An Exhaustive Guide to Exceptional Guest Blogging

There are few shortcuts to great SEO in the post-Panda update era. While quality content, and a powerful social media strategy are key to earning higher organic search rankings, your website can’t gain authority overnight. Or can it? Guest blogging is a remarkable tool for earning back links to your company’s website, a component that [...]

4 Optimization Experts Critique a College Break Landing Page | The Daily Egg

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  If you have heard it once you have heard it a thousand times, the value is in the list. Well then, how do you build a gargantuan list. Hint the landing page. This part is really what I would say is one of the most significant pieces of the success puzzle. Learn them good. [...]

Google Lets Photographer Into Secretive Data Centers, Beautiful Photos Ensue

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Look around on the web, and you’ll find plenty of photographs of Google’s colorful offices in Mountain View (AKA the Googleplex) and around the world. Finding images shot from inside the company’s tightly-guarded data centers is much harder, since only a handful of employees are allowed to roam the spaces where the “web lives.” However, [...]

How To Make Sure You Have Next Generation Site Architecture

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As you will see from reading this article, it is more than just responsive website design, although that is part of it. Great article on getting all the bases covered with a well thought out plan for creating the new and improved website. The need to be design and deploy a next-generation site architecture that [...]

Linkedin Enhances Search With Facebook Like “Unified Search”

New autocomplete functionality and combined results are just a couple of the tweaks being launched with Linkedin’s new Unified Search. Its similarities to Facebook’s Graph Search are many, as it’s a search functionality focused on your connections, groups and companies and not a wide sweep of the platform as a whole. As the article states: “The [...]

Why You Need To Take YouTube Seriously In 2013

If you do a fair amount of reading around social media and online marketing blogs, you’ve probably noticed a lot of people are calling 2013 “the year of the video.” But let me ask you something first, how do you perceive YouTube? Do you see it as a social network? maybe a search engine? In case [...]

Facebook’s Graph Search: A Foursquare-Killer?

Okay, so unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you have probably heard of Facebook’s big announcement last January 15th: Graph Search. More than a new “search tool,” Facebook will now tap into its huge database of users interactions to power a search tool that will not simply provide you [...]

Facebook Graph Search Overview

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    An overview of the Facebook graph search Kelly Duval‘s insight: An overview of Facebook Graph search with screen shots and video See on www.socialmediasass.com Related articles Graph Search’s Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook “Like” – steve’s blog Facebook’s Graph Search Isn’t That Great | MIT Technology Review What Facebook Open [...]

What Facebook Open Graph means for your business

Finally a Facebook change that has people excited! Facebook’s search engine has always been a bit lacking – results would come up very fast, from the first letters you would type, I’ll grant them that much, but often times they had nothing to do with what you were actually searching for. But now, after 8 [...]

Top 10 SEO Mistakes Still Made After Panda & Penguin

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In our SEO Practice at TekPersona, we are often bemused by some of the basic mistakes that continue to occur on a majority of web sites; especially after the beat-down suffered by many sites by “Penguin”, Google’s latest and most impactful update to their website content compliance engine, ever. Back on April 24th 2012, Google unleashed [...]

How To Safely Prepare For Facebook’s Graph Search

Keri Jaehnig is the brains behind Idea Girl Media, a successful entrepreneur and social media consultant. You can read 12.5 reasons to hire her, but I personally dig number eight. 8. Achieved the top rated Answer on Quora social network for a question on Social Media Strategy. How Can You Tell A Good Social Media [...]

Facebook’s Graph Search Isn’t That Great | MIT Technology Review

For years, we’ve been shoveling data into Facebook’s maws by way of status updates, photo uploads, comments, “likes,” and check-ins. Until this week, though, there has never been a way to really sift through any of that data. Graph Search, unveiled on Tuesday and currently available to only a smidgen of Facebook’s billion users, lets [...]