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Prevent your company’s reputation; Consult an online reputation management agency

26 Dec

In any business, integrity and reputation go hand in hand. They not only carve your niche in the market but acts as a source of inspiration to force others to do business with you. The competition in the market has become ‘cut throat’ and it only takes few words of negative marketing to keep you at bay and it seriously poses a challenge to the overall chances of any business to survive.

Internet has become an ultimate source of networking and communication around the world. Competition has become so intense that the competitors stoop to any extent to defame their competitor’s business. It is through internet they post derogatory or defaming content which can really put any organization on the back foot. But as always there is someone to your rescue, Interactive Bees an online reputation management agency can assist companies on this front.

Just to illustrate an example how negative marketing can negate your chances and put your clients off. Mr John has a business of clothes but somebody wrote a negative blog post and every time people tried to find his business over internet suddenly that negative post popped up and this way he lost half of his business. Subsequently Mr. John then approached an online reputation management company and got the matter sorted out.

It has been seen that people are influenced and their choices do alter when other people hold some views on different things or people. Due to these human tendencies it is more important for any big or small company to have an online reputation consultant to keep their image intact to attract more customers to enable themselves to survive.

Other aspect of online reputation management is it helps to attract even more clients and help you to retain your previous customers and keep them loyal. It also serves as an indicator for companies associated with you that they are doing business with some highly reputed company, this really stands you in good stead among your clients and competitors, both.

So either way a leading online reputation management company is a boon to organizations, more so when the penetration of internet has plunged to new levels. So what are you waiting for, leverage services of an online reputation management company and see your business prosper.

In case you are looking in for SEO, SMO, ORM, Online Marketing or for any further assistance on the above discussed issue, please feel free to write us at info@interactivebees.com

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Honeycomb: Optimized for Perfection !!

23 Dec

Tablet looks to be the future of modern computing; keeping these trends and contemporary demands in mind Google launched its new Android platform specially designed for Tablet PC. Google named the platform as Android 3.0 but for its lovers it is called as HONEYCOMB.

Launched in February 2011, Honeycomb is designed to be fully touch platform and it scores more on most counts. Google has specially designed the operating system for speed crazy audience (who is not). Most people have had many complaints against the previous Android versions about speed and crashing but this time Google has made enough amends to sort them out.

Honeycomb is perfectly fluent and consistent with finger swipes. Consistent performance and fluent user interface gives Honeycomb edge over other OS and it poses a serious challenge to iOS for ipads. Downloading Apps and widget in Android 3.0 enabled tablets are much easier and you have persistent reminder for the status of app downloading in the bottom right of the screen on the Tablet.

Honeycomb user interface is easily customizable but one drawback is you have to long press the empty space to incorporate the changes. Also, Google keeps on releasing newer wallpapers and different animations to provide its customers to customize their Tablets. You can add up to five different screens in Android 3.0.

The most commending features of Android 3.0 are its internet and Email messaging features. Being a product from its creator, Honeycomb comes embedded with the generic mail app. Messages comes to the screen in the formatted manner which takes it far from the league of other operating systems. Inbuilt flash application lends the users an all new experience altogether and makes browsing a fun activity.

Honeycomb supports various media and file formats both for audio and video. Android 3.0 makes it possible for Tablets to use their full screen space for example in smart phones the best view of mails is in the vertical alignment but you can have a refreshing experience in the Honeycomb enabled Tablet PC.


All in all, Honeycomb is the best Tablet OS in its league even giving ipad a run for its money. Though there are more features in the Android 3.0 but only a few features have been discussed above.

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Give a dream start to your business by accumulating fans for your Facebook Page

21 Dec

We all talk about viral marketing and promotion of our business, SEO comes to our minds for spreading the word but Facebook is the ultimate tool for promotion and marketing. Literally every human on earth having access to internet has a Facebook account; here comes billion dollar business opportunity to do business, How?? Lets explore !!

Most companies and organizations have their Facebook page where they keep themselves in touch with their audience and consumers. It has become a medium of interaction with people where these organizations can keep people informed about the new activities in the company and their new offerings.

It is thus for marketing and having healthy interaction with your partners and consumers, it is imperative to have ‘Facebook Page’ of your organization. But Facebook ‘likes’ doesn’t come easy, you have to earn them. Many renowned organizations have thousands of people visiting their Facebook page but lesser known organizations if follow some tips and plan well ahead they can also make their business go viral as well.

How you can accumulate Facebook fans

  1. Entice your fans with some attractive offers and before offering them something request them to like your Facebook Page and get more likes. This method is yet to fail.
  2. Add ‘Facebook widget’ to your website or blog, if there is something interesting for your viewers you may ask them to like your Facebook page and people will certainly land on the page and like it.
  3. Add some funny, interesting and informative videos and pictures in your page, people do love videos and pictures and they click like ‘button’ ever so fast. Engage them and have something interesting for them everyday.
  4. We all send numerous mails everyday, just add the URL of your page at the end of your signature and spread the word.
  5. Integrate your Facebook page with other social media and bookmarking sites, this is the best method of making your page go viral and accumulating lots of likes and fans.
  6. You can even use various apps offered by Facebook to engage your fans like Fan of the week, Vpype and so on, there is no dearth of interactive and interesting apps in Facebook to choose from.
  7. In order to list your page in the search engines, use relevant tags and keywords, so that people can find your page easily in the search engines.
  8. Also, you can conduct contests, post a pulse question or can engage your audiences to offer their suggestions. People like those activities which keep them engaged and amused.
  9. Last but not the least put some thought into creating a mind boggling and smashing page with some thought out content, videos and pictures and leave a long lasting impression in the minds of your audience, people will surely like it.

 

 

In case you are looking in for SEO, SMO, ORM, Online Marketing or for any further assistance on the above discussed issue, please feel free to write us at info@interactivebees.com


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Folksonomy is what you require to enable users to find your Stuff !!

05 Dec

What do you do when you post a photo on ‘Flickr’ or post a video on the ‘Youtube’? After uploading the photo or video, the first task you do is you add tags and keywords to it so that people are able to find your photo when they type that specific keyword.  

Also adding proper tags with the photo or video enhances the search engines capability to find your stuff. It is not always necessary or rather possible that people may type the exact keyword on which you have optimized your content so people may type related tags your content being found on the net.
Folksonomy relates to the same concept talked in the above paragraphs. It is the method of collaboratively managing and creating tags in order to categorize the content. In lay man language we can call tags as the related keywords that can lead to the desired content.

People these days rely heavily on folksonomy, means they use tagging system to their advantage as the content is created by them and they want users and billions of surfers to find their stuff on the net. Some social sites like Delicious, Furl and more are considered as pioneer in the field of Folksonomy.

The whole concept of Folksonomy is used by many web design agencies, SEO and internet marketing companies. These companies develop the website based on the relevant keywords and apply relevant tags so that people are able to find the website or blog which they want to optimize and this leads to traffic and ultimately customers.

Folksonomy Is quite beneficial as it is quite useful in attracting visitors and surfers other than that you are able to know the keywords trends and users usage. As per recent trends people have understood the importance of collaborative managing and creation of tags and actually devoting time to do it; it actually adds value. The finest example of folksonomy is Delicious, where people categorize one object and name it as per their liking, so the chances of finding the related content are quite high.

Interactive bees a leading web development company is engaged in web development, SEO and web marketing services. The company is quite a renowned name in this domain and has vast experience in folksonomy practices. Being working with reputed clients the company has developed numerous websites and marketing campaigns which have helped other companies to edge past their competitors. 

 
 

Drupal Web Designing

01 Nov

Having an online presence nowadays is a complete necessity for any business enterprise and hence is capable of making or breaking its market image. Online presence most commonly and mainly refers to having a customizable website to invite web traffic and enhance search engine rankings.

There are quite a number of tools available which can help us in developing and designing a rich and user friendly website. Drupal is one such tool or technically speaking “a free and open source Content Management System” which is written in PHP and used in at least 1.5% websites*(Source Wikipedia) developed worldwide including blogs, corporate websites and governmental sites as well, such as; New York Observer http://www.observer.com/; Now Public http://www.nowpublic.com/; Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu/; Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/; and AOL Corporate http://corp.aol.com/ among many others.

Drupal was first written by Dries Buytaert, a Belgian software programmer as a message board; however it became an open source project in the year 2001, post which its popularity grew by leaps and bounds. Drupal is maintained by a community of over 630,000+ users and developers and is readily available under the terms of GNU (General Public License).

Drupal web designs are considered a better option than any other conventional web designing and web development options owing to the fact that Drupal based websites are more technically advanced. This system enables developing of dynamic websites along with providing support for Web 2.0 applications like AJAX.

This program is extremely beneficial for web designers as they can easily use the administration panel to select the available themes and also prepare titles, slogans or even logos and make up vibrant layouts. Drupal contains some commanding extensions which are known as modules that can help in creating templates with customized panels for a common layout.

Some of the salient features of Drupal web design are given below:

  • Browser Based Interfaces – Facilitates easy modification of website content and updation.
  • Taxonomy Module – Currently, with the easy availability of taxonomy module in Drupal, it is easy to categorize and organize content in a hierarchy which helps in content search.
  • Aggregator – Enables gathering news and articles from different other websites; thereby, making it easy to collect supportive content.
  • Enables generation of search engine friendly URLs (unique resource locator)
  • Comprehensive Reporting Details – This reporting module provides the administrator with the authority to view the performance report of a site which includes rankings, event logs, data etc.
  • Multilingual Support – Drupal system easily supports different languages.

For all the professionals working in the website design industry, Drupal has proved to be an easily adaptable resource for website designing purposes and has found acceptance across all quarters owing to this trait.

Interactive Bees has executed several projects successfully using the Drupal Content Management Systems and has significant amount of experience in using various applications for website design and development.Example of Drupal usage by Interactivebees :-

Sharaa Simsim,

Drupal website by Interactive Bees

An Arabic language website centering to early childhood development has been developed using Drupal 6.20 and can be easily cited as an apt example of Drupal usage. You can access complete details of this project via

http://www.interactivebees.com/Case-Study-Sharaa_Simsim.html

In case you are looking in for designing and developing Drupal website, please feel free to write us at info@interactivebees.com .

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HOW TO GET LISTED ON GOOGLE NEWS

19 Jul

This article should begin by answering the question, “why want to get listed on Google news at all?”

There are many advantages to getting listed on Google News.

The obvious ones are traffic and inbound links. The less obvious but equally important ones are:

(a) Credibility: Google News indexes articles from only those sites that it considers informative and reliable. So if your article on your domain comes up in Google News, it fortifies your position as the expert in the field.

(b) Quicker indexing of your website: once your site has gotten into Google News’ radar, it is definitely crawled once a day, at least, or, depending on how many articles you post and how frequently, even twice to thrice per day. So users even on Google organic search (Google Web Search) see fresher content of your website delivered regularly.

So how do we get listed on Google News?

1. Create a separate section on your website for news. It could be www.interactivebees.com/news/ Or it could be http://news.interactivebees.com.

2. On this section of your website, create an overview page that links to inner pages of complete articles.

3. Each article needs to include the name of its author. And there needs to be multiple authors for your site to be considered a news portal (otherwise it would end up more like a blog than like a news site). The news section also needs to have a page listing names of all the authors complete with a small bio.

4. Post news articles as frequently as possible. One article a day is must. But preferred frequency would be two to three articles daily!

5. Article URL’s should seem static and have at least three unique digits.

For example, the Google news crawler will not crawl articles with the following URLs:

www.interactivebees.com/news/article13.html

www. interactivebees.com/getting-indexed-by-google-news.html

It can crawl these pages:

www. interactivebees.com/news/20112005/article.html

www. interactivebees.com/news/getting-indexed-by-google-news/23467.html

6. Your article name will also be the title of your page (as on this blog). Also Articles must have H1/H2-tags.

7. The content of your article has to be unique! Even if you are quoting from somewhere, make sure you cite the reference so the article doesn’t look plagiarised. If you can’t make it through Copyscape, you can never make it through Google News!

8. Articles can’t be too small. Articles with less than 200 characters might not get indexed.

9. And finally, submit the news section of your website to:

http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py?contact_type=recommend&submit=Continue

Or send an e-mail to source-suggestions@google.com

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Website Designing Basics

16 Apr

With every business prospect aiming for a futuristic business approach and enhanced relationship building with the target customers; it is imperative to choose enhanced business methodologies that can facilitate consistent growth and profitability. Business management is correspondingly becoming more and more innovational wherein new found ideas are replacing conventional approaches and Internet is certainly one of the most sought after resource that has completely revolutionized the way of business management.

The foremost step to make the most of this wondrous resource is to establish web presence suitably in the form of a website or web portal that reflects your business idea perfectly and must be designed keeping up with emerging trends and aesthetic value. We shall be discussing some of the key elements that can help you in creating the perfect website for your business without facing any hassles.

Website Designing Basics

Website Design Basic 1: The first and foremost thing to keep in mind is the browser compatibility which means the website created must be duly viewable on all the web browsers available; Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, to name a few. Pixilated imagery and illegible text are enough to put off the visitors if the web page designed is not adaptable with the chosen browser. The designing approach must be in sync with any kind of browser that the visitor chooses and must be created keeping in mind compatibility value.

Website Design Basic 2: Another important concern is the resolution support that would affect the screen resolution; with the popular ones ranging from 1024*768 to 640*480. Designing it in terms of pixels, would facilitate in viewing of the website and would make it comfortable for all browser users.

Website Design Basic 3: Page loading time is a huge concern that would determine whether or not your website is easily accessible or navigable. Extensive usage of Flash and heavy graphics would automatically make your web page heavy and would take all the time in the world to load.

Website Design Basic 4: Checking for broken links is also extremely important as any broken links uploaded on a website would reflect it in poor light and would also make the browsing process irksome for the visitor.

Website Design Basic 5: Simple looking neat designs can also fit the bill and requirement for your website and in the process, would also make it easier for the visitor to navigate through the website easily. This also brings to light the positioning of the controls and the layout of the website interface and making it suitably simpler for browsing through. Making use of footers and displaying the important links on every page would make navigation much easier.

Website Design Basic 6: Readability of the content placed on the website is also important as neatly arranged text would always make it simpler for any visitor to easily go through it. Certain fonts such as Comic Sans and Brush Script must be avoided as they might not be available on all computer systems. Therefore, sticking with commonly used and simple to read fonts always is a good option to consider for any designer. Unusually large sized fonts always make it unpleasant for the reader to read the specially drafted content.

Website Design Basic 7: Last but definitely not the least is effective usage of white space, which gives a neat look to the web page and also makes it aesthetically beautiful. Putting up too many animations and graphics on the website would make it look cluttered and messy and must be refrained from.

Designing a great looking and artfully designed website is not a herculean task. One must remember to add useful and qualitative content to the website that can attract visitor traffic repeatedly. Additionally, updating the  website content regularly and keeping in mind all the aforementioned points can certainly ensure creation of a superlative website that has mass appeal.

For any further assistance on the above discussed issue, kindly contact Interactive Bees at- info@interactivebees.com

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Search Engine Optimization Techniques

16 Apr

Generating apposite visibility is an important consideration for a company’s website that leads traffic and can facilitate enhanced performance too. The Search Engine Optimization technique makes a business duly visible on the web and makes it available for potential customers to see and scan for reference. Without search engine indexing, a company’s existence can fall into oblivion and hence it becomes vital to have a strong online presence that can guarantee effective visibility and scope of viewing by prospective clients. Further, to effectually exploit the scope of internet, appropriate use of the right keywords is suggested that people use to locate any business.

Search Engine Optimization Techniques: Hyper linking and Design

Secondly, search engines are dependent upon hyper linking to find all the pages of a specific website and indexes them with Java script links working on 90% of all browsers. A good idea is to exchange these links with popular websites to augment the search engine rankings and promote it well; and hence it is important to have more text and fewer graphic in the web page to enhance exposure as Search Engines seldom appreciate picture and graphic art which would lower the chances of the website to garner more rankings.

Search Engine Optimization Techniques: Right Choice of Keywords

The key to succeed in Search Engine field is Keywords that can make or break your online future. Therefore, before getting down to write introductions to the web pages, it is important to determine the apt keywords by which searchers would find a particular business on the web. It also important to check the Meta tagging and add ‘keyword’ and ‘description’ on each page even if programming is not your forte; suitable assistance is available nowadays.

Search Engine Optimization Techniques: Publishing Articles, Blogging

Writing nice articles for the website is an essential search engine optimization technique to promote the site as well as the product and carve a niche in the online arcade of millions of brands that surround us daily. The users can get their hands on some article directories to begin with and to have an idea and learn the structuring and writing style. Blogging sites can also be made use of to manage content for internet marketing and strategizing for popularizing the site.

Search Engine Optimization Techniques: Creating Site Maps

Creating site maps is an important search engine optimization technique that also helps search engines to locate all the site pages, specifically if the user has a large site. There are some nice free tools to create XML sitemaps that are utilized by search engines to index the web pages accurately and the user can also submit the sitemaps to Google, Yahoo and Bling. Employing strategies to fine tune with search engines with content pages is something that can be easily outsourced as there are dedicated and professional teams available to cater to such businesses.

Search Engine Optimization Technique: Adding your business on Google Maps

Creating free listings of the business on Google Maps Local Business Center will help in enhancing its visibility upon conducting a local search.

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Social Media – Marketing & Promotion

16 Apr

The rising access of social media has led to newer business opportunities for the companies as social networks and media like Facebook and Twitter have humungous member base and these can prove to be the most apt medium to set up links for any business and improvise upon its visibility levels. Since these mediums give rise to link building and contact building, it induces interaction levels amongst diverse groups that can easily augment any company’s web presence. In order to appropriately utilize this medium, it is important to be conscious about the various types of social media like blogs, social bookmarking sites, forums and social networks.

There can be individual differences in these methods being fruitful for different businesses as the scope of all sources is vast and is the latest pursuit of the computer and internet technology and as per latest industry research is most navigated by the youth from the age group of 13 to 54. Internet marketing can be centered on anything; whether it is enhancing the sales volume or simply boosting up a brand image, the social web is simply everywhere with its diverse reach.

Social media in its basics requires membership spaces to connect and link audiences that contain potential customers in a comfortable environment and catch them in an atmosphere to which they are already accustomed to. While thinking of integrating the social media into your marketing plan; it is important to take cognizance of few points that would ensure better returns in any kind of related investment.

The very first consideration is the audience towards which the message is targeted and from whom results are expected and hence the plot of the campaign must be suitably designed deploying human resources to design campaigns and messages that put forth the message most effectively. The idea being creatively plan the message that catches the attention of the targeted prospective customers by adapting to their tastes and interests and develop an understanding of what leads their minds.

Engaging them to an honest discussion and inviting responses and feedback is more important than to push the customers and thus, plan a campaign that pulls the customers and create an interactive dialogue and participatory spirit. Further, providing information in real time and educating the audiences in terms of the message and encourage to add their own comments to the basic narrative. It is immensely important to respond and invite more comments to stay active on the social media circuit.

Building up a personalized business blog that can be set up onto your official website and hosted by your domain; however care must be taken to regularly update it with interesting and relevant content that would most likely invite regular industry comment and links and that would systematically enhance the site’s PageRank. Moreover, becoming a part of a social media community like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook always helps in enhancing visibility and participation in social bookmarking communities as well that has members sharing information on varied websites and verticals.

The main aim of joining a social community must be genuinely contribute in discussions and interactive sessions on relative interests and carefully promoting your business alongside and absolutely avoiding any attempts to become the center of attraction. Also, care must be taken not to incessantly brag about your business or spam the others or make use of aggressive marketing tactics that can tarnish reputation and give a negative impression of your business.

Efforts must be made to add quality to the discussion to lead people to your web page and for facilitating that, you can add your e-mail address or simply place a signature that will market for you and would act as an invitation to potential clients for your business and visitors for your website. Effectively using these enhanced online strategies to usurp the social media circuit and build a strong brand image would go a long way in establishing successful operations online.

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Importance To Catch The Eye Of Your Target Audience

21 Dec

In this competitive market, entrepreneurs use innovative and modern age internet marketing to promote their business and products/services. However building online reputation and attracting the right audience at your site is not an easy task. To catch the eye of your target audience online you must use the search engine optimization (SEO), a unique process to promote your website and develop the brand image in an effective manner among the customers. Google along with varied search engines helps to bring traffic to your website. SEO process undertakes several types of techniques to promote the website of an organization.  

Keyword analysis is one of the important techniques for Search Engine optimization. To get your site in the top rankings of Google search, you need to look in for the keywords that might be used by your customers. Google Adwords Keyword Tool assists you in looking for the popular keywords related to your business or services. Use these keywords in the content of your website in such a way that your webpage can be easily able to get attention of your target visitors. While using these keywords make sure that content should contain a reasonable proportion of the keywords. If your web content holds excess amount of keyword, it can be considered as spam. That is why appropriate use of keywords is very important to get your website in top rankings of search engines such as Google, msn, yahoo, etc.

This technique is quite helpful in reaching out to your customers and offering them your services in a trouble-free way. So, go for an appropriate keyword analysis to make your SEO process successful and get a beneficial outcome.

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