Directories Might Cause a Penguin Penalty, Google De-Indexing Many Of Them

05/16/2012
Google Old Directory

Ah, directory submission… The good old days of up until 2008 or so… The days where many webmasters submitted their site to thousands of directories in order to increase their site’s rankings. I can only describe this practice (today and even back then)…

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Facebook Ad Effectiveness Questioned Ahead Of IPO

05/16/2012
Facebook Question Mark

Under pressure. Facebook is under some pressure on the final pre-IPO stages. Just a few days before the social networking company’s expected public offering, couple of negative PR stories might raise some doubts in potential future investors’ minds. The tension levels are peaking…

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YouTube Deliberately Drops View Count To Increase Engagement For Longer Better Videos

05/15/2012
YouTube TV Logo

The best indicator for users to ponder on specific video success is its view count. Think about it, when you see that some video has 90 million views, you’ll probably value it as much better than other videos. This is also how YouTube…

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Mobile Web Traffic Surging, Visits From Tablets Will Top Smartphones By 2013

05/15/2012
Mobile Devices Photo

If I had to point out on just one prominent trend site owners should pay attention to in the next few years, I would say it is definitely mobile. The mobile web is rapidly growing and it is already constituting as a significant…

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Most Effective Hours and Days Posting To Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr

05/14/2012
Social Media Clock

I’ll bet many of you content creators have encountered this self-debate many times- You’ve just published a great piece of content and you obviously want to expose it to as many people as possible. But you just not sure when is the right…

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More Brands and Users Adopting Google+ as Newly Upgraded iPhone App Presented

05/14/2012
Google+ New iOS Mobile App

About a week ago, Google+ celebrated six months for the launch of brand pages on the social networking site/service/layer/whatever and a new report is indicating that slowly more brands and users are adopting it. On the meantime, Google released a new upgraded version…

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Search Engine Market Share April 2012 – U.S., Worldwide and Mobile

05/13/2012
All Search Engines Logos

We’re in mid-May and it means that it’s time to review what is the current state and what were the prominent monthly changes and shifts on the search market for April. In this edition, I will cover the search market in the U.S.,…

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Why Scamworld Is a Masterpiece and Important For The Marketing Industry

05/12/2012
Scamworld Scammer

I’ve just finished reading The Verge’s epic piece Scamworld and watching all the videos includes in the story. Wow. I think it is one of the most important stories ever published about the the dark side of the internet marketing industry. Essentially, it…

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Pinterest Growth Might Be Declining, But Its Users Spends More Money

05/11/2012
Pinterest Logo

It appears that things are calming down a bit for Pinterest in the last few months. It seems that the social pinboard’s tremendous growth have finally stabilized and recently there were even few reports indicating that it is actually losing users. I already…

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Bing Trying To Break The Right Search-Social Balance With New Interface

05/11/2012
Bing Logo

Bing just made its biggest interface upgrade ever (well, for the three years it’s around). Microsoft’s search engine apparently decided that it was about time for doing and it is now going all the way with a new design while trying to crack…

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Google Penguin Targeted Many WordPress Blogs With Hidden Links In Plugins/Themes

05/10/2012
Penguin Checking WordPress

Many websites were hit from Google Penguin update last month and a lot of them still don’t understand why they’ve received this slap. I still believe that most of the sites’ penalties were a result of too many unnatural links but now I…

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