Apr
28

Your Flash Based Website is a Big Black Hole

Shailesh Ghimire on April 28th, 2011

This is how a completely Adobe Flash based website appears to the Google’s search engine spider (your second most important audience segment). The snapshot below is from a real website and I’ve hidden the full URL to protect the innocent.

This means the search engine spider has no way of reading the content to determine what [...]

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Apr
25

Full RSS Feed vs. Partial RSS Feed? Take Poll.

Shailesh Ghimire on April 25th, 2011

I consume a vast majority of content via Google Reader. Most of the sites I’m interested in offer RSS feeds and many of them offer their full RSS feeds – so it’s just the same as going to their websites.  I love the convenience of this setup. The only reason I go to any site [...]

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Apr
15

Google Tags Was Dumb, Glad its Gone

Shailesh Ghimire on April 15th, 2011

The Tags feature on Google Places inserted a yellow tag next to your Places listing on search results (see image). It cost $25 for this feature and when I tried it under a free trial I found it to be pretty useless.  For the $25 your paid for this feature you really didn’t get anything in [...]

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Apr
12

Position Preference in AdWords is Being Retired

Shailesh Ghimire on April 12th, 2011

The position preference in AdWords allowed you to target a specific range of ad positions for your keywords. This means you could set a bid price and target positions 3 to 5 for instance for a particular keyword. I have found this feature to be somewhat useful because experimenting with ad position is a fundamental [...]

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Mar
30

Social Media Marketing Madness

Shailesh Ghimire on March 30th, 2011

As Homer J. Simpson once said “it’s funny because it’s true…”

Untitled, originally uploaded by @NonprofitOrgs Mobile.

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Mar
29

Restaurant Brands Using Social Media to Drive Traffic to Local Stores

Shailesh Ghimire on March 29th, 2011

Many brands are now well into the social media world. It’s no longer a new thing for them and for some social media is an integral part of their overall marketing strategy.  Brands in the restaurant industry seem to be of the latter category and are  making some great strides in leveraging social media to [...]

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Mar
24

Bye Bye MyBlogLog

Shailesh Ghimire on March 24th, 2011

MyBlogLog connected people before there was anything like Twitter or Facebook (at least not in its current form). It put a face on the blogosphere and made strangers friends. Soon we will be saying bye bye to MyBlogLog. Although this is old news, I wanted to write and say farewell.
Dear MyBlogLog Customer,
You have been identified [...]

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