It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…floating showroom? Google’s mysterious barge in San Francisco Bay just became a bit less of a mystery. KPIX, a CBS affiliate in the Bay Area, has dug deep and found sources that tell the station the barge will house luxury showrooms and a party deck for the search...Read More
WordPress has always been a CMS (Content Management System) and blogging tool for those that aren’t as adept at web design and coding, but want the flexibility and professional design that many large companies pay thousands of dollars to developers to create. The community support has always been very active and WordPress core development has...Read More
Jill Whalen of High Rankings has been a voice in the SEO community since SEO was in its infancy. This week, she announced she was officially leaving SEO in pursuit of other interests. In her newsletter, the High Rankings Advisor, she talked about her decision: I realize that this probably sounds pretty crazy. SEO has...Read More
(CNN) — Google on Thursday released its latest candy-themed mobile operating system: Android 4.4, more deliciously known as Kit Kat. The system will launch immediately on Google’s new Nexus 5 phone and then roll out to other Nexus devices, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, in the next few weeks. Nexus devices are Google’s...Read More
I like the frequency of WordPress updates. They’re generally released every few months so you receive some great new features and bug fixes. But they’re not so frequent that you’re updating all your sites every other day. WordPress 3.7 was released on October 24, 2013. You can download the files from wordpress.org/download/ or you can...Read More
SEO has changed forever. The great philosopher Heraclitus once said “change is the only constant”. But wait? Einstein said a similar thing about the universe. Even the very subject on the correlation of change and constant in life is open to debate. This sums up the situation that search marketers face themselves in today. SEO...Read More
ADVERTISEMENT Massive cloud networks from companies like Google and Yahoo cache and serve up much of the data on the Internet — and the NSA has secretly tapped into the unencrypted links behind those company’s enormous servers, according to a new report from the Washington Post. By tapping into that link, the NSA can collect...Read More
Seems like this is pretty much a re-write of a press release. WP will continue to be the target of malicious attacks because of it’s nature and design, including that many of the features are locked to certain URLs, making attacks much more easy. Automatic updates will not work for a number of installations (setuid...Read More
The last few weeks have been amazing. Google has made some big changes and they are all part of a longer term strategy that has many components. In short, Google is doing a brilliant job of pushing people away from tactical SEO behavior and toward a more strategic approach. You could argue that “tactical SEO...Read More
Shareholders sent the stock up 8 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday, after Google’s better-than-expected third-quarter financial report. Still, the results revealed the company’s deep challenges: as its desktop search and advertising businesses mature, along with overall business in the United States, its growth rate is slowing and the amount of money it makes from...Read More
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