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
BY THOMAS CATAN AND AMIR EFRATI Behind Google Inc.’s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years. Sorting through more than four million documents, prosecutors...Read More
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about mobile payments technologies like Square, a little white box that plugs into an iPhone and essentially turns it into a credit card processing tool. Small business owners and entrepreneurs like these technologies because it lets them bypass the high costs of processing credit card payments through traditional...Read More
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SEO, or search engine optimization, has become a strategy familiar to nearly every real estate professional. This technical web site marketing method typically proves effective toward increasing organic search engine rank results. But real estate professionals who combine SEO efforts with search engine marketing – known as SEM – are the ones reaping the biggest...Read More
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