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 [...]
The Penguin Update: Have You Been Hit and What Do You Need to Do?
May 15, 2012 by 1 Comment
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 [...]
Everything You Need to Know about Alexa Rankings
May 11, 2012 by 6 Comments
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 [...]
