We know a couple of things. One, visitors on your site decide whether or not it’s worth it in 1/20 of second. Two, we know Google is tracking the clicks that occur from their search engine to your site (and back again).
How does this impact your search rankings?
If someone is going to your site […]

… hello real popularity.
From its inception, backlinks have been at the core of how Google ranks Web sites. With such knowledge, SEOs have been finding ways to manipulate rankings in a variety of ways - link farms, reciprocal links, directories, paid links, etc. Each new strategy has been met with a new algorithmic penalty or […]

Or so says Google. Checkout a recent search result:

What does this mean? According to Google, “This warning message appears with search results we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.”
Users even have to go through a warning page before getting to ERE.

Yikes! Now, knowing the gang at ERE, I have a […]

Thanks to Facebook mobile, I finally get it.
Microblogging, the art of posting content at no more than a small number of characters at a time (say 200 or less) and made famous by Twitter, was a complete mystery to me when first introduced by the big win at last year’s SXSW.
I soon thereafter joined the […]

Techcrunch on Google’s new “Wikipedia killer” Knol.

Anyone Remember Google Base?
As a content management system, Knol is a kissing cousin to Google Base, a classified ad platform that Google launched in late 2005. Google Base has gone exactly nowhere - if anything it’s a spam farm and nothing more. But at the time of its launch […]

Facebook is touting their new ad solution, commonly known as Social Ads, to employers. Checkout a recent ad I came across on Google:

Wonder if they’re marketing to recruiters using their own site too?

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