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Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Just some buzzing among many of our peers in the past week or so over this one little bit of news: Google’s announced it will be shutting down its Google Reader service in July. As the most popular of the RSS reader services, lots of us use [...]
Google decided to change the game as their search results were becoming more irrelevant and of lower quality. They decided to work out ways to identify great content through social signals (hence the launch of Google+) and other technologies that rewards the content creators and not the content copiers. Google got smarter. The web became [...]
As web content writers we are often under pressure to get more work done, faster. This means we often end up writing just enough text for a page, with a quality that is just good enough. This shouldn’t be so surprising, because the math of content creation is pretty simple. A 1,000 word page will [...]
In the scheme of Author Rank, your Google+ profile is going to be your verifiable identity, and there are several factors that influence your reputation: • The number of followers you have. • The number of re-shares your content gets. • The number of +1′s you get. (By the way, when someone +1′s your content, it’s not just [...]
Some might say there are already enough places to go for networking, but the important thing is to find the right places for you. Google+ has a lot to recommend it as a social networking site. And its close connection with Google’s search capabilities is just another reason why more people are spending time and [...]
On Google+, users have the ability to manipulate their circles to control the groups of people and brands they receive information and content from, but there’s no guarantee those brands or users will circle you to receive your updates. This is where Google+ Communities come in, Google’s version of a group or forum, built to [...]
An old fashion and sometimes often used method today, to get links to your web site, is to use press releases with embedded links in those releases… Matt Cutts of Google said in a Google Webmaster Help forums that links from press releases shouldn’t have a positive impact on your rankings.” Read full article @ [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Google+ has released their answer to Facebook and LinkedIn Groups in the form of Google+ Communities. In just 24 hours, communities went from zero to thousands of members and within a week, some groups are now up to 21,000+ members. In today’s post, we’re going to look at how to [...]
Google+ is quickly becoming an essential part of any business’s social media strategy. It boasts a cool 250 million users! And this number is sure to grow very quickly as Google is making a Google+ account mandatory for all Gmail users. It’s an audience marketers cannot ignore.” Read full article @ Social Media Examiner »»» [...]
Andre Weyher, whose LinkedIn profile lists a two-year stint as a member of the [Google] search quality team, recently spoke with James Norquay, a search/digital marketer based in Australia, and shared some interesting comments that may… help search marketers and webmasters understand a little better how Google views certain SEO strategies and tactics.” Read full [...]
Now here’s an “app” I’ve found exceedingly useful, and you would too if you have a Kindle and use the Google Chrome browser. A browser extension specifically for Chrome, Send to Kindle is Amazon-official (not some third party thingamajig), and I think I read somewhere that support for Firefox and Safari is forthcoming, but frankly, [...]
Now we are merging Insights for Search into Google Trends, wrapping it all up in a clean new interface to give you a clearer view of what’s on the world’s mind. The new Google Trends now includes features from both products and makes it easier and more intuitive to dig into the data.” Read full [...]
Implementing Google Analytics is an essential part of gaining insight for improving the customer experience, and improving profitability for your organization. As they say, what gets measured gets managed.” Read full article @ Toprank »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of the best Wordpreneur blog posts and articles, a full-sized 55,000+ words of Wordpreneur Ideas, [...]
Google+ is a social media network that most people don’t seem to understand. It has now been with us in the social web ecosystem for over 12 months and has now reached over 400 million users. Despite this, it is underestimated as a tool for marketing your business and brand.” Read full article @ Jeffbullas.com [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Ebook Sales Soar but Physical Book Sales Unaffected (International Business Times) — “For the first half of 2012 [in the UK], digital fiction sales value was up 188 percent [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amazon Changed Reading. Now It Could Change Writing (Fast Company) — “Amazon introduced a subscription book format at a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday. These books, called ‘Kindle [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Are Consumers Sensitive to E-Book Prices? (Forbes) — “Consumers believe that e-books cost very little to produce and therefore should cost very little to purchase — and, certainly, e-books [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Beyond Bricks and Clicks: How to Create Hybrid Sources of Revenue (Book Business) — “Typically, when one responds, ‘I’m an author,’ to the question, ‘What do you do for [...]
Here is this week’s installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Barnes & Noble: Nook Biz Up 38% In Q4, New Nook Tablet 8G (eBookNewser) — “Barnes & Noble’s Nook business — which includes devices, digital content and accessories – increased [...]
