View Original: Michael Bhrad Social Media Consulting

Social Networks act as facilitators of our simulated self's online. Not a virtual identity, but an extension of our real identities. So what happens when we extend our personal lives into a scope that may leave us visible in ways we'd never sign-up for to begin with?

Foursquare Security breach unlocked by proactive hacker: Foursquare Safety Issues?

Foursquare is one of the more controversial social...

View Original: Michael Bhrad Social Media
What makes Social Media / Web 2.0 so Attractive, so Successful?

It's natural, it's instinctive, it's the very spirit the internet was founded on... Bam! File sharing, networking, user-generated content encompassing user reviews, videos, blogs, personal identity profiles (Facebook and such), and others!

But dare I ask, are we living through a time where that very founding spirit might be functioning in a disingenuous manner?...

View Original: SEO: Michael Bhrad
Richard Kaulfers, a "virtual-friend" of mine from the The Internet Marketing Club professional network for web marketers, recently posted a video on Digital Swiping for Copy-writing, Ad copy, Headline writing, etc...

Richard discusses some pretty basic, but very useful tactics for resourceful copy-writing. One of the general lessons that came out of this piece for me, is the limitless space of information/resource we know as the internet....

I believe it is obvious to anyone with the intelligence to examine what is going on in SEO marketing, everything leaves behind a pattern.

In every situation, from the type of IP address you use on your hosting account, static vs shared, IP addresses, server response time, if you use wordpress or if you use PHP, or CGI or if you use, ASP, CFG, whatever it is there is an electronic trail to follow.

Anyone who thinks that they can out smart the most advanced computer system...

Google breaks bad the auto blogging business model, plus content scrapers look out, the big bad goog is after you.

Ok, folks you cant say I did not warn you, because it is here, over the next few days many websites that employ a scraping engine, to deliver content to its website.

(notice I did not say to its website visitors)

You were notified sometime ago, that google is going after the blog content farms.

Now just what constitutes a content...