I’m sure we have all seen and, in some cases, fallen for the sneaky, pointless viral links circulating Facebook more and more often these days. They go like this: “1. Click on Photo, 2. Comment Jump 3. See what happens.” What happens? Nothing! This is a sneaky tactic to make cyber scammers rich. These pages [...]
Archive for October 2012
WordPress User Guide
Posted 26 October 2012 by SandyTagged As: blog, blogging, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress blog, wordpress blogging, wordpress guide | Categories: Copywriting | 2 Comments
WordPress started out as a simple blogging platform. It was free to anyone who wanted to set up a personal or business blog. Its application was such that blogs could be hosted on WordPress itself or integrated into existing websites. These days, it’s also used as a content management system (CMS), which means it’s a [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Oct 22 2012)
Posted 22 October 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google | Categories: SEO, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Google has copied Bing in introducing a tool to help devalue the impact of bad links to a given domain – bringing a sigh of relief to SEO’s still suffering the effects of Penguin’s blow. Many webmasters say it’s the bomb, whereas some think that Google is letting people do all the hard work for [...]
It’s Judgment Time: Google Lets Webmasters Make Amends for Past Infringements
Posted 19 October 2012 by PhilTagged As: | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
Thought leader Danny Sullivan wrote on Google’s newly launched link disavow tool – which allows webmasters to disenfranchise specific links, or domains that link to their websites – a response to the wide demand for a way for the average Joe Bloggs (no pun intended) to recover from April’s Penguin update. Danny’s post has the [...]
If Change is a Holiday, it’s Time to go on Leave
Posted 15 October 2012 by PhilTagged As: patents, seo by the sea, seo philosophy, seomoz | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
Since Panda and Penguin hit the scenes, I’ve gradually developed the notion that Google has discovered that it is very difficult to detect spam programmatically, have tried going to the end of the earth to get it right, and decided that the easiest way to outwit the SEO and spam communities is to bombard them with many [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Oct 15 2012)
Posted 15 October 2012 by ShepTagged As: | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
In this week’s top news is Google Mobile’s New Slide Out Black Navigation Bar. A new mobile interface made to navigate more easily on Google Services. In other news Google Rolls Out Massive Street View Update. This is said to be making Google maps more comprehensive and increasing street view coverage in most countries around [...]