Organic SEO Guidelines Easy To Follow

Ranking high in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) is no longer optional if you want to succeed with an online business…it’s mandatory! The amount of content that is searchable is growing and expanding by the minute. Finding your way to the top of the SERP can seem like an overwhelming or impossible task. Rest assured it is not impossible, nor is it an option if you want to grow and expand your business. With a little over 88 Billion searches occurring on Google each month, it’s obvious that the Internet has become the new Yellow Pages. As a society, we now search the internet for everything from driving directions to product reviews while we stand in the store and stare at a potential purchase. Smart phones, laptops, tablets and the abundance of free WiFi has made us an extremely mobile and search agile society and these numbers are predicted to more than double in the next 5 years.

See the entire post here: http://safehouseweb.com/2011/12/what-organic-search-engine-optimization-can-do-for-your-business/

Add Twitter Profile Style With Kuvva

Are you still using the same old default blue cloud as your Twitter profile’s background? Why not spruce it up a bit with Kuvva, the easiest way to have a unique, stylish Twitter background that changes weekly.

Kuvva sources the best curated content from some of the world’s leading artists, designers, illustrators and photographers to bring quality, beautiful images to your Twitter profile. It lets users receive an image set or playlist each week and streams to their Twitter profiles so that, as Kuvva says, “Twitter user profiles can look as stylish as the users themselves.”

Google Office Raided By South Korean Police

Google’s Seoul office was raided by the South Korean police under suspicions that the Internet search firm’s mobile advertising unit, AdMob, had illegally collected data without consent or approval from the Korean Communication Commission.

According to Reuters, the probe comes as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a broad investigation into Google and reportedly alerting high-tech firms to gather data ahead of a probe into Google’s dominance of the Internet search industry.

A Google spokesman says the company is cooperating with the police and their investigation.

South Korea has been active on crackdowns on Internet and tech companies that violate user privacy and Google is not alone under the microscope. South Korea’s telecom regulator has also recently announced its plans for an Apple probe to determine whether the company’s collection of location data from iPhone and iPad devices violates privacy rules.

source: Reuters

Freelance Web Developers: How To Not Feel Alone About Getting Jewed Down

“To all those saying that this kind of client behavior is related to today’s economy, I assure you that it is not. I’ve been freelancing for 25 years and every one of these (hilariously presented) excuses has been there all along. Sadly, it’s nothing new at all.” -freelancer, unknown

From the video presenter: Vendor Client Relationships

Every relationship has a story. “The Vendor Client Relationship” is a story that connected with more than half a million viewers in less than 14 days. When a story goes viral, it is finding a truth, touching a nerve or making people laugh. That’s what we do. It’s come as a surprise to many that this very viral video was created in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was. And that’s another story.

Basic Instinct: Attractive Blog Topics

What makes throngs of people horde to a blog, and then come back over and over?

Many different subjects appear to interest readers at the surface level.

But the most successful blogs have articles that focus on one of three basic instincts.

Those blogs:

1. Help their readers make money
2. Teach their readers how to save money
3. Inspire their readers to feel happier

Wah-lah! Now put some thought into how you can address one, or a combination of, those topics and you’ll be off to a great start.