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Is There a Wrong Way to Use Twitter?
According to Guy Kawasaki, the Co-founder of Alltop, the best way to use Twitter is for marketing. He is anything but shy when it comes to his love and usage for the microblogging service. However, not everyone agrees with his stance. He has especially received criticism from the SEO community.
Is Your Site Secure?
The Internet is an amazing place, but it can also be very dangerous. Many times, webmasters are so focused on issues such as duplicate content that they neglect to properly secure their site from hackers and spammers. According to Sasi Parthasarathy of Bing, security is extremely undervalued, especially, since it could make or break a business’s credibility on the Web.
How to Protect Your Site from Hackers
Security is always a concern, especially online. Unfortunately, it has become very easy for hackers to scam online consumers. What’s worse is that these hackers have also become very sophisticated and make almost exact replicas of legitimate sites.
Twitter Tightens Security, But Is It Enough?
Twitter began an effort this week in hopes of preventing the spread of malicious links through its service. Sharing links is one of the most popular uses of Twitter, but it is also dangerous since spammer and hacker activity has recently been high on the site. As a result, users are led to inappropriate websites and in some cases, are forced to deal with malware attacks on their computer.
TwitterHawk: Spam or Not?
Twitter is receiving almost as much attention as Google receives at industry events. In this interview from SES New York, Jeff Ferguson of Napster talks about TwitterHawk and the marketing power of it. TwitterHawk is a new tool for Twitter that is still in the developing stages. It is keyword-based and allows users to create a variety of reply phrases to respond to people with.
Affiliate Marketing Case Study
As we delve into our legal series, the first case we look at involves the Federal Trade Commission, Impulse Media Group, and affiliates. As many people know and have witnessed first hand, affiliates and the legalities surrounding them can be a delicate issue. In this video, attorneys Sarah Bird and Clarke Walton discuss the case, the outcome, what the companies involved did right, and what they did wrong.
BlogWorld: Comments And Great Content
Encouraging blog comments can lead to both good and bad things, and in this interview with Abby Johnson, Shoemoney’s Jeremy Schoemaker touches on traffic increases, sock puppets, trolls, and spammers. He also discusses monetization, and how a focus on providing great content should lead to profitability.
BlogWorld: Handling Troublemakers
Blogs work well . . . except when they don’t. In this interview with Abby Johnson, Patrick O’Keefe, the owner of the iFroggy Network, talks about the problems posed by spammers and sock puppets. More importantly, he gets into tips for managing them from his book Managing Online Forums.
SMX West 2008: Rand Fishkin
Mike McDonald of WebProNews and Rand Fishkin, the CEO and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, had an “explicit” conversation about spam at SMX West in Santa Clara. Easily one of the liveliest interviews of the whole !%$@ing conference.
SES: Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting with Online Marketing
Stone Temple Consulting President Eric Enge talked with us about this trend back to old-fashioned, online marketing. According to Enge, the “hard sell” approach to a website is not working any more. The trend now, is reverting back to the consumers. Marketers have to actually build relationships with the users.