Google Link Disavow Tool Helps to Ward Off Negative SEO and “Unnatural Links”

Rebecca Murtagh 

Google Link Disavow Tool To Help Webmasters Improve Link Quality for SEO of Websites If you’ve been among the many websites notified by Google of a manual spam action due to “unnatural links” pointing to your site, never fear, Google has created the Google Link Disavow Tool to improve your link relationships, which came under

Read More

Netiquette is a Must in Today’s Social Media Landscape

Rebecca Murtagh 

Social Media Etiquette Tips You Can Use Emily Post became the authority on social etiquette when she published her first book on social graces; Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, also named Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home in 1922. In the age of calling-cards and high-society, how well one

Read More

Happy Birthday Tiffany’s – Epitome of a Sustainable Brand

Rebecca Murtagh 

Tiffany & Co. Celebrating a 175 Year Old Brand Sustaining a brand for nearly 200 years is no small fete in the accelerating age of change and global competition. Yet the brand, anchored by its signature teal color box wrapped in white ribbon featuring the simple logo has become so recognizable, that you don’t even

Read More

Google Plus Becomes More Brand Friendly With Custom URLs

Rebecca Murtagh 

Google+ Rolls Out Branded URLs Monday, August 10, 2012 Google Plus Posted a #googleplusupdate outlining how long numeric Google Plus profiles will be replaced by branded URLs. So, instead of https://plus.google.com/101560853443212199687 the Google Plus Profile URL is now: http://google.com/+googleplus . Note the + in the URL. Google Custom URLs Are Good News For Brands This

Read More

Southwest Facebook Flash Sale = Epic #FAIL

Rebecca Murtagh 

Southwest Airlines Website #Fails Amidst Facebook Flash Sale – A Teaching Moment Please see update below. Note: I delayed this post pending a request to Southwest Media to provide their side of the story. I submitted a request to their media site explaining I was writing a blog post and invited them to offer insight

Read More

Larger iPhone 5, Smaller iPad, Why Not a Hybrid Smarter Tablet?

Rebecca Murtagh 

iPhone Getting Larger, iPad Getting Smaller – Why Not Merge Into One Smart Hybrid Mobile Device? Apple is expected to finally release the much-anticipated iPhone 5 on September 12, 2012. At the same time, ZDnet has shared that rumors are swirling that Apple will also release a smaller iPad called iPad Mini. Why not combine

Read More

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the Origins of Google Knowledge Graph

Rebecca Murtagh 

Early Roots of Google Knowledge Graph Early 2012 I shared with you Google’s roll out of the Knowledge Graph, explaining how Google search was moving from word-based index to connecting people, places and things to deliver more intuitive results. Marissa Mayer revealed basis for Knowledge Graph years ago. In 2007 Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president

Read More