Charlotte Border’s Falls Victim to Consumer Internet Shift

Yesterday, while on my personal quest to find a vegetarian cookbook with recipes that don’t seem to be borrowed from martians, I went to my local Border’s bookstore in Charlotte, NC.  Turns out I was entering a zoo rather than the quiet and peaceful bookstore I had always loved. Border’s has gone bankrupt and that was extremely evident upon a quick glance around the store.  Huge...

The Rise of Local SEO

photo © 2009 Shaun Anderson | more info (via: Wylio)As search engines continue to modify their ranking algorithms in effort to keep the rankings legitimate, a listing’s location is becoming more and more significant to earning a high rank.  Just as social networking websites allow users to communicate and share among a small social group, search engines are keeping results close to home, allowing...

Internet Traffic Statistics

photo © 2011 Van_PC | more info (via: Wylio) A recent study conducted by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded with some interesting and helpful statistics on how the sources of website traffic in journalism breakdown. The largest percent of traffic to news sites comes from direct traffic, which is from referrals from other websites and directly going to the website...