David Correll
Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au
Google’s Algorithmic Farmer Update Aims to Rank High Quality Unique Sites
Google has recently rolled out the Google Farmer Update, a major improvement on Google’s secret ranking algorithm, aiming to better rank high quality websites on its search results pages and web index. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand (a popular US Search Engine Blog) has named it as Google ‘Farmer’ update so that there will be a […]
Read More | ShareVideo Infograph: This is Why the World is Obsessed with Facebook
Yes – we are all obsessed with Facebook, that is nothing new. Here is a cool infograph going into a little more detail about the uptake and some great stats you may not have known about Facebook. Enjoy. Infograph by Alex Trimple
Read More | ShareCreate your own Infograph with Foursquare
Geolocation and mobile application – Foursquare, has had a 3rd party developer build a web app that will quickly build you an Infograph from your Foursqure check-in and user data. To build your own infograph goto: www.fourgraph.me and sign in with your Foursquare credentials. This tool was developed recently at a Foursquare ‘hacker’ day at […]
Read More | ShareWordPress 3.1 Released
WordPress 3.1 was released last night. New features include: – redesigned linking workflow (makes linking to your other posts and pages easily). – an admin bar in the header when viewing your site, allowing quick post/page creation. Initially I am not a big fan of this, but hey it might grow on me. There is […]
Read More | ShareVodafone apologises to customers, Great!
Today I received an email from Vodafone (as probably all other customers did) from Australian CEO Nigel Dews. Nigel goes on to explain that he and the company are apologising for customer dissatisfaction and problems experienced over the past year. They go on to explain growth has been fast, and probably too fast for their […]
Read More | ShareWordPress Upgrade – Best Practices
WordPress makes life so easy for us at times, and even upgrading to their latest version is usually a simple task. WordPress are constantly releasing updates and improvements to their blogging platform, but what is the best way to upgrade WordPress? Simply clicking ‘automatic update’ button and hoping everything just works out? Not really.. Firstly […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Forum Australia relaunched
Hi All, Just to let you know I have relaunched the Social Media Forum on a more stable and user-friendly platform. Feel free to sign up and participate in the discussion. Any feedback or recommendations on how to make this an interactive online community, please feel free to drop me a link. I have also […]
Read More | ShareAre Infographs ruining the Internet?
In my opinion, No. More and more websites these days are displaying their data and content in a visual form, this no only entices readers and brings in new traffic, it also generates valuable backlinks from many other websites sharing your content. Here is an infograph from www.lesseverything.com What do you think, are infographs ruining […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Photos [STATS]
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Facebook now has 600 million members globally and half of these log in on a daily basis. Facebook’s growth curve is also on the steady rise and has not shown any signs of flattening out yet. So lets look at how users are uploading photos on Facebook. – At the end of 2010, there were […]
Read More | ShareBing launches new Bing Toolbar
Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new Toolbar with several integration points to make your daily internet browsing easier. The Bing toolbar comes with tools such as news (localised), Bing maps, weather, mail integration (hotmail, yahoo, or gmail), Facebook integration, Video search, a Bing text translator, and of course a Bing search box. This is extremely […]
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