Archive for February, 2013

Facebook Employee Laptops Hacked

2013/02/18

Over the weekend news developed around a Facebook blog post on protecting people on the social site.  In the post, the Facebook Security team notified users that several employee laptops had been attacked last month

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Google: Don’t Let Bad Sites On Your Domain Name

2013/02/18

This may be obvious to many of you but hosting bad sites on your own domain name is not a good idea. I.e

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20+ Signals That Make Your Business Easier To Find in Local Search Engines

2013/02/18

While we usually talk about how to rank well in Google, there are plenty of non-Google local search engines such as Yelp, YP.com, CityGrid, etc.

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Baidu SEO: Optimising for a Chinese Target Audience

2013/02/18

As is common knowledge, the vast population of over 1 billion in China paves the way for fantastic consumerism which we Westerners should become involved with. All company’s need is to be recognised in order to succeed, and the best way to do this is through Search Engine Optimisation.

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SEO for Startups: 5 Rules to Apply Now

2013/02/18

If you have recently launched a new company, let me go ahead and introduce you to your new best friend … It’s SEO! The goal of search engine optimization is to get your website to appear in the search engine results listings whenever users enter certain phrases into their search boxes.

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Google Once Again Claims 67% Search Market Share

2013/02/18

It’s hardly headline news that Google is by far the most popular search engine for users in the U.S. and most of the world. But what is headline worthy: for two of the past three months, Google has owned 67 percent of the U.S.

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Facebook Hacked: Well Kind Of…

2013/02/18

If you want to minimize bad news as much as possible, you tell people about it minutes before they leave the office on a Friday evening. Facebook announced they were compromised via a “zero-day” attack…

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Is Finding Your Business Blog a Mystery? 3 Tips for Blog Promotion & Findability

2013/02/18

With millions of blogs and other social content to compete against, the challenge of standing out can seem overwhelming for business and personal bloggers alike. But it doesn’t have to be a mystery for customers to find your corporate blog. If you have interesting and useful things to say, there is an audience seeking that very information

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Meaningful SEO Metrics

2013/02/18

Posted by willcritchlow This is a post of two halves. The first half runs through my thoughts on what makes for good metrics, while the second half focuses on a specific process for building appropriate reporting metrics for your individual situation. Now, I’m a very numbers-driven person

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