Fetch as Google Bot Helps Hacked Sites

Anyone who has had their website hacked (and knows about it) understands that pains that are required to clean up your site to remove the infection. Besides “clear-cut, black-hat webspam” the second largest category of spam that Google deals with consistently is that of hacked websites. I wrote a post a while ago detailing what […]

Gearing Up for Social Media Marketing

Different demographics are using different social media channels. Reaching the right audience with social media is about using the right channels and voice to connect with and engage your followers. Different sites as well as online marketing and analysis techniques can help you connect with the audience you’ve been trying to reach. Below is information […]

Google Puts Smack-Down on Infographics

Whether you know what they are called or not, most of us have seen those wonderful images that depict information in a pleasing graphical format and usually span 20 pages vertically. Infographic are visual representations that display information, data or knowledge. For some time now, these infographics have been used as link bait and are […]

Understanding Open Graph Protocol

I have been asked several times recently about "what is an Open Graph?" and "How do I use it?" Not having a clear answer, I decided to educate myself so I could share the knowledge. The Open Graph protocol is widely implemented by Google and Facebook and in use on large websites such as IMDb, […]

Microsoft Surface – Not a table, a tablet

All these years of spies telling us about the ‘table’ that the nerds in Redmond are calling the ‘Microsoft Surface‘, and the whole time we didn’t know they were silenced before they could finish saying ‘tablet‘. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo The official video from Microsoft. A bit skimpy with the details. We know Microsoft actually wanted to make […]