January 20, 2012

Raise Revenue through PPC – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a reward based marketing program wherein the ‘affiliate’ online publisher gets paid for each visitor brought about to the advertiser’s page by the affiliate and its marketing efforts. Such a program stands to empower website publishers by placing relevant ads on their websites, based on their audience's interests, which on being clicked generate considerable revenue for the publisher. The commission received by the … [Read more...]

Writing Better Content Using Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a powerful tool that can help you maximize your marketing return and determine what content is attracting viewers and traffic to your website. For online businesses this can be an essential step in determining the strengths and weaknesses that exist in your marketing strategy. Before you begin to write or edit content, use Google Analytics to see how you can write it better. How to Get Started The first step is to set up … [Read more...]

Impact of social media on non-profit organizations

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and other social media networks are rapidly changing almost everything about our society. They’re impacting politics, commerce, dating and relationships, and most other ways in which people interact with one another. The world of nonprofit corporations – charities, activist and advocacy groups, and others – is no exception. The most obvious and perhaps least important change brought about by social … [Read more...]

How to get a Google Plus account invitation?

Google Plus is a very impressive product and this time it is big unlike Google wave, Orkut, and other Google products that failed to create the difference, but in order to test it and not over-hype it, the company offered very few invites to the service when it launched yesterday. Press and a few others were allowed to enter up to 15 email adresses before noon yesterday and all of those people got Plus accounts by mid-afternoon. Accounts did not … [Read more...]

A Week With My Verizon iPhone

All the other reviews you’ve seen are from journalists who received Verizon iPhones from either Verizon or Apple and didn’t have to pay for them. I had no such loaner, so had to do the honorable thing: I bought one and used it for a week now. It cost me about $250 because I already ahd a Verizon account. Here’s my report. PROS FOR VERIZON 1. No dropped calls. My AT&T phone had six drops in same time, at same places I’ve used the … [Read more...]

How to Make Your Facebook Page Stand Out – A Better Small Business Facebook Page

The rise and rise of Facebook continues unabated, and it has moved well beyond just being a social network, it’s also a vital marketing channel for businesses of all sizes. While most businesses have taken the first step of setting up a standard Facebook page which includes a feed of comments, photos and helps them gather fans; few have taken their Facebook pages to the next level. The first step to making your small businesses Facebook … [Read more...]

See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click on any of the pins on the Google map to see the names of all friends who are in that particular location. There’s one … [Read more...]

How to Make Your Site More Local-Friendly

Search engines have become one of the primary ways that people find products and services right in their hometown. This growing reality significantly increases the need for small local business owners to master this thing called local search. There are many ways to make your website pages much more localized. This is one of the underlying elements that tell the search engines that yours is indeed a local business. There are a number of … [Read more...]

New Features in WordPress 3.1 and How to Use Them !

WordPress 3.1 has been released. It came with many useful features. In this article we go through them step by step and learn how to use them. Here is the list of features in WordPress 3.1. Being a developer I gave priority to features that interest me the most. Post Formats Advanced Taxonomy Queries Advanced Custom Field Queries Archive Pages For Custom Post Type Redesigned Linking WorkFlow Admin Bar Streamlined Writing … [Read more...]

Eminem Chrysler Ad Wins YouTube Blitz

YouTube announced that the winner of its Ad Blitz contest is Chrysler, for its Super Bowl commercial, which featured Eminem driving around Detroit. The contest was based on viewer votes. "It's been about two weeks since the Super Bowl aired, but our ears are still ringing from the noise of advertisers jockeying for position in Ad Blitz, YouTube’s contest to find the best Super Bowl ad," said Suzie Reider, Display Advertising Director at … [Read more...]