The rapid approval of new cybersecurity legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday has caught opponents off guard. The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to change up the Internet address system once again. While Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) were relatively fixed in
The one-year anniversary of the original Google Panda update has come and gone and we’re still seeing significant tweaks in the aftermath . Google Panda was aimed at filtering out
Each week (on Thursdays), Google engineers meet to go over anticipated changes and improvements intended to be rolled out onto Google.com. It is interesting to see how much detail goes
There are many tools, plugins and browser add-ons for detecting NoFollow links but most display the data all the time regardless of whether or not you actually want to know
The last couple of years have paved the way for many changes in the field and study of search engine optimization and online marketing. Social media awareness grew significantly in
Everyone on the planet should boycott Google Analytics, but Google knows no one will. Google Analytics isn’t about delivering a great free stats program to users. It’s about using Webmasters
If the video posted below doesn’t get you a little excited about domain names, I really don’t know what would. Having the right domain name for your business can be pricelist,
Google released its Google+ network just a month ago and it is already estimated to have twenty million users. Those who better understand the significance of Google +1 see the
This image (below post) is a visualization of how and why Google.com typically makes and breaks all online businesses. Although this does change a bit from time to time, for the
A significant part of Panda is about cleaning up the web and finding out what’s real and what’s not. Users are getting tired of sifting through garbage in the results
A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF HOW AND WHY SOCIAL MEDIA MATTERS: – FROM A SEARCH ENGINES PERSPECTIVE Why do I need a Twitter or Facebook page? Who cares about that stuff
Barry Schwartz recently posted what he called his “Key Takeaways From Google’s Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon” One of these points stated that Matt Cutts specifically mentioned “Google will be looking
Website Monetization Those who make the most money usually have the largest audience… Although there are several ways to monetize a web site, there is only one fundamental requirement to making
For the most part, it starts with the competitive edge of a great domain… It all has to start somewhere, and for most online entrepreneurs, it starts with a domain
Affiliate Programs Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards an affiliate for each customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Affiliate marketing overlaps with other
Advertising Networks Ad networks are companies who have large numbers of clients looking to run their banner or text ads across networks of web properties. These companies have both “advertisers”
Direct Sales Having an item for sale on your web site is one of the most direct and easiest to understand ways of making money from your web site. Products
Lead Generation A popular way developers monetize a web site is through lead generation. Leads can either be direct phone calls to a professional business or they can be email contacts
WebProNews.com recently published an article called “Are Social Signals the New PageRank?” The article basically went over a deal between Microsoft and Facebook which would integrate Facebook data in Bing search