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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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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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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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Google Panda Refresh (#21) Pops on November 6th

November 8, 2012
Panda Confused

Okay, this already gets way too structural monotonous. But yet, it still has enough weighty effect on Google’s search results and as derivative, on innumerable websites’ traffic. Another month went by (sort of), another Google Panda update has arrived to redeem us from our spammy shallow sins. Unlike the prior……

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Instagram Floods the Web with Amplified User Profiles

November 6, 2012
Instagram New Web Profile

Overload, overload, overload, overload! The social networking arena is already so amazingly saturated and dense that it feels if you pour one more weensy drop, something else will drip. And Instagram has just added additional droplet into this sizzling virtual potion. Facebook’s image-based social service (one of its two) decided……

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Imgur Transition from Image Hosting Service to Social Community

October 29, 2012
Imgur Logo

On February 23rd 2009, Reddit’s user MrGrim (A.K.A. Alan Schaaf) had expressed his ample discontent from the existing cramped image hosting services and announced he built a new service “that doesn’t suck,” and aligns with Reddit’s almost pure freedom of speech viewpoint. This unsuck photo hosting service has been named……

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Google Rolls Update to Target Japanese Low-Quality and Affiliate Sites

October 25, 2012
Google Japanese Doodle

Hello nifty Japanese site owners! Have you noticed anything different in the last few days, you know, Google-wise? Experienced sudden and vehement rankings movement up or down? Trying to make sense in the Nihonkai of traffic chaos? Well, it appears that Google unleashed a new search algorithm just for you!……

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