Ralf Skirr's Internet Marketing Blog
- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #76: Google Plus is In
Google Plus. Are you familiar with it? It is a social networking and messaging system integrated in Gmail, and it is now one of the things you should not forget if you want to use Web 2.0 to your advantage.
Google Plus is a continuously rising network that will allow you to easily interact with your customers, business partners, and family. It is a strong rival to Facebook and provides innovative takes in features such as friend and post...
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- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #75: Get More Facebook Fans with a Facebook Ad
Your Facebook fan page is a great medium to get more traffic to your site, establish your online presence, and generally achieve success. However, without anyone knowing about your site, achieving any of your goals is next to impossible.
That is why once you have your fan page in place, you must consider promoting it with a Facebook ad.
Since Facebook can capture a tremendous amount of demographic information about its users (because they...
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- Losing Its Cool ? Is Facebook Embarrassing Itself To Keep Up With Google Plus?
The most circled Google+ user? Ironically it’s Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with 475,697 followers.
After Google launched its service on June 28th, he created his own profile and quickly covered the top spot.
It was a cool move of him. That he created his own Google+ profile exuberated an aura of self-confidence.
‘We’re cool with Google+, we’re not afraid.’
Guess what?
Within days, Facebook’s coolness...
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- Inside Google+: Bradley Horowitz talks with Tim O?Reilly
Here's a new interview with inside views on Google+. Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. Bradley Horowitz is Vice President of Product for Google's social products including Google+.
Mini Reveiw: Tim O'Reilly isa bit more on the technical, abstract side, while Bradley Horowitz is more on the practical side, so a few of the questions aren't really going anywhere. Also don't expect any breaking news...
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- How To Fail At Customer Support
Nothing says 'We Don't Care!' better than a canned response. All responses below belong to the same support ticket.
Message 1
Thank you for contacting xxx Customer Service.
We have received your message and will respond within 24 hours.
As a subscriber, you are very important to us. If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
Message 2
Thank you for contacting xxx Customer Service.
We are unable to locate your...
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- German Data Protection Commissioner Bans Facebook Fan Pages And Like Buttons
Facebook like buttons and fan pages not allowed in Germany's state of Schleswig Holstein anymore.
You may think this is a joke, but it is not. German privacy protectors asked web sites owners to remove Facebook like buttons from their sites, and threaten to fine € 50,000. They claim Facebook Like buttons and Fan pages violate European privacy law.
From the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection's web site:
The Data Protection...
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- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #74: Proving It All with Your Facebook Fan Page
Some people are very hesitant when it comes to availing products and services online, even when it has now become a safe and easy method for everyone. However, you can't blame them as there are still a lot of thieves and deceitful people lurking online. That is why you need to calm them; you can do it easily with your Facebook fan page.
Another way in which you can use your Facebook fan page is to promote fan photos and testimonials. As I...
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- Switching My Blog Comments To Disqus
I just replaced wordpress comments with Disqus.
In case you never heard of it: it's a service that allows users to post comments to a web site and, at the same time, get these comments posted to their social profiles, like Facebook or Twitter. There are more features, but the core for me is connecting comments on this blog with social networking sites.
I considered this several times in the past, but never did it. Mostly because I thought I...
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- Gamer or Not, You?re Going to Love Google+
There is something about Facebook that makes it so addicting for its members. Otherwise, it would not have been able to beat MySpace and acquire 750 million users through the years.
Now, just what could this something be?
It seems Google has figured it all out, and that is why it has added a good number of games to its new social network.
Games Invade Google+
Google+ is still in its beta phase, but new features are frequently being added. One of...
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- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #73: The Power of Your Facebook Fan Page?s ?Insights?
There are a lot of features on Facebook that you can use for getting more traffic. However, some of them are left behind, even when they can produce great results if used wisely.
One of these often-ignored features of Facebook fan pages is the ?insight? feature.
This feature lets you break-down your fan site traffic in great detail. It provides you with traffic info such as:
Location
IP addresses
Likes and dislikes
Other details about...
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- Discover What Google is Hiding from You
With Google+ continuously rising to popularity, people just have to wonder what kind of people are behind this ever-growing company. So, what kind of personalities, habits, and responsibilities do you think the men behind Google have?
Danny Sullivan, the editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, helps us discover the answer by holding an interview session with 3 big shots of Google, namely, Amit Singhal, Ben Gomes, and Matt Cutts.
These 3 men are...
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- 22 Milestones ? The World Wide Web Turns Age 20 Today!
Birthdays are important as they signify life and a great beginning. That is especially true when we are talking about the birth of the internet, of the World Wide Web.
Some think that the internet and the World Wide Web are the same thing; people use these two terms interchangeably, in fact. However, they are actually two very different things. The internet and the first internet message was sent over 40 years ago, but the websites, delivery of...
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- Facebook Passes News Feed Control to You
With more and more people getting hooked, or at least interested, with Google+, Facebook just had to make a move. So, what’s Facebook’s decision? Start with passing the news feed control to users—consumers, developers, and marketers alike.
Basically, what happens is that the news feed filter, which categorizes your friends' or fans' posts, is removed. This means whenever you post something, all your friends or fans will...
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- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #72: Get More Interactive with YouTube
YouTube is a great medium when you want to offer tutorials. After all, it is always easier to see how things are done compared to imagining it while reading an article. However, that is not only the great thing about YouTube.
Another good use of YouTube is to make live announcements. This is not for everyone, but if you decide to use it, it has the potential to lend a significant amount of credibility to your business.
Now, before you actually...
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- I?m Pretty Happy With My Facebook?Why Google+?
No, I'm not
It's just a quote from this video that I found. Actually, I never liked Facebook at all. That's why I'm promoting Google+ so much.
If you're a happy Facebook user, click below and take a look:
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- Finally (Sigh!) ? Adobe Moving Away from Flash!
On August 1, Adobe Systems publicly added a new product to their line of web design and animation programs. It’s still in beta, and it’s named Adobe Edge.
Adobe Edge is a tool for creating website animations. It allows you to add rich motion designs to any of your HTML projects, regardless if it’s a website, desktop program, or mobile app. With Edge’s current tools and capabilities, you can effortlessly create new...
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- Web 2.0 Marketing Tip #71: Share More Love with Twitter and Facebook Buttons
Digg andReddit are not the only sites you can create buttons; you can also create similar buttons for the two most popular social networking and microblogging sites--Facebook and Twitter.
Another thing you may want to consider doing to get more traffic to your site is adding a ?Tweet This? and ?Post This to my Facebook account? button to your blog posts. Facebook and Twitter are very popular media people use to share ideas, photos, and...
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- Google Page Speed Service Launches Today
Google launches another part of the Page Speed family today?Page Speed Service?a service that assists web masters and developers in optimizing and loading their sites faster.
As we already know, Internet users can be a very, very irritable and impatient bunch. That is exactly the reason why webmasters like us aim to optimize our site?s performance by limiting content and use of graphics. But, you see, who doesn?t want to add nice images,...
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- Google Places Cuts Third-Party Reviews
?Against our privacy.? ?Unprofitable.? ?Leaves us with little choice.?
These seem to be the issues that pushed Google administrators to change Google Places?s content and formatting and present a revamped Google Places last Thursday afternoon.
If you visited Google Places on July 22, you have probably already noticed the difference?third-party reviews are completely removed. This means that Google Place pages, which used to show snippet...
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- Follow Me At Google+ Buttons, Add Me To Your Circles Buttons!
Have you been waiting for a button to invite people to your Google+ profile? The wait is over!
With social buttons you can usually do 1 of 3 things:
1. You can share something you find interesting with your followers. When you share, it will show up in your stream or on your wall. The 'Tweet' button works like this.
2. You can give your vote for a piece of web content. The Facebook 'like' button or Google's '+1' button work like this.
3. You...
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