Friday, April 10, 2009

Facebook reaches the 200 Million User Mark

Facebook and Frederick Maryland Small Business...


What does one have to do with the other?

Unless you've been living in a cave, you've heard of MySpace... well MySpace is for our children and FACEBOOK is for US. Social Media is changing... well EVERYTHING

Social Media isn't only changing the Internet, it's putting newspapers out of business, forcing the TV and Cable News to incorporate it (or else get left in the dust), Social Media is making conventional Advertising OBSOLETE.

Facebook just broke 200,000,000 users... And it's now offering Business Accounts!

Facebook's total web traffic, the number of users using facebook daily is, at the moment, a third of the total numbers of people using Google, according to WebProNews, an industry online newsletter.

If Facebook's growth continues the way it has been, perhaps it should be considered Google's greatest threat (when I say threat, I mean competition) - maybe not in general search, but in terms of where advertisers are spending their money. Certainly in the foreseeable future, people will continue using Google to search, and advertisers will continue to spend money advertising with them (probably even more now that they are doing more targeting), but Facebook also targets, and it's not going to be overlooked.
If you own a business and you don't take advantage of the internet fastest growing place to advertise... you deserve to have your competition 'clean your clock'! Facebook Business Pages are FREE (and they get a third of the traffic that behemoth Google gets)

Frederick Web Promotions is now offering to create, manage and maintain small business Facebook pages. Company Facebook Pages content is now search-able from Google, personal facebook pages are not. Company Facebook Page Ghostwriting is now available from Frederick Web Promotions
Want to see an example?
Frederick Web Promotions handles the web presence for Gilbert's Restaurant Equipment and Supply. We create, manage and maintain a Frederick.com sponsor page, 2 blogs and 4 online photo albums for them and we manage thier Facebook page as well: Maryland Used Restaurant Equipment on Facebook

Facebook is Your Father's (and Mother's) Social Network

By John C Abell EmailMarch 26, 2009 | 9:20:23 AMCategories: Facebook, Social Media, Social Networking
Facebook (and other social networks) has been skewing older for a while, but the trend has been "massive" in the past six months, according to InsideFacebook.com. In the past two months alone the number of new members over 35 has doubled. Marketers take note: the median age is now over 25, and the largest single group 35 to 44.

Women over 55 remain the fastest growing group, and growth among the teen and college-age set has been relatively paltry. In absolute numbers there are now even slightly more members between the ages of 45 and 65 than there are 13-to 17-year-olds.
Looking at Facebook US audience growth over the last 180 days, it’s clear that Facebook is seeing massive increases in adoption amongst users 35-65. The fastest growing demographic on Facebook is still women over 55 — there are now nearly 1.5 million of them active on Facebook each month.
The biggest growth in terms of absolute new users over the last six month came amongst users 35-44. Over 4 million more US women 35-44 and nearly 3 million more US men 35-44 used Facebook in March 2009 compared to September 2008.






Contact David Bruce Jr @
davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 644-7530

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Help Wanted Part Time

Frederick Web Promotions is growing!

Help Wanted in Frederick Maryland


After School Part Time Work as Intern for Frederick Maryland Online Publisher.
Frederick Web Promotions has a need for part time writer intern.
2 to 3 hours a day. Can be done from the library or your home.
  • Requires access to the Internet.
  • Requires ability to summarize articles.
  • Requires ability to figure out how to log into specialty search engines.
  • Requires ability to sign up for your own web mail account.
Need to be able to be creative for 300 characters.
This includes spaces and puntuctuation.
If you think you can write a good summary in that small space you've got a job!!
Frederick Web Promotions is an Equal Opportuntity Employer:
If you can handle sitting at a computer for 2 or 3 hours and can write a creative synopsis of various websites we need you!

This work can be done anywhere, you can even do it from the C. Burr Artz Public Library.
It doesn't matter if you're in high school, homeless, had a criminal record, have a drug history, if you can do this we need you.
Every body deserves a second chance!


Call David Bruce at 240 644-7530
Email davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com
Pay scale minimum wage but will look fantastic on your resume-
Especially if you plan on majoring in journalism.



Contact David Bruce Jr @
davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Tangible Evidence- Maryland Internet Advertising

When I first started in Local Google Advertising as a *lone wolf*, single man operation the first few prospects I pitched my services to were skeptical.
So I "divided the waters" to illustrate my prowess.

I got feedback to the effect of: "That's a fluke, I'll bet you can't use those free websites to STAY at the top of Google"

These Frederick Maryland Business Owners had paid a "Web Design" firm to create a web presence for their business. The Web Design Guru's told the Frederick Business Owners "You need this" and "You need that".

Web Design firms typically don't know squat about Frederick Maryland Search Engine Optimization.
A body in motion tends to remain in motion...

No one, it seems, wanted to hear that all of the big money they paid for glitzy web design was... well, wasted.



So to answer my critiques I'm toning down my hype and boldly going to claim the top spots in all the major search engines... not ONLY in Frederick Maryland

Not only in Maryland
Not only in the US
But Worldwide:
Google this:

Maryland Internet Advertising

Local Google Advertising

Local Google Guru

Search on Yahoo for the same:

Maryland Internet Advertising

Local Google Advertising

Local Google Guru


Try MSN Live Search

Maryland Internet Advertising

Local Google Advertising

Local Google Guru

And again on AOL Search

Maryland Internet Advertising

Local Google Advertising

Local Google Guru

If you want your Maryland Corporate Website to perform this well in all 4 of these giant worldwide Internet advertising venues then Call David Bruce at 301 363-8206

What IS a search engine really?

Only the Worlds Largest Shopping Mall.. want storefront space there?

Email David Bruce davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 644-7530
People don't pay more for a camera to get a better camera.
They pay more for a camera to get BETTER PICTURES.



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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Local Business Results - above the organic listings

Search For a Local Vendor

Have you done a search for a local vendor because you needed to find a specfic product or service and you wanted to find the closest vendor to your house?

Most of us are aware that there are 10 listings per results page for both Google and Yahoo. In Search Engine Optimization speak, these 10 listings are called "organic listings". The listings on the right column are sponsored listings, people generally know that some bigger company paid to get their ad there. It's generally agreed in the SEO community that people tend to trust a listing in the organic serps before they trust a firm that has the big bucks to dominate the right hand sponsored listings.

But there's a way to get YOUR listing ABOVE the ten organic listings. Google calls these listings Google Maps. But that's the term Google gives to the webmasters.
What does the regular person using the search engine see?

Local Business Results for ____ in ____




Google Provided instructional YouTube for webmasters:




Contact David Bruce Jr @
davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 644-7530

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Donate to Mission of Mercy and get Blog like this

Donate $25 to Frederick Maryland's own "A Mission of Mercy" and Get a Business Blog just like this one



Blog aren't just for diaries or political causes anymore... Business Blogs Simply Outperform Conventional Websites!

Frederick Mission of Mercy needs volunteer Dentist

"A Mission of Mercy" operates a Free Mobile Medical Clinic in 4 states, it's HQ is right here in downtown City of Frederick Maryland.


Mission of Mercy MD & PA free health care


Frederick Web Promotions set up a Facebook page for our Local Frederick Maryland Charity



Go to http://frederickgives.org, donate $25 (I'll be able to see who donated, and Frederick Web Promotions will create, set up, and manage a Busines Blog just like the dozens of others we manage for our Frederick Maryland Small Business Advertising Clients.

See our client list for examples.

Full price of a Business Blog, just like this one, is $120 per year!

Donate just $25 to "A Mission of Mercy" via the FaceBook page and save $95



What is a Business Blog?

http://sbinformation.about.com/cs/ecommerce/a/bblogs.htm




Contact David Bruce Jr @
davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 644-7530

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Power of Company Blogs

Time and time again a company blog outperforms a conventional website OUTPERFORMS a given companies existing website.
To answer that question it's best to ask a bigger, better question:

How does Google decide who gets to be ranked where or why is one site ranked higher than another?

Let's say there are three similar websites from three competitors.
...without something unique about a given site, and they're all homogeneous, then the only thing left for Google to use as a deciding factor is:

Number of incoming links
The quality of those incoming links

a high(er) quality incoming link

If site one has 12 incoming links
site two has 120 incoming links
site three has 12000 incoming links


who do you think is going to rank #1???

However... if http://fredericknewspost.com links to you
and http://washingtonpost.com links to you...

Which one do you think is going to 'carry more weight'?

If you were Google, what would YOU do about that?

Want Proof?




Do your self a favor, get a blog for your company before your competitors get one...

Do It NOW!!!

Contact David Bruce Jr @
davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 315-1515

Monday, September 29, 2008

I want MY website ranked, not some blog?

I'm hearing from prospective clients that want to hire a local Search Engine Optimization Company:

"Why would I want some blog listed in Google? I want MY (existing) website to be Nubmer ONE in Google.


Here's the low down on "How to Get YOUR website ranked"

How Google decides which site goes in the number ONE spot depends on a formula (one that Google most definatly wants to keep secret). That formula uses "Link Popularity" to figure into it's "wieghting scale".

What is "Link Popularity"?

"Back Links or otherwise known as Inbound Links are links pointing to your website from another website. The number of such back links that point towards your website indicates the importance and the popularity of your website to the search engines"

Excerpted from: Importance of Back Links to a Website and How to Obtain Them. by Kanaga Siva
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1146388


Ok, so what exactly is meant by "Wieghting Scale"?

If your website url (link) is used in, lets say an article on:


  • WashingtonPost.com




  • FrederickNewsPost.com




  • Which of those two (online versions of) newspapers is going to carry more 'wieght'?

    Which brings us to: "Why a blogspot.com blog"?

    Easy answer: To get the As Many Of top ten listings (for a given keyword or keyword phrase) in the S.E.R.P.s pages to have YOUR company listed.

    Ok, so now what's a s.e.r.p. ???

    Search Engine Results Page



    how do we go about CRUSHING the competitors listings in Google?

    Fill the top spots with a listing, any listing, something that has:


  • YOUR Company NAME




  • YOUR Phone Number




  • and assuming you paid the search engine consultant...


  • YOUR company website's URL




  • what'll that get you?

    crowd out the competitors listings

    Effectively create incoming links to YOUR existing website.
    (back links are also called incoming links)

    Now why would we do that?

    Blogs are the "Bait on the end of your hook.

    You probably don't want to change your main website all that much...

    You CAN however change a company blog OFTEN

    Why?


    ... we want to keep changing the bait until we hit on the correct 'bait' (keyword phrase) that makes your phone ring/ email inquiries/ ORDERS keep coming in.




    Contact David Bruce Jr @
    davidbrucejr@frederickwebpromotions.com 240 644-7530