Take Care of Your Links
Links are what make up the web. They drive traffic to sites. They add value to articles. While some content providers may prefer not to have a lot of links to their content, most strive to get as many as possible.
Shocker: Facebookers Not Happy With Redesign
Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad it was on the evening news and you had to change them back.
Click Fraud Frequency Drops, But Grows Up
When your business relies on an increasing trend in click fraud, what do you do when the bottom drops out of the numbers?
Where Social Media Fits Into the SEO Equation
Unveiling the intricate relationship between social media and SEO, and how businesses can optimize both for online success.
YouTube Makes More Homepage Changes
About a month ago, YouTube changed the names of some of its video sections. They introduced Spotlight, Featured, and Promoted Videos. Now YouTube has made some more changes to its homepage when users are signed out. YouTube Product Manager Brian Glick gives the following rundown of what’s new:
Using Social Media To Grow Your Audience
Building your brand using social media is one way to reach an audience on a limited marketing budget. The session "Content Marketing Strategies: How to Leverage Social Media to Exponentially Grow Your Audience and Bottom Line," offered tips on enhancing your online presence.
Why Social Media Needs The FTC
While some people might think that Ashton and Oprah on Twitter is the only news, the real social media story happening at the minute involves the FTC (the Federal Trade Commission).
How Newspapers Should Adapt To Digital Era
It’s not a news story–doesn’t really rise to the level of newsworthiness–but people do seem to be talking more lately about the death of newspapers. Recently even Eric Schmidt of Google discussed how newspapers must find a mixture of advertising, micropayments, and regular subscriptions to fund their futures. To me, all this talk about how newspapers collect money is misplaced. Instead, I think newspapers must think about how to flourish by remaining relevant in the new digital world.
MySpace CEO Shown The Door
Big changes may be afoot at MySpace. Although the info’s far from being confirmed, a new report claims that CEO Chris DeWolfe – in addition to at least a couple other execs – is leaving the company on what could politely be called an involuntary basis.
Twitter Temporarily Disables OAuth for Security Reasons
Twitter recently released a product called "Sign in with Twitter," which is basically the social network’s answer to Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc.
It’s based on OAuth, but there’s a security problem with OAuth. In fact, Twitter and Yahoo have both disabled OAuth support temporarily. Biz Stone talks a little bit about it on the official Twitter Blog: