Barry W.

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KnowEm Launches USPTO Trademark Search and Registration Service

Barry W. posted an article on - May 28, 2011, 10:01 am
{EAV_BLOG_VER:d6ae1c5416139218} You talked, and we listened – today we launched a new service to make it even easier for brands to secure their online presence in one place, by adding a graphical USPTO Trademark Search and Registration service to KnowEm.com.  In our continuing hope to make KnowEm...
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Microsoft Follows Google's Rules of Trademark Use In PPC

Barry W. posted an article on - Feb 16, 2011, 8:58 am
Microsoft released an announcement today that as of March 3rd, 2011, they will no longer be making editorial investigations into “complaints about trademarks used as keywords to trigger ads on Bing & Yahoo! Search in the United States and Canada.”  What this basically means is they are allowing...
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Google Announces Social Media to Influence Search Rankings

Barry W. posted an article on - Dec 22, 2010, 8:57 am
A few days ago Matt Cutts of the Google Web Search Quality Team announced that Google is going to start factoring signals from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook in their search engine rankings and results. This marks a shift from a video Cutts made in May 2010 in which he reported Google ...
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If a Country Can't Reclaim a Username, What Chance Do You Have?

Barry W. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2010, 4:45 pm
It was recently reported that the state of Israel purchased the Twitter username @Israel from a private individual named Israel Meléndez for an undisclosed sum, which by some reports may be as much as six figures.  You read that right – the Nation of Israel paid for a Twitter username from som...
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The New Threat of Typosquatting (Misspelled Brands) in Social Media

Barry W. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2010, 9:57 am
A recent tweet by Andrew Nystrom of Red Bull brought attention to a growing trend we’ve noticed in Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook — that of Typosquatting. Typosquatting is a form of brandjacking/cybersquatting in which someone registers the misspelling of a brand or trademark t...
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KnowEm Adds 20 More Domains to Domain Name Checking Service

Barry W. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2010, 1:00 pm
The following is an announcement I posted on the KnowEm Blog: We’re very pleased to announce today that we’ve added 20 new international TLDs (top-level domains) to our free service which checks domain name availability, bringing our total number of domain extensions searched to over 60. The n...
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Social Media Management Firm KnowEm Acquires FriendsCall.Me

Barry W. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 4:27 pm
Expands Offerings to Help Brands Secure and Manage their Identity in Social Media Company launches new services to help enterprises and individuals stake out their names on more than 300 social media sites today — as well as those sites to emerge tomorrow KnowEm, the company working to help bran...
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Six SEO Techniques Which Will Destroy Your Website

Barry W. posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 12:05 pm
1) Buy (or Sell) Links.  OK, this one is tricky.  If Google catches you buying links, you’re sunk.  But couldn’t you just do it all sneaky so Google doesn’t notice?  Probably, but keep in mind Google still hates it and will blast your site if they find out you’re doing it. SOLUTION: Crea...
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New Website Protects Usernames From Social Media Identity Theft

Barry W. posted an article on - Apr 20, 2009, 9:34 am
I just launched a new website, the next iteration of CheckUserNames.com.  KnowEm.com not only checks for the availability of your username on 120 sites, for a small fee we’ll stake your claim on every one of them by automatically signing you up. KnowEm.com (http://knowem.com) launched a new web ...
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The April Google PageRank Update and Why I Don't Care (But You Do)

Barry W. posted an article on - Apr 2, 2009, 3:01 pm
Over the course of yesterday and today Google updated it’s Toolbar PageRanks for websites.  I would like to say that’s awesome, because BarryWise.com is now a PageRank 5, but the truth is I really don’t care.  When I first started working on this blog in May of last year the PageRank was Zer...
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Completed Another Social Networking Tool: CheckUserNames.com

Barry W. posted an article on - Feb 27, 2009, 5:37 pm
This one is (a little) more useful than TweetWasters.  My new site, CheckUserNames.com, allows you to check the availability of your potential new username across dozens of popular social networking sites (MySpace, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.).  Due to the increasing demand for staking your claim on...
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ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for WordPress

Barry W. posted an article on - Feb 9, 2009, 3:18 pm
Today ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck’s Youtuber, which we’ve decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses the same syntax: Where video_id is the (u...
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Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQL

Barry W. posted an article on - Feb 4, 2009, 6:06 am
In case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your WordPress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client’s website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publish the new site I realized WordPress’s ...
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My Top 10 SEO Techniques for Small Business Website SEO/SEM Success

Barry W. posted an article on - Jan 8, 2009, 2:37 pm
I’ve been getting a lot more requests from small businesses for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and I seem to be repeating most of the same advice to every new client.  Put simply, it is more difficult for small businesses to compete on a global level for c...
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Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year

Barry W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 2008, 1:16 am
Since I’ve put up a blog post every other time Google updated it’s toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight’s any different.  The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it’s been extremely friendly.  I no longer have a client or a...
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For All You Twitterers: We Launched Tweetwasters.com Today

Barry W. posted an article on - Dec 12, 2008, 1:52 pm
Whew, it’s been a hectic morning! Sugarrae, Streko, Reese and I have been working together to launch Tweetwasters.com, and we just shipped it out the door a few hours ago. It’s a pretty simple application – it just polls the Twitter API to count how many status updates (ugh, do I h...
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