The Importance of Loading Speed for Website Conversion Optimization

E-commerce companies recognize the importance of crafting attractive, easy-to-use websites. These feature-heavy sites, however, tend to take longer to load. Not only must Google and other browsers download your site’s code, they also have to absorb...

March 03, 2017

3 Ways Black Friday Offers Organic Search Opportunities

It’s no secret that Black Friday is a huge opportunity for retailers everywhere, but that doesn’t mean meticulous data analysis isn’t necessary to ensure the desired results. Take a moment to learn three ways the famous (or infamous) shopping day...

November 18, 2016

7 Problems with LinkedIn Ads

LinkedIn advertising brought in $181 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2016. That might sound impressive, but when you compare it to the advertising revenues of Google and Facebook in the same quarter—$19 billion and $6 billion,...

September 30, 2016

Scammers Target Restaurants in Online Reviews Extortion Scheme

Fox News's Claudia Cowan has a great right up on scammers targeting restaurants and threatening to leave bad reviews if they arent compensated in some way. This is not just an issue with restaurants but truly an issue all over the internet for all...

July 09, 2012

Project Softline Launched

Softline Solutions launched a risky project today. Effectively posting a single negative post across multiple complaint sites and waiting for them to propagate. The keywords we targeted were ambitious:

June 03, 2010

Online Reputation Management

70% of online consumers have said they use the Internet to research everyday grocery products. (Prospectiv, January 2008)

41% of Europeans claim to have changed their mind about what brand to buy as a result of researching choices online, according...

February 25, 2010

Can Social Media Hurt Your Career?

CNN has an interesting article written by Rachel Zupek from Careerbuilder.com talking about Social Media and its effects on getting a job in todays search centric society.

So can social media really hurt your prospects of landing a job? I think it...

August 24, 2009

Reputation Management for C-Level Executives and beyond?

I recently signed on as the Sales Director for a start-up SEO Firm. My expertise is reputation management and I wanted to share my experiences about building our services from the ground up. Amazingly even in L.A. word of mouth marketing has worked...

July 22, 2008

Reputation Management for Teenagers?

I recently attended a dinner and encountered a situation in which I realized just how important reputation management for teenagers and young adults might be. The hosts of the party are long time family friends and both are local politicians. The...

July 15, 2008

Are you managing your online reputation or is it managing you?

Your company has experienced incredible growth over the last decade due to the incredible increase in connectivity and information sharing abilities of the internet. Your online sales have increased, your overall growth has increased, but at the...

June 30, 2008