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4 powerful DIY tips to improve website ranking revealed by SEO Gold Coast … – PR Web (press release)
Apr 30th
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4 powerful DIY tips to improve website ranking revealed by SEO Gold Coast …
PR Web (press release) Web design and Search Engine Optimisation ('SEO') Gold Coast agency Tropixel has announced the launch of a new SEO package that guarantees to improve Google search ranking within 6 weeks. The SEO package is aimed at businesses that understand the … |
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Window Glass Replacement Service in Fort Worth Hires SEO Firm to Improve … – PR.com (press release)
Apr 28th
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Window Glass Replacement Service in Fort Worth Hires SEO Firm to Improve …
PR.com (press release) As the result of an online marketing campaign that Armstrong's Glass & Mirror has launched in conjunction with SEO leader Prospect Genius, local residents needing a replacement window or patio door will be able to shorten the time it takes to find the … |
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Auto Detailing and Electronics Company in Queens Hires SEO Firm to Improve Its … – PR.com (press release)
Apr 21st
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Auto Detailing and Electronics Company in Queens Hires SEO Firm to Improve Its …
PR.com (press release) Prospect Genius's search engine optimization (SEO) tactics work to increase a Web site's search engine ranking, pushing it to the top of the results page for the local area. Going forward, when Queens-area car owners query a major search engine such as … |
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Stop Blaming IT! How Communication Could Improve From The SEO Side
Apr 10th
Last time, we talked about making your Global Search Marketing Ecosystem thrive and one of the key elements for success was effective IT Integration. Adam Sherk’s recent article on Nine Common SEO Road Blocks delves into some of the IT challenges. His article identifies three of the nine…
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7 Changes to Make in 2012 to Improve Your Small Business – Customer Think (blog)
Apr 4th
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7 Changes to Make in 2012 to Improve Your Small Business
Customer Think (blog) Get moving on local and mobile SEO. Today's consumers look for companies electronically. They use Google at home to find businesses, and they use a number of different apps and tools via their smartphones when they're not at home. Individuals Polled On "Do You Think Negative Reviews Or Compliments Can Add … Sprouse Marketing Group Announces Expansion of Services Individuals Polled On Do You Think Negative Reviews Or Compliments Can Add … |
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How Keyword Research Can Improve Your SEO – Entrepreneur
Apr 3rd
 Entrepreneur |
How Keyword Research Can Improve Your SEO
Entrepreneur BY AJ Kumar | April 3, 2012| The web runs on keywords and, yet, most website owners don't know the first thing about how powerful keyword research can be or how to integrate it into their websites. A keyword or keyword phrase is a word or series of … |
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6 Ways Spotify Could Improve Its Mobile User Experience
Mar 30th
Spotify hasn’t even been available in the U.S. for an entire year. Still, its growth has been phenomenal, and it appears to be continuing unabated, thanks in part to its deep integration with Facebook. The product’s other big initiative of the last several months has been its third-party app marketplace, which extends Spotify’s functionality by leaps and bounds.
When the service finally did launch in the U.S. last July, I tried it for 48 hours, then swiftly dumped both Rdio and the iPod app on my iPhone. After all, Spotify combined the giant streamable cloud library of services like MOG and Rdio with the ability to sync local MP3s to your device, just as you’ve always been able to do via iTunes. Each month when my checking account is debited $9.99, it’s primarily that mobile listening experience that I’m paying for (along with the absence of advertising). For the most part, it’s worth it.
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Having used the service on my phone everyday for the last eight months, I’ve developed a list of things I wish it did better. None of these things is enough to cause me to think twice about my subscription, but when a mobile app is weaved this thoroughly into your day-to-day life, you tend to grow a little picky and particular about how it should work.
1. Improved Social Features
When it comes to social media integration, Spotify’s mobile app scrapes by on pretty much the bare minimum. You can share songs via Twitter and Facebook, and under the “Friends” tab, you can view playlists from your Facebook connections. That list includes everybody you know on Facebook who has signed up for Spotify, even if they aren’t active. As a result, I’ve got a lot of people in my “Friends” list with absolutely no music saved. This isn’t at all useful to me. Those people could be easily filtered out.
The potential here is practically limitless. Spotify’s Facebook integration presumably gives it access to data about which songs are shared most widely. Tapping into Twitter’s API could allow them to build a list of songs that are currently trending on Twitter, as well.
Spotify already has a list of your social connections, but they could be baked into the mobile experience a little more seamlessly. Music-sharing could be expanded beyond the usual players, as well. Social integration into music services isn’t necessarily a nut anybody has cracked yet (just ask Apple), but if anybody is well-positioned to do it, Spotify is.
2. Spotify Needs an iPad App
The iPhone app for Spotify works perfectly fine on the iPad, and doesn’t even look that bad when blown up to double its original size. But in this day and age, the tablet form factor calls for an application that takes true advantage of the screen real estate and user-interface possibilities.
MOG and Rdio, Spotify’s two chief competitors, both have iPad-specific apps and they both make effective use of the bigger screen. Rdio launched theirs a few weeks after Spotify launched in the U.S., and MOG just released an iPad app a few days ago.
Granted, streaming music is probably more suited to the smartphone experience, but at this point, enough people are using their iPads as a sort of impromptu radio at home to justify making the experience as enjoyable and tablet-appropriate as possible.
3. Make it Easier to Browse by Album
One thing that’s always bugged me slightly about Spotify is its user interface is not very album-centric. New releases and search results are easily browsed by album cover, but one’s own collection is basically a gigantic list of songs. In fact, the library itself is just a series of playlists, which includes starred tracks, your inbox and local MP3s, as well as any other custom playlists you’ve created.
By comparison, when you’re browsing your music in Rdio’s mobile app, it feels a lot like the iTunes UI, in the sense that content is arranged by album. It’s a natural and intuitive way for music to be organized. As a result of the way Spotify is designed, I find myself using shuffle and playlists a lot more, rather than listening to albums from beginning to end.
4. Subway (or Airplane)-Friendly App Launching
This one might seem a little nit-picky, but the last time I was in New York, I rode the subway from Queens to Manhattan to attend a conference and made the mistake of not launching Spotify before the train went underground. What I didn’t realize was that the app needed to re-authenticate my log-in info before the service would work. Thus, I couldn’t listen to any music during my subway ride, since the app needed an Internet connection to hit Spotify’s servers and log me in, even if all of my music was cached locally.
Apparently, Spotify needs to log you in every time you launch the app. I’m sure there are legitimate technical and security-related purposes for this, but it’s inconvenient when you’re not able to get online, and all you want to do is access your local MP3s and cached songs.
The easy way around this would have been to launch the app before losing connectivity, but you’d think that an app designed to work offline wouldn’t have this weird little limitation.
5. When Will Those Third-Party Apps be Ready For Mobile?
One of the most exciting things about Spotify’s desktop client is the third-party app platform it launched in December. By mashing together Spotify’s API with other services, the platform opens up enormous new possibilities for the service.
Early partners include Pitchfork and Rolling Stone for audio-augmented album reviews, Last.fm for music recommendations, Soundrop for group listening and MoodAgent for tonal analysis and song-matching based on the mood of a given track. And this is only the beginning. There are a number of other apps on the platform, presumably with more to come.
Naturally, Spotify can’t fit every third-party app into the limited real estate of its mobile applications. There are design, technical and, in some cases, legal issues to consider for each one. Presumably, the best of these apps will find their way to mobile platforms as quickly as is feasible.
6. Personalized Recommendations, Please
Another thing that Spotify does reasonably well in a desktop environment is offer personalized recommendations to music fans. Their Last.fm integration does a great job of this, and other Echo Nest-powered features such as Spotify Radio could pose a legitimate challenge to services like Pandora.
The ability to stream songs based on an individual song or artist, as Pandora has done for years, could be a huge bonus for mobile users. Incorporating MoodAgent’s emotional analysis could play a key role here as well. Whether a user wants to discover new music based on their existing tastes or just isn’t entirely sure what they want to listen to at a given moment, a more serendipitous listening experience would be a worthwhile feature to have in a mobile context.
Personalized recommendations are relatively new to the Spotify desktop client, so we’re not surprised that it’s not available for mobile users yet. Like the third-party apps, it’s something that is presumably on its way.
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10 More Content Ideas To Improve Organic Visibility
Mar 27th
In my last article, I outlined 10 ideas for adding content to a website and other Web venues to help improve organic visibility. Here are 10 more content ideas that should help improve organic visibility, incoming links and social engagement, and often help increase conversions on a website. 1….
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Improve Your VDI Performance With New Add-in Hardware From Teradici
Mar 26th
Remember the days when you needed to add a graphics card in your PC to support higher resolution displays? That is the idea behind a new add-in card from Teradici that is used to boost the performance of VDI implementations. One of the issues with VDI is that having multiple virtual machines come online at the same time (such as around 9 am, when everyone is coming to work and turning on their computers) can bog down a server. Not any longer.
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The card, called the APEX 2800 and pictured above, plugs into any PCIe slot and runs some software drivers to talk to VMware vSphere 4.1, ESXi 5.0 and View 5.0. By offloading image encoding to a separate hardware encoding card, as much as 50% of, CPU capacity can be recovered, at least according to Teradici’s own tests. This means you can have each hypervisor serve up more virtual desktops. If you are running a lot of graphics-intensive VMs, such as Windows 7 with the aero interface enabled, you might want to look into this option. The card costs $2000 and is available from both HP and Dell online stores. The server offload card is compatible with all existing PCoIP clients and VMware View software clients.
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3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO – Search Engine Journal
Mar 26th
 Macworld UK |
3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO
Search Engine Journal However, what is up for debate is the specific mechanisms by which social media signals influence your site's SEO. In lieu of a definitive answer from Google (which we're not exactly crossing our fingers for!), we've compiled the existing research on … Free Report On How To Leverage Google Places In Different International Markets |
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