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WordPress Podcast: BuddyPress Social Networking

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:12:22 +0000

This weeks guest was Andy Peatling of the BuddyPress.org Project. BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress which ads many of the features found on sites like Facebook to WordPress blogs in as few as 10 minutes. We discussed how BuddyPress came about, some of the ways it’s used, some tips on getting started, customizing it and most importantly the features it provides. In news, there were a few nice plugin releases/updates and as always quick update on the WordCamp schedule…

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2010

Matt McGee — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:34:08 +0000

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

My Dream International Content Management System
Choosing a content management system which helps you make progress internationally – rather than blocking every move – is a good plank to have in your strategy. Even if you’re not planning that international expansion just yet…

Winners of 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting

Walter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:44:55 +0000

Today we’re announcing the winners of the UPrinting contest that we held on WDD for the past week.

Many thanks to all of you who participated. The response was great and we’ve got almost 500 comments.

Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their choice with free shipping to anywhere in the world.

The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump…

Earn more with AdSense tips by email

feedproxy.google.com-Inside-AdSense-Team — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:23:00 +0000

A few months ago, we updated the email communication options in your AdSense account to give you more choices about the types of messages you’d like to receive from us. You can now pick the types of messages that interest you from five categories:

Customized help and performance suggestions
Newsletters
Google market research
Special offers
Information about other Google products and services which may be of interest to you

If you’d like to receive emails with optimization tips that are targeted to your specific account settings and ad implementation, you’ll need to choose the category Customized help and performance suggestions…

Ode to AdWords

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:37:00 +0000

[From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Allison Schwam, Senior Search Analyst at Backcountry, join us here. -Ed.]When you don’t have to sacrifice your love of the outdoors for your career or vice versa, it’s something special. In fact, my love of both skiing and marketing has grown dramatically since I took my job at Backcountry. Getting to work with Google, specifically managing our AdWords acount, is an online marketing geek’s dream come true…

Developers VS Users

Michael Gray — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:00:59 +0000

Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to make a costly mistake? Here’s how…

Most developers became developers because they want to work on and build cool stuff…

30 Free Fonts For Creative Projects

webdesignerwall.com-Nick-La — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:51 +0000

Guest Post by Font2U

We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Font2U. Enjoy!

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The Other Side Of PPC

ppcblog.com-Giovanna — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:16:16 +0000

One key to building a winning PPC strategy has little to do with PPC at all.

The business you’re advertising via PPC needs to work on the web.

What are some examples of businesses that work well, and those that don’t?

Items that don’t sell so well include items that are easy, and cheap, to source locally, very heavy items that can’t be shipped easily, and items that need to be seen or tried on for size and fit…

Project Planning for Mobile Web Design

Armando Roggio — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:03:12 +0000

With an estimated 245 million subscribers worldwide, the mobile Internet is rapidly becoming one of the best channels for retail sales.

With mobile commerce (mcommerce), merchants can reach potential customers as they commute, wait in the lobby at a doctor’s office, or eat lunch in the company cafeteria. But the mobile Internet can pose something of a challenge for web designers and developers, requiring an additional level of project planning and aforethought…

Motion Graphics And 2-D Animation: 10 Tips For A Clean Workflow

vitaly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:45:07 +0000

By Melinda Rainsberger

More and more, designers, illustrators and coders are being asked to animate. Animation adds energy to a brand and heightens a customer’s emotional response. The software to do it is reasonably priced, and Internet connections can now deliver high-quality video. For these two reasons, animation-based advertising is booming on the Web. The makers of a small phone application might even devote a great deal of their budget to a Web animation that explains how the application works…

135 Million Viewers Watched 13 billion Videos on YouTube

feedproxy.google.com- — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:59:12 +0000

comScore today released January 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that nearly 173 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Highlights from the report below:

The top video ad networks in terms of their actual reach delivered were: BrightRoll Video Network with 27.2 percent penetration of online video viewers, SpotXchange Video Ad Network with 19…

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 8, 2010

Matt McGee — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:28:35 +0000

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

The Pitfalls Of A/B Ad Split Testing, Part 1
Most search advertisers have no question that testing ads is a good thing, and can lead to much higher performing campaigns. But is it possible to over-test and over-optimize, actually leading to worse results? The answer may surprise you…

Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location

Christian Heilmann — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:56:29 +0000

I thought I could not be out-geeked. With a background in radio, and having dabbled in the demo scene on the Commodore 64 and hung out on BBSes and IRC for a long time and all the other things normal kids don’t quite get, I thought I was safe in this area.

Then I went to my first WhereCamp, an unconference dealing with geographical issues and how they relate to the world of Web development…

Targeting Multiple Keywords vs. Singular Keyword Focus

randfish — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:23:41 +0000

Despite being a seemingly simple topic, this one seems to stymie even experienced SEOs. There’s a natural conflict that creates the issue – the more keywords you target on a single page, the less you need to link build and optimize (for both search engines and user experience/conversion rate) on many pages.

To answer this question in a logical and truly optimal fashion, you need to start with the answer to two other important questions:

How many of these keywords carry the same visitor intent?
How competitive are the targeted terms/phrases?

When you answer the first question, you’ll be able to break up lists of keyword terms into buckets of "intent…

And the searches go to…

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:41:00 +0000

The Oscars®: glitz, glamor, gossip, gold statuettes, much fanfare — and for many fans, Google search is increasingly a part of watching this live TV experience. Before and during the Academy Awards® broadcast in the U.S., we saw related queries on Google dominating the Hot Trends list. People searched for the TV schedule, printable ballots for voting on favorites, streaming video sites, nominee and film information, celebrity chatter and whatever else caught your attention…

An update on Google.org and philanthropy @ Google

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:56:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Google.org Blog)What do tracking flu, helping consumers monitor their home electricity use, slowing deforestation and perhaps most importantly in 2010, helping the people of Haiti have in common?While they are all part of the wide-ranging work of Google.org over the last year, they also show what our technical teams can accomplish in critical areas that don’t always get the attention they need and deserve…

Why Designers Shouldn’t Settle

Walter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:29 +0000

Ugly designs abound on the web, and behind each and every one of them is a “designer”.

In many of these cases the designers behind the sites are simply incompetent.

They’re often amateur designers or those who have little or no design training or people who design their own sites based on a book from their local library that’s ten years out of date.

But there are other times when the designer was perfectly capable of creating a better site…

Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Last year, we released a public data search feature that enables people to quickly find useful statistics in search. More recently, we expanded this service to include information from the World Bank, such as population data for every region in the world. More and more public agencies, non-profits and other organizations are looking for ways to open up their data and expand global access to this kind of information…

Update: InMotion Hosting Winners

webdesignerwall.com-Nick-La — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:53:16 +0000

Thanks to everyone who has participated the hosting giveaway contest. InMotion Hosting would like to thank you by doubling the prizes. As a result, six winners will be getting a free one-year hosting account. The winners are: 56, 71, 103, 192, 198, and 244 (winners will be contacted by InMotion). For those who didn’t win, InMotion is also offering a $45 discount. To redeem the discount, email contests@inmotionhosting…

Guest Post Links: The Difference Is Repeatability

seoroi.com-Gabriel-Goldenberg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:38:39 +0000

At SphinnCon 2010 yesterday in Jerusalem, I presented on guest post based link building. The main advantage, in addition to the high quality of links it builds relative to other sorts, is repeatability. View the preso to see what I mean.

Goldenberg Gab SphinnCon The Difference Is Repeatability
View more presentations from guestf7474b.

If you’ve been wondering why I’m not posting regularly lately, it’s because I’ve moved to Jerusalem since mid-January and am currently studying at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem…