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck’s Youtuber, which we’ve decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses the same syntax, but has several more options.
Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQL
In case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client’s website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publish the new site I realized Wordpress’s HTML editor had hard-coded the URLs of every image in every post to the address of the staging server. This is actually a feature of Wordpress; when you upload an image into a post or page it uses an absolute URL, not a relative one. This really helps you out if any of your posts get picked up via RSS and published elsewhere, since the images will remain intact thanks to the absolute URLs.
code sample, Database, find and replace, mysql, search and replace, wordpress
Search Engine Optimization,Web Design
My Top 10 SEO Techniques for Small Business Website SEO/SEM Success
I’ve been getting a lot more requests from small businesses for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and I seem to be repeating most of the same advice to every new client. Put simply, it is more difficult for small businesses to compete on a global level for competitive terms with high profile companies, especially on a small business budget. But that doesn’t mean with hard work and determination that you can’t be competitive and build and market your brand successfully.
301 redirects, google, keyword research, linkbuilding, online marketing, sem, seo, site hosting, site usability, small business, website design, yahoo
News,Search Engine Optimization
Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year
Since I’ve put up a blog post every other time Google updated it’s toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight’s any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it’s been extremely friendly. I no longer have a client or a site with a PageRank of less than 4, and I’ve helped several sites up to 5 or 6.
But PageRank is Pointless
google, google pagerank, keywords, pagerank, Search Engine Optimization, search results, seo
For All You Twitterers: We Launched Tweetwasters.com Today
Whew, it’s been a hectic morning! Sugarrae, Streko, Reese and I have been working together to launch Tweetwasters.com, and we just shipped it out the door a few hours ago. It’s a pretty simple application – it just polls the Twitter API to count how many status updates (ugh, do I have to call them “Tweets”?) you’ve posted to Twitter. Then we do some high-end mathematical computations to figure out just how much time you’ve wasted on Twitter — assuming you spend about 30 seconds on average every time you send in a new a tweet.
Code Samples,Search Engine Optimization
Using IIS URL Rewrite Extensions to Redirect Default.aspx
About a week ago or so I received an email from Michael Wall asking me about an issue I have also noticed but had not mentioned in my earlier blog post about Canonical URL rewriting in IIS. He asked, “How can I redirect /default.aspx to / on IIS shared hosting without causing an endless loop?” It’s a familiar problem with Windows Web Servers.
301 redirect, asp.net, default.aspx, IIS, iis 7, microsoft, url rewriting, windows web server
