Since my previous article, The amount of content per blog post does not matter?, the ranking of my post, Excellent social media marketing by ameriquest, has changed somewhat.  Before the post was submitted WebGrowth’s homepage was ranked #9 for keyphrase ‘social media marketing’, as soon as the post was indexed the homepage slipped down to #13 and the blog post went to #1 instantly.

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For those of you who don’t know, it’s World AIDS day on 1 December.  I found this video from Madtube, a video streaming website for non-profit organisations, which highlights how much our world is in trouble when it comes to AIDS.  We all know how quickly AIDS has spread, especially in the rural areas of Africa but not many of us are doing anything about it.  Unfortunately without action there will be no progress… Read the rest of this entry »

On Wednesday, 26 November, I wrote a post for my blog regarding social media marketing, I came across a very good viral marketing campaign by Ameriquest and decided to embed their YouTube video into the post.  Besides the video, the amount of text was only 26 words.  Approximately 1.5 lines!  I was not planning to achieve heroics for certain keywords in Google… Read the rest of this entry »

5 witty videos from Ameriquest’s viral marketing campaign. They inserted these videos on YouTube and the world is spreading it around like wildfire. Great branding guys!

There has always been a question mark as to whether Google will start indexing videos. Well, it has begun. Google has started indexing the political channels in YouTube. It is still in the Google Labs but as far as I am concerned, if Google is prepared to launch something in Labs then it is good enough to be taken seriously. Read the rest of this entry »