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SEO Over optimization has hit several sites already – SubmitinME
Apr 11th
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SEO Over optimization has hit several sites already
SubmitinME SEOmoz has published this well detailed blog post to avoid getting penalized and use Google safe SEO strategies. You can read the entire post would over optimization here For those who want to work on MS office documents on your ipad 3, … Google Outlines SEO Over-Optimization Penalty |
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[Infographic] Every Day Popular Sites Still Serve Up Malware
Apr 3rd
Yes, you read that correctly. According to Barracuda Labs, two out of the top 25,000 domains (at least top of Alexa’s rankings) serve up some tasty and annoying malware to their visitors. Hopefully, this is unintentional and the result of some compromise. The lab rats found that more than 10 million folks were exposed to exploits in February, and almost every day there was a new compromised website. The top-ranked domains that served malicious content spanned across 18 different countries, demonstrating that this problem has no geographic barrier. Making matters worse, almost all of the compromised sites were at least a year old, and half were more than five years old. This indicates that attackers use well-established, long-lived websites for their drive-by download campaigns.
The researchers used an automated script to bring up a series of URLs inside a virtual Windows VM and observe what happens to its OS, plug-ins, and other browser settings. Once the site is visited, the VM’s network traffic is monitored to see what malware has been placed on it.
On the link on their blog post is more information on their methodology and the complete infographic, which we have truncated here in the interests of readability.
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Syrian Expatriates Organization Reports that Syria’s Ancient Sites and … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Mar 28th
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Syrian Expatriates Organization Reports that Syria's Ancient Sites and …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The Syrian Expatriates Organization (SEO) is disturbed by the Assad regime's deliberate destruction and failure to preserve Syria's great archaeological sites and ancient antiquities. Syria (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 Syria's Ancient Sites and Antiquities … |
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Google planning to penalise sites with ‘too much SEO’ – browser media
Mar 21st
 Search Engine Land |
Google planning to penalise sites with 'too much SEO'
browser media Cutts claimed that the purpose of this looming penalty is to “level the playing field”; penalising sites with poor content, little information but good SEO and rewarding sites that have great content but don't rank so well due to poor optimisation. Top 10 Helpful SEO Tips for Small Business Owners SEO Techniques to Improve Your Online Business Individuals Polled On "If Not For Google, Which Search Engine Would You Prefer … |
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What Online Dating Sites Don’t Understand
Mar 20th
Enter an online dating site. The focus is on appearance and personality type and maybe even zodiac signs. It’s the kind of information that you’d check off on your list of your ideal mate. These might be aspects of yourself that you’d like to cultivate, should you imagine your idealized other as some mirror reflection of yourself. Yet these types of questions often lead to overanalyzing, imagining your ideal person instead of trying to become a real-life ideal of that person. And then there you are at the end of a long workday, sitting in front of a screen, clicking from profile to profile, looking for love on the Internet.
A story on the Wall Street Journal looked at a study of online dating sites, breaking it down to the fundamental issues that these algorithmically inclined spaces lead to. “Because the people who use these websites have never met, they can’t assess the variables that are most predictive of long relationships, such as conversational habits and problem-solving tendencies,” writes the Wall Street Journal. And then, in parenthesis, just ‘cuz: “(The scientists note that these variables still require people to interact in the flesh; no online quiz can measure them.)”
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I grew up gay on the Internet. At age 15, I cruised PlanetOut.com looking for other teenage girls who might be interested in hanging out. I got my mom to drive me to some far off northern suburb 45 minutes away to meet a “friend.” I remember our car ride, long stretches of highway and open land. “How do you know, um, Rachael?” my mom asked me. I pretended not to hear her. We arrived at Rachael’s suburban two-story home, and I jumped out of the car. “See you later tonight! Thanks for the ride!” My mom didn’t ask questions. Years later we discussed why she drove me miles away to meet with my “friend,” and I told her that Rachael and I met through the gay Internet dating site PlanetOut.com. Mom didn’t inquire further. It was my teenage Internet world, after all. That adolescent relationship lasted three very intense weeks.
Perhaps because of those awkward gay teenage memories, I just can’t bring myself to try the online thing again. And besides, I’m not a teenager just trying to find gay love, or really anything at all, on the Internet. Today the Internet is a world to wander through, a place to discover, stumble upon, socialize, search… but to find love? That seems more like a person-to-person thing. Says the Wall Street Journal:
“True love is hard to find. As a result people have traditionally sought help from matchmakers, friends and family. Arranged marriages and blind dates, church socials and dinner parties all rely on real-world social networks. We depend on the connections of others.”
Yet in the same story, WSJ mentions that nearly 20% of all relationships begin online, and EHarmony.com claims responsibility for about 5% of American marriages.
The Good Old Days: First Attempts at Computerized Dating
A New Yorker story outlined one of the earlier attempts at computerized dating named TACT, or Technical Automated Compatibility Testing. It was New York City’s very first computer-dating service. Much like the online dating sites of today, users paid $5 and submitted answers to multiple-choice questions. They were also asked to rank images. Answers were fed into an I.B.M 1400 Series computer which created cards of the user’s ideal matches.
In an interesting twist of fate, a lady reporter for local radio station 101 WINS named Patricia Lahrmer came by the TACT office to interview one of the company’s founders. He was unavailable that day, so the interview fell to I.B.M. programmer Robert Ross. Lahrmer arrived at the office for the interview. And then the batteries of her tape recorder died. The two made a date for later in the week. The date turned into dinner, and two years later the couple married. TACT helped Ross meet someone, but not in the computerized way he would have otherwise thought.
New Internet Dating Sites, Same Old Tricks
Yet Internet dating site enthusiasts carry on. Not long ago, San Francisco-based coder Justin Krause launched Circl.es, a site that asks users to sign-up with their Facebook accounts. It then goes through the task of filtering out that user’s Facebook friends; too often, people discover their friends, ex’s or other folks they already know in real-life on Internet dating sites. It also adds a gender option for “genderqueer,” in addition to the standard male and female options. If a user does find someone they’re interested in through Circl.es, they can quickly check that person’s public Facebook profile and send a message – if the person leaves their message option open.
“At the end of the day, if there is a cute guy across the street who goes to different bars and keeps different hours, there is no way I’d ever meet him,” Krause tells ReadWriteWeb. “I could see people who meet her say ‘oh we met on FB,’ and once you click that you’re interested, it sends it to Facebook.”
Video chat gaming studio Gickup.com wants to “connect the world through video chat games.” They have created a dating game – play or watch people play. Naturally, the company is based in Burbank, California. The Blind Video Dating Game works off the 1960s television dating game, The Dating Game.
“If we were to be married, what type of an unusual wedding would we have?” Depending on how well or how poorly the bachelor answers the question, the girl goes out with the guy – the gameshow awards them a chunk of change. So imagine this horrifyingly male-focused scenario with three girls and one guy, except it’s all taking place on Facebook and email. Welcome to your very own television dating show circa 1960s – except it’s taking place live, right now, at your computer.
Like OKCupid, Match.com and eHarmony.com, this sounds like a fun game to play. It’s another way to cruise through potential mates, selecting people based on superficial qualities. For the online dater, there’s perhaps no better way to turn life into a game you play. When it comes to actually meeting someone, this sort of win or lose, comment or like formula doesn’t work.
Image via Gickup.com’s YouTube video of The Dating Game.
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Seeing the Colossal Increase at Yahoo Sites in comScore’s U.S. Online Video Rankings
Mar 18th
If you compare the latest data from comScore Video Metrix with the data from a year ago, then you’ll see there’s been a colossal increase in video viewing at Yahoo sites. For marketers, this means you need to keep your eyes wide open.
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Google to Penalize Over-SEO’d Sites – PC Magazine
Mar 18th
 Search Engine Land |
Google to Penalize Over-SEO'd Sites
PC Magazine "We try to make the GoogleBot smarter, try to make our relevance more adaptive, so that if people don't so SEO we handle that. And we are also looking at the people who abuse it, who put too many keywords on a page, exchange way too many links, … Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That you are reading… Not so fast SEO, Google wants to punish “overly optimized … Google to penalize sites that overly use SEO |
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you are reading… Not so fast SEO, Google has plans to punish sites that are… – VentureBeat
Mar 17th
Search Engine Land |
you are reading… Not so fast SEO, Google has plans to punish sites that are…
VentureBeat So all those people who have been doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly doing their SEO – compared to the people who are just making great content and trying to make a fantastic site, we are trying to level the playing field a … Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That Google's Over SEO Optimization Penalty Google Is Working On Making SEO Matter Less |
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Mobile SEO: Managing Googlebot & Your Mobile Sites
Mar 11th
Implementing an optimized mobile site is becoming increasingly important for many publishers, as smartphones are becoming increasingly pervasive. Here’s how to think about Googlebot, Googlebot-Mobile and your mobile web site.
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Mobile SEO: Managing Googlebot & Your Mobile Sites – Search Engine Watch
Mar 11th
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Mobile SEO: Managing Googlebot & Your Mobile Sites
Search Engine Watch As noted in this recent mobile SEO podcast with Cindy Krum one of the first decisions you need to make is what types of devices you're targeting. If you don't have many feature phone users who are trying to access your site, you may not need to support … |
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