Exploring The Google Penalty Box
Pick a number between 6 and 950 and you’ll likely find evidence, or at least the antecedent number, for a Google ranking penalty. Webmasters and SEOers are in general agreement Google penalizes, and have dubbed them according to their numeric reprimand: -6, -30, -60, -950, and so on. Google inadvertently in cases has acknowledged such penalties exist, but has yet to present any hard and fast rules.
ABC Stuffing More Commercials Into Online TV
Feeling safe in the knowledge that I could catch up online, I skipped "Lost" last Thursday night and watched PBS’s "Carrier" instead. Then, on the ABC website, everything worked fine. But in the future, watching shows on the ABC site may be a little more annoying thanks to extra commercials.
Midday At Yahoo: Market Cap Slides
Shares of Yahoo climbed as high as $29.73 on Friday ahead of optimism about a Microsoft-Yahoo deal, but Steve Ballmer’s decision to dump the deal after market close rattled Yahoo stock today.
Google Aims Block At Verizon Wireless Bid
Verizon’s win in the FCC auction for the C block of 700MHz spectrum should be stopped unless the company agrees to give existing customers open access privileges, according to Google.
Big Changes May Be In Store For LinkedIn
Now that most of the Microsoft-Yahoo stuff is (at least temporarily) out of the way, it’s time for the rumor mill to latch onto some other topic. One contender is the possible acquisition of LinkedIn.
Nine Inch Nails does it again
Trent Reznor tossed another dart at the music industry by releasing The Slip as a free download.
Turning Away From Print Works For IDG
Shifting to an online-only setup is often a last resort for newspapers and other print publications; it’s seen as an admission of defeat. IDG, however, has found the online environment to be a welcoming and lucrative place.
Women Make More Friends On Social Networks
When it comes to social networks, a new study shows that men are more likely than women to downplay the first part of the term. Women, according to Rapleaf, tend to have deeper relationships and a greater number of friends.
Is Google Driving Down the Value of Domain Names?
Robin Cannon in Search Engine Journal asks the somewhat puzzling question, ‘Is Google Trumping The URL?‘ Apparently more and more people use Google to find websites than type in the URL in the address bar of their browser. As he says:
Post Popularity: Your Blog Needs It
There’s a good time and a bad time to put up your latest bit of life-changing brilliance on your blog.