Category Archives: Social Media Optimisation

Social Media CyberSquatters

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 13, 2009. Filed under Online Reputation Management, Social Media Optimisation. No comments.

Cybersquatting has been a threat to businesses from the inception of the internet.  The term refers to individuals who buy domain names associated with big brands and sit on them for future profit or gain. Legislation has since been passed to protect brands against cyber squatting and many companies have successfully managed to claim their [...]

Social Media Optimisation

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 29, 2009. Filed under Social Media Optimisation. No comments.

During the past few years, the internet saw a surge in social media properties including the grand daddy of them all… My Space as well as Facebook (the reigning king), YouTube (social video sharing), Flickr (social photo sharing) Digg and Delicious (social tagging), Yahoo Answers (social knowledge), Wikipedia (social collaboration), Twitter (rising micro blogging star). The list [...]

Twitter and Social Media Optimisation

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 17, 2008. Filed under Social Media Optimisation. No comments.

Anyone who’s been on websites such as Twitter will tell you that the information you get on there is hardly information at all.  Twitter’s basic premise relies on the fact that many people around the world post little soundbytes about what they’re doing and they use devices beyond their computer to do this.  To update [...]