Matt Cutts announced a major algorithm change was coming soon. It has been dubbed Penguin 2.0 and news of it’s pending release whipped the SEO community into a lather about the effects of Penguin on their SEO efforts. Currently Penguin is a filter on link quality sitting atop of the Google ranking algorithm. This filter [...]

Content marketing joins SEO in the ranks of terms I do not like used to describe the industry I work in. I have already ranted about how I feel about the use of the term SEO. In the early days of the Internet we optimized for the search engines, but anyone still doing that in [...]

Ranking number one on Google was the number one request I received when I was freelancing as a search marketing expert. 98% were relevant requests but the odd one would leave me shaking my head. Like the woman who owned a DJ service and asked me to get her a number one ranking for “Lady [...]

If your website is engaged in any sort of commerce; in other words your site exists to engage with consumers with the ultimate goal of a financial transaction, the Google Freemium Model is Alive and Kicking . What do I mean by this? Freemium is a term which means free at first but if you [...]

I’m hoping to experience a Blogging Renaissance. This blog has been operating at a reduced pace for some time now. I find I am struggling to post and write the posts I would like to be writing: informative posts that answer a question or solve a problem for my readers. It’s not as if I’m [...]

The Rocket Man TTC App was one of the first iOS apps I installed on my Apple iPhone 4S. I wanted an app which was similar in features to the Next TTC Apps for Android I was using. A lot of my co-workers with iPhones had installed this app and raved about it. The price [...]

My name is newmedia Mike and I am an App addict. My addiction began with my Blackberry and got intense with the Android. When I was on the Android platform I had over 100 apps on my device constantly. I also started blogging about and reviewing apps.  Since joining the dark side of Apple, my fascination with [...]