If you’re at all concerned with online censorship then you should definitely be concerned about this: Apparently, the US State Department wants to change its staff communications policy in a way that will severely restrict social media interaction, blogging and other writing, including speeches (Washington Post). The changes will also apply to all public speaking [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Dec 3 2012)
Posted 3 December 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google, Google Shopping, Google Webmaster Tools | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
Breaking the news headlines in the past week is Bing’s Scroogled Campaign against Google shopping. Once, Google fought against paid inclusion programmes and now it embraces them. The Scroogled Campaign is considered a wakeup call to raise awareness that Google shopping results are pay-to-rank and not natural. And while Bing exposes Google’s questionable shopping results and [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 26 2012)
Posted 26 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google, search engine | Categories: News | Leave a Comment
Making headlines in the past week: The Launch of Bing Webmaster guidelines and Webinars. The guidelines cover a wide range of topics and, above all, they are designed to help find your content and get you indexed in Bing’s search engine. Here are some of the topics covered in the guidelines: · Content – Bing encourages [...]
Blogging Live in 3 … 2 … 1
Posted 23 November 2012 by SandyTagged As: live blog, live blogging, microblogging | Categories: Online PR | Leave a Comment
Do you take advantage of all the benefits that live blogging has to offer? If not, maybe it’s time you figured out how to get on the bandwagon. According to a recent report by City University London’s Journalism School, live blogs get 300% more views that plain old news articles that cover the same event [...]
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Nov 20th 2012)
Posted 20 November 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
There is a rumour circulating the cyber world that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!’s chief executive, has been in discussions with Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, about the possibility of them working together. This would not be a first, as they have previously collaborated on a number of smaller projects, like Yahoo! news showing [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 19 2012)
Posted 19 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: China, Google, Search Egine | Categories: News | Leave a Comment
Making headlines in the past week: The Chinese Block Google Search, Gmail, Google+, Maps and more Google services. China’s Communist Party, which is always sensitive about news, blocked the site during its 18th Party Congress. According to Search Engine Land, the block was only temporary, lasting about 12 hours. In other news, Google has reported that government [...]