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Video: The World of Social Media 2011

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Douglas Karr

The World of Social Media Video Infographic 2011

In 2011, Facebook passed Google as the #1 most visited site on the internet with 11% of the world’s population and the average user having 130 friends spending 700 minutes a month on the network. Every 60 seconds 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 status updates and 136,000 uploaded photos. The numbers are simply mind-boggling and continue to increase. Overseas where folks don’t have electricity or broadband, they use cars to charge their smartphones and connect via mobile phone. The world … Continue reading →

WordPress rel=”prev” and rel=”next”

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Douglas Karr

Quite a few years ago, folks would fine-tune their pages using a technique called nofollow. Basically, if you wrote rel=”nofollow” within an anchor tag (a link), the theory was that the search engine would ignore that link and ignore the next page. It’s been used extensively by sites like Wikis and within comments so that user-edited links wouldn’t be abused and followed. Search Engine consultants quickly realized how useful these types of links were, sprinkling them throughout links on the … Continue reading →

WordPress Running Slow? Get a New Engine…

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Douglas Karr

Although there’s tons of reasons that your WordPress installation is running slow (including poorly written plugins and themes), I believe the single biggest reason why people have problems is because of their hosting company. The additional need for social buttons and integrations compounds the issue – many of them load terribly slow as well. People notice. Your audience notices. And they don’t convert. Having a page that takes longer than 2 seconds to load can exponentially increase the number of … Continue reading →

Infographic: Social Media and Enterprise

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Douglas Karr

The folks at Get Satisfaction have released a new Infographic on Social Media and the Enterprise, called Let’s Get Down to Social Business. From the infographic: By 2014, the market for social enterprise tools, software and services is predicted to reach $4.6 billion worldwide. This new generation of technologies is rising up to meet a growing demand for connectivity and transforming all aspects of business. Amid the chaos, new markets and leaders will emerge. Journalists will embrace them, and PR … Continue reading →

Create Mobile Themes with WPtouch Pro

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jenn Lisak

In a fast moving world, it’s important that your site is optimized on all mobile devices, including phones and tablets. According to a recent infographic produced by Microsoft Tag, mobile internet usage will takeover desktop usage by the year 2014. Needless to say, your mobile site is one of your primary marketing assets in today’s world. WPtouch Pro is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create and enable a rich mobile theme for your site. The plugin provides … Continue reading →

Lisa Sabin-Wilson on MTB Radio

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jenn Lisak

Listen to internet radio with Marketing Technology on Blog Talk Radio We are happy to announce that we will be having Lisa Sabin-Wilson of E.Webscapes Design Studio on our Marketing Tech Blog Radio Show this Friday, June 24, at 3 p.m. EST. On our show, we will be talking all things WordPress, blogging, design, and social media. Lisa Sabin-Wilson is the founder of E.Webscapes Design Studio (founded in 2000), a blog and web site design and development company specializing in premium WordPress themes, … Continue reading →