Month: February 2014

  • Will Poorly Written Online Comments Harm Your Spot in the Search Rankings?

    In early February, Google’s search guru Matt Cutts offered a bit of wisdom for companies struggling to keep their online comments sections free of poor grammar and spelling mistakes. Don’t worry, Cutts said, bad writing from third-party commenters won’t affect your spot in the Google search rankings. Spam, however, is an entirely different story. You…

  • Five Reasons Mobile Advertising is the Future of Online Marketing

    About a year ago, one Reddit user posed the interesting question: “If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about life today?” Someone known as “nuseramed” offered up his (or her) thoughts: “I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing…

  • Why Every Small Business Should Focus on Video Blogging

    In the past decade, the amount of time web users are spending viewing online videos has doubled from 3 billion hours in 2002 to nearly 6 billion in 2012. Sites like YouTube and Vimeo are pulling in millions of views per day (and in YouTube’s case, billions), and more small businesses are adding blogs to…