Monthly Archives: April 2011

Facebook Begins Testing Local Deals, Competing with Groupon

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

Facebook announced this evening it is ready to begin testing its new local deals offering–the social-networking giant’s effort to cash in on the feverish interest in social buying. First revealed in March, Facebook Deals offers members local deals the… Continue reading →

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YouTube Goes Full Hollywood With Movies on Demand Service

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

YouTube will imminently launch a movie-on-demand service charging users to stream mainstream Hollywood movies off the world’s largest video sharing site, TheWrap has learned. The new service means a full-bore challenge to Apple’s iTunes service, curre… Continue reading →

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Google Acquires TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

“TalkBin offers a platform that lets customers give immediate feedback to local businesses (users submit their opinions and critiques via mobile applications, and it looks like the businesses can read and respond to them from a web app). TalkBin’s home… Continue reading →

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Google Launches Instant Previews for Ads

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

“…introducing Instant Previews for Ads as well. Thanks to this new feature, you can now get a preview of the site that hides behind text ads on Google Search without having to click on the link and without leaving the search results page. For adverti… Continue reading →

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Google’s Wael Ghonim Is Taking Long-Term Leave

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

While Google has a lot of employees with names worth remembering, one of the most important in recent times was WaelGhonim. Ghonim, apart from his work as a Google executive, had been a poitical activist in Egypt using social networking resources including Facebook and Twitter to establish information and organizational resources. Due to this activism, Ghonimwas detained without official arrest […]

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Dealing with Google’s Panda (Part Two)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

In my last article, I started discussing Google’s Panda. That evaluation wasn’t just about the surface level of the update, but the core intent that Google was upholding. The conclusions of that article lead to some simple, common sense fundamentals on search engine optimization tactics. How Should You Respond to Panda? Rather than trying to figure […]

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Dealing with Google’s Panda (Part One)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

While I’ve done a lot of reporting on the impact of Panda (the wins, the losses, the innocent casualties, the guilty somehow spared, what Google’s tracking, etc.), I have yet to give my opinion on what the best SEO approach is. Having seen this bit of sage advice over at Search Engine Watch, it seemed like […]

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Google Teams with GigaPan to Show Off Chrome’s HTML 5 Features

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

While the official word from W3C is that HTML 5 won’t be the standard for another couple of years, we’re already seeing the implementation of HTML 5 in both modern web browsers and new site features. This includes straightforward extras like Google Instant, but it has also opened the door for entirely new forms of […]

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Google Teams with GigaPan to Show Off Chrome’s HTML 5 Features

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Google Gmail Speeds Up with Background Sending

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

We live in an era that’s all about speed – where getting jobs done yesterday just isn’t fast enough, where our smartphones could outdo the full computer systems of the year 2000, and where teenagers make a face if any electronic process gives them a half-second delay. It may seem silly to care so much […]

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Great Content for SEO: Simpler than You Ever Imagined

Posted on April 25, 2011 by admin

Posted by randfishToday I want to share an incredibly simple yet massively powerful process for building search-optimized, "great content." There’s no fancy tricks and nothing propetiary about the approach, but it is rare indeed to find an or… Continue reading →

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