He walked down the quiet street, a leopard in the concrete jungle. Eyes down, but watching the angles. Hands in his coat pocket concealing but preoccupied. It was then from the shadows a figure emerged, unwanted but unrelenting. “Hey buddy, you lookin’?”, poured forth with a cloud of smoke. “Naw, I don’t do that crap.”...Read More
Small business owners who have just begun their SEO campaign will find that there is no end to the depth and complexity inherent in search engine optimization. Many companies try to take a do-it-yourself mentality to SEO implementation that ends with them sloppily stringing together popular search terms or stuffing keywords on contextually irrelevant web...Read More
Digg founder Kevin Rose (right) has joined Google to work on its social products. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One of Silicon Valley’s iconic entrepreneurs is going corporate. Google has scooped up Digg founder Kevin Rose and a number of his employees at Milk, the venture he created last year as a lab for experimenting with...Read More
Google Inc. (GOOG), the world’s largest Web-search provider, was questioned by France’s data protection authority to determine whether policies for mobile devices running its Android operating system and information collected using “cookies†violate European privacy rules. The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, known by its French acronym as CNIL, asked Google to reply...Read More
Derek Walter for RedOrbit.com Just as the popular blogging service WordPress simplified web site creation, building iPhone and Android apps can now be done with no coding skills. While these online tools do not yet provide the same kind of complexity that one can produce by building a mobile app with code, they have surprising...Read More
The never-ending chicken-and-egg issue of gaining ground in Google results is about to take another abrupt turn. According to Google’s Matt Cutts, the company is working on a new set of tweaks to the fabled “GoogleBot” that will penalize sites that over-optimize for prime Google results. Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz reports that Cutts let...Read More
Much has been written lately about SEO and its convergence with social media, content marketing, and other inbound marketing techniques. While many people in the SEO field embrace the convergence of social, content, and inbound marketing strategies others remain resistant to change and convergence. Change is something that search, digital, and in-house marketing departments need...Read More
By JULIA ANGWIN The U.S. and European Union are investigating Google for its practice of bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple’s Safari Web browser, Julia Angwin reports on the News Hub. Photo: AFP/ Getty Images. Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings...Read More
Achieving the perfect search engine optimization (SEO) strategy for any website can often feel nigh on impossible. With Google and many other search engines regularly changing their search algorithms, it’s a constant battle trying to attract the right web searchers to your website. Throw another language into the mix and making the most of your...Read More
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