2013
Bad Site Design Won t Get Your Site Penalized by Google
The difference between a Google Penalty and having your search engine rankings go down. Seems as though there are a lot of people out there that don t know the difference, and in this blog post I clear this up.
Easter Bunny Kicked Out of PRWeb Press Release Web Site
The Easter Bunny has officially been kicked out of PRWeb, the popular press release web site. According to Standing Dog’s latest blog post, the Easter Bunny could not be included in a recent press release due to the fact that the Easter Bunny is parodic.
2012
Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk Hacked, Hosting Malware on Site
It looks like Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk, the search engine for domain names, has been hacked, and apparently is hosting malware on their web site. These messages started appearing to visitors of both Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk within the past 24 hours, and I have verified that users are still getting these messages.
How to Diversify the Anchor Text of Links to Your Web Site
Some of the latest Google algorithm changes involves the diversity of anchor text links that point to a web site or one particular web page. If you have too much of one keyword phrase in the anchor text, which tends to be around 60 percent or higher, there will be issues.
The Art of Writing Effective Title Tags
One of the most basic SEO practices that can go a very long way in helping your site gain in Search Engine Rankings and add validity is the Title Tags. Here is how to write an effective title tag.
2011
More Android Users Looking for Jobs than iPhone Users
According to data released by LinkUp, 20 percent of job seekers use their mobile devices to look for jobs. What is interesting is that 79.7% of visitors to the LinkUp web site used an Android device to find jobs. Surprisingly, however, Apple iPhone usage fell from dominating last year’s first quarter numbers at 62.1%, down to 12.3% in Q1 2011. Blac
2010
Search Engine Optimization - How you can Identify Search Engine Ranking Problems with Your Website
I often speak to individuals who declare that they are struggling from poor search engine rankings. Regardless of what you do, you simply can t discover your web site in Google–and sometimes it’s not just the keywords the websites is targeting, the website can t be discovered for the company’s name. In any situation, the website is definitely suffe
Do Product Videos Help with Search Engine Optimization?
Having videos of your products will help your ecommerce sales. Visitors to your site will watch the videos, and it will presumably help their buying decisions. But what about the search engines? How will posting a product video on your website help with search engine optimization?
Yahoo Acquires Flicker.com
The whois record for Flicker.com was last updated a few weeks ago and Yahoo now owns the domain. Fickr.com of course is one of Yahoos prime properties and the 31st most visited site on the net according to Alexa.
Siteminis Launches Mobile Commerce Solution
Siteminis, a developer of internet-based mobile commerce software solutions, has spent more than three years of research, development, and testing with major retailers and finally launched their patented Mobile Web Solution, one of the first mobile platforms that allows companies to easily deploy one site instead of multiple sites for each type of
How to Send Gift Cards on Any Social Network
Friendgiftrs one-of-a-kind network is the first and only social media-based online storefront to offer actual purchasable retail and restaurant gift cards to hundreds of millions of social media site users.
What is the Average Load Speed of Your Website?
I am pretty certain that after reading the title of this post that you thought about the speed of your site but could not pin it to a precise number because it is a metric you never worry about. Well, it is time to start paying attention to this site metric, because it may be a factor in your rankings in Google in 2010.
2009
The 11 Types of Alexa Hot URLs
The Alexa Hot URLs list shows the hottest internet web pages right now on the internet, updated every 5 minutes. Getting your website on this list is not difficult, especially if your site falls into one of the 11 types of Alexa Hot URLs.
Virginia Prescription Records Stolen and Held for Ransom
On Thursday, April 30, the secure site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) was replaced with a $US10M ransom demand. Why didn t Virginia have an offsite backup of the data?
2008
Microsoft Launches Live Search API for Publishers and Web De
Today at PubCon Microsoft launched a new release of the Live Search API for publishers and web developers. Now, in one place, Microsoft is making available what is essentially a content management system for your site or blog, plus the ability to monetize by selling ads.
Is Voting on a Social Media Site Spam?
There has been a lot of talk lately on Sphinn, the internet marketing community s social media network, about moderating, spamming, and voting.
Niche-Knach: Freelance Switch and Other Career Blogs
FreelanceSwitch is a site for freelancers built around multi-contributor blog, chock full of general freelance advice, not to mention the always-hilarious Freelance Freedom comic.
GeoSpot Deep Local Search Launches Mobile Web Service
GeoSpot, a location-based services and social activities site has launched the Beta release of GeoSpot Mobile Web service. Find open businesses via your mobile phone.
How To Create Content They Will Keep Coming Back For
Once the slick look of your site draws in readers, it is the quality content that will keep them coming back for more. Following are a few things I hae learned in building a readership based on good content.
Who is Optimizing YOUR Web Site?
Many times a company will use a web design firm to create the site in a search engine friendly manner, but many of firms do not do a full analysis of the needs of the web site.
Websites Celebrating Earth Day 2008
I thought I would point out some of the best Earth Day blog posts as well as the sites that have done something on their site to help promote Earth Day 2008.
Digg Down Today and Other Social Media Revelations
For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below.
Google Tests Site Links Search with Microsoft
From what I can tell, and from the short amount of testing that I have done, the search box appears when you search for Microsoft at Google.com. It looks to me that it is nothing but a Google custom search engine, or simply a site: command search of the microsoft.com domain, which includes all of their subdomains.
ust How Much Traffic Can You Get From Social Media Websites?
If you get your content right, social media sites can send 10’s of thousands of visitors to your site in a short space of time. But how much traffic do these social media sites really send?
The ramblings of My Life, Friends, Activity, Tips, Money, Work and hobbies! » News Blog...
Out of nowhere i stumbled with this News Blog. Hahahah at least i have something to read…now.. Basically the site layout is just nice.. clean design with well arranged content and nicely done header.
