SEO Maniac

4 Easy Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile [guest post]

2011-10-31T05:21:00.001-07:00

Let’s face it, the amount of time you waste on Facebook could be put to much better use. But, if you must spend your time on one social network, it might as well be LinkedIn. The social network for business professionals definitely has the most potential for improving your future career and accomplishing your business goals.

Your profile should say everything it can about who you are as a business professional. This is especially true because it tends to be displayed pretty high on Google’s search results for your name.

You should want to keep your profile as up to date because shows that you’re productive and on top of things; and, have it shin the brightest and most positive light on you as possible.

Here are four quick, easy ways you can improve your LinkedIn profile.

1. Write a killer headline

The goal of any piece of writing is always to get the reader to read the next sentence. The same goes for LinkedIn profile. If your headline is lackluster and boring, you have a much, much lesser chance of standing out.

Your headline should say who you are, who your audience is or whom you’re trying to impress, and how you can help them. Say it quickly and in a creative manner.

Go ahead: be original. I dare you.

2. Add a highly personal summary

Once you’ve captured the attention of visitors on your profile with your headline, match it with an equally awesome summary.

Your summary should be very personalized. Just think: would you want to read bullet points that sound like every other person’s resume? No.

You should discuss who you are, what you like to do, what you strive to do, and any goals that you may have. Give readers a reason to like you.

Also, try and match the tone of your headline to your summary. For example, if you were witty at the beginning, be witty throughout.

3. Provoke action and response

So, assuming you’ve done what I’ve instructed and created two interesting bits of writing that really sell who you are, you’re next step is to get your visitors to do something. What that is, is up to you.

If you’re a graphic designer and have an online portfolio website, lead them there. Or, if you provide SEO service, lead them to your company’s website and give them a further taste of what you can do. You can always give contact information too.

You’re trying to sell yourself (you wouldn’t be on LinkedIn if you weren’t), so always give your readers somewhere to go next.

4. Triple-check everything

Probably the worst thing you could do is have an incomplete profile full of errors

Check for grammar. Check for spelling. Make it look like you belong in the business world. Typos are a big turn-off for hiring recruiters.

Check your facts. Oh, you’re the only person with a nine-digit telephone number? Not impressive. Make sure your contact information and outgoing links are in full working order.

About the guest author: August Drilling works on behalf of FortePromo, which sells promotional items, and is a blogger, social media enthusiast, and Apple fanatic.

Mobile and e-Marketing Conference

2011-07-15T04:49:00.000-07:00

So very unfortunately i couldn't attend this Mobile Marketing Conference but had a good look into the trends and topics that was shared online from the Mobile and e-Marketing Conference on 13 - 14th of July 2011. Looking at some of these "Tweets" and information we stand drooling over what a big opportunity Mobile has in store for us. This is the time for Mobile Marketing in South Africa to shine and also the time to get your business more successful online with what is new in the industry and online business.

I cant elaborate to much on this topic for i wasn't there. But i can give you all the information i gathered and truly hope you enjoy it!

- The mobile and e-Marketing Brochure for some deeper insights on the topics that was covered at the conference.

- Tweet Trends from Mobile and e-Marketing Conference

- LinkedIn event Mobile and e-Marketing Conference

And then below all the beautiful information shared by the tweeple that attended the conference. For each and everyone of you listed here thank you so much for sharing, i had great fun following these trends the past 2 days and had a few wow moment and many ideas from this!

Speakers at the conference included the following hero's !

Regards,

Chris Captivate - SEO Maniac

Google+ Statistics Report

2011-07-15T01:15:00.000-07:00

Well firstly a wonderful good morning to everyone and wow what a beautiful day in Cape Town City!

So scanning around this morning on Google+ aka my new Online Toy that i am mad about, I came across these Google Plus Statistics which shows a complete breakdown of trends and stats of the users on Google+. With great thanks to FindPeopleOnPlus.com

So looking at a sampling of 947,996 Google+ users, these are the trends. For any more information on this post feel free click here for the original post.

And now the question. Are you on Google+ yet ? well good news is that you can send me your Google Account on Twitter then i might invite you over to join in the circles! Catch me on @chriscaptivate and share some thought on these stats. Will have a Google+ Post up soon on the whole start of it all.

enjoy

regards

Chris Captivate - SEO Maniac

Social Media Statistics and its Massive increase

2011-06-23T07:24:00.000-07:00

Ok, so i cant hammer on this more and cant give you all the information behind it, but social media and social media strategies are becoming core factors for online.

I came across this information via comScore.com and looking at this we can see that social media is not stopping to grow any time soon, so if you don't get it after this then i don't know how much hope there is for you or your business in the internet marketing world.

Social is important and you need to know that, what people say about your business is not just becoming rankings factors in major search engines but it is also now where users will talk about who you are - conclusion is: if people talk about you in social then you could stand a better chance of ranking, AND more and more people are using social networks (as indicated below) so there is no fighting, users look for what they want on social platforms and listen to what their friends say, one way or another you will have to deal with social media and if you looking to "get your brand out there" then social networks are a good place to look into. (* I'm not saying social is everything but i want to place emphasis on the importance and the power of it*)

I personally love social and the kick behind it, the big role it is starting (has been playing) to pay in SEO and the amount of people it is getting online. Social media is basically the call to action of the world wide web, it works and you need it. point.

any way!, ill stop rambling off about what i think and give you the information.

Social Media Networks Statistics

Looking back from Jully 2007 till May 2011 and the total time spent online.

Then looking at Facebook and MySpace - in 2009 Facebook finally took ahead of MySpace

Looking at the size of Facebook and with its 157.2 million visitors in May i dont need to say anything more. its Massive, its ONE OF THE biggest companies in the world and it is SOCIAL !

Comparing LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr with their monthly unique vistors we also see the big rise in LinkedIn as a corporate social platform (yes that is Corporate and Social in one sentence, and it is here to stay ! )

These are all things we cant look away from, Social Media does have a massive impact online and the term word of mouth makes social media a very strong voice.

I truly wish i could share some more insight on this but you can read the full post on social media network effects by comScore .

Please feel free to share your thoughts, any questions will be attended to ASAP. lets get social. ;)

Enjoy

Chris Captivate

20 Things you should know about Social Media Marketing (INFOGRAPH)

2011-06-09T09:48:00.000-07:00

And the same way as about 80% of online marketers when i see an infograph my mouth hangs open and i am distracted for at least 5 - 10 min wiping over my mout every now and then with tears coming out of my eyes.. there is no focus but THAT INFOGRAPH!... oeeee, i love them. They always look so cool and give you things to tweet and talk about for about a whole hour. so here it is, a colleague of mine and Social Media Expert @misslailah passed this on to me this morning giving a great kick start to the day!

This was even before coffee so i was a whistling SEO Specialist even before caffeine. . . Life is good in the online marketing side of life.

Anyhow, here is the search and social media statistics infograph brought to us by @WebProffits; and thank you guys to for playing a big role in the happiness of my day.

Then the one thing that just brought me back to the arm swinging smiling hip walk to want 1st place in SERPs is the one fact on this graph: “Traffic Received by Google SEO rankings in 1st place is twice as much as those ranking second. (so if you have been wondering why that #1 is so fucking important and people send SEO hit men to get them, this is why!!! hehe, see here i go again ;) .. my o my.. have fun and feel free to share your thoughts, just don’t drool in the comment box, it might look spammy!

See you smiling now?, hehe go have coffee and have a kick ass day! (* yes i say DAY because this will be posted now so its morning in the US and the South African online life is half on their way home already, or in front of the tv, or catching rhinos somewhere! (because we cool like that right! ) hehe..

Chris Captivate

Google Chrome TV Advert in UK leaves questions about Google's Social Media Plans

2011-06-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

Came across something extremely interesting just now. A TV advert in the UK for Google chrome ?

Might they be targeting parents and maybe starting scrap booking online? Isn't that what our Facebook profiles are? Just scrap books of our life's and everyone in it... Now i know Google and Facebook doesn't sit around the same table... smirking, something social is on its way from Google and who knows, could it take the world by storm? Could this be the reason for Google +1 ? to add anything you like to your scrap book. . . . I'm really starting to like this thought Google is creating with their social media plans, could they just inform us already~! i suck at being curios .. :)

Any how, enjoy the video.

So, your toughs on this? where do you think Google is going to stick out their heads in the social media world ?

Chris Captivate

Google +1 Rolling out? SEOMoz +1

2011-05-16T01:47:00.000-07:00

Making a few searches through out the day is normal to me, when looking for articles that was written in 2009 that i cant remember shit of what was said comes in useful every now and then, even if it just means searching for them .

So i had a read in this week i think, that Google is getting ready to launch the +1 Social Media Button and things are really looking up?

An then i found voila !! :)

By the looks of things this might be rolling out quicker than what we think ? The Goole +1 is going live and i think it is only a matter of time before we fighting the spam on it as well.. and i think there are a few in the SEO business that is facepalming about this. (if you cant see what im trying to say the 2nd & 3rd listing has a +1 next to it. )

Lovely day for you all.

Chris Captivate

History of Google and Search

2011-05-12T04:19:00.000-07:00

Something amazing that was brought under my attention, an infograph on the history of search and the whole history of Google, how search started up until where we are today!

Have fun and feel free to share some thoughts.

Infographic by the PPC Blog.com

Royal Wedding (Prince William & Kate Middleton) Social Media Infographs

2011-04-29T05:19:00.000-07:00

29th April 2011

Ok, so the big day is here the prince (Prince William) gets his princess (Catherine Middleton or Kate Middleton), everyone is ripping it off to be a World Cup for women, which i think is pretty funny, and then i came across this (below.. The top is just something cool Google did to feel like the King.. look at those rings its like Lord Of The Rings)

Below are some infographs that indicates the buzz around the whole Royal Wedding up to now,provided by -> Webtrends.

According to the web analytics company, people have sent 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days, or just a little more than 30,000 tweets per day. do you have any idea how many fucking tweets that is! Ok, i know i do search engine optimization and o "we are so use to big numbers" but say what you want, this wedding is any digital marketers wet dream, SEO Guru or whatever you are online!! Just imagine! 145,000 blog posts about William and Kate’s big day, 217,000 Facebook status updates and again 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days ! what more do you want?! HOLY SHIT, that is a lot of traffic, just imagine the amount of leads, the conversion rate everything! as much as i hate this im loving this too ! :D

Have a look at the great infographs that's been pulled up for us. and if you dont know yet. twitter tag is #RoyalWedding and you can see it live on The Royal Channel (aka YouTube)

Regards,

Chris Captivate

Facebook marketing – Strategies you can follow

2011-04-20T04:31:00.000-07:00

This post has been brought to you by Chris Captivate, Guest Post by Erica Smith.

If you want to promote your business, your services or items among the people and worldwide too, you will have to market your products strategically. One such important step involved in popularizing your business is search engine optimization. Similarly, one of the most important strategies involved in search engine optimization or SEO is marketing through social media. There are various kinds of social networking sites that help in popularizing your products. Among the various social networking sites, Facebook is the most popular.

Facebook marketing strategies:

If you want to popularize your business or market your products through Facebook, you can follow these strategies:

1. Creating your Facebook page – Promotion and marketing through Facebook is mainly based on having a page of your own. Creating your Facebook page is quite an easy task. However, you should also pay attention to the "Page Name" as it is one of the strongest ranking factors in regards to Facebook search. You can also take the opportunity of adding some keywords that you wish to rank for. The page name cannot be changed later.

2. Join relevant groups – You can also look for some relevant groups which you can join. Most of the group owners allow people to post on the wall. This helps you to post about your products or services or your business and is a marketing strategy.

3. Starting your own group – Starting your own group can work as one of the relevant marketing strategy. After starting your own group, you can also invite your own friends to join your group. Other than this, you can also use Facebook’s advertising system (paid) to get some new members. This is more like building your target list of the prospects, so that when you will try to give some new information, you can simply send one email and all of your members will be able to receive it. This is quite a cool and easy way to communicate with the people.

You can even create a personal video greeting your Facebook friends and tag them onto the video. This is one of the most powerful Facebook marketing strategy.

SEO Guru ( Search Engine Optimization Guru )

2011-03-30T09:42:00.000-07:00

So my big big question for the past 2 weeks has been " how do you know when you are an SEO Guru ? " who makes the rules to say if you are an SEO Trainee, SEO Consultant, SEO Specialist, SEO Expert or an SEO Guru ?

Yes i did go as far as searching on Google for the answer, no luck tho. I came across the awesome SEOMoz quiz which was great!

Ok back to this. where do i fall in ? As far as my knowledge goes this is how i know it (IN A NUTSHELL).

1. SEO Trainee.

An SEO Trainee is someone who has an interest in SEO but do not know any best practices in the SEO World and is learning the basics of SEO aka SEO 101. An SEO Trainee knows about the online world and is aware of some online marketing platforms.

2. SEO Consultant

An SEO Consultant is someone who has experience in SEO basics and knowledge in the field of SEO. Someone who understands and makes use of SEO Platforms and SEO Tools etc. The SEO Consultant handles certain parts of projects but dont fully plan Search strategies for websites.

3. SEO Specialist

An SEO Specialist is someone who knows basic best practice in SEO and have the ability to take a project hands on and get results that he/she can interpret and fully understand. ( basically an SEO that knows what their doing ).

4. SEO Expert

An SEO Expert is someone that follows and updates their own mythology with latest and most effective SEO best practice and organic search marketing strategies. An SEO Expert has the ability to identify important aspects and potential improvements on any given projects (website).

5. SEO Guru

Over looks SEO Trainee, SEO Consultant, SEO Specialist and SEO Expert. Is a master and mentor of search engine optimization and teaches SEO Specialists and Experts about new "tweaks" and how to improve on current mythologies. An SEO Guru is someone that can walk into a company and start a Search department with enough knowledge to make a great success out of it ? ? ? or is an SEO Guru always trying out new things and making successes of very competitive businesses online, with amazing results and great feedback?

Lets just see what does WikiPedia say about an SEO Guru

Point proven??...... Not even Wiki Knows the answer ???

I would love if someone could answer this to me one day. from external source "If you rank for it then that is what you are right?" .... well then ill call it game on. If i can rank 1st for "SEO Guru" on Google.com then i am the best in the world???? (it doesnt want to make sense in my head either).. one way of finding out i guess. Unless King SEO can come and tell me where do i fall in.

Am i just 21 and fucking confused or are you actually wondering about this as well. mmmmm (light goes on) maybe an international system (seeing that the online marketing industry is here to stay ;) ).......

thoughts ?? please do share.

Chris Captivate - SEO Fuck knows what.

Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced London 2011 - Chris Sherman, Executive Director of Search Engine Land, announced as keynote speaker.

2011-03-22T02:21:00.000-07:00

Third Door Media announces Chris Sherman, executive director of Search Engine Land, as keynote speaker for SMX Advanced London 2011.

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March 21, 2011 -- Third Door Media today announced that Chris Sherman, Executive Director of Search Engine Land, the creative force behind programs for Search Marketing Expo events around the world will be keynote speaker at SMX Advanced London 2011.

SMX Advanced London

Chris Sherman has analysed and influenced developments in search marketing for more than a decade. He is Executive Editor of Search Engine Land and the creative force behind programs for Search Marketing Expo events around the world, he is also the author of several books on search marketing and technologies, including "Google Power: Unleash the Full Power of Google," published by McGraw-Hill.

Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994. His clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, Levi-Strauss, Nokia, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 2001 to 2006, Chris was Executive Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com and Conference Chair of the international Search Engine Strategies events in Canada,China, France, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

Matthew Finlay, Managing Director, Rising Media, says “We are delighted to have Chris keynote at SMX Advanced London 2011. It will give our delegates a rare chance to be able to hear and interact with one of the key influencers in the world of search marketing”.

SMX Advanced London will take place on 16/17 May 2011 at The Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre. SMX Advanced London is produced in association with specialist business event producer Rising Media.

SMX Advanced London will be held over two days and will cover cutting-edge content on search engine optimization (SEO), paid search advertising (PPC), social media marketing, local and mobile searchmarketing, landing page conversions and more.

Sign up by 15th April to make savings of up to £300 with the Early Bird Offer. Bring a colleague and combine this discount with the Bring the Team offer, saving you a further £100 on each additional attendee registered at the same time from the same company.

International Search Summit

This year the International Search Summit is being co-located with SMX Advanced. The agenda for ISS is now also available online. If you run international search campaigns then you need to attend ISS too and make great savings with the special combo pass rates.

About Search Marketing Expo

The Search Marketing Expo - SMX conference series is produced by Third Door Media, Inc. Third Door Media's mission is to empower internet and search marketing professionals by providing trusted content and community services they need to be successful. Search Marketing Expo conferences are held around the world and include: SMX West (Santa Clara, CA), SMX East (New York City) SMX Advanced (Seattle, WA and London, England), SMX Munich, SMX Paris, SMX Stockholm, SMX Sydney and SMX Toronto.

Third Door Media publishes Search Engine Land, the leading search marketing news and analysis site. The company also produces Search Marketing Now, a lead-generation marketing solution for suppliers of SEM-related products and services, and operates Sphinn.com, a social news site that allows search and internet marketers to share news stories, participate in subject-specific discussion forums, and build their professional networks.

About Rising Media
Rising Media is a specialized media company focused on the production of business technology-related conferences and exhibitions. Rising Media currently produces events in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Sweden.

Media Contact:

Jackie Bissell

Communications Director, UK

Rising Media

T: +44 1580 714332

Regards,

Chris Captivate

@leeodden " Your Social Media ROI" webinar feedback

2011-03-10T14:31:00.000-08:00

Brought to us by : SEO and Social media Success

The webinar is about to start, it is 22:45 in South Africa right now and im still sitting in the office - yeas i have been wanting to see this Lee Odden perform, have been following him for a while and love his work totally amazing, he was at #SESUK and the reviews that people had about him and what he said was out of this world.

Any way, back to the papers - ill be making notes through out the session and give everyone that couldn't watch it a quick overview of what has been covered... so seeing that you are reading this, il see you in about two lines down the post. ( i have to say the music they are playing while the webinar is loading is like Classic Jazz Elevator music, with style i tell you.....

..60min later...

What can i say! im really impressed by the things Lee covered in this Webinar.

Having a deeper look into coordinated Social Media Marketing and how to take control of social content.

Then he gave a wonderful overview on Costumer Centric keywords/Content.

How you shold work "content &SEO " and "Social & SEO" together and engage your social media with your SEO platforms as well.

Further more Lee also gave some amazing statistics on website' that have successful social media campaigns and the ROI that is being driven behind their strategy and engagement with their costumes.

Lee covered quite a lot on this and the importance of knowing where you stand with your social media ROI tracking. He then presented us with Keys to successful SMM which covered report on a regular basis, how we should benchmark existing levels and to make sure we start with an established objective. Some wonderful information he shared with us here.

he provided us with the best of the best examples ever, from Dell that had a Social Media Strategy and how they booked $3 million in revenue in one year from Twitter postings.

Some great Social Media ROI Metricsc was shared by Lee Odden

- Speed of Sales Cycle

- Precent of Repeat Business

- Precent of Customer Retention

- Translaion Value

- Refferals

- Net New Leads

- Cost Per Lead

- Conversions from Community

For all the juicest information you will have to wait for the video to be posted by SEOand SocialMediaSuccess.com - below a few more topics he covered.

* Who are your biggest fans?

* What internal rescources do you have to create, manage & promote?

*Basic Social is Basic Marketing

I will have the video available on the this post as soon as its been made live.

Would love to give a shout out to Lee Oddenfor a wonderful Webinar.

Catch MR @leeodden here

Stay tuned for more information...

...

Chris Captivate

Google give users BLOCK power

2011-03-10T11:45:00.000-08:00

So the JC Penny and the Google Panda / Farmer update created some talk in the past month or so and Google just thought that is not enough, now that JC Penny is all over the NY Times and Panda' are crawling the web now users can be a part of the Google Machine as well, o my but how? ... Google now announced an update where you as a user will be able to block the websites that you dont want to see in search results. thinks its not true: Google Offical Blok Site Announcement

Now what do we think about that? i think is it beyond amazing! This whole bombing/blasting that is happening in internet marketing is great.

This :

Means that from now on you need to deliver good service (yes i see a lot of good in these things of Google, even though i sometimes hate them for it, I honestly think it is for the good.

Not only will users now decide what is best for them but for once there is some fairness in the air - (No matter who you are and how big your name is, if you don't deliver you will not rank.) (yes I'm hoping for this to happen and now they didn't say this directly but you fucking know Google and their tricks....)

So what does this hold in for the future of our rankings and what dis this hold in for : Black hat SEO Techniques, And those Anal spammers?

Drawing board?

...

Chris Captivate

Google Panda brings us Link Development

2011-03-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

I have been following the Google Panda / Google Farmers updates from the past week or so and have been looking into a few topics that i want to talk about, so starting my research and getting all the articles together i came across something very interesting, something that link builders (the none spammers) can stand up and shout out about.

We are not all that bad and we are not all Filipino contractors that spam the whole www for some satisfaction every month, some of us are hot and attractive and know what we are doing, we are real business people with a more networking like mind.. (i make us sound good because we are that awesome..... yes) Looking to place that little more ethanol in SERPs, fueling up the complete SEO Strategy of websites - now my point behind the post is that the Google Panda update might just bring light to the end of the tunnel for us, after all these years trying to show to the world that link building is not that bad and link spammers are the assholes behind the sense we can finally show face.

So what is Google' Panda doing for us now?

1. Its making those ugly sites disappear, yes the ones that some of the; quote "best link building companies in the world" are using will now just go away. (no im not going to call names but know that there are a few of them.) Question is how do i know this right? - well pretty easy. go to link building services on Google then go to "clients" on your chosen website then look into those websites and the links thats being obtained for them, it is so shocking that you will want to report them. Horrible to see how many websites are out there still ranking from bad unrelated links. Well boys i have news for you (and chicks, for the seochicks.com that will be reading hahah) .. those sites are falling away and it is about time.

I think one amazing thing came from the Google Panda update and that is site quality now applies to WEBSITES, its not about your content anymore and if your footer navigation looks acceptable or not, its now time to have things perfect - no perfection = no rankings. I read an article about ways to waste money on SEO by SearchEngineJournal.com and there is so much truth in there, one thing that got stuck in my mind is that "SEO is not website window dressing" "and its not something you slap on" it is a process and it needs to be created from start to finish. (going off the point, it happens).

2. Link Building strategies will change - well just look at that. how many times have Google said watch out for this and watch out for that but nothing ever happened. Well i think the Google Panda is going to make it happen - if it is not related then why are you linking it?

3. Clever link builders like Todd Malicoat ( i have been watching some of your webinars and they are really interesting) will now be able to stand out from the rest, its becoming more about the best and not the rest (spammers). Link building will finally become a smile upon and not a frown upon and a massive Amen to that.

Then my last point.. i think by now you more or l.ess understand that i think the Google Panda update is making a good change so im not going to elaborate on all the Technical SEO jargon here, keep it short and simple.

Link Development will now be a good foot in the door and Link Building will be something of the past. We can now develop links and keep things SEO friendly. With link developers that will stick to the guidelines and that will HAVE to listen to search engines - in my mind this creates better results for users, (because the biggest problem at this point is not finding what you want, if you sit and think about this carefully a big role is played by the huge amount of irrelevant links pointing in all fucking directions and i can just imagine what that Spider feels like, poor bloody thing)

So this is me being very happy about the Google Panda update with some thoughts behind it, so after starting my research today a technical Link Development follow up will go hand in hand with this and the Google Panda :) .. But first - whats your thoughts ?

Regards

Chris Captivate

Custom SEO Facebook Pages

2010-08-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

Custom Facebook Pages

So today i will give you a step by step guide on how do you create Custom Facebook Pages.

I will be giving you a basic on how to add HTML to a Facebook page.

So the guide will be as follow:

1. Getting to create your Facebook Page.
2. Making an HTML Tab / Box On your Facebook Page

1. Getting To Create Your Facebook Page

So if you came this far you either have an existing Facebook page that you wold like to customize or you would like to get the step by step Guide on this.
Create Your Facebook Page Here you wil find the first step in your whole process of creating your Facebook Page. To make sure you are Following the same way i am you should be on this page after clicking on the link.

From here you get the options to create a Facebook page of your choice.

a. "Local business"

b. "Brand, product, or Organization"

c. "Artist, band, or public figure"

Give your page a name.

Make your selection, make sure you are the official representative person.

So just before you continue your screen will be looking like this ?

From here you will click on " Create Official Page "

And there you go ! Your Page will be created and it will look like a complete empty page that you have landed on.

From here you can follow the information and steps given by Facebook on what to do next.

2. Making an HTML Tab / Box On your Facebook Page

Now your planning starts. You need to think what do you want your HTML page to look like. and what is going to go where. You can use any of the Webdesign Platforms to do this. ( just to get your code right. ) I will be using Dreamweaver CS4 to design my page.

So after Uploading your images to your Facebook page you can now define them in your code to display them in your Page that you are going to create. Its easy. On the image that you uploaded you right click and say "view image " in order for you to get the full URL of the image so that you can add it to your source.

So i got my image source http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs524.ash1/30835_125458890820186_125356770830398_164294_507977_n.jpg that i want to use as a header.

Now im going to build my page. and thats the easy part. make sure you use 100% HTML code. you dont need to add or tags to your code for you are not creating a new file.

So after making your your page and code. The little trick comes in. :)

Got to your main view of your page and click on edit. You will then sit with this screen infront of you.

At the bottom of this edit page you will see "More Applications "

Click on browse more.

And in the top left search Bar you are going to search for FBML. That is the application that is used to add HTML to your Facebook Pages.

If you click on the link it will take you to the FBML Facebook page where you can like the page or just add it to your Facebook.

On the left again you can click to add this to your page.

Now when you navigate back to your Facebook page and go to your edit view you will find that the FBML application is in there.

And all you do here is add the code that you made in for your page into the Edit section. You can also make it a "Tab" on your Facebook or just a "Box"

That is up to you.

Your final Product should look like this.

And you have created yourself a Facebook page with HTML on it :) this can be made your landing page for new visitors to look at.

Hope you had fun.

Captivate

SEO Moz On Chrome

2010-07-30T01:04:00.000-07:00

SEO Moz Toolbar On Chrome

So 2 posts about Chrome, Dam Google is lucky.

all the way again form

So SEOMoz Got their SEOMoz Toolbar on Google Chrome Now as well! WOW!

here is some of the information. Enjoy !

SEOmoz SEO Toolbar for Chrome

SEOmoz has rebuilt its popular Firefox toolbar as an extension for Chrome!
 
SEO Toolbar Highlights

- Easy access to SEOmoz link metrics while you surf the web

- An analyze Page overlay, exposing metrics and page elements

- A SERP overlay with detailed link metrics

- Simple highlighting of nofollowed links.

- Quick access to powerful tools.

- Ability to display the toolbar at the top or bottom of the page


View Linkscape Metrics Right on the Toolbar

- Page Authority and Domain Authority.

- mozRank™ (mR) and mozTrust™ (mT) for every URL that you visit.

- Domain mozRank™ (DmR) and Domain mozTrust™ (DmT) too!

- The number of URLs and domains linking to the page.


Learn more about Linkscape metrics: http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape/help

SEO-Friendly Features

- Page Elements tab displays on-page SEO factors including title tag, meta description, and header tags, and will even highlight duplicate tag usage.

- Page Attributes tab shows broad data, including meta robots and rel="canonical" usage, IP address, and on–page link information.

- Our SERP Overlay lets you evaluate the link profiles of all of the pages in a search engine result page.

- The Analyze Page overlay exposes tons of great SEO metrics.

- The Link Data tab displays tons of link metrics for the page & domain. PRO members (http://www.seomoz.org/gopro) a get expanded link data information!

- Easy highlighting of no–followed links.


Quick Access to Tools and Resources

- Quickly access SEOmoz tools such as Open Site Explorer, Trifecta, Keyword Difficulty, and Rank Tracker.

- Access 3rd–party tools to check useful page, link, and domain information.

- PRO–member features, such as Q&A, videos and PRO tips are also one click away

I only installed the Toolbar today as well will keep you guys up to date on how it is.  Been using it on Firefox for long time now. and been very happy with it there. :)

Feel Free to Click the image Below to go to the Install Page for SEOMoz ToolBar On Chrome.

Now Who Can say they dont Love SEO Moz ! Guys you rock!

Next Suggestion On SEO Fundi will be Google Chrome for they are finally starting to make it more like an SEO Internet Browser. Whoop hoop !

Here a few screenshots of how the toolbar works !

Have fun and enjoy !

Captivate

Google Page Rank For Chrome

2010-07-29T05:56:00.000-07:00

GOOGLE PR ON CHROME !

Now You tell me its not about bloody time!

Google Chrome Now got PR Tool. :)

You can use my post to install it or you can follow the Chrome PR link and do it there.

So all the way form :

And it works like a bomb. Have been testing it out for a few days now. Its awesome.
The Pagerank tool from Google shows you the Pagerank and the number so that you dont need to hover over it.

Here is what it looks like and you can click on the Image to navigate to the Google Chrome Page Rank Install Page.

Google Page Rank For Chrome was developed by Hrishikesh Kale Have No Idea who the dude is but darn am i glad he did this. Couldnt use Google Chrome since it came out for there was no plug ins for it. Now the SEO and PR Plug In awsome stuff Chrome You make the SEO people so happy.

Below an Image of how the PR Tool For Google Chrome works. Trust me on this one. Its really fantastic.

Hope You guys have fun!

A word from the Page Rank Plug In. just so that you know as well.

Helping hand for SEO professionals. This tool will make their way easy with Google Chrome. It is very light weight and fastest of all of them of this category.

Now that Google Chrome has been released with the support of extensions, I thought it would be a good time to get the PageRank extension out the door. As you all already know if you’re reading this, PageRank has been available on Firefox and IE for quite some time. This extension works on Chrome for Windows as well as Chromium for Mac. 

Notice I said Chromium not Chrome. Thats the developer version of Chrome, so if you try to use it for Chrome it will not work.

HAVE FUN ! AND OMW ENJOY THE PR TOOL FOR CHROME

HERE IS THE LINK AGAIN ! GOOGLE PR ON CHROME

Captivate

My Blog @#$ UP

2010-07-27T01:34:00.000-07:00

Blogger Problem

Hi People

So there is a first for everything in life. As you can see . my blog got somewhat of a makeover.

But now i have one problem. At the end of my blog where it is suppose to end it doesn’t. Its making a complete duplication of my blog and in my Design view it shows that there is a widget that is doing it but i cant get rid of this bloody widget.

Does anyone know how to remove this. I have checked in my code and cant seem to fins the problem.

Any help would be appreciated for this made me lose my PR as well. I might know about blogging but darn this one got me stuck.

I have a few screen shots of what it looks like on my side and also the code that i am using on my template ( o and if you are clever you might pick up some SEO tips in that as well )

I would just like to remove this widget that is creating the duplication on my blog.

So here is what it looks like in my design view. ( o and i can move the widget around i just can’t remove it, it doesn't give me the option to )

So thats what it looks like. But try and edit and remove it ! NO LUCK !

Here is my template code with all my widgets and SEO things . lol... ( very clever of me hey. hahah )

    <data:blog.pageTitle/>

    body {
font: $(body.font);
color: $(body.text.color);
background: $(body.background);
}

html body .content-outer {
min-width: 0;
max-width: 100%;
width: 100%;
}

a:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: $(link.color);
}

a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: $(link.visited.color);
}

a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: $(link.hover.color);
}

.body-fauxcolumn-outer .cap-top {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;

height: 276px;
width: 100%;

background: transparent $(body.background.gradient.cap) repeat-x scroll top left;
_background-image: none;
}

/* Columns
----------------------------------------------- */
.content-inner {
padding: 0;
}

.header-inner .section {
margin: 0 16px;
}

.tabs-inner .section {
margin: 0 16px;
}

.main-inner {
padding-top: $(date.space);
}

.main-inner .column-center-inner,
.main-inner .column-left-inner,
.main-inner .column-right-inner {
padding: 0 5px;
}

*+html body .main-inner .column-center-inner {
margin-top: -$(date.space);
}

#layout .main-inner .column-center-inner {
margin-top: 0;
}

/* Header
----------------------------------------------- */
.header-outer {
margin: $(header.margin.top) 0 $(header.margin.bottom) 0;
background: $(header.background.color) $(header.background.gradient) repeat scroll 0 0;
}

.Header h1 {
font: $(header.font);
color: $(header.text.color);
text-shadow: 0 0 $(title.shadow.spread) #000000;
}

.Header h1 a {
color: $(header.text.color);
}

.Header .description {
font: $(description.font);
color: $(description.text.color);
}

.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper,
.header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper {
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper {
padding-top: $(header.padding.top);
}

/* Tabs
----------------------------------------------- */
.tabs-outer {
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
background: $(tabs.background.color) $(tabs.background.gradient) repeat scroll 0 0;
}

#layout .tabs-outer {
overflow: visible;
}

.tabs-cap-top, .tabs-cap-bottom {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;

border-top: 1px solid $(tabs.border.color);

}

.tabs-cap-bottom {
bottom: 0;
}

.tabs-inner .widget li a {
display: inline-block;

margin: 0;
padding: .6em 1.5em;

font: $(tabs.font);
color: $(tabs.text.color);

border-top: 1px solid $(tabs.border.color);
border-bottom: 1px solid $(tabs.border.color);
border-$startSide: 1px solid $(tabs.border.color);
}

.tabs-inner .widget li:last-child a {
border-$endSide: 1px solid $(tabs.border.color);
}

.tabs-inner .widget li.selected a, .tabs-inner .widget li a:hover {
background: $(tabs.selected.background.color) $(tabs.background.gradient) repeat-x scroll 0 -100px;
color: $(tabs.selected.text.color);
}

/* Headings
----------------------------------------------- */
h2 {
font: $(widget.title.font);
color: $(widget.title.text.color);
}

/* Widgets
----------------------------------------------- */
.main-inner .section {
margin: 0 27px;
padding: 0;
}

.main-inner .column-left-outer,
.main-inner .column-right-outer {
margin-top: $(widget.outer.margin.top);
}

#layout .main-inner .column-left-outer,
#layout .main-inner .column-right-outer {
margin-top: 0;
}

.main-inner .column-left-inner,
.main-inner .column-right-inner {
background: $(widget.outer.background.color) $(widget.outer.background.gradient) repeat 0 0;

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(outer.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(outer.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 $(outer.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(outer.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

-moz-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-webkit-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-goog-ms-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
}

#layout .main-inner .column-left-inner,
#layout .main-inner .column-right-inner {
margin-top: 0;
}

.sidebar .widget {
font: $(widget.font);
color: $(widget.text.color);
}

.sidebar .widget a:link {
color: $(widget.link.color);
}

.sidebar .widget a:visited {
color: $(widget.link.visited.color);
}

.sidebar .widget a:hover {
color: $(widget.link.hover.color);
}

.sidebar .widget h2 {
text-shadow: 0 0 $(title.shadow.spread) #000000;
}

.main-inner .widget {
background-color: $(widget.background.color);
border: 1px solid $(widget.border.color);
padding: 0 $(widget.padding.side) 15px;
margin: 20px -16px;

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

-moz-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-webkit-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-goog-ms-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
}

.main-inner .widget h2 {
margin: 0 -$(separator.outdent);
padding: .6em $(separator.outdent) .5em;
border-bottom: 1px solid $(widget.border.bevel.color);
}

.footer-inner .widget h2 {
padding: 0 0 .4em;

border-bottom: 1px solid $(widget.border.bevel.color);
}

.main-inner .widget h2 + div, .footer-inner .widget h2 + div {
border-top: $(title.separator.border.size) solid $(widget.border.color);
padding-top: $(widget.padding.top);
}

.main-inner .widget .widget-content {
margin: 0 -$(separator.outdent);
padding: 7px $(separator.outdent) 0;
}

.main-inner .widget ul, .main-inner .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat {
margin: -$(widget.padding.top) -15px 0;
padding: 0;

list-style: none;
}

.main-inner .widget #ArchiveList {
margin: -$(widget.padding.top) 0 0;
}

.main-inner .widget ul li, .main-inner .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat li {
padding: .5em 15px;
text-indent: 0;

color: $(widget.alternate.text.color);

border-top: $(list.separator.border.size) solid $(widget.border.color);
border-bottom: 1px solid $(widget.border.bevel.color);
}

.main-inner .widget #ArchiveList ul li {
padding-top: .25em;
padding-bottom: .25em;
}

.main-inner .widget ul li:first-child, .main-inner .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat li:first-child {
border-top: none;
}

.main-inner .widget ul li:last-child, .main-inner .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat li:last-child {
border-bottom: none;
}

.post-body {
position: relative;
}

.main-inner .widget .post-body ul {
padding: 0 2.5em;
margin: .5em 0;

list-style: disc;
}

.main-inner .widget .post-body ul li {
padding: 0.25em 0;
margin-bottom: .25em;

color: $(body.text.color);

border: none;
}

.footer-inner .widget ul {
padding: 0;

list-style: none;
}

.widget .zippy {
color: $(widget.alternate.text.color);
}

/* Posts
----------------------------------------------- */
body .main-inner .Blog {
padding: 0;
margin-bottom: 1em;

background-color: transparent;
border: none;

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}

.main-inner .section:last-child .Blog:last-child {
padding: 0;
margin-bottom: 1em;
}

.main-inner .widget h2.date-header {
margin: 0 -15px 1px;
padding: 0 0 $(date.padding.bottom) 0;

font: $(date.font);
color: $(date.text.color);

background: $(date.background);

border-top: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
border-bottom: 1px solid $(widget.border.bevel.color);

-moz-border-radius-topleft: $(date.header.border.radius.top);
-moz-border-radius-topright: $(date.header.border.radius.top);
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: $(date.header.border.radius.top);
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: $(date.header.border.radius.top);
border-top-left-radius: $(date.header.border.radius.top);
border-top-right-radius: $(date.header.border.radius.top);

position: $(date.position);
bottom: 100%;
$(date.side): $(date.header.position);
text-shadow: 0 0 $(title.shadow.spread) #000000;
}

.main-inner .widget h2.date-header span {
font: $(date.font);
display: block;
padding: .5em 15px;
border-left: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
border-right: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
}

.date-outer {
position: relative;
margin: $(date.space) 0 20px;
padding: 0 15px;

background-color: $(post.background.color);
border: 1px solid $(post.border.color);

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

-moz-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-webkit-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-goog-ms-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
}

.date-outer:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}

.date-outer:last-child {
margin-bottom: $(date.last.space.bottom);

-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
-goog-ms-border-bottom-left-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
-goog-ms-border-bottom-right-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
border-bottom-left-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
border-bottom-right-radius: $(date.last.border.radius.bottom);
}

.date-posts {
margin: 0 -$(separator.outdent);
padding: 0 $(separator.outdent);

clear: both;
}

.post-outer, .inline-ad {
border-top: 1px solid $(post.border.bevel.color);

margin: 0 -$(separator.outdent);
padding: 15px $(separator.outdent);
}

.post-outer {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}

.post-outer:first-child {
padding-top: $(post.first.padding.top);
border-top: none;
}

.post-outer:last-child, .inline-ad:last-child {
border-bottom: none;
}

.post-body {
position: relative;
}

.post-body img {
padding: 8px;
background: $(image.background.color);
border: 1px solid $(image.border.color);

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(image.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(image.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(image.shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

-moz-border-radius: $(image.border.radius);
-webkit-border-radius: $(image.border.radius);
border-radius: $(image.border.radius);
}

h3.post-title, h4 {
font: $(post.title.font);
color: $(post.title.text.color);
}

h3.post-title a {
font: $(post.title.font);
color: $(post.title.text.color);
}

h3.post-title a:hover {
color: $(link.hover.color);
text-decoration: underline;
}

.post-header {
margin: 0 0 1em;
}

.post-body {
line-height: 1.4;
}

.post-outer h2 {
color: $(body.text.color);
}

.post-footer {
margin: 1.5em 0 0;
}

#blog-pager {
padding: 15px;
font-size: 120%;

background-color: $(pager.background.color);
border: 1px solid $(widget.border.color);

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

-moz-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-webkit-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
-goog-ms-border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);
border-radius: $(widget.border.radius);

-moz-border-radius-topleft: $(pager.border.radius.top);
-moz-border-radius-topright: $(pager.border.radius.top);
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: $(pager.border.radius.top);
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: $(pager.border.radius.top);
-goog-ms-border-top-left-radius: $(pager.border.radius.top);
-goog-ms-border-top-right-radius: $(pager.border.radius.top);
border-top-left-radius: $(pager.border.radius.top);
border-top-right-radius-topright: $(pager.border.radius.top);

margin-top: $(pager.space.top);
}

.blog-feeds, .post-feeds {
margin: 1em 0;
text-align: center;
color: $(feed.text.color);
}

.blog-feeds a, .post-feeds a {
color: $(feed.link.color);
}

.blog-feeds a:visited, .post-feeds a:visited {
color: $(feed.link.visited.color);
}

.blog-feeds a:hover, .post-feeds a:hover {
color: $(feed.link.hover.color);
}

.post-outer .comments {
margin-top: 2em;
}

/* Footer
----------------------------------------------- */
.footer-outer {
margin: -$(shadow.spread) 0 -1px;
padding: $(shadow.spread) 0 0;
color: $(footer.text.color);
overflow: hidden;
}

.footer-fauxborder-left {
border-top: 1px solid $(widget.border.color);
background: $(footer.background.color) $(footer.background.gradient) repeat scroll 0 0;

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
box-shadow: 0 0 $(shadow.spread) rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);

margin: 0 -$(shadow.spread);
}
]]-->

Google Is My Child

2010-07-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

Google The Powerful Kid !

Sounds like a weird topic? It is, and hopefully Google can see the laugh in it.

So people have been asking how do you explain Google to someone or to a client. What do you say to people that doesn’t know about algorithms and indexing, what do you classify the searching of Google as.

Easy, Google is my child and people pay me to do my best to get Google to see them as sweets and not vegetables. Get what im saying??

Its easy to explain SEO in the a way that everyone can understand.

So pay attention and get the understandable explanation of Google " as child " .

Say for example you have a website that is not in Google, not seen by Google or anything that way. That is for the reason that Google doesn’t see you as part of his bag of toys. So how do you get it in?

Make it attractive to Google make sure you get the whole of what is on your site ready for Google to play with. He must be able to run through your whole site, he must be able to see what it is all about and if it "over shows" of what it is then you will make him feel like a child and he is going to kick you out of his toy box. !

Showing him all the interesting parts of your sites will make him love it even more, that is where the trick is is to treat him like a child; if you give a child to much toys he is not gona play with all of them. Give him enough and he will love all of them ( yet every now and then you need to add to the toy basket to keep it interesting).

Then you have a winner formula and a very happy child. Spamming your site with links and keywords are TO MUCH! Having a unique structure and an outstanding content that is not duplicated is the best to make this "child" happy! Showing him everywhere on the web that your site is about something specific is what you want.
This is his playground and you will have to dance according to his needs.

Now to say all of this can give you a basic understanding on how Google works and what Google is.

The technical side of this will be something like this.

Say for example you have a website that is not Indexed in Google Servers, Not seen by Google bots or spiders or anything. That is for the reason that Google doesn’t see your site; its is either not craw able or not being allowed to get indexed by NoIndex NoFollow data or robot.txt.

So how do you get it indexed ? Make it attractive to Google make sure your internal linking reaches all the main landing pages that you are targeting on your site, content as unique as can be with limitation on bolding of keywords and linking to other pages internally, make it SEO friendly for a Google Bot to run through your whole site with W3C friendly pages and no excess code and errors, make sure you have Coding language that is readable to Google preferably HTML, have text links and footer navigation on your pages to run across your site as main categories where you target specific keywords.

No spamming of keywords in your metadata , internal linking or bolding out it is to much and Google will flag or even blacklist you.
Stick to a decent structure and linking strategy and you will have a winning formula, keeping metadata to a hierarchical structure across your site can win you some ranking positions.

Show Google and the web what you are all about.
From social media to root linking, get a linking structure that fits your site and keep it in your industry showing Google in a racking site that you do flowers is not going to work. Get high links from high ranking sites that Google is seeing as good authority for the keywords that you are targeting and you will be able to get more results from it. Google got the algorithms set out and you just need to follow them master that and you can master your keyword rankings !

So that is Google from my point of view.

Hope its worth reading and hope you had fun.

Chris Captivate

New Yahoo Tool!

2010-06-28T01:52:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Website Performance Tool

Nice tool from Yahoo to measure end-user website performance. It's a bit of JS you add. Neat idea, Yahoo!

The Exceptional Performance crew at Yahoo has launched Boomerang.

"Boomerang is a piece of Javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With Boomerang, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is."

Lovingly hand-crafted with the assistance of the Yahoo Developer Network, the EP team thinks that Boomerang will help reduce the disconnect between push and pull.

When we launch a site or write a blog or anything else online, a combination of our experience and expectations give us a sense of how our site will be used. The problem is, nobody is free of the chains of their own subjectivity. If you're an intuitive person, or someone with a very strong point of view, stats can be either a harsh corrective or a pleasant affirmation of your gut instincts. Boomerang hopes to help you see your site from the end-user's point of view.

Among the uses of Boomerang, the team has listed these possible measurements.

+ A page's perceived performance - it takes into account the moments at which a page becomes usable for a reader

+ Performance of dynamic pages

+ User bandwidth

+ Component load time

+ Network latency

Boomerang API is downloadable here.

Boomerang's github page is here.

Knock yourselves out you crazy kids.

Article from Yahoo

Captivate SEO

The Laugh In Social Media

2010-06-14T04:41:00.000-07:00

Social Media Laugh

South Park Facebook Scene

Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone

2010-06-11T00:02:00.001-07:00

Blogger Template Designer

"When we launched the Blogger Template Designer to Blogger in Draft in March, you gave us a lot of feedback and suggestions. Our blog post received nearly 1,000 comments and many of you shared your blog’s new looks on Twitter using #newbloggertemplate. Since the launch, we fixed many bugs and added even more themes and background images. But the Blogger Template Designer has only been available on Blogger in Draft, which is why we’re excited to announce that the Blogger Template Designer is now available to everyone.

Highlights

How you look online is important, and everybody wants to look unique. With the Blogger Template Designer, you can create your own blog designs through:

Beautiful new templates. We’ve designed 19 brand-new templates, with more on the way. You can quickly give your blog a great new style by selecting one of the new templates.[1]
Separating design from layout. Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
Hundreds of free, professional background images. We've paired up with iStockphoto to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost.
A single control to change all your design's colors. With other platforms, users have to define every color in their blog separately, making changing the color theme of your blog a tedious task. The Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
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Google uses page speed as ranking factor

2010-06-09T11:50:00.001-07:00

Google Caffeine Official Update !

Today, Google announced the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than their last index, and it's the largest collection of web content they offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

Some background for those of you who don't build search engines for a living like Google: when you search Google, you're not searching the live web. Instead you're searching Google's index of the web which, like the list in the back of a book, helps you pinpoint exactly the information you need. (Here's a good explanation of how it all works.) Google indexed the World Wide Web for you to make it easier for you to find things!

So why did they build a new search indexing system? Content on the web is blossoming. It's growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates, the average web page is richer and more complex. In addition, people's expectations for search are higher than they used to be. Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish.

To keep up with the evolution of the web and to meet rising user expectations, they built Caffeine. The image below illustrates how the old indexing system worked compared to Google Caffeine:

The old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, they would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when Google found a page and made it available to you.

With Caffeine, Google analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As Google find new pages, or new information on existing pages, Google can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before — no matter when or where it was published it now becomes available quicker than ever!.

Caffeine lets Google index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

Google built Caffeine with the future in mind. Not only is it fresher, it's a robust foundation that makes it possible for Google to build an even faster and comprehensive search engine that scales with the growth of information online, and delivers even more relevant search results to you. So stay tuned, and look for more improvements in the months to come!

Original Article By Google

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - CNN

2010-05-21T04:46:00.000-07:00

Behind the Scenes at CNN !
( SEO )

Well who knew the big marketing behind CNN is a one man team! believe it or not but this man does the Search engine optimization for CNN all on his own!. Click the title link or below and see the interview on CNN SEO !!!! Really awsome!
Thanks.

SEO CNN

Chris Captivate

Tweet Deck - Social Media Marketing

2010-05-14T05:49:00.000-07:00

TweetDeck
Social Media Marketing

WELL WHAT CAN I SAY! OMW ! What an amazing program, You can finally have full control over all your profiles. is there anything more an SEO Expert want? WOW!. i love the technology that comes with social media marketing, Yes it took me a while to get the software for i really thought it will suck.

logging in and out of my profiles with sowtfare is just gona make it worst! so i decided one day to check it out and read up a little bit about it. And yes. i was wrong, its more like logging in to all your accounts and not log out. you stay logged in to any of your profiles no matter where you go, so you can update any of your online social media profiles through the software, and feel like maby posting the same status on multiple profiles, just select the profiles and there you go!

So from an SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) point of view i really think this is awsome, having 20 - 40 clients twitter accounts that you need to maintain is a mission to log in and out all the time,! TweetDeck rocks!

i have here some more information about this super awesome new social media Software

This is TweetDeck

Founder of TweetDeck

Ian Dodsworth : Linkedin | Twitter

Bio : Husband, Father, TweetDeck Founder & CEO. LIKES: F1, Coffee, Occasional Cigar, Xbox (Gamertag: Dodders) ~ Information Source
Ian Dodsworth Twitter

Ian Dodsworht as super awesome monster Developer ! =]

- Senior Flex Developer at Prudential Financial
- Freelance Flex Consultant Developer at Dashbrook
- Senior Developer at PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Digital Text Technical Consultant at BSkyB
- Lead Interactive Developer at BSkyB
- CTO & Joint Founder at Siren Communications Corp.
- Intranet Technical Consultant at BBC
- Web Developer Team Leader at AKQA

Feel Free to Download TweetDeck

Chris Captivate

Google Update

2010-05-11T03:32:00.000-07:00

Google Update Caffeine ?? Is It?

Well so i take everyone has seen the wonderful update in Google about a week or 2 ago?

So here are a few facts about the algorithm update from Google.

"In January 2010 Google will have a major Google algorithm update which will involve other factors then only back links. Site speed, loading time is going to be a very important factor in 2010." ~ SEO Watch

"The full statement says: “Based on the success we’ve seen, we believe Caffeine is ready for a larger audience. Soon we will activate Caffeine more widely, beginning with one data centre. This sandbox is no longer necessary and has been retired, but we appreciate the testing and positive input that webmasters and publishers have given.” ~ Google

So there is how many things going around about the Update, what i have heard from a Google Employee is that the latest Google Update is Caffeine ! and i do be lieve that it is, they said everything is going to change to more live, more social searches, now you can start thinking in my ealier posting i posted this thing about Social Media, and what it is becoming. Still thinking that social media is a waste, look at it people, in the world of SEO people are more concerned about their social media stats than what they are about their rankings on Google. Can that be true ? Yes it is!

The time of social media being the world is here, its now the time that your say can make or break companies, that's what we want right? For only the best to get to the top!

Now even Google is making sure that you get better answers and better results, by using Social Media as the Guideline for their rankings, the new Google update is going to rip a lot of Search Engine Optimisation Companies this is sad yet, getting the best to the top ??

We need to keep that in mind.

So now. a few tips on keeping your site ranking high and making sure you don't crash!

- Stay active on your site, ( get your site updated regularly )
- Keep the fresh content flowing in ( remember not to much no spamming )
- Make sure your site is everywhere on Social media, get the people talking about your products etc, even if you have to run a promotion on You-tube just to get the video on there, so that people can laugh about it do it. Google likes it.
- make sure your links are organic, no more link farms you are going to regret it!
- stay in touch and stay updated with Google and all the social media events and updates.

a few small things that can make the big difference on your site :)

Safe SEO and keep it Social !

Captivate

World SEO Expert

2010-03-30T00:53:00.000-07:00

World SEO Expert

So this is where my journey start of adventure, in an attempt to be the best Search Engine Optimization expert in the world i need to be able to prove it. And yes i know there is people that are much beter than me and that is why they are Called SEO Guru's. And on the leader im a few steps behind them. Tell me if i am wrong but this is how it looks.

1. SEO Consultant
2. SEO Specialist
3. SEO Expert
4. SEO Guru

As far as i know that is the 4 phases on which we get rated. Am i wrong?

Firstly for today i have to say that this morning i came across on some awesome information. I will make a full post about this still but here is a little preview.

Social Media And Google Analytics.

Yes this is a guide for you on how to add Google Analytics to your Facebook Pages.
Writen by Mariam John.

"You’ve created a Facebook fan page and people are frequenting your page.
But do you really know how many people visit your page, what areas are popular and what parts of the world your visitors come from? Facebook Insights shows some demographic information on your page, but is limited to information about interactions with your fans. The free Google Analytics tool offers more sophisticated and comprehensive data. Adding Google Analytics to your fan page can be done easily but requires some special steps."
~ Adding Google Analytics To Your Facebook

This is really wonderful and yes i tried it the SEO that i am ( we always do).

So, back to my point of getting to be World SEO Expert! i want you the reader or SEO Consoltant, SEO Specialist, SEO Expert or even SEO Guru to put down a few fact where you will be able to say that someone with these skills can be crowned SEO Expert World. Yes the Best SEO Expert in the World.

Please feel free to post anything. If you in the need of rating me already. You can check Out my SEO Expert profile

Thank You

Stay close, have some amazing Sandbox/ Caffeine And Google Analytics Update posting soon!.

\m/ Chris Captivate \m/

Google Indexing

2010-03-12T04:23:00.000-08:00

Site Index In Google

Hi People.

So everyone looks for the trick to index in Google, and index quickly? if i say that it is possible that you can index your site in Google in less than a day ? or less than an hour? would you think that i am loosing my head?

Learning from the best SEO Guru in the world anything is possible! . and yes the trick has been found to do such a thing as to have a brand spanking new website indexed in a day! now you are wondering how on earth is this done. Its easy and its quick. If you can think that extra bit further and just think where Google visits the most then there is your answer!.

There is a trick to everything. and im not saying that you need to go and put revisit metadata on your site so that Google can revisit your site every 10 seconds. NO! its not even that difficult.

The trick to this is Social Media.!! That is the answer to all SEO, and new marketing. You can do yourself a favor and look on my blog for the Social Media Revolution video and see for yourself how big this is getting.

So. here is your answer. How do i get my site indexed in less than a day ? ( and this mean that you can register a domain right now ! and get it indexed before you can blink your eyes)

Answer : Go visit your favorite social bookmark and ( there is 3 that works the best, Find them yourself ;) ) and submit your site there. you can trace and time in Google then. Within hours your site will be indexed. This works best for sites thats not even found on Google at all!. So try it out. Would Love to hear your comments on this.

SEO Goodluck :)

Chris Captivate SEO Expert

Big SEO Stats

2010-02-22T23:18:00.000-08:00

Google Analytics STATS

Hi Every One

Yes i know i haven't posted in some time, been busy busy! ...

So very interesting topic this morning.

I had so many people asking me now - is there really companies that makes money online. ? do they really get a lot of people to their site?

So now you thinking ( how stupid does these people really need to be) - well there are millions of people out there with pretty darn good companies, AND THEY DONT KNOW THAT THERE IS AN ONLINE MARKET. Come on! wake up yes online is the business world. that is how it works.

We sit here with businesses that relies on the internet, they turn millions a year just by being online with the right people. There is no use in being online and not having marketing done for your site. Some where along the line you are gona have to get your business out, in the whole world of mouth. SEO plays the bigest role in about 60 - 80 % of companies online. and the best way to go is Google, Social Media and word of mouth! i take we all know that by now.

So now here is something you show someone that cant believe that there is companies online that is making big money. This is what Search Engine Optimization does to your company! This is the result of Social Media and Being on the roll on the move on the Internet and with the Leaders of the SEO world. :)

This is a company that we do SEO For. Yes what you see there is

1- 230,397 Visits

2- 1,106,725 Page Views

This is just an average site ??
Believe it or not, this is just .co.za Local South African website - that is the stats they getting from SEO ! Dont believe me? here is the traffic source !

That is 76.06% Traffic just from Search Engines! ....
That is a total of 175,245 visits just from SEO!

So you still have the question of is SEO worth it? is it wiorth waiting for to kick in and make money? Decide for yourself.

This site has been focused on now for just over a year and this is where they are standing!.....

Who knows what we can do with your site??

Captivate \m/^_^\m/
SEO Expert

Google And Twitter

2010-02-17T09:16:00.000-08:00

A Wonderful Post On the Google And Twitter Relationship that is currently being updated on Google. Where you see live twitter updates in Google, This is Social Media.

And if you watched the Social Media Revolution Video on my blog you will know and understand what this is all about.

It is the future !
It is World Of Mouth !
It is Social Media !

SMM Twitter, Facebook, Blogger Marketing

2010-02-17T01:02:00.000-08:00

SMM - SEO Your Twitter, Facebook

So what is SMM - Social Media Marketing

Social media is best defined in the context of the previous industrial media paradigm. Traditional media, such as television, newspapers, radio, and magazines, are one-way, static broadcast technologies. For instance, the magazine publisher is a large organization that distributes expensive content to consumers, while advertisers pay for the privilege of inserting their ads into that content. Or you’re sitting down, watching your favorite sitcom, and suddenly you’re interrupted by commercials (luckily, you have a DVR, so you can fast-forward through them). If you disagree with something you read in the newspaper, you can’t send the editorial staff instant feedback. And good luck connecting with your morning radio on-air personality.

New web technologies have made it easy for anyone to create—and, most importantly—distribute their own content. A blog post, tweet, or YouTube video can be produced and viewed by millions virtually for free. Advertisers don’t have to pay publishers or distributors huge sums of money to embed their messages; now they can make their own interesting content that viewers will flock to. Social media comes in many forms, but for our purposes, I’ll focus on the eight most popular: blogs, microblogs (Twitter), social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn), media-sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr), social bookmarking and voting sites (Digg, Reddit), review sites (Yelp), forums, and virtual worlds (Second Life).

Social Media Marketing is taking over the world of marketing.
SMM is word of mouth, its what you want its what i want and every other business in the world!
You have to like what they are sying about your Company! Because this is where you get the most business from. Its here where one friend tells another friend where to shop for what and how good their prices are!

SMM ( Social Media Marketing ) and YOU!

Whether you are part of a small, medium, or giant business, or are an individual entrepreneur, your customers are using social media, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be, too. It costs almost nothing, it’s
easy to get started, and it can have an enormous financial impact on your business.

Captivate \m/^_^\m/
SEO Specialist

SEO Specialist

2010-02-11T07:32:00.000-08:00

SEO Specialist

Hi

If you have been wondering around the site now for a while you would have noticed who i am, why i am doing this and what my goal is in life.

And yes i am 100% sure that i will reach it at the end of the day. :)

But enough about me and who i am where i wane be and how i want to effect the SEO world by being an SEO Specialist.

I would like all of you! that got to this page by either searching Google for SEO Specialist or by sites that referred you here. Yes you reading this right now! You. i want all of you to give opinion here, share all your SEO thoughts, and if you are an SEO Specialist yourself and would like to get me on the right track. Please feel free to open your mouth and share, i am still more than whiling to learn and as the saying goes you never to old to learn so shoot it out!!.

And then also if there is any of you that need SEO or need an SEO Specialists advice please feel free to CONTACT ME here ! This is your opportunity to get hold of an SEO Specialist and to make sure you find out how you can benefit from your website and get your business SEO'd!!!

SEO ON!!!

Captivate \m/^_^\m/

Social Media Marketing

2010-02-07T23:12:00.000-08:00

Social Media Marketing = SMM

Hi All.

So social media is the biggest thing on the web at the moment it took over porn as number 1 activity on the web , 1 out of 8 married couples last year in the US met via social media. amazed?
You should be, coz thinking of it from an SEO point of view this is a market that is open to the world, this is word of mouth that we all are looking for, this is your way of getting you service or product out on the web, social media marketing is a big thing and its something that exploded over night, yes all the stats shows it, that the big social media sites like Facebook exploded over night with users, so quickly that the next day they had to run around to get servers everywhere so that their platform doesn't crash! this is bigger than what you and i thought!..

i have a video here that you can have a look at, its some interesting facts about social media, and if you can sit and think with a business mind afterwards and see the opportunities that this has to offer then you will understand why you need to get into the SEO world and get a better understanding of what this is and where it is taking you and me!

This is Social Media Marketing = SMM
this is Wor(l)d Of Mouth!

\m/^_^\m/
Captivate
Search Engine Optimization Specialist

Welcome To Captivate SEO

2010-01-28T05:48:00.000-08:00

Hi And a warm welcome to Captivate SEO.

Here you will find out all about me, the places i work the Search Engine Optimization research that i do and more about the SEO world and where i am trying to take it. You can find your daily updates here, from Google algorithm updates to the latest in strategies of SEO.

Any questions can be answered right here and right now. I can show you the way to the best of places in the SEO world and to where you will get your value for money the best. this is your first step into the door of SEO and a nice big step forward into the world of Search Engine Optimization.

There is loads of pages still to be created and to add on. I will provide the perfect tools for you to check your websites. And for other SEO Consultants and SEO Experts, feel free to share your knowledge and tips here. SEO is a very big competition to all of us. Yet we are here to help those who need it most. Always keep in mind that you had a day ( i dont know how long ago ) that you also didnt know jack about SEO and Serach Engine Optimization.

So take this opportunity to also see your skills grow in someone else.

I will have a links page onsite, where all SEO Consultants and SEO experts can share links and exchange website that they need ranked.

Stay close and keep your eyes open, the smallest of things can tell a whole sotry here. and feel free to check out my other Google SEO blog.

And for all my quick updates. Things i come across and follow me on SEO Friendly Twitter

Enjoy the journey through my life, my career and the world of SEO !

Have fun and enjoy.

Captivate. \m/^_^\m/

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SEO - Search Engine Optimization - CNN

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SEO CNN

Tweet Deck - Social Media Marketing

TweetDeck Social Media Marketing

This is TweetDeck

Founder of TweetDeck

Ian Dodsworht as super awesome monster Developer ! =]

Google Update

Google Update Caffeine ?? Is It?

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World SEO Expert

Social Media And Google Analytics.

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Site Index In Google

Big SEO Stats

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SMM - SEO Your Twitter, Facebook

So what is SMM - Social Media Marketing

SMM ( Social Media Marketing ) and YOU!

SEO Specialist

SEO Specialist

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing = SMM

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Behind the Scenes at CNN !
( SEO )

TweetDeck
Social Media Marketing