Submitted by Annie Rob:
After th definitive announcement the other day by Google that their search spiders and bots take no notice of Metatags, Google has also given us a new way to create more page ranking and get more click-thru’s from our organic Google listings.
Page Anchors! Yes, page anchors. (Read More)
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Google has released a new product called the Google Docs Viewer. This is a way to display PDFs, Powerpoints and TIFF documents directly in a web browser without requiring a download. "Last year, we added PDF upload and view to Google Docs, and the 'View' link for PDF attachments in Gmail," says Google software engineer Jess (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
One question I get asked quite a lot about is whether there is any way to track your Social Media Marketing success. The short answer is Yes! although in the next breath I have to explain that it is done in a different way to your ‘other’ marketing. Would you like to know how?. (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
When done well our keywords and metatags encourage and make it easy for the search engine spiders to find, catalogue and crawl our site – thus improving our ranking, searchability and traffic. So what do we do if we have a generic site building software that claims to add the appropriate keywords and metatags for us?. (Read More)
Smashing Apps
Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy.Along with a availability, a good response time is key metric for your site. Get to know how long your site (Read More)
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Etsy is quietly one of the world’s most popular websites. Buying, selling, and talking about crafts and handmade items is apparently big business. Behind the scenes though, it’s been rocky. After drama over Etsy’s leadership in August 2008, two of its founders, Haim Schoppik and Chris Maguire, left the company along with (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
The Prix Pictet is an international photography award for images that focus on environmental sustainability.
This year the broad theme is "Earth". (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming. (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
The way that certain images, videos or concepts can suddenly spread like wildfire across the web, using email and social websites to propagate, is one of online culture's most unique phenomena.Now Spanish researchers claim to have found a way to accurately predict how quickly and widely new "memes", as they are called, will (Read More)
Submitted by Misterfine
from blog:
By Natural Resources Defense Council - The Earth's Best Defense
The U.S. military , intelligence and diplomatic communities are to be commended for their ... (Read More)
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
The Personal Genome Project (PGP) is a research effort designed to harness the incredible internet-intellect. Instead of genetics labs having to source their own data, or gain access to the few genomes already available, the PGP aims to make one hundred thousand human genomes available to anyone who wants to have a look. (Read More)
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
The expedition, named Project Kaisei, will study the impact of the waste on marine life. The goal of the organisers will be to clear the plastic and recycle it for use as fuel and new products. The two ships, Kaisei - which left today - and New Horizon from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography - which left on 2 August - (Read More)
mashable
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: SocialSafeQuick Pitch: SocialSafe is an effective, fun new application (Read More)
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Google Blog Search: "social media"
Guidelines for marketing with social media aren’t all that new. In 2006 five members of the digital marketing community collaborated on 16 rules for “social media optimization”. Fast forward to nearly 2010 and social media has begun to take a more significant role in the marketing mix.The original “rules” were posted by: R (Read More)