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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Employing a forum or message board on your site or blog is one of the oldest and, debatably, one of the easiest ways to engage in conversation with your site frequenters and followers. After all, the concept is already there and all you need to do is set up various threads for specific topics and questions to prompt the exchange of opinions.

Customarily, site owners utilize forum building applications which can take some relatively sizeable time out of your day to set up and customize. They also come with their own set of limitations which include having to sign up for another set of log in credentials you’re going to have to commit to memory, and having to frequently drop by the forum site to check for responses and comments.

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Yahoo Jumps into Twitter Integration

Monday, March 15th, 2010

With the continuously skyrocketing popularity of Twitter from the household consumer to the financially-driven marketing strategist, it’s really no surprise that even established Web entities have adapted to the Web culture that followed it. After all, millions of eyeballs are drawn to the 140-character-based service on a daily basis, relying on it for news, updates and even the daily funnies.

This week, Yahoo joins the plethora of easily recognizable Web entities to strike a partnership with Twitter, citing the collaboration as a part of its ongoing commitment to provide its users relevant information from a multitude of sources online. This collaboration will integrate Twitter results into its search engine and will be rolled out to its more than 600 million users worldwide.

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An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization Basics

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

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When you start tracking your traffic analytics and getting into search engine optimization (SEO), there will be a lot of new terms and concepts to learn. Organic search engine traffic is simply the clicks that are “sent” to the site from search results.

Organic search is frequently the biggest source of incoming traffic, and the easiest way to increase organic traffic is with some basic SEO. Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your site for the search engines to find and showcase your content, and improving the volume and quality of traffic that your blog or website receives.

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