I recently was hunting down the websites of knockoff firms that had stolen images from my employer, Mac Duggal. I tracked down one site in particular that includes dozens of stolen photos from our firm and other  top U.S. fashion designers. This site is a marketplace for Chinese manufacturers.

Is there a page on your site that is showing up as the landing page for referred visitors from search engines surprisingly often? This was the case for MacDuggal.com. I was mystified as to why a post indicating the dates and location for our August fashion show was getting a lot of site entrant traffic. I could not understand why there was interest in finding information about the location and dates of a fashion show held 4 months ago.

The blogosphere has been filled recently with posts accusing Facebook of intentionally adjusting the EdgeRank algorithm to reduce views of brand Pages and incent organizations to spend more advertising dollars with them.

In order to force incent businesses to spend more advertising dollars with Facebook, the social media juggernaut is now offering an opportunity to sponsor posts inserted into users newsfeeds.

How do you move from the second to first page of Google search results? As far as I can tell, a competitor was able to do so simply via a massive increase in activity on Facebook. It seems as if this competitor moved to 6th from 14th on Google for a highly competitve term just by pumping up their interactions on Facebook.

Instagram is an application that surely rings a bell for most of us tech and photo enthusiasts. It opens a new window of art and social interaction in a very interesting way. In this article, we will discuss how you can take advantage of Instagram in the business world for more success.

Instagram Craze and How it Works

Five effective and easy-to-uncover link building sources

Guest post prospecting for link developers is one of the most time-sucking parts of search engine optimization (SEO). For an SEO consultant, link building is part of the online marketing efforts for clients. However, it’s also one of the most difficult elements to master effectively.

Guest posting is widely recommended as one of the best white hat methods of manufacturing link authority. However, I suspect that the link authority passed by hyperlinks included in the "about the author" sections of guest posts may have already been diminished in value. Further, if this lessening of link authority has not already occurred, then it seems likely to occur in the future.

Do you know a teenage girl in the market for a homecoming dress? If so, warn her to be very wary of dress shopping online. The sponsored ads on both Google and Bing are completely dominated by Chinese knock-off sites. Given the prominent placements of the sponsored results, it is challenging to distinguish between the knock off sites in the sponsored results and the legitimate sites in the organic results.