Today Blue Fountain Media’s is bringing you the best marketing and design articles of the week; more specifically articles that focus around: Search Engine Optimization, Web Development, and Information/Branding Design.
SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Earning Trust One Click at a Time
Trust is something important in relationships, families, and even in your website brand. People have grown wary of most anything presented on the internet so it is integral if you’re the admin of any website to establish trust in your name and domain. The guys at Seobook will show you how.
SEO Charity Websites
This is an interview with Dominic Mapstone, who uses SEO to help influence the media and make social change. This interview shines a light on how multimedia (namely in regards to the web) can bring about change in society.
What would you ask Google?
I’m almost positive that anyone who’s thought about Adwords as a means of either advertising or revenue has wished they could simply ask the people at Google how it really works. Well the guys at Search Engine Roundtable posed the question: What would you do if you had that opportunity? What would you ask Google?
Google vs Authors Guild
Google has reached a particularly important agreement today with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which represent a broad class of authors and publishers, to expand online access to in-copyright books and other written materials.
User Generated Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is bad enough when you fall prey to pagination (especially those of us with blogs) but user generated duplicate content? Rand over at Seomoz discusses the frightening reality of duplicate content made by your precious readers.
Web Development – “There’s an add-on for that, right?”.
Four Best Open Source Innovations
Open source doesn’t always have to revolve around Google; there are literally thousands of applications designed for Windows and Macs that you’ve probably never heard of. But I can guarantee that there is something out there to make your life easier at the computer.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/the-four-best-open-source-innovations-480163
10 Lamest Firefox Add-ons
Even Firefox can be kind of lame sometimes; just because an add-on has the cute little fox icon next to it doesn’t mean its a good one. The people over at TechRadar will help you spot the good from the bad so that you don’t waste your time with useless add-ons.
Glue – Network Anywhere
The people over at AdaptiveBlue are holding true to their tagline: “Browse Smarter”; they just relased “Glue” today, the name of their newest product that aims to integrate social networking into every aspect of your internet browsing experience so that you don’t have to go to seperate websites just to connect with friends.
PlayStation 3 Browser Faster than Internet Explorer
I have a PlayStation 3, but if the guys at TechRadar didn’t give me a heads up I never would have had any idea that the web browser within the game system is faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer (no surprise really). Hopefully this firmware update will make internet browsing on the system less painful.
Design – Because nothing should ever look ugly.
Good Bye Best Buy
Sometimes the best innovations are the most simple. It only took a couple of years for it to finally dawn on Best Buy that they could make their name: “BestBuy”, eleminate the over-sized yellow pricetag, and replace it with a clean one-lined, corporate logo. The Fresh Fuel Blog has the details on the decision making process and testing phase of the new logo.
What is Pepsi Thinking
Century Gothic is my favorite font, but that doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere:
“Pepsi has announced that they are undergoing a drastic relaunching of their branding and packaging to bring “new life” to their flagship brands. The most dramatic element is a redesign of the Pepsi Globe logo, which for some reason is now supposed to represent a smile.”
Web Without Words
An interesting look at the World Wide Web, ‘Webwithoutwords’ takes an innovative approach of displaying how the internet would look without any text at all. So get out your thinking caps and get ready to navigate the internet through a series of wireframes.
Finding a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties
“It’s so great to have license to be an idiot”. That’s the beauty of user-generated content and the Web 2.0 explosion. The internet has brought about the means for anyone to become famous and there’s no reason not to jump on board. Take a look at this New york Times article which tells you how its done.
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