Fox News and Google will team up later this month to host a Republican presidential debate featuring video and text questions submitted by the public via YouTube. The use of YouTube-generated questions for a presidential debate was first attempted in 2007, when YouTube and CNN joined to produce Republican and Democratic debates. But the format...Read More
Besides the fraudulent security certificates Dutch authority DigiNotar issued for Google.com, more were made for Yahoo.com, Mozilla.org, torproject.org, wordpress.org and an Iranian blogging platform, Baladin, according to a Dutch report. The report [Google Translate version] does not state how it came across the information that the additional sites were targeted, and neither DigiNotar, its parent,...Read More
There’s a panel at SES that usually ends up drawing a packed house. “SEO is Dead! Long Live SEO” never fails to impress the audience, especially with all the cries that “Social media is now ‘king.'” As I am primarily a social media marketer, but have deep roots in search engine optimization, I raise my...Read More
One of the things that made Google apps the web-based productivity suite to beat was the ability to access your information offline using Gears. When that experiment was killed, many of us let loose a single tear as we contemplated returning to our desktop apps. Well, as promised, HTML5 is finally returning Gmail to its...Read More
SEO is a powerful force that can be wielded to dictate the prominent content placement in search results, potentially driving countless visitors to websites. Those mastering this power represent contrasting strategies that search engines would consider “good and evil.” Historically, we’ve called this white hat and black hat SEO… But what fun is that?! If...Read More
OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch (Credit: OpenDNS) OpenDNS, Google, and a few others have built a new technology into their Internet operations that’s designed to speed up the delivery of data around the globe. The technology augments the Domain Name System that provides the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address needed to get data to an Internet...Read More
The latest innovations in SEO are definitely social signals and how they impact search results. We are seeing a shift in the authority scores that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is weighing. It is not based solely on in-bound links and page content, but also on the amount of social sharing and social signals that you actually...Read More
In one of the largest settlements of its kind in U.S. history, Google agreed last week to pay the U.S. government half a billion dollars for allowing its advertising system to be abused by Canadian Internet prescription drug peddlers illegally importing their wares into the country. The size of the settlement wasn’t the only eye-opener...Read More
When Google announced their latest algorithm update codename “Panda†the jokes came out of the woodwork to tease the name. But the reality was that this update impacted the SERPs big time. A lot of major sites suffered traffic loss due to their rankings falling. When that happened a lot of SEOs were scrambling to...Read More
Many people do not want to admit to their weaknesses, and sometimes they find ways to make light of their foibles–or at least enjoy a comedian’s light satire. Jeff Foxworthy once joked how being a redneck means “a glorious absence of sophistication.†So imagine how refreshing admitting to a lack of glorious WordPress sophistication can...Read More
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