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Smart phones - mobile computing - with bendable screens to fit in your pocket.

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Next year could bring a new twist in the evolution of the smartphone. Samsung are gearing up to produce flexible, unbreakable mobile phone screens that can be bent, twisted and even folded up and put in your wallet. The South Korean tech giant reportedly has the flexible screens in the final stage of development and will be ready to ship them next year. The breakthrough has been made by through the use of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are thin and can be put on flexible material such as plastic or metal foil. Samsung is not the only company to have invested heavily in research into flexible screens using OLEDs. Companies including Japan's Sony and LG Display, also of South Korea have launched prototypes. However Samsung is the first to promise a launch date for the technology, with an unnamed source 'familiar with the situation' telling the  Wall Street Journal   they will ship in the first half of 2013. Looking at the release dates of...

SEO: six common errors that kill SEO and how to make your site trustworthy to Google

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is morphing as the web continues to expand and be a larger part of our personal and business endeavors.  It’s no secret that Google and Bing are the new yellow pages. Anyone not coming to terms with that in their business plan is just working an old-school business model.   Is SEO Dead? With the recent shakedown of site performance from the algo updates (Panda and Penguin); sites losing their ranking and positions in the search engine results, you might think that SEO techniques are no longer working or not effective. But, that is not the case. The algo updates are continuing at a furious pace to bring some authentic search results to all search engine users In other words, there is no more tricks and short cuts being tolerated to getting to the top of the heap on the search engine result pages.  Here are seven reasons for low site performance in search engine visibility - in no specific order. Keyword stuffing ...

Mobile Computing: 0ut with the old, in with the new. Is your web site ready? (test your site link included)

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More news today about tech giants scrambling to reinvent business models to stay in business. Geez, look at Facebook at Google. Both lost billions of company value in stock drops because they are not keeping up with the pace of mobile computing.  Here is a link to one article . All this means to you is a wake up call. If your web site isn’t friendly to mobile devices, you are literally driving away traffic from your pages - shunning potential buyers of your products and services. Here is a link, click here , to understand the pros and cons of going mobile. This mobile computing trend is reshaping the market in technology, according ot the New York Times article . Demand for Intel chips inside computers — which are much more profitable than those inside smart phones — is plummeting.  At Microsoft, sales of software for PCs are sharply declining.  At Google, the price that advertisers pay when people click on ads has fallen for a year. This is partly becau...

What is the value of your web site?

Value is essential in just about everything in this world. Every thing I have ever done or experienced has contributed some level of value to me - or not. Our relationships, clothes, friends, family, the list goes on and on - all of which have a value to us. Your web site has value to the people who visit it.  What measurement of value would you assign to your goods and services that your web site projects?  Is your web site a project on hold? One that has missing links, missing content, and is unfinished?  What is that telling people about you?  How is the communication of your web site content? Do your pages provide a design and offer content that will assist others in understanding how you will contribute to improving their value? Where is your web site reaching?  Are you using a qualified metric to measure your visitor traffic? Who is bonding with you at your web site? Do you have a system in place that allows people to connect with...

What is emarketing? How can new people find your site easily?

Ever wonder how emarketing is accomplished?  How can new people find about your site, services, or products? The Internet is an information depot. Wow, kids nowadays have an easy time researching an essay topic. If you want to find out what is happening on the other side of the world, all you have to do is point and click. Exploring the who and what of your friends is quick with the multitude of social networks like Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter. The portal into this data warehouse is a search engine. Search engine spiders crawl the web 24/7 and assimilate data from every web page and blog post. The three main ones are Google, Bing, and Yahoo but there are others plus there are thousands of directories too.  All these warehouses are sending their spiders to crawl the Internet and amass every bit of info. The million dollar question is how do you get your data to the top of the heap?  What does it take, when people are searching for you, to find you on the ...

Tired Of Low Traffic? How To Make Buzz About Your Site- Five Steps...

Having a web site or blog is a good start for getting some attention but it’s not enough. There are billions of web sites, so how do people find yours?  You have to spread the word, which is done by creating links to your site from other sites;  those are called back links. You want to have as any links to your site as possible on quality sites. What determines a quality site?  PageRank by Google is one way. This is a rating system of NA to 10. The higher the number the more visible the site. Yes, a rating of NA means you are not even on the chart yet. From what I have seen a rating of 2 or 3 is an average web site. Once you obtain a rating of 4+ you are leading the pack. Here are three easy steps to get more back links that will increase the visibility of your web site. 1. Write articles and submit them to free article sites. This is easily accomplished by using sites such as Ezinearticles.com along with Squidoo and HubPages . 2. Submit your web s...

Internet Marketing - tuning your site for mobile computing

Mobile computing is on the rise and you had better make sure your web site is setup for it if you are serious about internet marketing.  Otherwise, potential visitors will surf on by your offerings. Listen, this is serious stuff. If people cannot view your site then why even have one? More and more people are doing mobile computing. In Forbes a recent  computing  article said this, " In many parts of Asia, where the mobile phone took hold sooner than in the U.S., schools have given up trying to control students using mobile phones. For a student in Hong Kong, their mobile phone is as vital as the beating of their heart."  Check out these mobile computing stats  ..... Half of all adult cell phone users have apps on their phones.   Pew Research 83% of adults own a cell phone in America . Pew Research 65% of adults are wireless internet users . Pew Research In 2015 more people in America will use mobile computing that PC's . IBM research Demand f...

What is your web reputation?

The search engines can be your friend or foe. A smart internet marketing plan includes actively managing your online reputation to ensure perceptions of your services and products remain beneficial to your efforts. Search engines are user friendly; people know how to use them. Pew Research Center reports that over 90% of users find what they are looking for when using a search engine.  Without managing the content that creates your online reputation, you are trampling the protection of your most valuable asset. Our expertise and technology makes managing your reputation seamless with marketing your products and services.  We use several approaches to protect your reputation in our verified reputation management strategy.  1. Analyze negative and positive exposure We comb the search engines to locate all your data to gain a composite picture of your web presence. We can also help you minimize negative posts in search engines. 2.  Strategic p...

Alternative Health: How to Protect Yourself & Environment From EMF: Electromagnetic Radiation

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (EMR): MAN MADE TOXIN ENCOMPASSES ENTIRE PLANET Major environmental contributors are military and business while major emitters at home include TV’s, computers, cell/cordless phones, wi-fi’s,  fluorescent lights,  some toys, and many appliances. All of life depends on beneficial electromagnetic frequencies. The brain and heart of living creatures are especially dependent on specific frequencies. Studies have articulated that sentient beings experience a sense of wellbeing from Schumann Resonances which are naturally emitted from the Earth. However, the overwhelming mass of EMR’s, including, microwave (MW) and radio-frequency (RF) radiation plus very extremely low frequency (ELF) frequencies, are posing a devastating hazard to individual health and an ever present danger to maintaining a healthy environment. From around the world, in thousands of research studies, scientists and law experts warn of short-term and long-term hazards of exposure to EM...

SEO starter guide provided by Google - five stars

This is an excellent resource filled with ideas to boost your visitor traffic, align your SEO efforts and enhance your online marketing.  Some of you are Do It Yourself (DIY) and this is a post for you. Google has a well done starter guide for building SEO into your content and therefore getting some lift in Goggle  search results.  Check out the link below to this very handy manual. It takes some time to digest it and apply it - but definitely worth your while.  I guarantee that by the time you read this and apply it, you will be immersed in your web site design and building. So, if you are up to that level of immersion in your web site design this Google created SEO started guide is a DIY dream come true. Here is the link.... http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf Steu  541.210.4375 Best Critic - buy reviews: b...