Google Places Failure

I am usually not one to rant about things that frustrate me but I would like to relate my recent experience trying to maintain a Google Places account. I have used the Places service many times to create profiles for business as part of an overall marketing strategy. It was not until I needed to […]

Creating Long Lasting Evergreen Content

Evergreen content is the process of writing content that is effective is continually driving traffic to your website over a long period of time. The content is capable of standing on its own with little or even no updating. Historical content is a good example of evergreen content. Content written about the presidency of Bill […]

Getting Intimate with Google Personal Search

In a further effort to make search results more relevant to it users, Google will begin to provide more personalized search results for users of the fledgling Google+ social networking service. The new service will draw search results by drawing on the photos, news and comments posted from within the Google+ network and should be […]

A New Google Places Bug

There seems to be a lot of discussion regarding an issue with missing photos on many Google Places pages. A thread on the Google Places Help forum has received several threads in which business owners are stating that they are unable to update any images on for their Places accounts. From the forum threads, it […]

A Quantum Leap Forward: The World’s First Programmable Quantum Photonic Processor

A team of scientists at the University of Bristol, England have developed the world’s first re-programmable, multi-purpose quantum photonic chip that relies upon quantum entanglement to perform complex calculations. The new quantum chip uses multiple waveguides channels made form standard silicon dioxide and eight electrodes that enable the silicon chip to repeatedly entangle photons. The […]

Facebook Exploits Reveals Zuckerberg Private Images

A recent exploit in Facebook was discovered that allows anyone to view another to see images that are marked as private. On Monday a user of a popular bodybuilding forum placed a post entitled "I teach you how to view private Facebook photos" which involved the exploitation of security systems meant to stop users from […]

Another iFrames test

Back on November 7th Beanstalk’s Ryan Morben decided to run a test on iFrames to see how they get crawled (and to answer the question … do they?)  I had to support the test as we’d been receiving mixed signals.  A good clean test running an iFrame of our own domain containing only text.  The […]

Boxing Yahoo Site Explorer

Today is a sad day for those of us in the SEO industry. Yahoo Site Explorer is being boxed for good and as of today will be the last day you will be able to use it. Yahoo announced on Friday 18th that they would be that they would be shutting down the service. Many […]

Finding Your Way With Sitemaps

If you don’t know what a sitemap is, or have never created one…read on. A sitemap is a list of the individual pages on your website displayed in a hierarchical fashion similar to a table of contents, or index. They are sometimes used as a planning tool during the developmental stages of a site design, […]