Category: Tips and Tricks
  • Rick DeJarnette
    • The Ultimate Guide to Blocking Your Content in Search

    • February 14, 2012 - Posted by to Tips and Tricks
    • We all work so hard to make sure all of our content is crawled and indexed by the search engines. So it’s ironic when sometimes we must also struggle to remove or prevent some otherwise private content from getting into the indexes. The process of blocking content from search can be frustrating, removal can be slow, and the whole experience exasperating – especially if you don’t know what options you have. Let’s talk about the various...
  • Ninja Bonnie
    • Getting Scannable: Practical QR Code Marketing Ideas

    • December 28, 2011 - Posted by to Branding, QR Codes, Tips and Tricks
    • No one will deny, QR Code Marketing is the new mobile marketing trend for both large brands and small businesses alike. QR codes have a unique ability to break the barrier between offline campaigns and online marketing efforts in real time.  They’re also appealing because of their low cost of implementation. It also seems like your imagination is the limit when it comes to thinking up new and fresh ways to use QR codes. Have you been thinking about using QR codes as another...
  • marketingninja
    • Online Video Optimization

    • September 27, 2011 - Posted by to Search Engine Optimization, Tips and Tricks
    • Written By, Usability Ninja Karina As the technology of the web advances, online videos are growing in popularity, thus an increased importance is placed on video optimization. Getting your videos to rank well in a search engine will bring your website more visibility. You should think of video as content. We all know that “Content is King”, but what’s even better than plain text content, is a VARIETY of content on a website. Video is a...
  • Zane DeFazio
    • How to Tweet your Google Reader Starred items

    • January 6, 2009 - Posted by to Tips and Tricks
    • Sometimes I star articles in Google Reader that I find useful and that I think may also be useful to the people who follow me on Twitter [All 5 of them? Sorry. Carry on. €“ Lisa].  With a little research, I found that you can activate an RSS feed for your Starred items in Google Reader, and then from there, set it up to automatically Tweet a newly Starred item. Originally, I was going to write...
  • Lisa Barone
    • How To Gain Trust And Influence People

    • December 10, 2008 - Posted by to Tips and Tricks
    • You’ve probably already read about the recent Forrester report that lists blogs absolutely last on the totem pole as an information source people trust. Yes, a whopping 16 percent of people trust the information they read on corporate blogs. Well, then. That makes me feel warm and fuzzy.  I’ll be home in bed NOT being trustworthy should anyone need me. [glare] The truth is that number is probably pretty fair.  If I were to consider the number...