Posted by Carson Ward If the last few months of ranking changes have shown me anything, it's that poorly executed link building strategy that many of us call white hat can be more dangerous than black-hat strategies like buying links. As a result of well intentioned but short-sighted link building, many sites have seen significant drops in rankings and traffic. Whether you employ link building tactics that are black, white, or any shade of grey, you can do yourself a favor by avoiding the appea...  show all text

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Alisher B. Usmanov’s investments in the social media giant could be worth at least $6 billion when the company goes public.

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In the white heat of the current tech market it’s sometimes easy to forget that some companies, although taking their time, simply become viable businesses – instead of waiting for a call from Facebook or Twitter that may never come. I’ve been covering web site and shop builder Moonfruit for longer than I care to remember (they launched in 2000), but along the way husband and wife team Joe and Wendy White kept on pushing the company until it was one of the most innovative of its kind out there....  show all text

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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.

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Every CMO wants to figure out integrated multichannel marketing in the digital era. Trying to understand how the different disciplines fit together forces a new level of knowledge. In the end, writing ties them all together. Whether you work in advertising, PR, interactive, social, direct or simply general marketing, you must write. Our new book Marketing in the Round discusses each of these tactics in depth, and how to weave them together. But no matter the integration strategy, marketing a good...  show all text

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Facebook will offer 96 million additional shares, or 25 percent more than it had previously planned to offer, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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European stocks bounced back from early losses after political leaders in Athens agreed to form a caretaker government for the purpose of holding new elections next month.

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On the eve of the Facebook IPO, the country's third-biggest advertiser, GM, announced that it was pulling its entire $10 million ad campaign from Facebook because the ads don't work. This was obviously bad news for a company that many people still think will one day be bigger than Google. GM's competitor, Ford, quickly suggested that GM was the problem, not Facebook, by saying that its own Facebook ads work perfectly well. But other huge companies also appear to be having serious doubts about t...  show all text

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Twitter announced a new email delivery service called “Stories” where you can receive a weekly email digest delivered to your email inbox. The weekly

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Klout is the Standard for Influence. Join Klout to discover your influence and compare with others you may know.

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Even dream weddings can be missing something — friends and family who cannot attend. So what better way to utilize live streaming technology than for a once in a lifetime event? There are a number of web based services that specialize in live streaming weddings. Check out a couple of them here: Marry Me Live Stacy Yamaoka and her business partner Christopher Anderson started Marry Me Live in 2009. “It started because we recognized the needs of both of our families,” Yamaoka told Mashable. Ander...  show all text

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“The brand is the amusement park, the product is the souvenir.”  Nick Graham. Build an experience that includes anticipation and long-lasting memories. Nick Graham is the CEO of Fresh Happy People and Founder/Chief Underpants Officer of Joe Boxer.  And, he’s a brilliant marketer. These are the words from someone who clearly delivers on 3 key marketing lessons.  Here’s what we can learn from Graham. 1.   Building a unique and lasting client experience.  Small business owners tell me all the ti...  show all text

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Facebook is revising hard and fast in the lead-up to Friday when it is expected to ring in the Nasdaq bell and go public. In short, every revision is continuing to gradually push up the value of the company. Today’s S-1 filing has increased Facebook’s share offering to 421,233,615 shares of Class A common stock – 83,818,263 shares more than yesterday’s S-1, which had 337,415,352 shares of Class A common stock. Meanwhile the amount of Class B stock appears to have gone down. With the additional ...  show all text

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by Kate Marsh Lord posted in Products & Prizes This Saturday, May 19 is BabyCenter’s 2nd Annual BabyCenter Big Day Out! Visit our Facebook page to take the pledge to get outside and play with your kids. Whether your family is out on a big adventurous hike far from home or staying local on a... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading the BabyCenter Blog.

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In 1984, two artists used a simple process to create a story that captivated an audience for years and generated billions of dollars in revenue. That same process is being used today by a master copywriter to attract hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers. With companies creating millions of web pages of content marketing, finding an untold story or a new angle can feel like an impossible task. Especially when you want to avoid creating a story so unique nobody understands it … or wants to...  show all text

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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at four particularly interesting stories. HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Delayed at US Customs HTC’s two new smartphones, the flagship One X and the Evo 4G LTE, have been indefinitely delayed at US customs due to potential infringement on an Apple patent, the Verge reports. Apple won a patent lawsuit against Android back in December 2011, effec...  show all text

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*Grinding it out in the ground game. http://www.urbeingrecorded.com/news/2012/0...  show all text

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No matter what type of commute people have to endure every day, there’s no doubt that it can be an arduous adventure in most cases. If you have any kind of journey to carry out in order to get to your desk and back again then you’ll know many snags you can often encounter along the way. Here are 7 smart mobile apps that would help your commuting much easier.

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I got this recipe for Taco-Stuffed Pasta Shells out of a magazine almost 10 years ago and my family loves it! I made it again on Saturday and Ethan ate 6 or 7 shells! I love finding something that my kids love to eat! - Preheat oven to 350°. Spread 1/4 cup salsa over bottom of casserole dish. - Cook beef in large skillet until brown; drain. - Add seasoning mix and water; cook over low heat for 5 minutes or until thickened. - Add beans and 3/4 cup cheese; mix well. - Fill pasta shells with beef...  show all text

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City officials in Ichihara, Japan have just opened what they are calling "the biggest public toilet in the world," The Japan Times reports. More »

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Tweet Big news came in from the folks at Buffer and Twylah this week. The two companies partnered up to give your Tweets much more impact than possible before. I’ve written about the magical Power Tweet before, which increases your engagement by 400%. As of today, you can make this Power Tweet from Twylah even more powerful and send it through Buffer. Buffer, if you haven’t come across it yet, is a super smart Social Sharing app. Any page that you read on the web and want to share with your f...  show all text

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The parking meter was rebooting. I guess we're supposed to walk to the other end of the garage and find one that's working. We're seeing digital awareness coming to just about everything. In this case, it was the parking meter near the library. Of course, it's not really a parking meter, it's a centralized fee collection system that saves the town a lot of money. It's easier to collect from, certainly, it doesn't waste the time of meter readers (who get alerted as to what spaces aren't paid for,  show all text

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Facebook social travel app Gogobot announced on Wednesday that it has reached the 1 million registered users mark. The app launched on Facebook in January, when the social network unveiled a slew of integrated apps, including Gogobot. Gogobot was in use before that time, launching in private beta 18 month ago. Now the app is exploding in popularity: A new user joins every 15 seconds, more than 5 million places have been shared on Gogobot and overall membership has grown 65x year-on-year. The so...  show all text

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Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More »

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German designers placed a high-tech, sensor-equipped chair in the middle of a palazzo in Milan last month to record stress points on the backsides of thousands of people. The goal? To determine how to design a lightweight and efficient chair that’s sturdy enough to support a wide variety of users. When someone sat in the chair, monitors recorded data and processed it with an “algorithm that determines the most structurally efficient version of the chair,” according to the blog Co.Design. The en...  show all text

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Hitting the friendly skies doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t make a mobile phone call — at least if you’re flying on one of Virgin’s new Airbus A330 planes. The airline plans to make in-flight calling available first on its flight from London to New York. By the end of the year, in-flight calling will be available on 17 planes and at least 10 routes. Calls will be restricted to the time the plane is actually in the air – so you’ll still have to power off when the plane takes off or lands – and...  show all text

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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