Rebecca Gill

Last week Google officially announced their newly formed partnership with Twitter.  The officially statement indicates this partnership will allow social media updates on Twitter to appear in Google’s search results.  Google also demonstrated their new Social Search feature at the Web 2.0 conference to really get Internet marketing consultants excited.  Although this new feature isn’t live yet, Social Search will be launching soon on Google Experimental and Google Labs. What does Social Search mean to you? If you use Twitter for business, it means you’ve just had your world expand exponentially.  If you have few Twitter followers and struggle finding new Twitters to follow you, don’t despair.  Your tweets will soon be broadcasted to the world. If you use Twitter for per... (more)

Social Media Marriage Occurs as Facebook Agrees to Acquire FriendFeed

The world of social media is a buzz today as social networking giant Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed.  As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. “Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such [...] ... (more)

Internet Marketing Guru Matt Cutts Talks Sock Puppet Marketing

Last week Google’s Internet marketing Guru matt Cutts posted a new video in their Webmaster Central Channel on YouTube.  I love these videos because they are short and to the post and without any pitch or longwinded verbiage cluttering the real message.   The video that caught my eye was Matt Cutts’ discussion on Sock Puppet Marketing.   Yes you read that correctly.  Mr. Cutts is talkin... (more)

Thirty Top WordPress Plugins

If you’ve ever used WordPress, you know the mass of WordPress’ functionality resides in the plugins.  Any high quality theme, blog, or website is loaded up with plugins.  The problem is not the ability to locate plugins, but the plugin’s actual ability to work without the need for special coding. Below is a list of my favorite plugins.  These plugins are both functional and easy to use.... (more)

Wise Businesses Watch the Search Trends with Google Trends

A very wise business owner I know frequently talks about search volume and search trends when discussing Internet marketing and in particular search engine optimization. He is a data guy, an entrepreneur, and a highly technical individual who always looks beyond simple numbers to peek behind them or even in front of them. [...] ... (more)