Twitter No Longer the Only Public Social Search Engine

Twitter No Longer the Only Public Social Search Engine

A month ago, Google offered real-time search results via Twitter. You can always get real-time search from Twitter through its own engine, Search.Twitter.com. Today, a new player emerges.

I Wish It Weren’t True, But Twitter’s Getting Plussed

Day 7 of 30 I should have named this post, “How I Use Different Social Networks”.But I didn’t, because even though you’d come to visit that post, it’s not exactly the focus. The Premise If I had my way, the two social networks I’d use going forward would be Twitter and Google+. I COULD stick [...]

Beware the Circle: How Google+ Tempts Us to Be Socially Inept

Beware the Circle: How Google+ Tempts Us to Be Socially Inept

One of the greatest, and potentially harmful, functionalities of Google Plus is Circles. I know firsthand what’s it’s like to lose a virtual friend because we only share 25% common interests or less. Twitter has always been more suited for topical friendships than Facebook, but you still find yourself limited by the firehose of other [...]

How Do Google+ Features Affect Our Social Skills?

Day 3 of 30 In case you the two of you following this were wondering what happened to yesterday’s post – I wrote it, then forgot to link here. I joined the Google+ social network recently and decided to start sharing my thoughts. This is the first of many posts on the subject. Perhaps a [...]

Reputation Repair Versus Reputation Management

The circumstances that call for reputation repair versus reputation management.

How Do I Get My Site Indexed on Google?

Okay, this applies to every search engine, but since Google drives at least 70% of search traffic to most websites, why beat around the bush? Yahoo’s decent. MSN Live Search and ASK are a joke. You aren’t going to make a living off them. So let’s deal with Google. There are three primary ways to [...]

Search Engine Submissions are Laughable

By now, you HOPEFULLY know full well that any company claiming to offer search engine submissions as part or all of their SEO service is a fraud. In essence, these are like the religious cults, who break off from tradition and create stories of alien encounters and everyone ends up sipping the Kool-Aid and “poof!” – [...]