INBOUND MARKETING BLOG

Mobile Software and the Cloud: Will History Repeat Itself?

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If you haven’t picked up on the massive growth in mobile device usage (cell phones, smart phones, tablets, netbooks, etc…) in the past couple of years, I would like to welcome you back from the rock you’ve been living under! You’ve no doubt seen the influx of teens through senior citizens with their faces buried in their mobile devices. With smart phones becoming so prevalent, it’s becoming easier to do just about anything you can do on your computer, right from your phone.

LocalEdge SEO...or Not Quite SEO?

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The former Talking Phonebook has put a lot of marketing dollars into their latest identity, LocalEdge. I assume they moved away from having the word “phonebook” in their name because who uses a phonebook anymore? The new LocalEdge sales people make their rounds relying heavily on the words SEO and social media. They give free seminars about the subject, but these just end up being another sales pitch. See below from a local chamber newsletter:

Bidding on Multiple Match Types in Adwords

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There has been debate for some time now regarding whether or not bidding on multiple match types for the same keyword is an effective strategy or not. An example would be purchasing:

WWDC 2010 – Thoughts on Apple’s iPhone 4

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Earlier today Steve Jobs officially debuted the latest version of the iPhone during a kickoff keynote for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. If you had followed any of the coverage related to Gizmodo’s early leak of the iPhone 4’s hardware this announcement wasn’t exactly a shocker, but there were some cool new hardware and software features that make Apple’s redesigned mobile device pretty enticing.

5 Reasons You Should Be Using 2D Barcodes

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Targeting Teens? You Need to Use SMS!

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If you have a teenage child or know one, you know that their noses are always in their phones. Just walk by a high school when it lets out and watch the those little txters in action.

Link Graph vs. Social Graph: Part 2

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How Could the Social Graph Work? Last time we covered linking and how the search engines use linking to understand more about your website; both from a “popularity” perspective and content perspective. So how would a social graph compare and will it take over the link graph? Although I cannot answer these questions 100% because I do not have insider knowledge from the search engines…I do have ideas of how it may work.

Diaspora: The Privacy-Aware Facebook Alternative

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Mark Zuckerberg Details Privacy Settings

Link Graph vs. Social Graph: Part 1

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Understanding Links How often do you hear, SEO is all about linking (aside from good content of course). I hear this all the time from clients, they understand they need links to their site, but do they know why? Furthermore, what role will links play when if search engines fully adopt the social graph? I for one am not very fond of the “act” of link building. I find it to be tedious, stressful and mind-numbing. But, I do not think it will go away completely.

Putting Adobe Flash and HTML5 Video to the Test

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This debate has been all-the-rage in the tech community as of late: who will win the online streaming video wars, Adobe’s Flash or the new HTML5-based video codecs such as h.264 or WebM. Both platforms have their own benefits and weaknesses depending on your opinion, including open/closed platforms, whether the format is secure or not and most importantly the performance of the technology. With the explosion of mobile computing devices we’ve seen in the past couple of years via smartphones, and now considering the success of tablet computers such as Apple’s iPad, a fierce debate has been waged over whether Flash is stable or streamlined enough to function on these devices. Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs posted a public letter on the company’s website in which he lambasted Flash for being buggy, insecure and a resource hog. On the other hand, Google has shown confidence in Flash evidenced by their decision to support it in the latest version of the Android operating system. So who’s right?