Nothing Wrong with Guest Blogging (as Long as…)

November 13, 2012
Guest Blog Sign

Publishing an article by a guest author hadn’t been invented by bloggers. It has subsisted a long time ago, way before the Internet was even some special experimental military project or something. In fact, old media publications like newspapers and magazines have been featuring guest articles since the dawn of……

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YouTube Begins the Second Funding Round of Original Video Creators

November 12, 2012
YouTube TV Logo

More YouTube’s monies! More magnificent lovely YouTube’s monies for content creators! Google’s grandiose video site is ladling additional funds to its content partners, allowing them to keep on producing premium oeuvres on the site. But unlike the previous allowance round, this time YouTube has sieved far less sponsored channels. Slightly……

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Pinterest Goes All Intimite with “Secret Boards”

November 9, 2012
Pinterest Secret Boards

Sh… it’s a secret… no one knows about it… and of course can’t comment, recommend or even see it whatsoever. It’s your own personal furtive scrapbook online, where images can be Pinned but not candidly Repinned. In fact, it’s so cryptic that you can only create up to three of……

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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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Tension with Yelp Rises After Foursquare Adds Rating Feature

November 6, 2012
Foursquare 1-10 Rating

That’s it. The gloves are off. There’s no point trying to paint it with different colors or speculate otherwise. It’s there, open, apparent, clear and even with a bit of sneer. Foursquare has now fully steered into the local recommendations/ratings zone. Couple of weeks ago Foursquare unlocked its Explore engine……

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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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The Dark Side of Online Trading Tools and Products

November 5, 2012
The Evil Joker Trading

Capitalism allows us to trade almost any ridiculous thing, concrete or intangible, people can put a price tag on. Something like all humans supposed to have the inborn freedom to sell or buy to/from their neighbors, regardless to the crappiness of the commodity. When the Internet has popped into our……

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After Many Leaks, Google Considers Releasing Quality Rater Guidelines

November 2, 2012
Human Quality Raters

For the most part, Google’s search results are purely algorithmic without any human editorial touch. Except for cases where members of the search team are manually penalizing a website for violating Google’s guidelines (and recuperating if eligible), the rankings process is completely automatic. But Google also employs humans as “Quality……

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Facebook Pilots New Timeline Design and Non-Social News Feed Ads

November 1, 2012
Facebook Tested One Column Timeline

Mark Zuckerberg can attentively bear a little circumspect smile on his face after a while. His company’s third quarter results have gratified the Wall-Street wolves and another one of his legal battles nearly come to an end. But the Zuck knows that loafing is not a privilege he can afford.……

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The Linking Game – Sorting, Removing, Disavowing and Hoping

October 31, 2012
Google Hunger Games

We’re in a links whirl. This whole current situation where webmasters frantically tries to gauge and weigh and sieve and remove and now to disavow links is so insanely ridiculous. Instead of focusing on the product itself, too many are focusing on everything around it. The Google had spoken and……

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Google Denies (Again) Advertisers Prioritized in Organic Results or for Support

October 30, 2012
Google Analysis Logo

There aren’t many industries where a nerdish man wearing a panda t-shirt and talking about algorithms can rouse a lot of heed and in some cases even some trepidation. But in the search industry (and in the wizarding world) such a powerful man does live and breathe. Matt Cutts, Google’s……

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