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The folks over at Search Engine Roundtable have reported that there’s been a lot of chatter on some of the webmaster forums as to a possible Google algorithm update. Although Google has yet to release any official word, the forums are a buzz with webmaster seeing shifts in search traffic and ranking positions. There have […]
In the wake of controversy over tracking and data privacy concerns launched at some of the major search engine players, underdog search engine DuckDuckGo has come out with a beta version of their new design interface. The new design includes contextual features such as images, videos, a knowledge graph-esque information box, instant answers and more. […]
Google’s Continuing Smack Down Google laid the smack down on 7 Japanese Link Networks recently. The Google technique of slowly shutting down blog networks must be having others around the world in a cold sweat. Is this like the horrid way pet felines like to play with their prey by slowly poking out the eye […]
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious SSL/TLS encryption vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. So what is it? Seems like we’ve heard this all before? To put it into layman’s terms, Heartbleed or CVE-2014-0160, depending on your pedantic nature, is a really bad thing. In less simple terms, the ‘heartbeat’ service of OpenSSL […]
ClickZ The now ClickZ (formerly SES) had its inaugural debut in New York this week. Everyone from the digital world showed their presence at this year’s event, but it sounds as though the number of tables has dwindled. Google and Bing both had exclusive rooms but unfortunately the number of showcased digital businesses was much […]
Social media can be a benefit for optimizing our total presence on the web. Unfortunately it’s hard to figure out how to measure the impact we’ve made via Social media. The truth is, it’s social media, and the name of the game of Social is engagement. – According to Wikipedia; “Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning […]
About an hour ago (it will be by the time I post this) it was announced that Facebook has acquired Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual headset for roughly 2 billion in cash and stocks. If you review the products that Facebook has purchased/acquired recently you’ll see a very consistent logic in going […]
Google made strong moves within the last twenty four hours in the guest blogging arena. One of the more well-known guest blogging networks, “MyBlogGuest” was hit with a massive manual penalty rendering them nonexistent on Google’s index. Although this company worked hard to stay on the white side it couldn’t avoid wearing a grey hat. […]
Googcology Google began its crackdown on international link networks. It began last month, landing its campaign in Poland then following into French web space slowly mining its way through the garbage. We fully recognize the repercussions some of these businesses have gone through since the North American release and we knew that eventually Google would […]