After a Little Deception, Google Releases Panda Refresh (#22)

November 30, 2012
The Pandas Game

Google loves to play games. They love saying one thing while playing it a bit differently in practice. They always want to keep webmasters in the shade and unprepared for whatever algorithm update they plan to release in order to avoid manipulative blackhat SEO activities. So they had another tiny……

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LinkedIn Grants Ads API Access for Accepted Partners

November 29, 2012
LinkedIn Ads API

For many advertisers and marketers, the self-serving ad platform of Internet companies they wish to work with is simply not sufficient and satisfactory enough for their needs. They prefer using their own tools to create and measure advertising campaigns. For that purpose, an ads API is necessary. Until now and……

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Severe Google Bug Regains Access to Prior-Privy Webmaster Tools Users

November 28, 2012
Google Webmaster Tools

One of the worst things that could harm a site’s search traffic from Google is if someone unauthorized had gained access to its Webmaster Tools account. Changing a couple of the site’s settings here and there, and poof, the website is out of Google’s index. Well, hold tight anxious webmasters……

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Only Google+ Users Can Now Post App Reviews on Google Play

November 27, 2012
Google Play Logo

As I’ve already discussed extensively in the past, online reviews can be quite tricky. Sadly, it’s not always easy to distinguish between honest reviews and fake ones created solely for the purpose of manipulatively bloating/diminishing product’s reputation. That makes users also to be incredulous about the reviews platform itself. I’m……

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Instagram Further Spreads to the Web with Badges

November 22, 2012
Instagram Logo With Photos On Background

Instagram may had exclusively started as a mobile application for iOS but as of late it is also storming on the web (mobile+desktop). Few weeks ago, Facebook’s photo-sharing service embarked user profiles for the web and now it proves again that its gaze leans toward the more traditional path of……

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Amazon Enters the Social Game with “Amazon Pages”

November 21, 2012
Amazon.com Logo

Commonly, social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest are the ones who implement different sorts of e-commerce features, as they reckons the huge potential these things carry. Not very often it works the other way around, when e-commerce sites implement social features. But sometimes it does happen. And when……

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Google Enables Anyone to Connect Google+ Profile/Page with YouTube Channel

November 20, 2012
YouTube Logo

Well, you can’t say it was unpredictable or somewhat surprising. In August, Google began allowing YouTube partners to connect their account with Google+ and since then the writing was on the wall. Yup, now everybody can use YouTube with their personal Google+ identity (and Pages coming soon too). YouTube has……

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Bing Debuts its Own “Webmaster Guidelines”

November 19, 2012
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Say “congratulations” to Bing everybody! CONGRATULATIONS! I really hope I wasn’t the only one shouting, that would have been really foolish (and strange)… After more than three years since the official launch, Microsoft’s search engine Bing finally has its own Webmaster Guidelines! As Duane Forrester from Bing’s team stated in……

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Twitter: New Visualized Search, Upgraded Mobile Apps and Email Sharing Feature

November 16, 2012
Twitter Visualized Search Results

“Those who can do, those who can’t Tweet,” someone wise once twitted as he Tweeted it to Twitter. But Twitter loves those ones who allegedly can’t, the company knows they are the driving force behind the social networking bird lofty aviation. And it constantly pampers them with new improvements. In……

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Pinterest Now Differs Between Personal and Business Accounts

November 15, 2012
Pinterest Logo

Any social network needs to be properly organized, particularly if it’s already a traffic monster with a large resolute user-base. There must be some sort of order, ascertain and labeling the business accounts which use the platform for commercial purposes, distinctively enough from the personal accounts. Until now, there wasn’t……

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Google Shopping Bribery Attempts with New (Great) Features

November 14, 2012
Google Shopping 360-Degree Photo

Up until now, I was mostly negative about Google Shopping which has transformed into an utter paid model for retailers. It just seemed like a greedy move to transit the service from free to paid without attempting to endow new paramount premium advantages. And I wasn’t the only one presuming……

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