Has Facebook Made a Wrong Turn?

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In March Twitter bought Posterous, December Hi5 gave in to Tagged and Google’s 200 million dollar purchase of Slide went global. Now, Facebook has made the headlines, not for the huge amount of users and not for the development of new technology but for acquiring a brand new asset. Yes, believe it, it is true [...]

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The Penguin Update: Have You Been Hit and What Do You Need to Do?

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On the 24th of April, Google launched its latest search engine update. Dubbed the “Penguin” update, it was a change to the way Google dealt with websites and it was designed to push pages down the search results if they were working against Google’s guidelines for search engine optimization or over optimizing the page. Any [...]

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Everything You Need to Know about Alexa Rankings

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If you own or maintain a blog, you are most likely familiar with Alexa.com, Amazon’s self proclaimed “Web Information” subsidiary. Although it does a number of things, Alexa is best known for ranking websites in terms of traffic level, starting with the world’s most heavily trafficked website (Alexa Rank #1) to the least visited (Alexa [...]

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Is There a Correlation between Social Media and Ranking in Google?

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Social media has taken over the Internet and has had a major impact on Google rankings. The reason for this is that people frequently use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to share a specific website with family and friends. The number of social media sites available on the Internet has rapidly increased [...]

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WordPress Conditional Tags and the Widget Logic plugin for WordPress

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All those wordpress theme developers and designers are very well versed with wordpress conditional tags. In this article I’ll explain what conditional tags are and how you can use them to design your custom theme. What are Conditional Tags? WordPress conditional tags are nothing but a set of handy inbuilt functions which return either ‘TRUE’ [...]

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1140 grid system – A grid based and a responsive design framework

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After using and writing an article on 960 grid system and responsive web design, I was looking for a design framework that is grid based and also responsive. Grid based framework facilitates developers to rapidly develop UI prototypes and using a responsive web framework enables users to view your site on device of any screen [...]

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Google plus finds place on the google bar

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Google bar which is displayed on all Google services has a new look now. It allows access to all Google services and is updated for a more consistent, streamlined user experience and increased visibility of the most popular services. This upgraded Google bar is displayed on Google Search, Google Mail, Google+, Google News, Google Maps, [...]

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