On April 24, Google introduced its Penguin update — a change to its algorithm that attempted to rectify issues associated with websites rich in low-quality links. These low-quality links include sponsored links, links referring back to unrelated websites, and those that refer back to sites whose anchor text repeat the same keywords, for example. In […]
Category Archives: Technology
More than half of senior citizens now use the Internet
More than half of Americans who are 65 or older now use the Internet or email. That’s the first time data have shown more than 50 percent of seniors going online. This study, by the Pew Research Center, found that 53 percent of older Americans use the Internet or email. And just over a third […]
Internet traffic to soar (will quadruple in four years)
The amount of Internet traffic will quadruple over the next four years. That’s the prediction contained in Cisco Systems’ (Nasdaq: CSCO) annual Visual Networking Index Forecast, the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. The index predicts annual global IP traffic to be 1.3 zettabytes by 2016. […]
The true value of social media
Last week’s hype surrounding the Facebook IPO centered almost entirely on the potential value of a user base approaching 1 billion people. Social media audiences and users have come to represent value. Coca-Cola alone has nearly 42 million Facebook fans, with almost half a million people talking about them at any given moment. Forty-two million […]
Insane Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now
Maybe this is the reason General Motors went “mental” and pulled its Facebook ad budget. Digital marketing is confusing—really confusing—as this insane graphic shows (below). Trying to navigate through the various new social media categories, blogs, sharing sites, and social media firms is an absolute mess. This depiction of the digital marketing landscape was shown at […]
Companies struggle to manage customer feedback on Twitter, Facebook
With employee and customer feedback coming from phone calls, Twitter, Facebook, emails and other sources, companies can often get confused as to how to manage this information. And customer expectations are mounting. Information technology management is a problem for many businesses now that there are so many different forms of feedback. Nowadays, customers expect a […]