Monthly archive for August 2011

Report links to your site as spam

Wednesday, den 31. August 2011

Matt Cutts shares with us how to report spammy links to our sites built by competitors trying to sabotage our SEO efforts, and what Google’s algorithms does in these cases. Interested? Please have look at the video below:

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Cloud Computing comes to Music

Thursday, den 25. August 2011

Cloud computing??  ‘What’s that?’ you maybe thinking… I’ve heard this banded around for a while now, seeing as how my boyfriend works in IT Infrastructure.  By definition, cloud computing means that we can store data not just on our laptops or in local servers but in a ‘cloud’ that’s maintained by servers in several locations.  [...]

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HP TouchPad tablet sold out everywhere after firesale was announced

Tuesday, den 23. August 2011

HP’s strategy to get rid of all their tablets after announcing that they will stop working with the WebOS operative system was to reduce the price by almost 70%, leading to 1000s of buyers to perform “accidental” DDOS attacks on online retailers. Feels like HP Touchpad hunters are currently accidentally DDOSing more websites than the [...]

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Travel consumers say a big no thanks to Facebook ‘like’ buttons

Thursday, den 18. August 2011

We all know that social media can work really well for travel sites.   I never book anywhere without looking at reviews on Tripadvisor, and I always look at videos of hotels and hotels rooms if provided or linked to a YouTube channel.  So I was surprised when this report from Usabilla showed that travel consumers [...]

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Google Analytics Update

Tuesday, den 16. August 2011

A few days ago Google made a few changes in the way sessions are calculated in Google Analytics. Currently, Google Analytics ends a session when: More than 30 minutes have elapsed between pageviews for a single visitor. At the end of a day. When a visitor closes their browser. If any of these events occur, [...]

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Promoting Your Facebook and Twitter Pages for a Snip

Thursday, den 11. August 2011

This shouldn’t work but it does. Although Google generally requires Sitelinks to be closely related to the parent domain the odds are better than even that you can slip through the net and from a user’s point of view I don’t think there’s anything misleading about either of the two links in the above example. [...]

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A Google Group wants to use facial recognition technology to identify looters

Thursday, den 11. August 2011

A Google group called ‘London Riots Facial Recognition’ is considering the use of facial recognition tools similar to Facebook’s to identify the looters in London. Many people have been talking about using different APIs to find and match looters’ photos on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. There are several open conversations on the Google Group. The [...]

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Social media role in UK riots

Thursday, den 11. August 2011

Social media was an essential tool in organizing the riots all around the UK. While this is somehow true, social media ended up being a a double edged sword as both; protesters and police used it to exchange and collect information. In last year student protests they used Google Maps and Twitter to communicate, let [...]

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Diversifying Your SEM Strategy With Video Content

Thursday, den 4. August 2011

For retail business owners, some serious SEM concerns are: improving the brand’s authority, increasing visibility and driving traffic from engaged consumers, and how to achieve all these goals with relatively small budgets using a long-term “sustainable” strategy, well, many businesses do not take advantages of video content. Not only are video results less competitive than [...]

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Google Offers Web Hosting/Page Speed Service

Wednesday, den 3. August 2011

* Google will have its own Content Delivery Network * Google Will compete with Akamai, Amazon and other industry giants * Users can navigate between 10 and 60% faster Google is launching a new service called Page Speed, which is very similar to a Content Delivery Network. The service is still a beta, you can [...]

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