- Social Media Optimization (SMO) Is The New SEOIs SEO Dead? I don’t know, but it sure doesn't hold a candle to the power of Social Media signals these days. I think a lot of people much smarter than I will agree with that statement. So if Social Media is becoming arguably more important than Se...
- KnowEm Launches USPTO Trademark Search and Registration ServiceYou talked, and we listened - today we launched a new service to make it even easier for brands to secure their online presence in one place, by adding a graphical USPTO Trademark Search and Registration service to KnowEm.com. In our continuing hop...
- Microsoft Follows Google’s Rules of Trademark Use In PPCMicrosoft released an announcement today that as of March 3rd, 2011, they will no longer be making editorial investigations into "complaints about trademarks used as keywords to trigger ads on Bing & Yahoo! Search in the United States and Canada...
- Google Announces Social Media to Influence Search RankingsA few days ago Matt Cutts of the Google Web Search Quality Team announced that Google is going to start factoring signals from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook in their search engine rankings and results. This marks a shift from a video C...
- If a Country Can’t Reclaim a Username, What Chance Do You Have?It was recently reported that the state of Israel purchased the Twitter username @Israel from a private individual named Israel Meléndez for an undisclosed sum, which by some reports may be as much as six figures. You read that right – the Natio...
- If a Country Can’t Reclaim a Username, What Chance Do You Have?It was recently reported that the state of Israel purchased the Twitter username @Israel from a private individual named Israel Meléndez for an undisclosed sum, which by some reports may be as much as six figures. You read that right – the Natio...
- The New Threat of Typosquatting (Misspelled Brands) in Social MediaA recent tweet by Andrew Nystrom of RedBull brought attention to a growing trend we've noticed in Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook -- that of Typosquatting. Typosquatting is a form of brandjacking/cybersquatting in which someone regist...
- KnowEm Adds 20 More Domains to Domain Name Checking ServiceWe're very pleased to announce today that we've added 20 new international TLDs (top-level domains) to our free service which checks domain name availability, bringing our total number of domain extensions searched to over 60. The new domains are a r...
- Social Media Management Firm KnowEm Acquires FriendsCall.MeKnowEm, the company working to help brands manage their identity across the social web, launched a new family of premier services designed to further help Fortune 500 corporations and small businesses alike stake their claim in the ever-changing soci...
- Six SEO Techniques Which Will Destroy Your WebsiteSometimes it just seems easier to point out what your clients are doing wrong rather than work at explaining all the different ways to do it right. So here are six SEO Techniques I've noticed which will destroy your website, blog, or shopping cart s...
- New Website Protects Usernames From Social Media Identity TheftKnowEm.com launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of popular websites for social media identity theft. By entering a username, which can be a brand name, internet identity, or vanity URL, KnowEm.com allows you to instantly monitor t...
- The April Google PageRank Update and Why I Don’t Care (But You Do)Over the course of yesterday and today Google updated it's Toolbar PageRanks for websites. I would like to say that's awesome, because BarryWise.com is now a PageRank 5, but the truth is I really don't care. When I first started working on this blo...
- Completed Another Social Networking Tool: CheckUserNames.comThis one is (a little) more useful than TweetWasters. My new site, CheckUserNames.com, allows you to check the availability of your potential new username across dozens of popular social networking sites (MySpace, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.). Due to...
- ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for WordPressToday ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck's Youtuber, which we've decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses the...
- ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for WordpressToday ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck's Youtuber, which we've decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses
- Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQLIn case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client's website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publis...
- Global Find and Replace In Wordpress using MySQLIn case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client's website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publis
- My Top 10 SEO Techniques for Small Business Website SEO/SEM SuccessI've been getting a lot more requests from small businesses for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and I seem to be repeating most of the same advice to every new client. Put simply, it is more difficult for small bu
- Google Pagerank Update for the 2009 New YearSince I've put up a blog post every other time Google updated it's toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight's any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely fr
- Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New YearSince I've put up a blog post every other time Google updated it's toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight's any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely fr
