Digg Nofollow Links: Matt Cutts Approved

Yesterday, Digg announced that it was changing the way it handles some links with regards to the nofollow attribute. The point of the changes is to cut down on Digg spam. Digg is now adding rel="nofollow" to any external link that they aren't sure they can "vouch for." This means:     - External links from comments     - External links from user profiles

Google Celebrates a Year of Chrome

Today Google celebrated the first birthday of Chrome, the company's web browser. Google shares the following stats for what Chrome has seen over the past year:

Is PageRank Affected by Google Links?

In the latest Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel upload from Matt Cutts, he talks about whether or not Google places value on its own links with regards to Pagerank. Cutts took on the following user question: Question: Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools.

Social Media Marketing Not Working on Women

A study from ad:tech Chicago and Q Interactive's "Women Channel" found that women don't seem to be incredibly influenced by social networks when it comes to purchasing decisions. In fact, 75% of the thousand women surveyed claimed that they were uninfluenced by these channels.

Digital Media Consumption Making Big Gains

Americans are increasing their overall media consumption and multi-tasking is playing a bigger role, according Nielsen's new Three Screen Report. In the 2nd quarter of 2009 the number of people watching mobile video increased 70 percent from last year and people who watch video online increased their viewing 46 percent during the same time period. In addition, the average American TV consumption remains at an…