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In this video interview mobile search expert Michael Martin offers a series of tips on how to make your website easily accessible to mobile devices. He discusses .mobi domains, mobile browser user detection, CSS specifically designed for mobile devices, DOC types, page loading speed, touch enabled pages, Flash, and JavaScript.

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I’ve been trying advertising through BuySellAds.com – it’s been very effective. But I’d like to switch to a sponsorship structure, instead. It gives a lot more value for the sponsor, and it frankly lets me earn a bit more money.
It’s also a morale boost. I put about 15 hours/week into Conversation Marketing, minimum. Getting even [...]

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Publishing content online is simple; maybe too simple. When you click publish, share or tweet, do you instantly forget about the information you just shared? In a social media culture where the hunt for the next big trend constantly exists, putting aside published content to move on to the next topic is a natural reaction. [...]

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The short version: Learn to use the TRIM() command in whatever programming language you’re using, so you remove spaces that some poor soul accidentally includes in a data they enter via web form.
The TRIM() command
Every programming language has some version of the TRIM() command. TRIM() removes leading and trailing spaces from any alphanumeric string. So, [...]

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Online marketing is unique for each business. For large businesses that rely on channel partners to sell and distribute products, the online marketing process can be a challenge. With many channel partners across multiple locations, how can a business make sure that partners have the leads they need to help grow the business?
In a [...]

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Here at HubSpot, we get a lot of questions around website redesigns. When should they be done, how should they be done and what mistakes not to make. In this three part series, we’ll examine some of the common pitfalls you might fall into and ways to avoid them.
One thing that all of our partners [...]

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The four most important social media channels to marketers are Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube (See the 2010 State of Inbound Marketing for data). But which one(s) are the most active for your industry? HubSpot recently analyzed 33 industries to find out. An overview of data from our new ebook, the Online Marketing [...]

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The following is a guest post by John McTigue, Executive Vice President and Co-Owner of Kuno Creative. Kuno Creative is a Certified HubSpot Partner Agency based in Avon, OH that specializes in building brands and capturing sales leads.
Crafting a good whitepaper isn’t easy. Creating one that will capture leads is an even bigger challenge. Although [...]

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Results of a recent eye-tracking study conducted at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona sheds light on interesting user behavior on a universal search results page.
The study, conducted by Mari-Carmen Marcos a professor and Cristina González-Caro a PhD student at the university, classifies search queries into 4 categories:

Informational – where the user looks for information such [...]

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A recent report in The Financial Times indicates that Google is in talks with some big studios in Hollywood, to show their movies on YouTube on a pay-per-view basis.
It is believed that users will be charged at the rate of about $5 per movie which they stream.
Google used to offer a video on demand service [...]

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