Turn Off Google Buzz ! How and Why ?
I have turned off Google Buzz, if you have not find a reason good enough for this, let’s firs read this article on BusinessInsider and then read the rest of this post. The article mentioned above is a bit technical, let me explain the threat in simplest words and then I will show you how to remove it. The privacy threat behind Google Buzz: Consider the snapshot beow: I you have enabled Google Buzz and when you will click on anyone of your contacts you will see this a screen like above, pretty innocent, hmmm, No! If you click on the link on the “following” link, you will instantly get all my contacts! Imagine all my contacts, family members, business contacts,friends and foes etc. Everything exposed! and the best part is that all of this has...
New Opportunites with Google Social Search
Q uite recently, I saw a video(embedded below) from Google on Social Search. Although it seems pretty impressive and good, but I have some questions/thoughts from Marketing/SEO point of view: Since users will now be able to see suggestions/blogposts/tweets etc from our contacts, so this opens are whole new platform for Social Media Marketing i.e. if you have established yourself as a friendly guy in any popular social media platform like Facebook, and you are an open Networker i.e. who adds other people as friends without any previous acquittance, then you have a very huge opportunity that you can influence and market a huge number of audience in many diverse niches, all you need is quality content on various topics with a touch of SEO and Google will do the rest...
How to exclude specific country or region from Google Analytics
H ere are the quick and easy steps to implement, if you want a report of website traffic, excluding a specific country or territory. However,it should be noted that, it is among the best practices to create new test profiles when you are testing our filters or other advanced analytics setups. The reason is that it is not unusual that some of your experiments might turn out to be wrong or do not meet your specific requirements, if you have multiple profiles, then you can safely delete the newly created one without loss of critical data. You should have one untouched raw analytics profile, always. Having said that, lets move towards our setup, I have already created a new profile for the same website and name it “Filtered Traffic” As soon as you create...
Create Your Own Brand Story
H ow to Create Your Own Brand Story? To create a compelling brand story, you need to move beyond a simple cataloging of your product and benefits and answer questions about your purpose, your identity and what exactly your position is in the marketplace. This begins with a series of questions that you ask internally: Who are we? Why do we do what we do? What do we care about? What’s our purpose? Why do we matter to the people that we do business with? What would we want people to say about us when they are satisfied? What would we want people to say about us when they are dissatisfied? What will we absolutely not do? What are we most proud of? The internal questions are followed by an examination of the external environment: Who are our...
Google Social Search
G oogle has always been esteemed for it’s innovation and they have proved it once again. Along with GoogleWave, Google has recently announced the launch of “Google Social Search”. In Web 2.0 summit, Google’s Marissa Mayer,Vice President of Search Product and User Experience; announced a new Google product called “Social Search”. This product will be available soon in Google Labs. Some of the salient features of Google’s Social Search are as follows: allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network Makes use of your Google Profile If you allow it will scan other social networks too,you’re a member of. Obviously the activities on Twitter,Face book and other social networks will be more...
The Road to entrepreneurship
A ccording to Wikipedia: “An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. It is an ambitious leader who combines land, labor, and capital to often create and market new goods or services.” So entrepreneurship is quite a “buzz word” nowadays; every now and then we hear success stories of young and ambitious businessmen who managed to attain success and recognition in their early phase of life, when their peers are working miserable jobs that they hate! Without going into further details about “What is entrepreneurship?” and “What are the merits or demerits(if there are any) involved in this particular mindset?”,...
What is RSS? How it is useful?
T his posted is specially for my MIT class-fellows at Virtual University. I have full time job as an Internet Marketing Manager in a reputed firm. Since internet is becoming a part of our everyday life I have thought to create a series of articles to increase your/my Internet IQ, this means “the awareness to use internet for create purpose”. Like many of you, I have been receiving many emails of “Get Rich Schemes” and “Earn money from home” etc. As every sensible person knows, there is no short cut to success, I have been in this field for almost 5 years and there is only one way to get success i.e. hard work and updated knowledge. So to share my knowledge with you people I will post various informative articles on my blog...
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