It’s good to hear that there are some success stories amongst the multitude of failings that have been publicised of late. Do you have any case studies you could point us to? Would love to find out more.

Thanks,
Matt

We at StoreYa, see enormous traction, there’s an amazing daily growth of merchants, creating their own Facebook shops. There’s no doubt that F-commerce is the next step in the eCommerce evolution, but it will take some time.

Duplicating your eCommerce store to Facebook will not do the trick..You must provide the merchants with engagement tools, such as: Fans-firsts, Fans exclusive deals & discounts, this adds an important added value to the social shopping experience.

Thanks for the post.

Yes agree there can be a lot of scaremongering out there but I think my point about SEO agencies giving their clients link reports still holds. We don’t charge per link (some do) but most SEO agencies will forward a list of links to their clients (whether sourced directly or via an aggregator) within reports as part of their monthly fee.

We certainly don’t feel guilty of “systematically seeking to undermine licensed services”.

I guess the key for you will be how many of those links relate to your member’s sites and how you propose to police this practice.

Ali

To paraphrase, if it sounds too bad to be true, it isn’t true. Some scare stories are doing the rounds that have no basis in fact. While we are including a free licence to cover businesses systematic use of free web services in the basic NLA licence, we aren’t seeking to license the free web. Unsurpisingly we, and our publishers, want you to carry on reading and tweeting. Its where users systematically seek to undermine licensed services (and happily Meltwater is now licensed) that we take more interest.

Our website http://www.nla-web.com includes this advice.

8. What about Google News? The new licences only cover companies whose business model relies
on charging for forwarding links. Google has a different business model to this. Companies
systematically forwarding links sourced directly or through a free aggregator such as Google, within
their business should be licensed. Existing NLA licenses will automatically incorporate this right from
January 2010 with no extra charge.

We also give guidance on what is and isnt OK here. http://www.nla-web.co.uk/downloads/Legal%20FAQ(1).pdf

Call us if you need advice. We are here to help

Thanks for the reply!

Sounds like I might be on the right track ;) I love some of the skills and knowledge that my engineering degree will give me, but I don’t have much of a desire to be an engineer in the traditional sense. I like the idea of being able to apply them to alternative areas of interest… search marketing being one of them!

Cheers,
James

Whilst any relevant skills are a great asset to have, the most important thing to have is an interest in SEO in the first place and a real hunger to succeed. Everyone that does really well in this industry has a genuine love of search marketing. When I started out, I had no degree and barely any relevant skills. But having done a fair bit research into SEO, and the type of career that is available, I knew that SEO was something that would interest me in the long term.

But on the whole, common sense, enthusiasm and computer/internet literacy are the only skills you really need.

Hope this helps!

Tom

What was your experience of SEO and search marketing prior to applying? I've recently started an OU engineering degree and have been giving a bit of thought to the kind of roles I'd want to pursue once I've completed it or am near its completion (an eternity away in SEO terms!).

I would hope that some of the problem-solving, product design and innovation aspects of the programme would be skill sets to drawn on in a graduate SEO role – is that something you'd agree with?

Look forward to what you might have to say!

http://www.contentandmotion.co.uk/blog/pinterest-vs-facebook-a-social-pr-strategy-smackdown/

Opinion mixing with news is never a good idea. I was shocked to discover that I even had a Picasa account and those photos that I used in Blogger showed up on my phone! I had to find it first, which wasn't easy, and delete the photos.

You're going way too far, barging into people's lives like a voyeur in the bedroom. I'm just glad I don't have a webcam. You seem to have lost all sense of ethics. I detest Facebook, I detest all social networking, and I detest what you've just told me here. I'll shut down my computer forever if this keeps up.

I used to admire Google. Now I really don't want anything to do with you any more.

He's also is attributed with saying that 640k of memory was plenty for anyone (though to be fair he denies this!).

CD album sales were down 12% from last year, were as Digital Album Sales were up 15%

However in 2011 CD sales made up for 52.7 Million album purchases were-as digital sales made up only 25.1 Million

52.7 Million at around $12 dollars a pop = $600million thats still about half of what digital tracks made…which still makes it a viable, and profitable medium

I do believe physical media is “dying” but it’s a bit of a hyperbole to say it is dead, these numbers are not nearly as drastic in comparison from the near-overnight revolution from Vinyl to Tapes and then Tapes to CDs. One of the main problems being, getting digital music to play in one’s car is still a pain in the arse for most of the non-tech-savvy.

At the current rate of decline, you are still going to see CDs around for AT LEAST another 5 years, unless someone finally teaches everyones mom how to re-connect the bluetooth sync after it messes up and she doesn’t want to go back to the dealership.