A new report published by Rory Maher, Capstone Investment’s senior internet analyst, spells out some rather dreary news for Mark Zuckerberg and friends at Facebook, the world’s largest social media networking site. Maher’s report indicates that Facebook is bleeding users fairly quickly in several of its most crucial global markets, namely Europe and the United States.
Way back in May, we reported on the aftermath of Google Penguin and how so many sites saw their rankings fall to the nether-pages of Google for apparent webspam offenses, examples of which include keyword stuffing, associating with content farms and engaging in shady link building practices.
One of the best ways to get started with search engine optimization (SEO) on your website and drive customers to your local business is to work with local search, both in major search engines and on mobile platforms.
A recent post on Twitter indicates that Google released a new update to Panda just yesterday on June 25th. The update comes in the wake of other recent Panda updates, including one on April 26th and another on June 8th. The new update is being described by SEO’ers as Google Panda Update 3.8. It’s slated to affect approximately 1% of all search engine queries across the world.
A few days ago, Microsoft’s Bing search engine rolled out a total overhaul to its image search feature that will certainly appeal to fans of Pinterest. The most apparent change comes in the appearance of the search results themselves, which are now presented in a tiled layout similar to the aforementioned social media site, with a minimal amount of white space.
Niels Provos of Google’s Security Team published a new post today on the Google Online Security Blog, detailing the actions the company will be taking in order to reduce the presence of hacked sites and harmful malware visible within search results.
Just last week, we talked about some major upgrades coming to Apple’s mobile operating system iOS6, namely a collaboration with Yelp that will allow Siri users to instantly retrieve menus, locations, prices, reviews and other information about local restaurants.
Apple unleashed a slew of new software and hardware products yesterday including the lavishly spec’d and absurdly priced Retina Display MacBook Pro that visual professionals of all stripes are salivating over.
May was a busy month for Google as they rolled out 39 changes to their Google search algorithm. Changes include the introduction of the Knowledge Graph, upgrades for Asian users, a retooled search app for the iPhone, and better hacked page detection