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Socialnomics

How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do  Business

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Erik Qualman’s book, Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business is an effective wake-up call for corporations and marketers, and is written by a sincere and authentic practitioner. The social media approach is a next era and shows that in the “people-driven economy,” effective affinity marketing is a contagious recommendation process operating within affinity groups. “People referring products and services via social media are the new king. This “social-media mediation” is perceived by individuals as a form of disintermediation and deliverance, shielding them from the marketing litanies imposed upon them by impersonal marketing machines. What we hear in our social media world comes from people we have chosen to listen to. View full article »

Why Alexa Rank is Important

Popularity is not determined only by Google Pagerank but also by Alexa rank. Higher Alexa rank increases the website’s value. Contrary to Google Pagerank, Alexa rank refers to traffic.

Alexa Ranking is a site ranking assigned by Alexa Internet to measure websites’ popularity. The higher the ranking is, the smaller number is the rank given. Based on Alexa, Google (Alexa Ranking 1) is the most popular website in the Internet, followed by Yahoo, Facebook, and Youtube.
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Google Hacks

Google Hacks

Google Hacks

Google Hacks reveals–and documents in considerable detail–a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won’t have even been aware of. Try the Froogle price-searcher that’s hidden within the Google site. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and other programmers’ resources. In brief, this is the best compendium of Google’s lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches, image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the Google API and simple “scrapes” of results pages, while further coverage addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google keyword searches. View full article »

Smashing WordPress

Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series)

Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book  Series)

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Let me preface this review by saying this is NOT a beginner Wordpress book. If your looking for a book that teaches you “how to get started” with wordpress this is not your book. I had finished my knowledge of the beginner to mid level stages of wordpress and Smashing Wordpress took me to a solid level of advanced wordpress techniques and theme/plugin building. View full article »

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