Major Growth for Yelp in Q2 2012
Despite Facebook’s ongoing troubles, not all social networks are struggling. Yelp, the popular social restaurant and business
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Fake Users and Big Losses: More Trouble for Facebook
It looks like there’s no end in sight as additional concerns continue to surface for Facebook, if recent reports published by the Los Angeles Times and Fox News are to be believed.
Google Buys Wildfire for $400 Million
Google, the biggest search engine company in the world, apparently has no problem spending extremely large sums of cash, even when faced with the possibility of almost $4 billion in fines. As reported on the official Google blog, the search engine giant recently made another massive acquisition by purchasing Wildfire, a small fledgling social marketing company.
iAcquire Returns to Google’s Index
Back toward the end of May, we reported that Google had removed search marketing firm iAcquire from its indexes as part of Penguin Update 1.1, an algorithm update intended to reduce the visibility of webspam in Google search results.
8 Values And Characteristics Every Successful Blogger Possesses
Many new blogs, across the spectrum of virtually every conceivable topic imaginable, are created and started each and every day on the internet. However, the vast majority of blogs that are created are unsuccessful and the posts are discontinued after a relatively short period of time.
Google Could Face $3.8 Billion in Fines from EU Regulators
Google could face fines as high as $3.8 billion dollars imposed by European regulators, according to the Washington Post. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently contacted Joaquin Almunia, the European Union Competition Commissioner, to negotiate a deal that would save Google from forthcoming antitrust litigation.
Facebook Losing U.S. Users; Stock Price in Trouble?
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.
Google Adds “Download Latest Links” Button to Webmaster Tools
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.