When Google launched Local Search, it introduced personalization, the art of guessing where you are and what you wanted to find, and presenting search results to suit. Since its debut in 2009, the local map feature has been ever-present, highlighting locations that are in the geographical area indicated by your IP address, or, if you dare provide it, by your recorded location.
People were already uneasy about Google’s data-collecting activities. As early as December 2008, the New York Times highlighted concerns that personal privacy might be the trade-off for convenience in retrieving information from the web. Google conceded that it collected a wide range of data, but that it “did not threaten anyone’s privacy.” Skeptics from all corners reserved judgement, and the debate...
In today’s health-conscious society, everyone has spent at least a couple minutes of their life thinking about (or purposely ignoring) their diet. Is this meal healthy?
How many calories are in this? Does this bacon-wrapped butterball make my butt look fat? The theory and principles behind improving your health and getting better results can also be attributed to what you do or do not contribute to the health and welfare of your website’s SEO. Here are...
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, which is used by millions of users to read and send text-based messages of up to 140 characters, also known as ‘tweets’. It’s like steady flow of communication that is at our whim. It helps to gain knowledge and information and spread our ideas. For most of the people, it’s just another social networking site with different concept but they don’t realize it has far more benefits especially for...
Twitter can be a very powerful social media vehicle, but are you using the 140 character social network to it's fullest? It's a new year, and with a new Twitter interface, here are a few things to keep in mind when you're tweeting your way into the new year.
Purge Your Follow/Followers
Are all 3,000 of your followers people you actually want to share with? Or are the 5,000 people you follow people whose Twitters you care...
The author of this guest post has long decided to make a living exclusively on-line. That was 5 years ago, and he never looked back.
In this time, I learned a lot of cool things about the Internet, and I made acquaintances and friends with many interesting folks from around the world. Since I’m doing this full-time, I regularly come across useful communities and resources which turn out instrumental to advancing my career and getting...
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Whenever Google does a big update to their algorithm, SEO’s everywhere shudder.
It’s probably because in the past, when a notable update went public, SEO was completely turned upside down.
Just take a look at either the “Mayday Update” or the “Panda Update.”
For those of you who don’t know, both of these updates were designed to target a specific type of website. For the Mayday Update, the targets were thin “Google Sniper” websites – sites that had...
Every SEO has had the daunting task of writing content at least once in their lifetime and the honest truth is that it isn’t the most fun task in the world. But at the end of the day, we all know it needs to be done. Content is king, and if we want a page to rank well we need to apply the essential foundations of the website through content.
Good quality content can be hard...
In my 12+ years in the SEO industry, I have never seen a small company destroy its brand as effectively or as quickly as Ocean Marketing and founder Paul Christoforo managed to do a few weeks ago. Over the course of three days we watched this little PR firm be absolutely demolished by the collective force of the Internet (you know it’s bad when they make a YouTube video), and I highly doubt it...
Launched on the second day of June 2011, schema.org saughtto provide adequate exposure to websites and also help individuals find relevant and correct web pages when they undertake a search. Being a joint initiative between Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, the dominant players in search engine business, schema.org seeks to improve the web by creating a data mark-up schema that is structured.
This search engine companies will rely on this mark-up text to facilitate improved display of...
