You wouldn’t let your plumber fix a problem with your  electricity. You wouldn’t let a chef build your house. You wouldn’t let a  computer engineer be your wilderness guide.

So what’s the deal with businesses letting the IT guys run  their websites? Let’s look into the reasons why some companies hand their  website responsibilities off to the wrong department.

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We just launched Leather Express! Leather Express is the only retailer to specialize in leather furniture, offering the largest selection of 100% leather sofas, loveseats and chairs.

Visit at www.leatherexpress.ca

Check our other web design portfolios!

Mozilla introduced a new feature for browsers, Mozilla Geode. What is Mozilla Geode?

…an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides. It includes a single experimental geolocation service provider so that any computer with WiFi can get accurate positioning data.

Hope it will become part of the regular browser in the near future.

We are heavy Gmail users and we love the new features at “labs”. Which one? “The Mail Goggles” and the “Mark as Read” button.

Pretty cool and useful.

About the Mail Goggles - “Google strives to make the world’s information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you’re good to go. Otherwise, get a good night’s sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the “General” settings page.”

About the Mark as Read button - “Tired of spending all that effort to click on the more actions menu every time you want to mark messages as read without reading them? Now just enable this lab and that is just a button click away!”

What is search engine optimization in relation to social media marketing? Is social networking the same as social media marketing? Will your search engine rankings improve? Will you see an increase in business, actually targeted users are needed and will social media really work for your business model? First lets explore the types and possible benefits. 

Social media websites and networking web sites provide you an easy way to connect with people who share similar interests like you. Some social networking websites group people with common interests, but some websites are “traditional networking sites” and allow you to search for friends based on your interests.

So now how do these websites really operate. In websites like MySpace users share music which was what helped rocket MYspace into the well renown place it is today and in Facebook, users create their personal information that they want shared and use pictures, software programs and audio, videos to display or depict their business environment. In websites like Fastpitch, Joe Popular and Adlandpro the users create product and sale pitches and work with each other. When you do this, using the social media websites to promote your product or services (or a website) is called social media marketing. 

So how can you take advantage of this obviously new but what seems beneficial activity? Social media marketing lets you expose your business website to a large group of people. When your site becomes popular in a social media site, people talk about your site and the post that becomes popular. Do this is taking advantage of a form of marketing that you may know it as word of mouth. The additional links means that as you grow these natural links from a large number of relevant websites, your rankings improve in the search engine due to increased organic search traffic. 

Another advantage is that search engines programs that roam the web are keen on social media and networking websites and typically go after links on these websites. This means if you have your site link on social networking and bookmarking websites, your search engine optimization ranking is better and your website site will be indexed quickly. Getting bookmarked from different users and different social media websites will definitely help your site rank better on search engines. 

Like it or not, social media websites have become an integral part of the internet because social marketing is easy to do, search engines love social links and hence your business by default will benefit. So if you are engaged in operating a website, and search engine optimization is important then you must realign your site to exploit the popular social media websites for increased traffic. To take advantage of this new method of building business you need to know what steps to perform? Well explore search engine optimization services. Also explore social media marketing and the difference to social networking websites.

Author: Gregory L Burrus

We’ve recently launched an ad campaign for Quarks’ Buy Skechers Online. So if you are looking to purchase some shoes this fall, they’re offering FREE shipping*!

*Shipping is FREE on all orders over $50 at regular price within Canada. Shipping Charges will apply on all sale items that are 25% off or more.

This is our first post at wordpress.com. Usually we post our updates on our own website at http://www.thewebshop.ca. 

We’ll be trying this wordpress blog to see if it will be useful to us.

Have a great weekend!